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The Notebook Saga Continues: 2015

2014.  Uh, yeaahhhhh. <sigh>There is much I could say but I’ll limit it to this: 2014 was not a great year in many, many ways and I’m literally looking forward to a time where the idiocy in my country, and the world in general, will rightfully...

Some Cultural Thoughts II (3 movies)

As I wrote in an earlier post, we’ve been viewing our way through the Oscar-nominated movies and we’ve just completed three more this week.Captain PhillipsFantastic movie!  Watch it.  Interesting fact…my oldest daughter was dating a fellow...

Some Cultural Thoughts (4 Movies and a Book)

A few thoughts on Thinge Cultural…Heart of Darkness – by Joseph ConradFinished Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad a few weeks ago.  Had heard the book referred to in the remake of King Kong and also Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown Congo episode...

Chicagoland Driving Stupidity Epidemic

In Chicagoland we are suffering from an epidemic of Driving Stupidity.The picture below shows exactly what I am talking about.  We’re at a stoplight and the car in front of me is more than a full car length back from the white line where you’re...

I dub thee “Tree Killer”

I am not proud of it but we go through A LOT of paper and printing.  It makes sense if you consider each work item we create typically generates 35-55 pages when printed, which legal people almost always do, and for each of those we might print each one 2-3 times...