Often get my coffee, then I sit down at my I.T. job, open my email to see OMG THE WORLD IS ENDING AND I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW OR I’M GONNA GET FIRED OR DIE AND IF THIS ISN’T FIXED IMMEDIATELY EVERYONE UP TO THE CEO IS GONNA HEAR ABOUT THIS DISASTER!

I came here all set to criticize this camera. But I gotta admit it that it does sound like a respectable deal. The ability to store the video locally is a great selling point. I’d hate to shell out more money every month for another subscription to something. Given all the advances with the Anker product, the…

I came here all set to criticize this camera. But I gotta admit it that it does sound like a respectable deal. The…

This always used to bother me, because I have the kind of job where it’s hard to come up with quantifiable accomplishments (dollar figures, sales figures, etc).

Yeah, I can tell that you are just a delight to live next door to....

Well, as was mentioned in the beginning of the article, it’s designed to make sure you aren’t disturbing the neighbors. Some jobs might be primarily working on a laptop and answering the phone. But if you are also having clients visit, there’s the issue of parking,and strange people possibly knocking on the wrong door…

I know I’m whining here, but I really wish Google would add a sort feature to Gmail for this very purpose. It’s sooooo much easier to delete unwanted emails if I can just sort them by sender. For example, I might have 500 emails from senders that start with ‘S’. If I can sort them, then I can see there’s 20 from…

Somewhere (may have been a Seinfeld episode) I heard someone compare books in people’s homes to trophies. And I thought “Yes! That’s exactly what they are!” They ARE trophies. I’ve kept almost every book I’ve ever read.

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.