I live in a truly cool loft in downtown Austin. For weekends, I have a small farmhouse 20 miles away. I have a beautiful acre, 65 Live Oak trees, a small pond with varying numbers of fish (I seem to be feeding someone with these fish that seem to decrease in numbers regularly) and some frogs, [...]

I have a very unusual brain and experience the world differently than most. As a person with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD – a form of Aspgerger’s), I experience the world in systems. I listen for systems, hear people speak in systems, ask systems-based questions. Some folks find me obnoxious, some charming. Some find me smart/interesting. But certainly [...]

Looking for a tech person, I tried everything any normal employer would try, assuming that amongst them, I would find the right person. But I was wrong.
The people that showed up have been unqualified, and the job boards had no way of qualifying or filtering them for me.
I originally just posted on Craig’s list, but was receiving very [...]

Here’s how to get whatever you want to purchase on line for free: use PayPal. All you have to do is dispute your charge, and you WIN! Your purchase will be FREE! Your credit card will return your money, you can keep your purchase, and you’ll have no liability!
Of course, if you’re a vendor, you lose. PayPal will, basically, do nothing [...]

After my complaints last week about a Starbucks manager refusing to exchange a defective CD, I received 3 phone calls from different customer service folks at Starbucks (one of them was the ‘entertainment’ manager, and I’m not sure what that means) apologizing and offering to send me a replacement CD. All proclaimed that the manager who wouldn’t [...]

I started drinking coffee when I was 62. I tasted it once as a kid and hated it cuz  my mom drank it black and it was yuckky. I never tried again.
But sitting with friends at Starbucks a few years ago, I tried one more time (flexible, right? Only took me,um, 54 years to try again!) [...]