Isn’t it just amazing how people that are meek as sheep when you look then dead in the eye can, oh so easily, turn into vicious hyenas when they are hidden behind the veil of anonymity that an instant messenger, social website, or even a simple telephone provides?  Working constantly in, what could be termed, a customer service industry almost my entire working career has given me some pretty unique insight into this ever...

  I work with computers and all their various sundry components, parts and accessories all day every day.  Being a PC Jockey makes me quite attuned to the health of all these parts of a whole usually.  Last week I lost a good buddy. My trusty HP 1200 Series Laser-Jet printer passed on.  That little guy and I met some ten years ago when I first got the job I have currently.  He was moved in with me because of space issues elsewhere in...

  I myself have never been and never will go to college.  I am a FIRM believer that wanting a college education means only one of two things.  You are either a narrow minded individual with grand aspirations of wealth, glory, and fame, or you are a gifted individual with the need to further your studies in hopes of acquiring a job in a vocational, business, engineering, or technical area.  I see no benefit in anything colleges offer...

  This week I was on vacation, but I didn’t really go anywhere special.  I was lucky enough to be off at the same time my wife and kids had some time off too.  This makes me very appreciative, especially in this economic crapfest that swirling all around us, that I have a job that allows me to pick and choose my time off, that I have friends and colleagues that are more than adequate to pick up the slack while I’m away, that...