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In a marriage balance career risks

Monday, January 12th, 2009

So i’m thinking about everyone with 2 working incomes, the DINC so to speak, or whatever the abbrevation for Dual Income No Children or with children, the DI part is what matters… Anyway… If you are a single income family this is easy, get stable on the one income… But if you have dual incomes, and you have some talent, one of you should take a step in one direction and the other one should go the other way.  What do i mean by that? (more…)

Hotel Chains take notice….

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Folks, this is not rocket science, here is a start of things to enhance your hotel experience for your customers…

  1. Make the sink near the shower so you can use the same soap and save on resources
  2. Make sure the heating or ac system is not loud at all.  it needs a variable speed fan that the user can adjust
  3. Make sure there are plenty of power outlets.  I’m sitting in a hotel room today with a laptop plugged into the outlet on the lamp (good move) and the cell phone plugged into the bathroom’s outlet (bad move)

There are probably hundreds of points i could put out, but i think it is better to start with some reasonable ones that at least can be knocked off so there is some progress. I’ll think of more things later…

Hotel Television Cable Systems - They Suck

Monday, January 5th, 2009

So i am sitting here and stewing about various things, like usual. What should i rag on? Well, it is a universally, obvious problem. the tv systems suck and it has few channels and few benefits, and they make all their money off of pay per view porn. So for all of us that have to suffer through their crappy system, we have to watch a limited set of channels, with some useless info channels that add no value, etc… why not just bail on all that crud and just get direct tv, or comcast, etc.???   Cable of any sort has to be better than the lowsy “system” they use to try to get you into just using and buying some porn, which people are probably all just downloading now a days anyway to save money!

United Airline’s Award Winning Magazine

Monday, January 5th, 2009

So i sit there on the plane across the country… It is crowded and there is little leg room in the trailor park part of coach seating. So at some point i pick up the magazine in the back of the seat pocket.  It clearly has some sort of stained liquid on it so i swap it for the neighbor’s. And what a surprise… It is an award winning magazine!  What award it won, i got no idea. In fact who the hell cares, and who the hell decides that any shitty airline magazine would win anything in the first place?  Someone find United airlines and answer me! (more…)

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - financial advisors, the big 3

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

There are 3 big name financial advisors that seem to make the news in the DC market, whether it is on radio or tv, or what have you. They are Ric Edelman, Dave Ramsey and Suzie Orman. Basically, you can find each of their books at any major book store, find them on tv, in the papers, radio, etc… My synopsis is as follows: (more…)

Vendor Chotckis (however you spell it)

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

So, i have been thinking about this a lot. In the past i had the following for requirements for giving away freebies as a company to customers, this was 10 years ago so things have changed a bit, because the audience has changed. So this was the original requirements list: (more…)