The Guitar Show

So today I went to a guitar show in Kent WA a suburb of Seattle WA, which is suburb of Western Canada. Its not really a suburb of Western Canada but it could be. Anyhow I saw lots and lots of guitars and some amps some aging wanna be Rock & Rollers. One of the agers about 60ish was wearing leopard skin leather pants and didn't seem to realize just how ridiculous he looked. I thought about telling him but then I realized he wouldn't understand one word of what I was saying and he might start crying. And believe me a an aging Rock & Roller in leopard skin pants who is crying is not a pretty sight.
I did see some really neat guitars ( do people still use the word neat?). They would have been even neater if I could play anyone of them. Or all of them simultaneously. I realized I need to learn to play guitar so that I too can wear leather leopard pants, or maybe zebra skinned leather pants since I don't want to be labeled a follower.

OUR NEW LIFE IN PORTLAND OREGON

We did close at 10: 30 am but because of local OR rules regarding the recording of the transfer in the county seat we could not get our keys until 4:00 yesterday afternoon, and by that time we were too tired to do anything but take a few things to the apt. So we spent one more night in the hostel and Keith will help us move in today.

Interestingly one of the first things Judy wants to buy for the apt are mums for the patio.

We still need a few things for the apt, like a new kitchen and all new appliances., all new floors, a new bedroom set, a new living room set and a new dining room set. We are planning to have that all done no later than the end of this week.

Armageddon

With all due respect to Pennsylvania’s municipal workers, why is the possible laying off 20,000 or more of them due to PA budget problems Armageddon ? Why isn’t a national unemployment rate of almost 10% Armageddon ?
Why isn’t the almost daily announcement of private company layoffs Armageddon? When the taxpayers of the state of PA are being laid off, and their employees, PA state workers jobs are sacrosanct, that is Armageddon.

ANOTHER CELEBRITY SEEKING FAMILY

Maybe I have lived too long, but sending your 16 year old daughter out to sail around the world is nothing but a stunt. If her parents really are interested in her doing this stunt send her out with a chase boat and rescue team following her, all of which her family should fund.

One way or anther the taxpayers of the world have to pay for finding and rescuing people who go around doing stunts. The least that can happen is the royalties from their books and TV shows and movies are sent to a fund to educate people to not do stupid publicity seeking stunts.

Comments on a Charels Krauthammer Op Ed Article

Mr. Krauthammer,

I should begin by saying I am Jewish, and therefore biased towards Israel. That being said I must say your column in the Philadelphia Inquirer about the away in which the world is conspiring to eliminate itself of Israel and the Jews was very frightening.. It was frightening because it showed the ways in which Israel and its “troublesome” Jews are never going to have the peace and tranquility they so desperately crave and are entitled to.

Just by coincidence on this past Tuesday night I attended a lecture about among other things the past and future of anti-Semitism or as it should Called today anti- Israelism. Combing that with your column has made me even more resolute in my support for Israel.

It seems that as pessimistic as it might be, the only true friends in this world who really support Israel are Israelis , and enlightened Americans such as yourself.

Please keep up your defense of Israel and its “troublesome “ Jews, as I heard Tuesday night, Jews are the worlds Canaries, as Canaries are to coal miners. As the world treats its Jews so will if find out how it will treat its other minorities.

Working in a Call Center

If you work in a telemarketing / call center, you have lots of time to:
1. Make up fictitious company slogans:
Blah Blah the call center company that lowers your expectations one call at
a time.
Blah Blah the call center company that lowers the service bar one call at a time.
2. You also have time to call people you who actually want to know if they are on candid camera?

Call center employees are minor executives in minor corporations.

The Beginning of the End

I firmly believe that when Microsoft created the Excel spreadsheet program, most middle managers lost their minds. What I mean is managers actually believe that if they can put some figures and some words into a spreadsheet they must be true. Somehow spreadsheets have come to mean credibility. And what is even is spreadsheets have became invincible. Whatever an off the wall manager puts into a spreadsheet must be doable, and once something is supposedly doable, in this economy the downstream workers can't say no to doing it. No matter how outrageous or impossible to accomplish the goals are, as set forth in any spreadsheet the worker bees must agree to actually trying to reach these ridiculous goals. Goals used to be attainable and mutually agreed on. Today all middle management has to do is create a spreadsheet or a Word document and all of a sudden all the worker bees have to line up and agree to march into the sunset and commit suicide if they don't reach the absurd middle management goals.