In case you missed this during the presidential election bruhaha
China: Son's tribute to 'hipster' grandpa goes viral - CNN.com
Friday, February 24, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Today was to be a day of rest after several days of cleaning out and moving stuff from the garage and my workshop/storage at our house in San Juan. Adinete had rented the house starting the 15th of this month.
However, as is common, things do not always work out as one plans.
As I was reading my morning email, Adinete came to my office and told me that the renter had just called and told her that the water heater in the garage had started to leak last night.
Knowing that my day was beginning to be "one of those days", I begrudgingly went to check out the problem. I went in our little Ford Fusion because my pickup was still loaded with the things I moved yesterday afternoon.
After inspecting the water heater I determined that it needed to be replaced. This meant that I had to return home and unload the pickup before I went to Home Depot to get a new water heater to install.
I was in a thoughtful mood as I was driving home,
Just a few weeks ago I had installed a new water heater in another house we own. Now another one and on Sunday! What if I had not learned how to do all the trade things I have learned since I was about 14 years and had not worked part-time for five years to get a college degree.
The next thought, as I drove down the street and saw a group "elderly" couples, probably "Winter Texans", entering a local cafe for lunch, was that after a career of thirty some odd years in public service and retirement with a government pension and Social Security, I should be doing what that group was doing rather than being concerned about replacing a water heater for someone else.
After I got home and unloaded the pickup, I told Adinete what I had been thinking. I want everyone to know what a wonderful wife I have!
She reminded me of all good things and family for which we have to be grateful and she is absolutely right.
However, as is common, things do not always work out as one plans.
As I was reading my morning email, Adinete came to my office and told me that the renter had just called and told her that the water heater in the garage had started to leak last night.
Knowing that my day was beginning to be "one of those days", I begrudgingly went to check out the problem. I went in our little Ford Fusion because my pickup was still loaded with the things I moved yesterday afternoon.
After inspecting the water heater I determined that it needed to be replaced. This meant that I had to return home and unload the pickup before I went to Home Depot to get a new water heater to install.
I was in a thoughtful mood as I was driving home,
Just a few weeks ago I had installed a new water heater in another house we own. Now another one and on Sunday! What if I had not learned how to do all the trade things I have learned since I was about 14 years and had not worked part-time for five years to get a college degree.
The next thought, as I drove down the street and saw a group "elderly" couples, probably "Winter Texans", entering a local cafe for lunch, was that after a career of thirty some odd years in public service and retirement with a government pension and Social Security, I should be doing what that group was doing rather than being concerned about replacing a water heater for someone else.
After I got home and unloaded the pickup, I told Adinete what I had been thinking. I want everyone to know what a wonderful wife I have!
She reminded me of all good things and family for which we have to be grateful and she is absolutely right.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
Friday, December 23, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
7 Tips for Getting More Responses to Your Emails (With Data!) | Boomerang: Email Productivity
I think that this is interesting information about writing emails. I intend to use it when I can.
It would apply to social media posts also.
Did this information help you in writing emails and posts?
7 Tips for Getting More Responses to Your Emails (With Data!) | Boomerang: Email Productivity
It would apply to social media posts also.
Did this information help you in writing emails and posts?
7 Tips for Getting More Responses to Your Emails (With Data!) | Boomerang: Email Productivity
Sunday, November 13, 2016
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
The author of this article is a person after my own heart. She succinctly writes about what I know and believe.
"Class migrants (white-collar professionals born to blue-collar families) report that “professional people were generally suspect” and that managers are college kids “who don’t know shit about how to do anything but are full of ideas about how I have to do my job,” said Alfred Lubrano in Limbo". (The college kid managers comment applies to those managers who have never done any "blue collar" work.)
As I wrote in one of my earlier posts, I was one of the first in my extended working class family to graduate from college. In the beginning I planned to get a professional degree in engineering but my academic talents and aptitude channeled me into a different area of study that resulted in my getting a B,A, degree in Government and History.
By the time I had graduated from high school I had hoed and picked cotton, milked cows in a dairy, plowed with a farm tractor, cleared brush and moved dirt with a bulldozer, worked in a milk processing plant. and worked in a grocery store.
During my college years I worked in construction, did apartment maintenance, washed dishes and served food in a boarding house, worked as a pin boy at the university student union, and was a mail carrier and processor at the university mail room. After receiving a B.A. degree I was a Peace Corps Volunteer, a county juvenile probation officer, an Agency for International Development personal services contractor, a welder's helper for a pipeline construction company, a produce shed maintenance worker, a social worker, a social work supervisor, a social services program manager, a state agency assistant business manager, an IT consultant and business owner, and a residential property owner and manager.
However, I do not believe that I have never been identified as, nor consisted myself to be, a "professional".
All in all I am definitely a member of the middle class described in this article.
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