Is someone truly great if their path includes cheating or aligning themselves with people who do? This question came up for me this morning when I was thinking about the Super Bowl and Tom Brady. He is often referred to as a G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time). His football acheivements are truly remarkable...6 Super Bowl rings and 10 appearances. No …
Last Thursday evening Gotham hosted a Zoom meeting with Ben's 91 years young Mom, Esther. I have heard her speak before and was looking foward to listening to her again. A little background...Esther lived through the Holocaust because Mengele told her to go to the right and not to the left where her Mother and Brother were told to go. Had it not …
Get paid $47/hour for tasting candy! (yes...for real) Candy Funhouse, based in Mississauga, Ontario, is looking for full-time and part-time "candyologists" to serve as taste testers for the company's confections. BTW you won't have to go to Canada because the positions are remote. And, they are paying $47 an hour to sample and review some of th …
How long would you wait in a Doctor's waiting room before leaving? Keep in mind that the apppointment is not an emergency, just a standard follow up... I found out mine is 70 minutes. Watching people sign in after me, get seen before me and leave while I was waiting is infuriating. After 1 hour and 10 minutes, I told the receptionist I was lea …
A fortune cookie provided by my local Chinese take out with my dinner the other night read: "If you don't enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?" That is so true. I was enjoying reflecting on this statement when I turned it over and it said "Please disregard all previous fortunes."
The tradition continues... and your intrepid prognosticator went 3 out of 4 for 2019! In total I'm 21 out of 40 since 2007. Not bad eh?...I'm over .500 and could get milllions for that in baseball :) Okay...so this is a tough year to predict but I'll give it my best shot. 1. The Yankees will win the World Series 2. By years end we will be hug …
I recently found out that the COVID-19 pandemic has prevented many suppliers of Christmas trees from Canada from selling across the border. So now we have spruce thieves - individuals that illegally cut off spruce tops. They work late at night, and use fluorescent tape to mark their trails into the spruce swamps, so they don't get lost on the way …
The joys of winter! It's beautiful...everything coated in white, brisk mornings where you can see your breath, the crunch of snow under your feet and sitting in front of a nice warm, cozy fire. And of course...battling with the snow thrower, slipping and banging your head, shoveling really heavy snow and dealing with drivers that should not be on …
Yesterday was my birthday. In this day and age, part of anybody's birthday is receiving digital wishes. Facebook, LinkedIn, text and email. I think I answered them all...although I'm not 100% sure :) The highlight of the day (which was rather quiet) was having my son over for dinner. It's his birthday on the 15th so we celebrate us. Then my daugh …
A couple of weeks ago, I was participating in a weekly Zoom. There were eight people who shared the same feeling about what is going on in the world and one did not. The person that did not share the same feeling started to express his point of view using analogies. Within minutes he was viified and although we did move on, he subsequently dropp …
Our relationship with technology is continuously evolving. How we engage with our smartphones, fitness trackers, thermostats and our house is very different now than we did 10 years ago. Imagine how it will look 10 years from now. You don’t have to look hard to find studies on how the use of technology impacts our mental health and well-being, pa …
I'm staring at a legend on TV. Aex Trebek. He passed away about two weeks ago but his new episodes that he shot will play till Christmas day. It's a bit eerie knowing the future of a man as his life is passing by in front of you, day by day. Alex hosted more than 8,200 Jeopardy! episodes, setting a Guinness World Record for hosting the most epi …
I think the celebration Fred wrote about yesterday was caused by at least these three things; the weather, the results and the undeniable fact that we are all living in a box with significantly less human contact. Whether it's our home, our car or the small square screen of a computer, we exist within these constraints because of a raging virus tha …
Authorities in Indiana said an overturned semi truck spilled cases of beer across the lanes of of U.S. 50 in Dearborn County. Thankfully no one was hurt but it seems that within 2 hours, the beer was gone. I heard Police later investigated a complaint of a loud party going on roughly 25 miles from the scene of the spill. The officers reported …
It's Halloween today and I don't have any candy. I'll need to run to the store to get some but I'm wondering... Do I need to wipe down every piece? Will they take the candy if I put it out? Will there even be trick or treaters this year? I never had so many questions about Halloween.
It's Saturday...and anything goes.
