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Resolution

My friends at Best Buy delivered my new TV today. Notice I did not say install. Yep, they dropped off the new one, still strapped in its box. I had taken the old one off the bracket, so they took that and left. I had seen the Geek Squad do this several times, so I just went through the drill and installed my TV, and voila! New TV at no cost and now I only…

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Better Betty Management

Better Betty Management Kim is away this week. Betty is confused. Betty is always a little bit confused, but she is especially confused this week. On a normal day when she is not sleeping, she will wander from here to there in the house with a modicum of purpose, seeking something I presume to be Kim’s presence. It reassures her that Kim is nearby. Lots of people, including Kim, anthropomorphize that as Betty’s love for…

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Kick It or Lick It

Kick It or Lick It Revolutions eat their own children. That’s the way the ex-ambassador to NATO from the U.S. put it on this Sunday morning after the world was hanging on the edge of their seats during the start of the coup d’etat in Russia yesterday at this time. Kim and I were driving back from Phoenix dragging my motorcycle on a U-Haul trailer. We listened to the Breaking News all the way and…

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Flying Through New York

Flying Through New York I spent forty-four years living in and around New York City. I lived twenty-six years in Manhattan, three years on Staten Island, one year in Queens and thirteen years in a nearby Long Island town of Rockville Centre. That’s a long time for someone who never really thought about living in the Big Apple before it happened after business school. For thirty-four of those years I had the benefit of one…

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