Feed Store Tips: Indecent expectations.
When I walk into a place that has a mandatory tip on the bill; I walk out and never go back because that is just pure arrogance and I will not pay a single dime to any establishment that does that.
Feed Store The fleecing of Idaho: A prescription drug coverage scheme
If you’ve had to get your own healthcare, then you’ve seen Mountain Health Co-op; the newest addition to the Idaho marketplace. Unfortunately, they are playing an all-too-familiar game with their…
Feed Store Free Appliance Pickup: Convenience, or Raw Deal?
If you’ve ever heard those commercials from your local power company urging you to use less electricity, then you’ve heard the plea to use wisely, conserve energy, and they even offer to pick up your old appliances for free if you buy new energy efficiency ones. Sometimes they even offer to pay you a small amount of money to pick them up for you. It seems like a decent gesture on the surface of it, why else would they want to haul away your broken appliances?
Feed Store The Magical Mystery Batch, how bank’s use it to rip you off.
Some banks have changed how they process payables, and by payables I mean those checks or other types of transactions that pay funds from your bank account to other people or businesses. This type of processing, which for simplicity’s sake I’ll call the Magical Mystery Batch...
Feed Store Why critiques are so critical
What motivates me to write most often is what stirs me to shout out... It also becomes the outlet for expressing opinions about events and people who I believe to be doing harm to the world we live in. My writings do not reflect the course of my life, they merely reflect the course of my writing.
Feed Store China Palace: Masters of disaster
The food itself is average Americanized Chinese fare with the usual staple offerings, nothing outstanding, but not too bad either; kind of a study in middle-of-the-road adequacy if you will. But what we found next will curl your hair...
Feed Store Garden City’s Egg Factory: A study in mediocrity
My wife’s been bugging me to try out the egg factory, so this morning we gathered up the kids and went to see how it was. ...All in all, the experience was somewhat less than satisfying, but Julie, Bubba & Skittles, (our three dogs) were very grateful for the leftovers we brought home.
Feed Store When Telephone services become telephony
Technology gripe of the day: Something I found out about my phone service provider recently that I found very surprising: They may not actually BE your telephone service…
Feed Store Internships: A replacement for a College degree?
In the short term, the lack of college education especially in technically challenging fields such as Information Technology, is more of a hindrance than a benefit, and an internship indeed provides a far more valuable real-world experience relevant to the actual workplace, but what happens when you reach the point where you wish to advance beyond that?
Feed Store Foreign outsourcing: Why companies go “off shore,” and the sacrifices involved.
Someone asked me recently why Accountants do not outsource their bookkeeping to companies outside the USA. As someone with an interest in the bookkeeping industry, (I help my wife run…
Feed Store Guild Wars 2: A gamers review
I do have a few hobbies and one of them is playing an online game. Yes, I know, the stereotypes abound regarding the antisocial single man living with his mother…
Feed Store Why this scoffer of Organic food myths drinks only Organic coffee
I am one of “those People” who has never bought into the mythology surrounding organic goods as being the end-all, be-all of human health and wellbeing. The exhaustive studies published…
Other sections
- The Dog House Stories about folks being their own worst enemy
- Pecking Order Politics, elections and who’s running the roost
- Fence Line Veterans, country and where we draw the line
- Front Porch Faith, family, gratitude and the quiet stuff worth sitting with
- Out to Pasture Retired tech and old reflections, still worth a read
