News from johnpatrick.com – 12/02/2022
It’s All About Attitude All six books now have updated covers. Great work by Billy Wright. Hopefully, potential readers will find them refreshing and interesting. Ads are now running on Amazon, Facebook, and Google. The narrator for the Audible version of Reflection Attitude got a cold and this has delayed things a bit. I hope […]
The New Skill: “Let Me Check That.”
Custom image created by Perplexity AI The New Skill: “Let Me Check That.” Every important technology arrives with a promise. It will make us faster. It will make us smarter. It will take care of the tedious things so we can devote ourselves to more meaningful work. Sometimes that promise is fulfilled. Sometimes it is not. […]
Boston
Custom image created by Perplexity AI Boston The road to recovery continues, and each day I regain some strength. It was time to venture out on a trip. We decided to go to Boston and visit our son who lives there. After loading our luggage, I entered Raffles Boston into the Tesla’s flat panel and […]
Where Were You When
Where Were You When Most of us remember vividly where we were on September 11, 2001. In my case, I was in Danbury, Connecticut in the board room at Bristol Technology meeting with their CEO, Keith Blackwell. Remember where you were when you first heard that President Kennedy was assassinated? Or maybe when Jerry Garcia […]
The Hot Dog
Custom image created by Perplexity AI The Hot Dog One day last week, I had lunch with a friend at the Ridgewood Country Club. A menu item caught my attention, the Grilled “Hummel Brothers” Hot Dog $8. It seemed expensive for a hot dog but it was really good. Then this week, Joanne and I […]
A Fine Mess
A Fine Mess I just finished reading A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fair, and more Efficient Tax System by T.R Reid. The book is very well written and delves into what is behind many things about taxes which frustrate many of us. It made me think about some of my experiences […]