Responsiveness

Bankers and actors

The penny dish

Snow day
The most magnificent tree in our yard Leaves with snow Heavy branches

Grammar
The pet peeve that has annoyed me lately:When people write about a company in an email and use the wrong pronoun. Let's say that company is Google and it has just reported its financials.Most people will write, "They reported good numbers today." They? We're talking about one company, not a bunch of companies. Correct grammar is, "It reported good numbers today."Even if we're talking about the management team, that's singular. So you'd say, "It reported good numbers today."Members of the management team? That would be, "They reported good numbers today."Anyway - the use of "th

What my site is about
I had someone critique my blog the other day. A third party, someone I don't even know, someone who's had success blogging and doing other things online. The feedback? That my design is plain jane and not compelling and that it is difficult to figure out what my site is about. Fair enough. It is a bit plain, if only for lack of good coding skills. And perhaps difficult to understand what it is about. If you're not that smart, that is. It's about me. What's difficult about that?So now my header reflects what my site is about. Mainly nothing, which is exactly what Seinfeld was about - nothing. Just a chronicle of life. An epic. A saga. An adventure.

Wierd dreams
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Crazy? I think not
As I looked around the lake this Friday morning at 7:00am I turned to my friend Dave and said, "There are no other boats on this lake right now, which means one of two things. Either we're crazy, or everyone else is."We literally had the lake to ourselves and the water looked like glass. Our mutual friend Paul - a tournament-level skier who has been featured in the pages of Waterski Magazine - was making huge cuts behind the boat. Both of us admired his textbook-like form.It's considered late in the season when you're skiing past Labor Day and you know it because when you get out of bed to go the stars are still out. That, plus my car's tempe