Saturday, August 21, 2010
Punch Dub? WHAT???
What's up with VW and their commercials with the Punch Dub? Where in the world did this saying come from? PUNCH DUB? And when do you say it and punch someone? Whenever you see any VW what so ever. There goes a Jetta, PUNCH DUB! There goes a Beetle, PUNCH DUB! There goes a VW CC, PUNCH DUB! And what about the saying itself? When I was growing up, back in the 70's we would say SLUG BUG (you see how slug and bug rhyme? It kind of makes sense doesn't it?) whenever we saw a beetle and we would slug (hit) someone. Now as my kids got in there teens they started saying punch bug. I tried to correct them but to no avail. They still said punch bug. But now punch dub? I think this saying is just ridiculous and it's nothing like the game we used to play. I say let's get back to slug bug once again and cut all this punch dub stuff out.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
When Poison enters.
Have you every worked at a place where everyone worked well together and everything just clicked? You know, the left hand always knows what the right hand is doing. There are times that associates work together like a fine tuned machine. Like the way the pistons and the valves work in an engine or a healthy heart and the lungs work together. Everything running smooth, all parts doing what they're supposed to. The nice thing about a group of people who work well together is that one person will help another out without even being asked. Then, one day, poison steps in. Like dirt in the engine or smoke in the lungs. All of the sudden a machine that was clicking on all cylinders is not working at all. Some times we deal with this in our work place. Someone comes in to a workplace, a sales team or a territory that causes all kinds of problems. The sad thing is that management may not always recognize it. As a matter of fact, there are times when management is the last to know. Many times the other associates know the truth before management. Hence, the poison continues to fester and once everything settles and the poison is finally removed, there is a lot of work to be done. In the body, organs may need replace. In an engine you may need a new short block. In the work place you very well may need to resell your clients as to why they should stay with your product or may have to re earn your customers trust. My suggestion, listen to your employees, ask them if they can think of anyone who they would coin as poison. Maybe they can see someone who isn't poison yet but could be pushed to become poison. Then you can take the precautions so that this doesn't happen. Bottom line, listen and talk to your employees. Listen and talk to your customers. Chances are they know the poison way before you and, caught quick enough, you can stop it before it becomes a major problem.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
1 Hour a Day
Interesting comment my son Andrew said to me yesterday. "If you just commit 1 hour a day to ventriloquism, imagine how much better you will be a year from now." 1 hour a day. Interesting, that's 365 days a year or 365 hours a year. Let's break that down into even more reasonable numbers 365 - 104 (skipping Saturdays and Sundays) is still 261 hours a year. If you subtract another 10 hours for vacations and 5 more hours for whatever reason you still have 246 hours a year. Now if you dedicate 246 hours a year to anything it's going to improve but only if you 1) Have a plan and 2) Work that plan. So I figured, how about dedicating 1 hour a day to ventriloquism, 1 hour a day to magic and mentalism and 1 hour a day to AutoTrader.com. That only 3 hours a day. I can find 3 hours a day by 1) Getting up 1 hour earlier 2) Watching 1 hour less TV a day and 3) Well, watching another hour less TV. Good advice from my son that I'm going to pursue starting today! Enjoy the video below!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Just got back from the hospital!
Had a fairly nice stay at Trumbull Memorial Hospital this last week. Had a chance to lay in bed, rest, have antibiotics pumped through my veins constantly and share rooms with a guy that was in more pain than I was. It all started on Friday when I had to get my stomach checked because it was hurting so bad (actually, I had gone to urgent care on Wednesday and they diagnosed it as a urinary tract infection). After getting a CATscan they came to the conclusion that I had, get ready for it, DIVERTICULITIS.
Now any of you SNL (Saturday Night Live) fans out there remember Doug and Wendy Whiner. They always complained about their diverticulitis. We all laughed at it. We thought it was silly. I mean, what a name for a sickness, it just sounds like a made up word! Well, I got news for you, it's no laughing matter! It feels like you just got kicked in the groin and the pain never goes away! (On a side note, diverticulitis is an inflamed diverticulosis so Doug and Wendy, most likely have diverticulosis not diverticulitis.)
I love staying in the hospital. You always have at least one person on the floor that is out of their mind and just yell peoples names, "Laura, Laura, Norma, Nancy, Nurse, Miss, Mommy" constantly all night long. Plus you have a nice uninterrupted sleep all night long. "Mr. Robison I need to take your temperature, Mr. Robison I have your new antibiotic can you tell me your full name, date of birth, allergies, social diseases, government bond serial numbers, blood type ....." And the food is always so good, I was on a clear liquid diet for the first few days which included broth, jello, and tea. Next I retired to FULL liquid diet which included cream of wheat for breakfast (still trying to figure out how that's a liquid) and strained soup for lunch and dinner. And don't forget the mighty shake!!! YUMMY!
It was mostly cleared up by Tuesday and I thought the doctor was going to send me home that day but when I had the CATscan (I know that's not how you spell it but I also know it's annoying some of you!
