I wonder if there are any of you who recognize the words above as being from the book by George Orwell entitled 1984. I took up this book to read again a few months ago but really haven’t gotten very far into it, but that is as it is. The book was written in 1948 and was about a fictional totalitarian society, where there is … Continue reading We Shall Meet In a Place Where There Is No Darkness
Everyone knows that the United State Postal Service (USPS) has been in financial trouble since the 21st century began. That is not surprising given that most financial transactions now take place on the Internet. I can’t remember when I last mailed a bill payment through them or much of anything else for that matter. This post is about what may just be the future of the USPS and that is as a FDD.
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Sometimes the journey into retirement just isn’t very joyous, in fact it can be a down right painful journey at times.
Like almost all of us I had many challenges in my early retirement years. I started my retirement from the corporate world at age 54 and like the cartoon above, I didn’t really have any retirement plan to guide me. The first few years were difficult but now after almost twenty years I think I have finally gotten most of it right.
This post is about the biggest shock among the many I encountered.
Continue reading “My Biggest Shock Upon Retirement!”I envy many people for the talents they possess. Certainly, near the top are cartoonists. I wish I could do that but I simply don’t have the capacity for that endeavor. To kinda live through them I want to take Tuesdays to celebrate their work. A picture is indeed worth a thousand words. Continue reading Oh, Those Cartoons…
This post is about how an idea that died, or maybe I should say killed by corporate America is now new again. It seems that the Business Roundtable, which is a group of 188 CEOs has decided that corporations should be accountable to more than just its stockholders. The three-legged stool is finally being resurrected again, and none too soon.
Continue reading “The Business Roundtable & The Three Legged Stool.”This is an easy one. It is from New York City. Care to Guess?? Continue reading Augmented Reality #11
It’s been eleven years since the Canada trip.How could time have flown by so fast?It was a month long adventure that I won’t forget.Especially that sunrise along the St. Lawrence Seaway.We were traveling in the hinterland between cities.We were determined to follow the Seaway to its source.It was getting dark so our attention was for a place to sleep.We feared we might have to sleep … Continue reading A Morning On The St. Lawrence Seaway.
They say personal letter writing is a thing of the past, but maybe that is something that has just been modernized via the electronic medium. Does it really matter that the message comes on a screen instead of paper and ink?
Continue reading “Dear Will:”
There are times when it serves the interest of the population as a whole to have a mandatory retirement age in place. Some of the professions below are about mental acuity, some are about physical stamina. One thing they all share is that they serve the public at large.
Continue reading “Mandatory Retirement Age”I know I have put the above photo here before but I just think it deserves a Saturday artsy posting all by itself. It was taken in Montreal Canada in 2011. There was a second one just down the block. Yes, it is a real house but not an x-ray view. 🙂 Continue reading Artsy, Fartsy…
As my first candidate to look at in my “The Next President” series I want to focus on a local guy. Who would have ever thought that the mayor of a small Indiana town could get such attention? All you have to do is google “Mayor Pete” and he comes up.
How could a 37 year-old from perhaps the most conservative State north of the Mason-Dixon line even show up on the radar? He isn’t rich by any means and moreover he has proudly proclaimed that he is a gay person with a husband! I mean he graduated from high school after the millennium! Despite all of this he is a front runner in the second pack for president.
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I am definitely a SciFi guy. I love watching almost anything in that genre. The Mad Max movies and that type of doomsday stuff is neat but I really get off on the things that show humanity on a positive note. I guess that maybe started with “Robbie the Robot” in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet. By the time the Jetsons cartoon series rolled around I was totally hooked. I just love thinking about future possibilities.
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I have made it my quest lately to try and understand the MAGA folks who voted for the current Oval Office occupant. They surely are not set on destroying our country but what drives them? I got a partial answer to that from a recent Fareed Zakaria program on CNN.
Continue reading “Understanding MAGA…”I suspect some of you will know, even in its augmented mode, what this is and where it was taken. Any Guesses??? Answer coming soon. Now that summer is almost over (where did it go??) I am moving my artsy/augmented photos to Saturday again, and using Friday for more “Having My Say” topics. 😉 Continue reading Augmented Reality #10
Just a simple picture for a dewey/foggy Friday morning. It was taken looking out my Study window. The maple tree on the right has definitely seen it better days. When we came here twenty years ago I thought of cutting it down. But I have since grown to appreciate her in her mature years. She is full of holes where large branches once resided that … Continue reading In Once Great Majesty
I want to kick off this “The Next President” category here at RJsCorner with a post about what I want to see in the next president.
Here is my dirty dozen of wants for the Next President:
Continue reading “What I Want To See…”.
Everything’s on all the time. We’re go, go, go. Attention spans are short and our readers have more, really good options than ever before.
The Medium – August Birch
I hear people lamenting far too frequently that no one reads novels anymore. They say serious reading has become non-existent in this age. But, as usual, I disagree. In fact, I expect reading has become more prevalent now than it has been in the last hundred years! I know I read much more now than even a few years ago. The Internet has opened up so many sources of knowledge that I simply don’t have enough time to consume as much as I would like. 🙂
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