It is time, women of America, to come to your senses. Halt the alarming increase in the divorce rate. Bring the homemade biscuit back to your breakfast table.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Canned Biscuits the Downfall of Marriage ... Yeah, Right!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Starbucks: Get Back into the Coffee Business
"What?!" I asked. "I'll wait for it."
I do not like Pike Place Roast and would have gladly waited 10-15 minutes for them to brew something I did like--which is most any flavor considered the "bold roast of the day." When I've asked for the bold coffee of the day, and was told Pike Place IS bold, I gave the barista a look of incredulousness.
"Sorry, but we're out. Once we have used what we ground for the day, that's it."
How can a Starbuck's be OUT of coffee?!
Why can't you just grind more? I can frickin' do that in my own house for goodness' sake. But I spend my time AND GAS MONEY to go to Starbuck's because I expect to be able to get a BETTER cup of coffee there. But with Pike Place as my only choice, that is no longer the case.
I left empty-handed: a first for me in my long relationship with Starbuck's.
I have wasted time and gas one too many times driving to Starbuck's just to find that they are "out" of anything but Pike Place for the day. I refuse to drink that swill when all I really want is coffee that tastes like COFFEE, not some weak imitation. I could get that any place else and for half the price.
BRING BACK BOLD!!!!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
How many social networking strategists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Comfortable Business Dress: Is it possible?
Friday, August 15, 2008
No hope for keeping up
And there's nowhere that is more true than in keeping up with changing technology.
With a dad who is a gadget-loving engineer, I was once on the cutting edge of technology. As a child, I even knew about mainframe computers and punchcards. I also remember my dad trading in his slide-rule for a calculator. In middle school, I knew DOS and could amaze my friends with what I knew about computers. We had a TI-80 at home and a Commodore 64 at school. At another school, we had an Apple computer, and I remember when we got our first Windows PC at home, with its copied features of the Apple OS. I became an expert at Windows Explorer and MS-DOS. And I watched floppy drives become smaller and not-so-floppy.
For a few years in my early 20s, I worked at Circuit City, and then Radio Shack. I got more training there and more exposure to changing technology: EBBs and email. Scanners and printers. Zip drives and CD-ROM drives. In college, as a graphic design student, I learned HTML and Photoshop 3.0 and PageMaker 5.0 and Illustrator 6.0 all on Apple desktops -- when they weren't popular.
I bought and used Apple computers at home and PCs at work (even still), so I was comfortable in both OSs. In my graphic design job, I learned to use digital cameras (I was taught old school in college classes) and new versions of Adobe, but I began to really fall behind the curve with the demands of a full-time job and a family. And it seems I won't ever catch up.
So here I am now--between jobs--and spending most of my time on the computer: networking, posting resumes and applying for jobs. I've learned a lot in the last 6 weeks about social media and blogs and mini apps, and just what has been going on in the world while I've been in the vortex created by my last job of 2 years, where I mostly used MS Office, and had little time or need for new technologies.
All I can say is "Wow!" I've still got a lot to learn.