As I become successful or maybe just prolific in writing posts in my various blogs, the action attracts the attention of a small group of self-proclaimed “experts” who desperately want to “help” me become more successful. It is the exemplification of the adage, “Nothing breeds success like success itself.” I think the original form was, “Nothing succeeds like success. There are many variations with the same message. My point is, this attention lets me know...
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Phony Marketing
The sad part of all my residential phone line hassle is that I have almost no personal need to use it. It has become entirely a direct marketing communication resource for solicitors to harass people (me) to purchase things not needed or wanted. A cell phone now fulfills my meager personal communication needs. There will never be a viable phone industry “no solicitors” list on residential phone calls because there is no outside way to...
Continue reading...Register Addiction
I am not sure what else to call it, an RA (Registration Addict). There are some people inhabiting the internet who have a compulsion to fill in a registration form where and whenever they can find one. I am sure there are many reason for this activity. No simple excuse. For some it may be a test to see if it will lead them to additional web access to explore and perhaps abuse. Some do...
Continue reading...Taxes Filed
There is nothing I dread more than filing my taxes, so the feeling of getting them over and done is a wonderful sense of relief. It doesn’t matter if I owe or can claim a refund. It’s the concern if I have collected and safely preserved the mountain of paper “evidence” randomly sent to me in the mail for the previous three months. The complexity of the process, if your working-for-a-living life is anything but...
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