Oh, change is definitely constant here. I’ve worked in I.T. at the same company for almost 30 years. I constantly hear advice that my resume should show “progression” in my career, and that I have a problem because I’ve been at the same job for too long.. I laugh, because I can show how I started my career working on…

I found it’s easier to just not have friends at all

Personally, I think this applies to a very small number of people. In my experience the best laid plans rarely ever work out or make a difference in your career. Here are my rules:

made me think of this commercial from 1995:

I hate Craiglist because people

I am sooo jealous about your clamps. I swear, noone sells these at garage sales. They just want to unload the crappy worn out power tools.

Fair enough. The post just showed up in my Lifehacker feed, so I didn’t realize that it was from a separate blog about cooking. I just thought it was a generic post from Lifehacker about food.

This is just fine. Seriously, how many people can really taste the difference? I’m thinking the subtle flavors spoken about in articles like these are something like the emperor’s new clothes. Everyone pretends they taste the difference, but they don’t.

I’m in my early 50's, and I’m finding that all I really want is “situational friends” (yeah, I just made that up).

My favorite trick is to put round stickers on the tops of the original spice containers, so you can see the names when they are all in a drawer and you’re looking down from the top.

Here in the south, most of our lighting comes from lights under ceiling fans. With the exposed bulbs, my wife only likes clear the bulbs with the fake filaments. So I’m waiting for a sale on those!

Here in the south, most of our lighting comes from lights under ceiling fans. With the exposed bulbs, my wife only…

Yes. And the most interesting thing in the bar.

It’s a small thing, but I diversified my 401k before all the recent market corrections. It was almost half company stick and half in 1 mutual fund. Now it’s in 10 different investments with only about 10% in company stock.

oh, you’re NOT supposed to do that?

My suggestion is to skip the bar. Load up your quart bag of carry-on liquids with miniature liquor bottles. Buy fruit juice or soft drinks at the newsstand when you get through security. Discreetly mix up your own drink and enjoy at the gate.

No tips, but I just wanted to say that the Lubbock International Airport (Texas) bar is one of the most depressing places I’ve ever been.

I learned this in Boy Scouts, although it was soda instead of beer

I use a cheap plastic 2 quart pitcher as an ice bucket. Put the wine bottle in first, pour in ice around it, and fill with water. These smaller size means you don’t waste ice and water, and it chills faster because it’s completely surrounded by cold water and ice

It’s not my job to accomodate you

I don’t care. I paid for a seat. The seat reclines. You know ahead of time that you can’t sit in a regular airline seat if the person reclines in front of you. This is your problem, not mine.