Saturday morning, I took our 16-year-old to join a group of strangers at an old building by some railroad tracks near the airport to perform what we were told would be “renovations/clean up” work. The initiative was arranged by our church, which asked that we perform 8,000 service hours this […]
I try to categorize bad news as either: 1) a problem or 2) an expense. If it’s just the latter, I can bust my ass, file a bunch of lawsuits, and make the issue go away. But if it’s the former (or if the expense is…say…$20,000 or so), great weeping […]
Thanks to the good folks at Philips Norelco, I got cool free equipment for concluding Movember. And, they matched $15,000 of our team’s donations to eradicating men’s cancers! This is what kicking ass looks like from a corporation. And now, I give you “Movember Shrugs.” If you too would like […]
And if you let Dave at Blogography.com know you’ve donated, you totally get put into a drawing for cool prizes from Avitable and him! Today’s your last chance. Otherwise, as a colleague at my office said today, I’ll go back to harassing Oliver Twist.
I just finished closing on the house we’ve pursued for the past several months. It took 3.5 hours. There were the 6 amendments to compile and review from the past two months. There was the fact that the roofer has yet to be paid. And someone forgot to get a […]
