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Fall comes and leaves fall. No problem unless you have large trees on the property. We have two huge trees in the back yard. Every year the trees drop their leaves. Some are blown away by the wind but most end up lining the fence around the yard.

The other day I [...]

You hear about ‘Good Intentions’ in the face of bad results. The ‘Good Intentions’ factor is provided as a way of allowing the suspected incompetent to try again.

After the third try with bad results on each turn there is not nearly as much benefit to the doubt and the fool in question [...]

No its not!! No one ever got credit for wishful thinking. It is how you put the thought to action that counts and if the action is lacking, you don’t get any credit either. Ask my wife.

After the GM post I began to dwell on this topic. The more I thought about it the more absurd it became.

Size (big), and Success do not come in the same package. They don’t even share the same zip code! They may be mutually exclusive. The truth is, the bigger you [...]

The ads on the radio have been often and unrelenting. California is offering bonds to the tune of over 8 billion dollars!

Hey, maybe I should offer bonds of up to 1 biilion dollars.

Same difference, same backing, same investment opportunity.

California is paying its employees with IOUs. Its credit rating is non-existant. These are [...]

Seems that folk of questionable motivation think that all they have to do is offer an appology for offenses against society, and then only when they get caught.

That is not the way appologies work.

When you offend someone in a moment of anger or frustration but are otherwise a basically good person, you can appologize and [...]

Bail out refers to the act of using a bucket to ship water out of a boat that is flooding. If done properly, it can save the boat from sinking. You can’t ‘bail out’ a boat that is already under water.

Picture this. A very high cliff. At the edge of the [...]

We do not like to travel but every now and then it cannot be avoided. Our last ‘now and then’ occurred last weekend. We are always glad to arrive at our destination. We are always glad to get back. What we don’t like is the actual traveling. It is boring. [...]