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Tommy:  Here’s how I see it. A guy puts a guarantee on the box ’cause he wants you to feel all warm and toasty inside. Ted:  Yeah, makes a man feel good. Tommy:  ‘Course it does. Ya think if you leave that box under your pillow at night, the Guarantee Fairy might come by and leave a quarter. Ted:  What’s your point? Tommy Boy (1995)   My 9-year old son was eating...

“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” (Micah 6:8)   “No Shoes, No Shirt, No Dice.” Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High   Ohio State college football has been a dominant program for a long time.  In the last 10 years, they have a record of 106 wins and 13 losses while...

“Desperate times call for desperate measures.” Hippocrates   Typing the word “desperate” makes me think of the old TV show, Desperate Housewives.  The story centered on four suburban women who were neighbors.  They found themselves making risky choices in order to look good, be fulfilled, and live the lives they thought would make them happiest.  This made their lives hectic and...

“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built...

In the timeless appeal of romantic comedies, one of the tried-and-true story lines is the ugly guy who tries to get the really beautiful girl who is out of his league.  I was thinking of the movie, Roxanne (with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah), and realized bringing up that reference was probably on par with bringing up Ben-Hur with Charleston Heston at this point- it’s like how long ago was...

“I noticed you didn’t post a blog last month?  I really missed it!!” (Actually, no one said this…????)   I think one of the frustrations that I’ve had in the last year is how seemingly how every business underperforming service-wise or raising prices can be explained away easily by COVID or her offspring (shortages, inflation, sharp price increases, not enough employees, etc.).  Examples:...

“Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Proverbs 29:18   Well, we started with a Bible verse, so it’s a good time to go into the story of Joseph in the Bible (located in Genesis 41).   To paraphrase, Pharoah, the leader of Egypt, had two dreams that no one could interpret.  His chief cupbearer (and a former jailbird) remembered that he knew a guy in the joint who had...

“You can have it all.” (1980’s Michelob Light Advertising Slogan)   I was (attentively) listening to a teacher’s presentation at my children’s school and she referenced the movie, Twister.  I nudged my wife and whispered, “That movie is probably 20 years old now.”  “Yeah, at least…”, she quietly agreed while discreetly double-pointing to the stage to redirect my attention back to...

“Many hands make light work.” (Old English Proverb)   I remember back to my college days in sunny Arizona when I had to figure out where I was going to live my sophomore year.  Most of my friends were thinking of staying in the student housing in the dormitories for Year 2.  I had virtually no experience with rental properties and wasn’t sure what to do.   I talked to my Dad about it...