It's dishonest...
We have cell phones thru T-Mobile. We were told that after a certain period of time, we'd be able to get new phones. I don't have a problem with my old phone, but my wife has the same exact model bought at the same time, and it's started going on the fritz. So we went to the T-mobile store and looked at new phones.
Turns out that the "free" phone is free, but you have to pay $18 to get it. An "upgrade" charge. This is dishonest. I think most of these cell phone companies are doing about the same thing - hidden charges not mentioned by the sales people.
We as a nation are starting to droop, and there's why. We've forgotten our integrity.
If we want to get out the economic slump we're in, we've got to start remembering it.
$18 is reasonable price to pay for a cell phone, considering that it probably costs half that to manufacture. But why advertize that it's free? To get a slight edge over the competition... it's dishonest. I would like to find a cell phone company that has total honesty as a business policy.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
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On the farm where I worked as a teenager during the summer, we would eat like we might never see food again. The lady of the house would set out a spread to be remembered in story and song - not just once, but every meal! We would fill our plates heaping full, eat them clean, fill 'em full again, eat them clean again, and then fill 'em about half way and eat them clean the third time. This was at lunch or dinner. We never ate too much at breakfast; just some waffles, and a couple eggs, and sausage, and bacon, and cereal maybe, and fruit (two or three pieces) and some toast with jam. Seconds and thirds on the toast with jam. The bread was home baked, y'know. But it was at lunch and dinner that she really set out the vittles. There was always at least two cuts of meat at each meal, like say a ham and a platter full of hamburgers. Then six or eight side dishes - mashed potatoes, corn, carrots, gravy, more homemade bread, real butter, etc. There was milk and juice and coolaid, and a little something for dessert - pie and ice cream for instance. I don't know how she did it but there was always lots of variety, and I understand this is typical farm fare.
I didn't gain much weight on this diet because I was working pretty hard. Farmers work about 14 hours a day during busy seasons like harvest and plowing and as a teenager I seemed to be able to put it away and not put it on.
I've found this idea that I like. The plates we ate off of at the farm were large - larger than a typical dinner plate I think. Even tho typical dinner plates are a little smaller, I'm still used to filling a plate and eating it clean. I love food so much that I like to keep putting more food on my plate until there isn't room for more. That's how I gauge my food intake. I don't claim it's a good way; just how I've always done it, without a lot of thought on it.
Well, here later in life I'm a bit too fat.
But they do have these smaller plates. Maybe these are just salad plates and I just never noticed them before. But they work super well for dinner. I fill it up and I figure somehow I'm getting a plateful, I don't seem to fixate on how big the plate is. I'll go back for seconds if I'm still hungry, but a lot of times I've just been sitting around so I'm really not that hungry and I stop.
Algorithm: mealtime, fill plate. Eat plate clean. Decide still hungry? Repeat.
Solution: get a smaller plate. Doesn't seem to make me feel deprived.
Results? What with some fasting, a bit of bike riding, and this, I've lost two inches off my belt size over the last year.
On the farm where I worked as a teenager during the summer, we would eat like we might never see food again. The lady of the house would set out a spread to be remembered in story and song - not just once, but every meal! We would fill our plates heaping full, eat them clean, fill 'em full again, eat them clean again, and then fill 'em about half way and eat them clean the third time. This was at lunch or dinner. We never ate too much at breakfast; just some waffles, and a couple eggs, and sausage, and bacon, and cereal maybe, and fruit (two or three pieces) and some toast with jam. Seconds and thirds on the toast with jam. The bread was home baked, y'know. But it was at lunch and dinner that she really set out the vittles. There was always at least two cuts of meat at each meal, like say a ham and a platter full of hamburgers. Then six or eight side dishes - mashed potatoes, corn, carrots, gravy, more homemade bread, real butter, etc. There was milk and juice and coolaid, and a little something for dessert - pie and ice cream for instance. I don't know how she did it but there was always lots of variety, and I understand this is typical farm fare.
I didn't gain much weight on this diet because I was working pretty hard. Farmers work about 14 hours a day during busy seasons like harvest and plowing and as a teenager I seemed to be able to put it away and not put it on.
I've found this idea that I like. The plates we ate off of at the farm were large - larger than a typical dinner plate I think. Even tho typical dinner plates are a little smaller, I'm still used to filling a plate and eating it clean. I love food so much that I like to keep putting more food on my plate until there isn't room for more. That's how I gauge my food intake. I don't claim it's a good way; just how I've always done it, without a lot of thought on it.
Well, here later in life I'm a bit too fat.
But they do have these smaller plates. Maybe these are just salad plates and I just never noticed them before. But they work super well for dinner. I fill it up and I figure somehow I'm getting a plateful, I don't seem to fixate on how big the plate is. I'll go back for seconds if I'm still hungry, but a lot of times I've just been sitting around so I'm really not that hungry and I stop.Algorithm: mealtime, fill plate. Eat plate clean. Decide still hungry? Repeat.
Solution: get a smaller plate. Doesn't seem to make me feel deprived.
Results? What with some fasting, a bit of bike riding, and this, I've lost two inches off my belt size over the last year.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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Let's say it was someone's birthday, and you got too busy and didn't get around to giving them a present.
So what do you do now? Just forget it? Hope to do better next year?
You can do better right now.
Just get them a present and give it to them late.
Who would object to this?
Put your self in their place. Here it is your birthday, and you got a few presents, and you did something fun maybe, and then it's over. OK, so that was that.
Then, two or three days later, here comes your friend, all smiles, laughing at themself, and giving you one more present. Who would mind getting another present? NOBODY WOULD MIND.
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Let's say it was someone's birthday, and you got too busy and didn't get around to giving them a present.
So what do you do now? Just forget it? Hope to do better next year?
You can do better right now.
Just get them a present and give it to them late.
Who would object to this?
Put your self in their place. Here it is your birthday, and you got a few presents, and you did something fun maybe, and then it's over. OK, so that was that.
Then, two or three days later, here comes your friend, all smiles, laughing at themself, and giving you one more present. Who would mind getting another present? NOBODY WOULD MIND.
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