Every so often, a company changes its API or Application Programming Interface. That’s what allows one application to play nice with another. When a company changes it, it essentially breaks a lot of functionality for another program.

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Customer: “Excuse me!” Walmart employee number one doesn’t make eye contact and tries to step out of her way.

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I’m thinking of changing my name to Surrounded by Incompetence. Just think, I could walk up to anyone at work and say, “Hi, I’m Surrounded by Incompetence.

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So there I am pissed off at work, looking for something to punch when I notice the glass electric meter… damn! Had to file this one under “anger” anyway.

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The phone conversation that I had on the drive home from work today began with a 30 second pre-recorded message which repeated for about 2 minutes. Then went something like this… Operator: “9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” Me: “I just observed a vehicle nearly cause 3 accidents in the span of about a minute.” Operator: “Really? […]

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The Foster/Syme development group recently purchased the Royal Gorge cross-country ski resort along with a ton of other land around Serene Lakes (where our cabin is) including the bottom of the lake. When they revealed their plans which include 950 condominiums and single-family homes, a lot of people at the public meeting drank the Kool-Aid with a “Please, may I have some more.”

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When KCRA’s Call 3 reporter Lynsey Paulo came knocking on my door camera-man in tow, I chose not to answer, not knowing why they might want to stick a lens and a microphone in my face. In retrospect, I wish I had

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Nothing’s ever easy! It’s become my mantra over the last few years. Ask Lisa. She’ll tell you. Ask bro-in law Mike. It became the mantra of both of us as we were building the cabin a few years ago. It all stems from the daily knee-deep crap that one must wade through to get things done.

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