The keys to shopping effectively are simple: define a need, specify a budget, sally forth and buy. Repeat only when necessary.
posted in economy | Comments Off on Simplify the process | 262 words
St. Stephen might be strained in his disbelief, to see what has become of his holiday. After all, when your relics are put in a box and transferred to yet another resting place, you might hope for something more fitting than Boxing Day, right? A holiday nevertheless, even if the holy has gone right out the window. Today is just another red coloured date in retail.
posted in economy | Comments Off on In the Trapezoid of Trade | 281 words
I arrived home before dark, and was immediately struck by the footprints, in the snow, leading around the end of the house and into the back yard. At this time of year, there’s not much of interest back there; a pool with a thin layer of ice, an abandoned barbecue, a stiff owl that waits for stupid starlings.
posted in economy | Comments Off on Footprints in the snow | 295 words
This week is taking its own sweet time to get from start to stop. My calculation shows exactly the same number of hours as any other week (time changes excepted), but the subjective side states something very different. Only Thursday?
posted in economy | Comments Off on A perception of lag | 288 words
Here in the Great White North, we have two parallel sets of currency. The first bears the likeness of a monarch (not necessarily a living person). The second, a fellow in a tam with the unlikely name of Sandy McTire. The two currencies are not mutually exclusive, because up here we sometimes have trouble sorting out our banknotes with our fingers hidden in our mittens.
posted in economy, music | Comments Off on Brand new coins | 258 words
I guess that if you know what you like to do, and you study and then find gainful employement in your field, then things will probably work out. I mean, I’ve (sort of ) done that, and half a lifetime later I still find satisfaction. Still some mysteries out there, though.
posted in economy | Comments Off on The number crunchers are satisfied with the game | 309 words
Greed makes the world go round. Keep that in mind, as the government changes the ground rules for how you watch television.
posted in economy, media | Comments Off on The free ride is over, for both parties | 376 words
For those who believe that kids don’t read any more, may I interject one word? Please? BALDERDASH. Now on to part two. May I comment on some of the stuff that is read by the masses? Please? BALDERDASH. With fangs.
posted in economy, media | Comments Off on Beware of the twilight | 275 words
I’m not an entrepreneur. Give me a steady job with a fair salary (and a pension plan) any day, over the quick riches that so many believe are their due. Not to malign the spirit of success, but if it was easy, everyone would be doing it.
posted in economy | Comments Off on Not so easy riches | 274 words
There’s a seedy side to retail, and I’m not referring to the grain business. Somewhere along the road, the idea of the customer as prey became a rule of thumb. Let me illustrate.
posted in computing, economy | Comments Off on Without that wire, you are just a button pusher | 381 words
