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Forbes has a list of ten questions you better ask your boss. Ask thosequestions and you will be lied too. Just like Rodney lied to his SuperBoss. Management knows how to lie much better than you. They have had more practice. CNN had some highly useful questions to ask your boss… “You really paid someone for that haircut?” “Must your lunch always include garlic?” “How did someone...

Legos are fun, but I never had any growing up.My construction materials were Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, Playmate Building Blocks, and some other kind of building block that I can't remember. Maybe other Boomers will remember. They were white blocks about 3/4 inch long with two squares on top for connecting.Lincoln Logs were invented by the son of Frank Lloyd Wright and included instruction on how...

I complained and some people called me on it. The past few Sunday Stealing memes are clearly taken from MySpace.com or PopSugar.com or CollegeCandy.com. They said I should put my meme where my mouth was.Here is the MySpouse, MySport, MySpice Midlife Meme.MySpouseIs your spouse/significant other alive? If yes, how can you tell?What is your position in the menopause moment?If you are...

We had the living room painted to provide a suitable backdrop for the Big Ass TV. (BATV) Since that meant everything in the room was pretty screwed up anyway, I decided was told that the couch should go over there and my recliner should go where the couch used to be and her recliner should go where mine was and that lamp needs a new shade and don’t forget to fix the window latch and do we...

I had a skin cancer removed recently and have a lot of skin damage to my foreskinhead and other body parts exposed to the sun regularly. When we played golf this weekend, I had Nancy spray my forehead with sunblock. Hey! That stuff works! Science is amazing. I didn’t get a sunburn on my receding hairline. The couple we played golf with has a red-headed, freckled, SIL. They said he was using...

I knew she was on a covert, undercover mission and had to return home because of the new administration and the extreme danger she faced if she remained at her assignment. Otherwise, why would she be so mysterious? Other than the fact that she is a single boomer woman writing stuff on the internet? Now that her mission is over (obviously she accepted) and she has safely returned, she is...

Saw the sunrise over Nashvegas International Airport - 6:15 a.m departure meant leaving home at 4:00 a.m. Did a 360 on the runway at Reagan National - connecting to Boston, we started to roll for take off, slowed, did a 360 and stopped because there was bad weather in D.C. Stayed in a Dee-luxe Apartment in the Sky - Hotwire.com got us a room at the Hotel Intercontinental for $125 a night, right...

Times are tough. Imagine you have a job: that is 100% commission you only work every four days, but the after the first two days you may have to go home with no money. only the very best are allowed to work the very same area you do if you don’t do well you have to compete to the opportunity to work regularly your job requires you to travel extensively at your own expense - meals,...

Liberty Mutual, the insurance company, has this online driving test called Driver’s Test. Caution, annoying music starts to play. meant to simulate some of the challenges that elderly drivers face when they’re out on the road. Yeah, if you are driving your car using arrows on a keyboard. You know up arrow for accelerate, down area for stop, right for right, left for left. I HATE games...

You remember "Who's On First." Here's the up-to-date version. COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you? COSTELLO: Thanks I'm setting up an office in my den and I'm thinking about buying a computer. ABBOTT: Mac? COSTELLO: No, the name's Lou. ABBOTT: Your computer? COSTELLO: I don't own a...