It has started on my calendar anyway. For whatever reason I have always thought of Sunday as the starting day of the week. I know so many others think Monday is the start of the week however, to me Monday is the start of the work week only and Sunday is the start of the weekday week. Sunday is the day I have always started anything new like a diet or trying to break a bad habit. So Sunday is my own personal start something new day.

My husband has been home for a wee bit over a week...

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SOFT SNOW / HARD TIMES: For me, mostly retired the soft fluffy snow was just a nice change of scenery an excuse for a quite neighborhood to become even quieter. But then a business friend called this morning; he was on his way to open his business after being closed two days. He had lost two days of production and his employees had lost two days of wages and today was pay day for the staff. However it was the losses that his business friends had endured that was on his mind. Always someone with...

Forget that it's just another cheesy title, but the Vacation Man really is about to take the road again. Time for another round of rest from the stress of work. Time to hit the roads of the great state of Texas as a way to relax, seeing more and more of the things that made my homeland what it is.

This weekend, I'll be getting my belongings together, and by dawn on Monday, this writer will find himself burning rubber down on a road near me. Abilene, Buffalo...

Robots are getting "smarter" and more agile by the week. A report on PBS February 13, 2014, showed not only that automation is gaining ground but the segment ended by saying that within 20 years; robots will replace half the work force.
When I bring the subject up around the coffee table where me and my retiree friends meet, they are dismissive, saying that we can adjust, meaning of course that their children or grandchildren can adjust.
Yet everyone sitting around the table...