Why was Rob even carrying a cell phone on a vacation boat ride? Lose the cell phone and you CAN relax. The cell is the cause of his distress, not the missed call. The purpose of sailing in the Bahamas is to get away from the stress of business - by taking the cell with him, he was taking the stress with him.

I would love to reply, but the new 'comment' system...

The last 3 jobs I had - before I retired, I had the job before talking to anyone in HR or sending a resume. I bypassed them entirely and went directly to the person I would be reporting to. And this was long before Linkedin made this ridiculously easy to do. First find who at the company is the most likely person…

Wow, ... just Wow! My brain is now boggled.

It really depends on what kind of do it your selfer you expect to be. The tools needed for an auto mechanic are totally different than those of a casual around the house fixer upper. There are some tools that do crossover. Basic screwdrivers and an adjustable wrench among others. For around the house, a small basic…

If you are setting the thermostat at 70 and seeing a constant 75 or more, You have a problem. Hopefully just a defective Thermostat that is cheap to replace. But could be an underpowered AC that runs all of the time - that can cost much more to run than one that is sized properly and only runs enough to get the temp…

My favorite trick to keep meetings short was to hold them in a room with nowhere to sit. And absolutely NO doughnuts. The busybodies who show up at every meeting, then try to show how valuable they are by always insisting on putting in their irrelevant commentary on whatever the meeting is about will stay away in…

We sold a similar gadget over 30 years ago at a convenience store I worked at. A reusable vinyl wrap that looked like soda. Intended to be used to hide a beer can. - We had a variety - the red and white CacoCola, the green and white 1-up and others that resembled popular soda cans.

It happens. When I moved I got a land line. I constantly received calls from debt collectors, a car dealer asking when I was going to come in to pick up my car ( 3 times in 6 months), a temp job service asking if I was available for work and similar calls. Not one of the callers could be convinced that the previous…

It would have been nice to have included a floorplan. The description on their site mentions bedrooms (plural) but not how many. They are so proud of that glass living room they forgot to mention (or show) important parts of a house, like bathrooms, bedrooms, closets and where the generator and batteries they mention…

It's not that simple. The price of electricity has changed quite a bit during the lifetime of this light. To get an accurate cost you would have to go through 77 years of electrical bills and calculate the cost for each month. Then use that to get an average cost.

Not just buyers, sellers can get screwed over too. Do not rent to someone who claims to be trying to rent from a foreign country without ever seeing the property and meeting face to face.

How is this not insider trading? The big investment banks got away with trashing the economy and they will get away with this crime also. This is what happens when the government decides a company is too big to fail. They are also too big to bother with obeying the laws. We need to put a few big name bankers behind…

The neighbors will be quiet and not give much trouble. But cutting the grass around all of the tombstones could be a hassle.

I am 65 - and could easily pass for 70. I get carded every time at airports and often in hotel bars. It is the LAW in many places. If they don't ask - NO MATTER HOW OLD the customer looks - They automatically get hit with a big fine - stupid? Yes. But please do not blame the server or hotel staff They don't want to…

They still make that thing? I remember my grandfather had one 60 years ago when I was about 3 or four years old. In about 1950 (Yes, I am that old) I was fascinated by it and would take it apart and put it back together over and over.

A video would be pretty boring. You would see me push a button on a hand held transmitter similar to a TV remote and a light would turn on. Or, click on a icon on a computer screen an the same light go off. Or walk into the bathroom and the overhead light comes on. Or a chime sounds when a car pulls into the driveway.…

I don't see anything in his room that couldn't be done with 20 year old readily available standard x10 parts. Mostly NOT by drilling holes but by replacing a few light switches with off the shelf x10 switches, using the off the shelf x10 plug in switches, an off the shelf 10 year old x10 computer program. Including…

I don't see where he was doing anything either illegal or immoral based on his account. Apple lawyer just trying to intimidate a kid who was doing something creative but legal. If anyone did anything wrong it was Apple in using their big company bullying to 'suggest' they they were going to sue if he didn't stop doing…

TSA is absolutely the worst example of governmental paranoia and waste I have seen in my 65 years of travel. Do I feel safer - Not just no, but hell no. These clowns have never caught a terrorist. Even the terrorists are not as dumb as many of the 'agents'. What terrorist is going to bother when they have their work…