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I have had the unfortunate need to rent an apartment in a city about 60 miles from home, as my wife has a business there, and prefers not to commute. Actually, to be more...
Seems like every week we have either a 'snow day' , or an 'In Service' day. Now, a snow day is not when it is snowing a blizzard, it is when the school buses are not running...
Here is a challenge for anyone wanting to try it.Go around the internet to pages that are representing companies who are selling items, or seem to be. Then send an email inquiry...
Originally, the term 'customer service' was given to an act that corrected a sales error. It was a matter of credit to the selling company that they backed up their products,...
My Missus dropped her cellphone and broke it. She went back to using an old one we had. That was back a few weeks now, I think it was at the end of October.So, she phoned up and...
It seems that Remax Realty might actually be as deadbeat as their performance would seem to indicate. As those of you who read my blogs know, I believe that any organisation...
I sent the link to my blog entry below to Remax. I was actually delighted that they responded intelligently, and also they actually agreed that things could be better....
So, back to my real estate quest.The online form has a button to state whether I prefer email or phone as a contact means, and I chose email, and I believe I mentioned also in...
Most companies are run by individuals who pay little attention to details. They go through life presumably considering themselves too important to give good service to...
Wall Street gurus or whatever they might be called are currently seemingly continuing to use whatever excuse they can to keep the market value swinging up and down, even as the...
All the hooha of the US presidential election is over. Back to the status quo.And what, exactly, is the status quo?Right now, the descent of share values continues, with the...
During the current electioneering for the position of President, there appears to have been a series of attacks, particularly coming from the McCain side. Obama has almost been...
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As each day of the economic crisis goes by, I mention to my wife what will be happening the next day, and am generally correct. Yet watching TV, it seems that the reporters are...
On Sunday night, the TV program '60 Minutes' had an interview with a guy called Jim Grant who to say the least was less than impressed with Wall Street and the cronies that make...
I have for months now forecast the demise of the capitalist system. Energy limitations will prevent the expansion needed to sustain the business and political model that...
I believe that the US capitalist system that has worked for over a hundred years is dead and gone in any practical sense, and that the morons who run it and control it will...
The latest move by George Bush to fund the past profiteering and incompetence of the large US based financial institutions is interesting to say the least.For months now, I have...
It is a firm belief of mine that most people I have worked within a blue collar environment do a good job, or at least a fair one for the income received. Likewise those at the...
I have in the past predicted that despite the descent of the US economy, it will be made to fluctuate as it fails.So, it seems that oil has dropped in price. You remember...
Global Economy Still FailingAs I have predicted in this and other blogs, the economy is failing globally, not just in the USA. The US Dollar Failing As A Benchmark CurrencyOne...
We probably all tend to go about our lives with no thoughts to many things.For instance, in the average modern city, the food supply stored within that same city is about enough...
If I have to be cynical, and I do, after all this is my cynical blog! - then it would be hard to compare any two public figures, whatever their background, and come up with a...
Food Safety ScaresSo, from time to time we have 'scares' about food. Germs, bugs, whatever are found after people get sick, and the authorities charged with the preventative...
Lonely Planet specialize in travel books, as you might already know. Now there is an opportunity to win their Travel Guide Book by going to wanderingeducators.com where they...
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