Only once in my 40+ years have I received a call back after sending thank you notes and I didn’t take the job because they were offering ridiculously low pay. My experience has shown most hiring moves forward with the top candidate so quickly that thank you notes would only come into play when a company is forced to…

You’ll find a lot of people disagree. While the Republican Party has supported the president, this is Nixon level coverup. Republican leadership may look at the situation and realize continued support of Trump takes down the whole party – especially if public outrage continues to grow. I’m waiting for the states that…

Many people confuse impeachment with removal from office. Being impeached is comparable to being indicted. When the house votes to impeach a president, they are voting to put the president on trial. Clinton was impeached and put on trial with the house serving as prosecutors and the senate serving as jury. The only…

I’m also just above 800 on VantageScore 3.0 credit score, but my usage is at 24% due to taking advantage of a HELOC to fund some home improvements. My biggest limiting factor seems to be accounts that aren’t reported to all the credit rating agencies. I have credit history going back nearly 30 years due to my mother…

West coaster here, so my only recollection of Action Park is this news report from when it reopened:

My parents are in their 60's, but live so unhealthily that I expect at least one to be gone in the next 10 years despite grandparents living into their 90's. My father has been an miser and workaholic all his life. I reasonably expect I’ll inherit at least 100k on his death. I expect that is when I’ll pay off my…

Something I learned recently was part of cast member rotations occasionally includes time dedicated to “make magic” which would be code for look for special opportunities to make a guest’s day special.

Inflation might not be the bogeyman everyone believes it is – especially in light of rising student loan debt. While wages do lag behind, inflation effectively offsets lending interest rates, making it easier for consumers with fixed rate loans to payoff their debt. 

You can’t win if you don’t play!

You’re missing that cars idling in traffic produce the same, if not more emissions than vehicles operating at efficient (read normal) speeds. So a commute that takes 1 hour produces less emissions than a commute that takes twice as long because you are inching along in traffic.

I don’t fly a lot, and I’ve never experienced lost luggage. But I just don’t get people who want all their luggage in the cabin with them. Hauling luggage around an airport is a pain. Just check everything except a small backpack, purse or laptop bag. You have less to worry about, and your luggage will be waiting near…

I stayed at a hotel in the Anaheim area. On checkout, I checked with the clerk, and she indicated everything we would be charged for was on the statement.

This isn’t necessarily true for places like Dominos that always have coupons available. Using currently available coupons in my area, a $5.99 12-inch pizza is a slightly better value at 5.3¢ per square inch than a $10.99 16-inch pizza at 5.47¢ per square inch.

My smaller city is dealing with a lot of legacy traffic-impacting holdovers like parking lot access very close to intersections. Too many drivers believe they are being the nice guy by stopping so a car can exit a parking lot, forgetting the dozen or so vehicles now stopped behind them.

I wonder how well this works with a 2-ton diesel pickup right behind you in the line?

There have been so many breaches, I’d assume 95% of the population with a credit card is already covered by some form of credit monitoring. I’m not even sure what breach my current service is from, but I get the monthly email alerts that noting has changed.

The Waffle House Index simplifies the availability of critical infrastructure. Water & flame is all that’s needed for a limited menu serving just pancakes. Full menu availability implies power is on with refrigeration for perishables like meats. Total shutdown implies employees could not travel to work either due to…

My first job in the mid-90's was working in the video rental department of a local grocery chain store. Prime’s monthly additions bring back a lot of nostalgia for me, and also some less than fond memories of the creepy guys who were always first to rent 90's T&A films.

Dictionaries are not language rule books; they are historical records of how words are used.

Not in government, but at a telecom utility company that operates the same. I spent my first few years scripting and automating. Now, I find myself putting work off so I have at least one thing to do every weekday. I finished a bachelors degree 95% at work over the last 4 years. I can’t get management to upgrade…