Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Societyby Peter Senge, C. Otto Sharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers This is a very interesting book. I picked it up out of the Managment & Leadership section of the Barnes & Noble where I used to work because it was going to be sent back […]
Phenomenon, or Welcome to Joe’s Casino of Saukville
I just finished watching the new mentalist search show with Uri Geller and Criss Angel, Phenomenon. The show itself is pretty standard as far as the contest shows go, each contestant demonstrates his/her talent and the audience gets to vote on their favorite, or least favorite contestants. But this time they’re looking for mentalists – […]
Two cats are better than one?
So, we’ve got two cats. There’s Tangee (we didn’t change his name when we got him), who we adopted from the Humane Society the August after we got the house. He’s odd. He was about twelve when we got him and he made these odd noises at the shelter, so we grabbed him up. Because […]
Funny Stuff
Really funny . . . just go here.
Sniffles and Cranky Pharmacists
Ever since pseudoephedrine went behind the pharmacy counter, I’ve been trying to do everything I can to not buy it. There are a couple of reasons for this, the primary one being that I don’t want to be on some list of people who take a particular drug . . . and therefore suspected of […]
Military Recruiters Lie
They do. Maybe not all of them, but some do. I was lied to – I know. I don’t remember the recruiter’s name, but I bet it’s on some of this old paperwork in my filing cabinet. The biggest lie that I was told was that lieing on my application (is that what it is?) […]
Unfortunate Distraction
I was about to go shower this morning, but I heard the people on the Today Show mention that Don Imus was coming back to the radio and I was sufficiently distracted from everything. Unfortunately, I’m sure this news will distract many others from more important things in their lives, as well. For more information, […]
Rant
I was looking through some old files today and found this. I’m not sure what I did with it when I originally wrote it. I may have sent it somewhere – a newspaper, perhaps. Or I might just have let it sit there, encoded as 1’s and 0’s on my hard drive. I thought I’d […]
That privilege called driving
If you are anywhere around Milwaukee, you know it rained all day yesterday. And it was beautiful weather, by the way. But I can never understand why just a day of rain can cause so many traffic accidents. You would think that the only people who drove were 16 year olds who had just got […]
Allergies
I went to see the allergist the other day so he could tell me what I am allergic to. That was the worst fifteen minutes of my life. Except for the time I had a Bartholin’s Gland Abcess. (Don’t look that one up on the web if you are faint-hearted.) The items I am allergic […]