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Apr
29
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Quick Tip: Intimidate the Neighbours

Quick Tip: Intimidate the Neighbours When reading the story of a couple in Harriman, Tennessee today, I was struck by one thing. Wait. That’s a lie. By about four things, but the point of today’s Quick Tip is only one of them. According to the Metro: “Officers responded to a call reporting a man on fire in Harriman, Tennessee on Tuesday, only to discover the couple severely burned and, apparently, drunk. The 62-year-old...
Dec
20
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Quick Tip #7: Your Grandma Can Find You Online

Quick Tip #7: Your Grandma Can Find You Online (I’ve had a really difficult week this week, health-wise, thus the lack of posts. But since I’d rather rant or laugh than share the woes, I’ll share something that is both funny and scary for my Quick Tips category.) After reading some unfortunate, but inadvertently hilarious, problems people get themselves into because of Facebook (or Twitter, or texting, or IMs, or email). Problems...
Oct
19
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Quick Tip #6: End of Life Counselling

Quick Tip #6: End of Life Counselling Sometimes life throws you things that require some coping skills. Sometimes other people are unbelievable ass-hats with nothing better to do than stride around the internet inflicting pain and grief on others. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and just want to go back to bed. Sometimes I do just go back to bed. And sometimes, if you’re very observant, you can see that no matter what your challenges,...
Dec
10
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Quick Tip #5: Procrastination

I just got a note (okay I got it 2 weeks ago) asking me to “thumbs up” something on StumbleUpon. It was an article about procrastination, and how to deal with it and what it all means, etc. I did give it the “thumbs up”, but not because I agreed with a single word of it. So, back to my “Quick Tips”! Haven’t done one for a while. Quick Tip #5: Dealing With...
Sep
24
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Quick Tip #4: Sometimes Spelling Counts

In general, unless you’re a schoolteacher (and at the moment in the process of executing that job), I find it pretty rude to correct other people’s spelling. (Probably this has something to do with the fact that I’m not a good speller myself.  Case in point: I had to look up persuer for this very article.)  Not everyone can spell. Not everyone has English as a first language. So as...
Sep
19
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Quick Tip #3: There Is No Bank

This one is for the guys. Quick Tip #3: There is NO Bank Women might indicate otherwise, for motives I wouldn’t care to speculate on, but when it comes to earning “points” with the woman in your life, there is no bank.  The credit you earn now is the credit you have.   You can’t point back to a good thing you did a week ago and say “But hey I did the dishes without being...
Sep
8
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Quick Tip #2: Cat Fights

Continuing my tradition of giving little tidbits of advice that might help our Dear Bitter Readers…. Quick Tip #2: Cat Fights If, at 4 in the morning, you hear the ungodly noises of cats fighting outside your window, do NOT under any circumstances climb out the window to run them off, even if your bedroom windows, like mine, appear easy to climb out of being reasonably large and low to the...
Sep
4
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Quick Tips #1: What Kind Of Person Are You?

Quick Tip #1 People who start sentences with the phrases “I’m the kind of person that…” or “I’ve always believed that….” are getting ready to tell you something catastrophically boring.

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