Note From the Shower

Travel toiletries such as soap or shampoo usually need to be opened in the shower, yet the product packaging is designed to be next to impossible to break open when wet. Our best packaging engineers should be assigned to Tylenol, not Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Shampoo.

 I hadn't posted here in a while, but I had something to post, and had decided that I should resurrect this blog and post it here. And then forgot what I'd intended to post.

Genius and Madness

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, although most sources attribute this to Aristotle

A friend who's retiring said that what she's looking forward to the most is going to bed every night feeling the same way that she feels on Friday nights now. I think that pretty much sums things up!

10-1/2 years ago, my post on this blog read "I'm behinder than I've ever been." Now, I'm way behinder.

After Discipline has mastered a form, she is free to improvise.

-Ruth Gendler, The Book of Qualities

Another day, another meeting about creating synergies, aligning goals, and improving productivity.

The most useless thing you have is the useful thing that you don’t use.

Comparison is the death of joy.

- Mark Twain

"How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
- Jane Austen, Emma

Dating and Engagement

There is endless talk about employee engagement at work. But a series bad dates rarely leads to an engagement.

The Great Circle of Life

I've never understood The Great Circle of Life, but I'm pretty sure that it has to do with always needing to be the one to fill up the reservoir on the office Keurig.

A Resurrection?

After years of neglect (OK, I forgot I even had this blog), here I am again.  Let’s see if that’s a good thing.

Are You an Idler?

It's often said that you shouldn't be an idler. Idle Hands Are The Devil's Workshop, the saying goes. But if you're idling, you're still running, and combustion is still taking place. It sounds pretty sustainable to me.