As I get a little older my eyes are not as optimized as they used to be for reading and the basic up close tasks, so last November I dumped my blackberry.  It has those tiny little buttons and it was a pain in the ass grabbing reading glasses every time I needed to...Read more »

A24YGV26BD9M Dear Inside Edition, I have never really watched your show before, during dinner tonight I decided to check out the TV and, there you were.  I sometimes ponder how it is that so many people appear to have lost the ability to manage complex ideas and thoughts and generally appear to be such...Read more »

If the New York times no-knead bread recipe inspired you to give baking your own bread a try, as it did me, you know one of the secrets to making it work is a cast iron dutch oven.  So I went searching and it turns out there were only a few options available that...Read more »

I decided a while back to learn how to bake bread, for a couple of reasons the biggest being I am a cheap bastard and it seemed a stupid waste of money to be spending $5.00+ every time I wanted a halfway decent loaf of bread, that most of the time turned out to...Read more »

When did training people to robotically and insincerely apologize over and over (in monotone) become a substitute for “actual” customer service? I called chase last week to get them to lower the interest rate on my credit card, its a card I have had a long time, it has a zero balance and like...Read more »

So, these days I have a cable internet connection, the last month or so its been intermittently quite slow… so I do the ordeal of calling comcast…. now called xfinity… because well, we aren’t smart enough to realize its still the same company with the same crap customer service. Here is a link to...Read more »