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Fees for quotes

I have been attempting to get some drywall repair done, since I had Permaseal out to do some work.  I would prefer to not do it myself.  I have done it in the past and I can do it, but others are far better. But over half of the people I called demand a $100 fee just...

Side Gig

I have been harping that everyone should have a side business to supplement their income and savings. The pandemic helped drive that point home with a vengeance.  How many people all of a sudden became unemployed?  Granted this time there was more assistance with the...

Property locations

I have been approached four times to sell a property I own, which is amusing, since I thought once I bought it I would have trouble selling it because of the poor parking situation.  I am using the property for storage at the moment.  But it is filled to the rafters....

Intellectual properties

Was watching the “Food That Made America” and they showed how C.W. Post stole the recipes for their breakfast cereals from the Kellogg brothers. This was when America was much younger and people more ruthless and had no regard for others and their intellectual...

Success

Had an interesting conversation with my eldest son. At times it seems like I have to have the same conversations with my kids over and over again… #1 was stating that succeeding in the US today was near impossible, unlike in the past. I told him he was full of it and...

996

In the early 19th century, Robert Owen raised the demand for a ten-hour day in 1810 and instituted it in his socialist enterprise at New Lanark. By 1817 he had formulated the goal of the eight-hour day and coined the slogan: “Eight hours’ labour, Eight...

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