The best knife in the world is the one you’ll have with you when you need it. And, just like The Best Gun in the World, the features of a knife you don’t have with you, don’t matter. A knife may have been mankind’s first tool. A knife can make…
It’s time to get my high blood pressure under control, again. Again, because I’ve fallen off the blood pressure wagon after a two-year whirlwind of getting married, buying a house, relocating, starting a business and having a child. My schedules have changed and its time to rework good health routines…
Pawn Shops were the largest source of consumer credit until 1964 before the flood of institutional credit. Pawnbrokers have been around since ancient times and even kicked out of the Temple by Jesus for getting greedy on half-shekel premiums. Whether or not they’ve recovered from the incident is your call.…
The QWERTY keyboard most people use was designed for the typewriter in the 1870’s. It’s named after the key sequence on the upper left of the keyboard. There were no ‘typists’ before the typewriter, so, QWERTY was designed for the typewriter. Many key combinations caused the machine to jam so…
Contacts can be used for much more than storing phone numbers and addresses. I make a new contact for every object, thing or vendor that needs to be tracked or managed. Camera’s, phones, kitchen appliances, software, computers, A/C Units, subscriptions, vendors, utilities . . .you name it. Simply keeping a…
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. How and what you practice determines what is made permanent. The saying should be, “Perfect practice makes perfect” though I prefer the word “Optimal”. Perfection is a neurotic goal whereas Optimal is possible within the limits of strengths, weaknesses, values, goals and purpose. Fine, so…
Lips move in poetry only when they cannot not kiss. At least mine do. Writing has limits. It’s an attempt to translate wonder into words to conjure thoughts of that wonder when read. Good writing gets to the point. Great writing invades the body and takes hold of the imagination…
Either make a list or work on someone else’s. Be deployed or get deployed. It’s that simple. What’s hard to grasp is how small steps, decisions and work accumulate over time, multiply and lead to freedom. And, yes, I’m bypassing “Self-Employment” and going right to the heart of the matter.…
The real unemployment rate is 22%.1 John Williams predicted a climb to 35% in light of the many negative converging factors of this artificial economic crisis we’re in. A job lost in this economy is hard to replace. We may attempt to do what we love and hope the money…
The primary indicator of a successful business is rarely discussed: The enduring passion of the owner for the purpose of the business. Only the owners enduring passion for a business can pull it through every obstacle of the difficult journey of conducting a business. Without passion, the business is doomed…
You know that feeling you get when you’re driving to the airport and realize you forgot your passport? I haven’t had that feeling in years. . . . thanks to my father’s travel list and his son’s obsession with lists. My father traveled a lot for business and made a…
I used to love chewing gum. Something about it is soothing. I’m one of those who keeps their hands busy tying knots, flipping coins, throwing a yo-yo or rolling chinese yin-yang balls. Chewing gum hits that spot when hands aren’t free. Yeah, the sugar in the gum is bad, but,…
About 1/1000th of the earth’s water is in the atmosphere. All you need is a dehumidifier to get it out. But, you can do better than that. Atmospheric Water Generators An AWG cools the air below the dew point which causes air to give up its water. It then runs…