Unless you count drinking coffee and checking email as a ritual, I don’t really have any. I do, however, have practices. Stuff I do, stuff I believe or at least pretend to believe. As time has galloped by, I’ve renounced stuff. I didn’t… Read More ›
Communication
AND NOW, A WORD FROM VOLTAIRE
DELIBERATE MISQUOTATION – This week’s prompt requires you to revise the past by restating a quote to mean something quite different than it originally meant. I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death… Read More ›
YOUR BUSINESS IS IMPORTANT TO US
It’s an epidemic, a pandemic — of bad service. Do you remember when the customer was always right? I do. It wasn’t that long ago. Customer satisfaction and service was the norm until approximately 2002, at which point everyone — more or less… Read More ›
LIVING IN SILENCE
A while ago, I had the flu and my ears were blocked. One day, Garry removed his hearing aids and kept turning up the television until we could both hear it. “That,” he said, “Is my world. That’s how much I… Read More ›
FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE – DAILY PROMPT WAS DOWN. AGAIN.
Today’s Daily Post in a Nutshell: Locked and Sealed, is locked and sealed. And — how ironic — was hit with the old “where did it go” bug. But, it’s back up. Sing hallelujah. Till the next time. Can you keep a… Read More ›
ON THE ADVICE OF MY SPIRITUAL GUIDE …
Warning: This is a rerun — with editing — but it so precisely fits the requirements of today’s Daily Prompt: Discussion Enders, I could not resists doing a little revision and posting it. I quite like this little post. It makes me… Read More ›
ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS
As the years have crept by, I have given up a lot of stuff, most of which (it turns out), I didn’t need in the first place. I gave up worrying. I gave up working. I gave up on the… Read More ›
It’s Not Your Equipment … It’s a Lack of Documentation! – Marilyn Armstrong
Maybe I should just give up, but I spent my career writing material to help folks use complicated equipment and sometimes very obscure software. I should probably start by mentioning that I’ve fought this battle for long years … and was… Read More ›
LIVING IN SILENCE
A while ago, I had the flu and my ears were blocked. One day, Garry took out his hearing aids and kept turning up the television until we could both hear it. “That,” he said, “Is my world. That’s how much… Read More ›
Hello? Can you hear me? — I love progress!
Progress. I love progress and am strongly in favor of it, especially when we are progressing backwards. Kind of like technological time travel as gradually, by adding more and better high-tech devices, stuff that used to be simple and problem-free… Read More ›
Dumb and getting dumber
I’m a big believer in research, checking and double-checking sources. But I also learned a couple of important lessons writing documentation and other educational and explanatory material for almost 40 years. Relax, Chicken Little. The sky is not falling. The… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 