December 2011
20 posts
"Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published...
In British slang an anorak ( /ˈænəræk/) is a person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects….hmmmm and I thought an Anorak was just a Hack…..well, as for me, I am probably a hack more than an Anorak…because I have few strong interests and my only obsession is with my weight and my hair when it stands straight up in the morning after I get out of...
"I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my...
Chauncey Depew?????? ….. everyone has their own sense of logic….and or humor.
So, I made the first step yesterday…and went to Snap Fitness…I’ve been paying them for about three years now….and if they actually charged me for my exercise time used, I’d have a free lifetime membership by now…..
In any case I had on a too tight fitting...
"Men willingly believe what they wish"..Julius...
I made another mistake…..this is a big mistake…..I’m supposed to be on a vacation….since we don’t travel much, my vacations consist of staying at home, laying around…visiting and generally doing things I otherwise have no time to do…but the mistake I made was checking emails at the office and not staying away. I checked my emails yesterday..and I need to...
"Successful people are simply those with...
That simplifies things doesn’t it?…..develop two or three successful habits….it’s easier said than done though. Aren’t we all thinking about this in one form or another as another year passes by?…. New Years and change and all that?….Most of us start off with a bang…exercise and diet are great examples…the health clubs are packed with us right...
"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform".. Homer
A vacation day…a vacation week…..I ended the year with a dull thud production wise…I didn’t get any of the four Town-home Associations I was working on….the Horse Riding stable I was so optimistic about is all but dead because no insurance company wants the comp on that..so, I have one consultant that “looks” as though I may pick it up….
While...
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live...
Wow…..that’s really all I can say….Wow…..
I got on the scale this morning…a card came out….said “one at a time”…..
My battle with my weight is raging……and i’m losing……sure, I can blame the holidays and the sugar and the rich food….and simply the fact that its the holiday season….
But that’s...
"When I woke up this morning my wife asked me,...
I woke up at 3:00 am…..this CPAP machine is doing it’s job…I felt wide awake and rested..but I figured if I got up at 3:00, I’d simply go back to bed at 5:00 and wake up sleepy at 6:30….so I had the good sense to rollover and dream my dreams….my energy level is up too….I don’t come home and take naps..nor do I sleep on the sofa at night...
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust...
A slow start and long finish yesterday…I got going and my first stop was the office…I had to get my “list” and check it twice..then off to one of those retail postage stores to send some cigars to Harvey….
I did some shopping and errand running including a short visit with a ham under my arm to my 92 year old Aunt and my cousin….I got home at 4:20 and my phone...
"He that would live in peace and at ease must not...
The little birds are back….the feeder filled and winter while delaying its inevitable arrival promises us daily of its presence whether real or imagined….like the birds feasting on the seeds, the squirrels in the tree’s scurrying from one branch to another…they know that only too soon, cold and snow will dominate the landscape forcing them to alter their habits…but...
"The becoming of man is the history of the...
I hate it…I absolutely hate it when I feel like I’m being “checked up on”….If I’m not where someone else thinks I should be…and the phone rings….and I get…”can you talk?”… or “what’s your schedule?”.. then… “are you at the office?”…then “where are you?”….
Both of my...
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together...
The morning gloom remains…affects the spirit..dawn isn’t here yet…and I can just make out the outlines of the barren trees through the hint of light promising a brighter day..but the clouds are still with us from that rarest of rain storms in December that visited us yesterday….yet another day…another gift of life…so long as I keep that in mind…that the...
"The achievements of an organization are the...
My 11:30 appointment didn’t show (till I checked the calendar…) it was for this Friday at 11:30….My 1:30 did show..but she spent the afternoon downstairs….I left early …the CPAP didn’t seem to do it’s job the night before…stopped and got another bad haircut…and
As I walked through the door, my cell rang…. It was “Idea...
"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just...
The two company guys showed up just a bit early…one having driven all the way from Appleton, Wisconsin…..after a brief visit, we found them an office, computer and let them do what they do…..analyze existing accounts to roll to them….
After I returned to my office, the phone rang….”I say we stop flex time and don’t let anyone go home early from now...
"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill...
I feel some-days as though I’m wandering blindfolded through a dense fog and a maize with a floor full of chicken eggs ready to hatch strewn about my path and a mandate from God not to step on them..
“It will be a sin punishable in the afterlife” if I fail..this thought controlling each step…..”I’ll burn in hell if I harm these precious little...
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have...
It was just about 6:40 pm….”Room 127” she said…. off I went…down the hall to the right…. I like being early….was supposed to be there by 7:00 pm….. as I walked in I found a large room… to my immediate left was an empty bed.. to my immediate right..an old guy in shorts and t-shirt watching TV…. and at the far left another old fat...
"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap...
Sometimes I ask myself what I’m doing…..actually I ask myself that question regularly….After 33 years of this and that…all related to insurance…(well, the last two related to inner growth and peace)….have I learned anything?… Do I understand human nature?…..Have I accomplished anything?
I think if I had to grade myself today..(you’ll note this...
"All things are difficult before they are...
Great title…but I’m not sure when anything is “easy”….if all parties concerned aren’t on the same page from an enthusiasm standpoint…Finally, we got all of our quotes from our Ace #1 carrier…four town-home associations…. one was set at a .69 cent rate…two at a .33 cent rate and one at a .25 cent rate….(You multiply the rate times...
"Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last...
Wintry morning….icy snow on the bare branches outside my window…the reliable little squirrels undeterred by the less than pleasant weather, chase one another from limb to limb…In an ever changing world there are some constants…and the squirrels surely seem to fit the bill…..but I suppose even squirrel behavior is an ever changing reality..just so slow that it goes...
"Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous...
I was deep, very deep…..safe, dark and oh so restful…. I didn’t want to come out….and slipped back into the blackness….and I was gone…..for another hour.
Then, I returned to that spot I love so much, and the one that visits me rarely these days…..that wonderful place between sleep and consciousness…. I suppose they call it slumber…some say it...
"Change before you have to"..Jack Welch
I knew in advance what was about to occur…..been down this road before….thank God for experience…I was quite prepared…..
One of our long term carriers decided they didn’t like us anymore…and since we haven’t liked them much either it was all too easy….The email, while admittedly a bit defensive in the end said…”were saying goodbye”...