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Breaking News: Spectrum Finally Lands...with a Thud!

Breaking News: Spectrum Finally Lands…with a Thud!

Breaking:  I interrupt this blog to bring the following post. Spectrum has arrived as the new provider replacing Time Warner Cable (TWC).   While their ads are touting it as something new and better, it is really crap.  I am hear to cut through the clutter and reveal the current truth of this provider. On the surface, the only major changes seem to be just the rebranding of the name.  However,…

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Some Endings...(and some that SHOULD Be)

Some Endings…(and some that SHOULD Be)

Here we are well into 2017 and this is my first post to this blog of the new year. I had decided to wait long enough for the political dust to settle, but I figured that everyone is so polarized that I could be waiting forever. Certainly, 2016 was not a fun year as my health took a major step backwards and I had several longtime friends decide to no longer want to be friends, some who were…

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The Flood of Closures

When I thought about writing a post last week, I didn’t expect that I would suddenly see so much retail news happen in a single day.  I decided to wait until some of the dust settled before I wrote this. So here we go… Over the last couple of weeks, the company Aeropostale closed some of their stores permanently while giving others an inventory reboot.  After almost looking like a going out of…

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The Last Post of 2016

To say that this year was not a tough year, would be an understatement.   At least, for me, it probably was the worst year I ever had or close to it. Everything seemed to be going smoothly for the first half of the year, then it seemed everything went wrong. First, my computer became the victim of a bad Windows 10 update, which made me having to start from scratch. After I got that pretty much…

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Shocking Shrunken Staples

A couple of weeks ago, I took my annual trip through 3 malls in New Hampshire.  Admingly, each year these malls in Nashua, Manchester, and Newington get more and more depressing and have fewer stores that I actually care about shopping in. All those great stores that I have loved in the past have all but disappeared, just as they have in my local Maine Mall.  Much is dying in my mall as it is in…

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Back From The Dead (For Now...)

Back From The Dead (For Now…)

Yes, I am still alive much to the disappointment of many of you. The last few months have been extremely difficult for me as I had given up most everything because of a medical condition. This was not a simple problem:  I was basically blind in one eye and was quickly losing vision in the other.  Whether I liked it or not, I needed surgery to reattach my retina in my left eye and fill holes in my…

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Back From The Dead (For Now...)

Back From The Dead (For Now…)

​Yes, I am still alive much to the disappointment of many of you. The last few months have been extremely difficult for me as I had given up most everything because of a medical condition. This was not a simple problem:  I was basically blind in one eye and was quickly losing vision in the other.  Whether I liked it or not, I needed surgery to reattach my retina in my left eye and fill holes in…

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Unwanted Hiatus

​Due to a medical condition, I will not be doing anymore blog posts until further notice.  Additional information is available on my Facebook page.  Thank you for your continued support.

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Unwanted Hiatus

Due to a medical condition, I will not be doing anymore blog posts until further notice.  Additional information is available on my Facebook page.  Thank you for your continued support.

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Unwanted Hiatus

​I have some bad news. Last week, I tried to update to the latest build of Windows 10.  After nearly 3 weeks of failure, it finally downloaded and unfortunately it caused one major problem. My computer kept crashing not allowing me to do anything with it.  I could not even rollback to the previous build of the operating system.  So I had to do the worst thing possible: boot to the recovery system…

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Unwanted Hiatus

I have some bad news. Last week, I tried to update to the latest build of Windows 10.  After nearly 3 weeks of failure, it finally downloaded and unfortunately it caused one major problem. My computer kept crashing not allowing me to do anything with it.  I could not even rollback to the previous build of the operating system.  So I had to do the worst thing possible: boot to the recovery system…

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Half Year Review

This week’s blog post is being presented in both of my blogs as the information is relevant to both blogs.   Tomorrow, we will be exactly half way through the calendar year.   This means at this point that I look back at what has transpired over the last 6 months.   On the Staples blog side, the merger that didn’t happen was the big story and appears that the company has suffered greatly because…

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Half Year Review

This week’s blog post is being presented in both of my blogs as the information is relevant to both blogs.   Tomorrow, we will be exactly half way through the calendar year.   This means at this point that I look back at what has transpired over the last 6 months.   On the Staples blog side, the merger that didn’t happen was the big story and appears that the company has suffered greatly because…

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News After the Divorce

News After the Divorce

This week’s post is fairly short only because there is not a lot of news to talk about that happened in the last couple of weeks.   The most important Staples event that is happening is that chairman Ron Sargent is stepping down from the company.  This one left me thinking that this ship is about to sink and he doesn’t want to be at the helm anymore.  After all, the $250 million payout to…

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Facebook's Many Problems

Facebook’s Many Problems

When I joined the Facebook community a little over 7 years ago, I thought maybe that I could keep in contact with my friends from my former job or even more so those people who I went to high school many years ago.   Little did I realize that there would be so many issues along the way.  Having some people friend me and then unfriend me months later for no really good reason given.  Why did these…

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Veronique asked: How often do you go watch plays, ballets, classical music performances, or any other classy sir activities? (Monster Jam doesn't count)

Never

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Veronique asked: If you made a new account under an alternate name do you think people would figure it out? (How unique is your writing style or the type of questions you ask?)

I would not bother

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