Posts under ‘observations’

I am offering the world my list of priorities. These are the things, and to some extent the order of priority, that I take into consideration when making some of the choices I make. Believe it or not, different priorities will leap to the top of the list that seem rather low. That is because [...]

Once upon a time I really enjoyed listening to Country music. Of course, that was before I went to a giant country music festival and sat, for an entire day and well into the evening, surrounded by people I probably wouldn’t associate with if I had free time and the desire to associate with people [...]

Well, I am working on a lack of sleep. I am also actually amazed that this lack of sleep is allowing me to plow through as much as I have been. Most of the lack comes as a response to Erin’s needs to sleep more since she does a lot of the heavy lifting when [...]

First things first. I spoke to my boss and on my own volition and with Erin’s support, I have cut back my hours to nil or next to nil with the possibility that I might return to work in three or four weeks or not until the end of the semester when I come in [...]

Sometimes I come across something and I say to myself, “I don’t believe that.” This happens somewhat frequently, actually, and in the end I am often proved right (if proven anything at all). My reasons for being wary of or not trusting someone are not always logical and they often seem odd at the time. [...]

O.J. Simpson has been back in the press for the last several months. This time was a trial where he’d been charged with armed robbery. The robbery in question was the result of Simpson claiming the dealers had stolen merchandise from him and were now trying to “move it”. One reason Simpson was caught was [...]

In one of the early episodes of HOUSE M.D., Gregory House, M.D. tells a group of about 40 possible candidates for a fellowship position that he has a talent for observation and that he is often correct when he makes a diagnoses. Since House is a genius of diagnostic medicine, observation is important to what [...]