The Super Bowl This Year Had A Ton Of Offense, Just Not Much Defense. The Super Bowl was played last night between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots. If you’re anything like me you loved watching that game. I love a great shoot out, especially between the best two teams in the league….
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Blowing It Scenario #17-Amtrak Blew It Again With Yet Another Crash
How Are Trains Getting Into So Many Accidents? I love a good train ride, hundreds of thousands of pounds of steel gently coasting along two 4 inch rails. Inertia carrying the momentum of its weight to the point it takes miles to begin a stop. These things are quite literally guided on tracks to your…
Blowing It Scenario #16-Flu Season, A Failure To Defend Ourselves Against The Virus.
Flu Season Has Been Busy This Year. I have luckily enough been one of the fortunate ones this year and I haven’t been sick. But if you are one of the thousands who failed to avoid the illness, you know it’s been a rough season. However, silver lining, it has been a great year for…
Blowing It Scenario #15-Punxsutawney Phil Blew It With His 6 More Weeks Of Winter Prediction
It’s Goundhog Day. If you are anything like me you are already over this winter. Cold and wet would be the best two terms to describe the weather where I’m from. We get wet most of the year but the additional cold really makes for a dreary couple months. Now we have this over confident,…
Blowing It Scenario #14-Impatience, The Failure Of Exercising Patience
Good Things Come To Those That Wait. Or at least that’s how the saying goes. I think it should be good things come to those who are proactive but exercise the patience to see things through to the end. Also their are many things that may seem impatient but are simply elevated pro-activity. An early…
Blowing It Scenario #13-Watching The State Of The Union Speech
Why Even Watch? There’s Two Sides To This Coin, Neither All That Positive. Hogwash, far be it from me to believe that their isn’t much conviction in the words spoken in these addresses. And when their is, it’s not usually shining the most positive light. So what do I do, I attempt to avoid it….
Blowing It Scenario #12-I am Blowing It
Me, The Author, I Am Consistently Blowing It. That’s what life and growth is all about, an endless run in with failures, that you learn and grow from. With each new post I’m blowing it. Some of my writing may be profound, but most will be perfunctory. Many articles will come off sounding pretentious. How…
Blowing It Scenario #11-Cambodia Blowing It By Arresting Travelers For Dancing
5 Brits Arrested For Inappropriate Dancing. I’m not much of a dancer myself so if I were to ever visit Cambodia, I don’t think I’d be much at risk of imprisonment. Maybe this is a marketing ploy to reduce tourism to the country. That’s the best answer I can come up with. I understand everyone…
Blowing It Scenario #10-Aging, Trying Not To Blow It While We Age.
We All Do It, Others Do It Better Than Some. It was recently announced that the founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kompard passed away at the ripe old age of 91. This was a very successful man right up until his passing. Few see that kind of success in life, yet it’s some thing we should…
Blowing It Scenario #9-How High End Smart Phones Are Blowing It.
High End Smartphone Makers Alike Have Failed Us In Many Ways. Smart phones have changed nearly every facet of life for almost of us, over the past decade. In some ways for the better, but in many more for the worse. Never before have we willing carried devices that can track our every moves. It…