The biopsy went well and they found it was only scar tissue (which leads me to another question, how do you get scar tissue on a kidney?) And I got to come home today, PRAISE THE LORD! Now if I only didn't have to go back next week for skin graphs where they put all the adhesive during my stay! What kind of glue do that use on hospital tape anyway? I'll tell you this much, if it ever got out on the free market the superglue/crazyglue companies will be out of business!
Now any of you SNL (Saturday Night Live) fans out there remember Doug and Wendy Whiner. They always complained about their diverticulitis. We all laughed at it. We thought it was silly. I mean, what a name for a sickness, it just sounds like a made up word! Well, I got news for you, it's no laughing matter! It feels like you just got kicked in the groin and the pain never goes away! (On a side note, diverticulitis is an inflamed diverticulosis so Doug and Wendy, most likely have diverticulosis not diverticulitis.)
I love staying in the hospital. You always have at least one person on the floor that is out of their mind and just yell peoples names, "Laura, Laura, Norma, Nancy, Nurse, Miss, Mommy" constantly all night long. Plus you have a nice uninterrupted sleep all night long. "Mr. Robison I need to take your temperature, Mr. Robison I have your new antibiotic can you tell me your full name, date of birth, allergies, social diseases, government bond serial numbers, blood type ....." And the food is always so good, I was on a clear liquid diet for the first few days which included broth, jello, and tea. Next I retired to FULL liquid diet which included cream of wheat for breakfast (still trying to figure out how that's a liquid) and strained soup for lunch and dinner. And don't forget the mighty shake!!! YUMMY!
It was mostly cleared up by Tuesday and I thought the doctor was going to send me home that day but when I had the CATscan (I know that's not how you spell it but I also know it's annoying some of you!
The biopsy went well and they found it was only scar tissue (which leads me to another question, how do you get scar tissue on a kidney?) And I got to come home today, PRAISE THE LORD! Now if I only didn't have to go back next week for skin graphs where they put all the adhesive during my stay! What kind of glue do that use on hospital tape anyway? I'll tell you this much, if it ever got out on the free market the superglue/crazyglue companies will be out of business!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Be Strong!
Another great devotion today from Positive Living Day by Day by Norman Vincent Peale. If you don't have this book I would highly suggest getting it.
He gives strength to the weary and increases power to the weak. Isaiah 40:29
Nobody can live successfully in this world without being strong. You may be pampered and protected when you are a child, but you have to learn to be strong as you mature, because sooner or later, life will throw the book at you. Sometimes it will throw the whole book at you all at once. You have to get adjusted so you won't collapse under the trouble, or give way under difficulty, or fold under the blow of adversity. I sometimes think that the greatest virtue of all is to be strong.
Christianity is a way of life that makes people strong. You can have all the strength you will ever need if you build into yourself the love of God and stay close to Jesus until He becomes part of you.
Our Heavenly Father, we give You thanks for the great power that comes to us from You through Jesus Christ. Amen.
He gives strength to the weary and increases power to the weak. Isaiah 40:29
Nobody can live successfully in this world without being strong. You may be pampered and protected when you are a child, but you have to learn to be strong as you mature, because sooner or later, life will throw the book at you. Sometimes it will throw the whole book at you all at once. You have to get adjusted so you won't collapse under the trouble, or give way under difficulty, or fold under the blow of adversity. I sometimes think that the greatest virtue of all is to be strong.
Christianity is a way of life that makes people strong. You can have all the strength you will ever need if you build into yourself the love of God and stay close to Jesus until He becomes part of you.
Our Heavenly Father, we give You thanks for the great power that comes to us from You through Jesus Christ. Amen.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Devotion this morning in Postive Living Day by Day.
Just got up this morning and grabbed the devotional book "Positive Living Day by Day by Norman Vincent Peale" and thought everyone would appreciate what the devotion had to say this morning. It's short so take the time to read it. I think you'll enjoy it and have a better attitude after reading it. Here it is.
"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." JEREMIAH 29:12-13
How deeply do we believe? Do we just believe superficially, without depth or commitment? In the book of Jeremiah we read, "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Nobody ever made anything great out of his life who didn't do it with his whole heart.
I remember talking to a celebrity years ago. I knew that she had had a great deal of trouble in her life. I asked, "How come you keep at it with such enthusiasm?"
"Why," she answered, "because I love it. I give my whole self to it." And she did; she threw everything she had into it. If you give yourself with all your heart to your business, to your children, to your marriage, to your future, to your hopes, you are going to come out with something that is lasting and strong.
Hope this helps your day. Great words to live by!
"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." JEREMIAH 29:12-13
How deeply do we believe? Do we just believe superficially, without depth or commitment? In the book of Jeremiah we read, "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Nobody ever made anything great out of his life who didn't do it with his whole heart.
I remember talking to a celebrity years ago. I knew that she had had a great deal of trouble in her life. I asked, "How come you keep at it with such enthusiasm?"
"Why," she answered, "because I love it. I give my whole self to it." And she did; she threw everything she had into it. If you give yourself with all your heart to your business, to your children, to your marriage, to your future, to your hopes, you are going to come out with something that is lasting and strong.
Hope this helps your day. Great words to live by!
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