Technical Troubleshooting at ATT Yahoo for Fun, Profit and Sheer Adventure

It’s not that AT&T is a small company. Neither is Yahoo. My webhosting says AT&T Yahoo, so that should make matters simple. My monthly billings are exquisitely accurate as any charge possible anywhere throughout the AT&T Yahoo mega system finds its way to my invoice. Be that as it may the blog was down and no amount of fidgeting or rebooting would help. The problem had to be on the computer cloud side, that is, with the website software and not my harddrive. The first... Read more »

Things To Do With Chauffeur Car Hire

If you’ve gone to the expense of using chauffeur car hire, then you want to get your money’s worth. Drink the champagne provided, however cheap, try out all the seats, use the champagne bucket for throwing up in, wind the privacy partition up and down, up and down, up and down, hang out of the window being loud and obnoxious and squeeze as many of your mates in as possible. For anyone that uses chauffeur car hire, seeing how many people you can cram in is an absolute must. The driver... Read more »

Does Anyone Study Studies?

Today there are studies for just about everything. A study comparing smokers with non-smokers found that smokers are concerned primarily with the present and non-smokers are concerned more about the future. Professional dancers were given as an example. Because their careers are short, professional dancers are more concerned about the present - and professional dancers, as a group, are heavy smokers. This surprised me because dancing requires good physical condition. Nevertheless, if smokers are... Read more »

How Do You Manage Home Management?

I’m an in-house manager for a non-profit that’s dedicated to furthering the understanding of human development in the 21st century - or at least that’s what I tell strangers at social functions. It’s party-speak for saying I’m a wife and mother. If I’m asked, I explain I qualified for my position by getting a bachelor in public affairs - and then I married the bachelor. Most of my training in home management was on-the-job-training. I’d never cooked before... Read more »

Does Success Make You Successful?

The U.S. has more successes than any other country. That might sound like a broad generalization, but it’s not. Australia has one town named Success. The U.S. has three - one in Arkansas, one in Missouri and one in New Hampshire. Hopefully, they compensate for Why, Arizona; Last Chance, Colorado; and Hell, Michigan. Los Angeles is filled with waiters looking for success as actors. The next Robert DeNiro or Glen Close could ask what I want for dinner. Although I admire their determination, I... Read more »

What Did Your Mother Tell You?

A mother’s work is never done. In fact, a study done by Ohio State University showed that married women with children feel more than twice as rushed in their daily lives than single women do. Their husbands, however, didn’t feel more rushed than their single counterparts. Is there something wrong with that or am I rushing - to judgment? Every mother tells her children that honesty is the best policy and not to lie; and that’s what one rushed friend of mine told her five-year-old... Read more »

The Humble Ink Cartridge Is Often Mistaken

You’d think with the advent of spell checker that mistakes would no longer be made but one rule of the typist and computer programmer is never to trust the spell checker. You would be amazed that one slip of the finger and you will write all manner of things which could be mis-construed and god forbid you should mis-spell whatever it is you are looking for on the internet. Take for instance the humble ink cartridge. All you need is a nail malfunction, or temporary loss of concentration and... Read more »

Give Me My Tooth

Do YOU know anyone who loves going to the dentist, lying flat on their helpless back, relinquishing all control over to “The Mad Dentist?” What joy to spit blood, have needles jabbed in our swollen sore gums, pink goop crammed in our mouth for impressions, suction devices, hard plastic forced in our mouth for x-rays, & blinded by their stupid bright light. Not to mention the picture on the wall, of fake flowers painted by some dirt ball kindergartner, that is supposed to give us... Read more »

What Topics Are In For Being Stressed-Out?

In this land of plenty there’s plenty to stress about. According to a survey done by Health Magazine, the biggest stressor for women is their financial situation. When the women were asked what would make them feel more in control of their finances, 29% said more money, 23% said less debt and 3% said consulting a financial advisor. Those statistics might explain why 45% of the women said they’d give themselves a “C” or lower in money management. Those 45% might not realize... Read more »

Does Charity Really Begin At Home?

When we lived on the East Coast, my husband found out charity didn’t begin next-door. That’s where having a half acre of land inspired him to become a beekeeper. He had a hive, protective clothing and a smoker - but we never had honey. A neighbor sued my husband for creating “a nuisance caused by unleashed pets”. The neighbor wasn’t sweet on the idea of bees. Then there was my cooking. Because I never cooked before I got married, I experienced a few culinary catastrophes.... Read more »