Archive for June, 2007

Your Social Security

Editor’s note: This post was originally published on 05/31/07 and has been revised on 06/30/07.  
The Year is 1960
If you were a U.S. citizen born in the year 1960, that means you are 37 years old now.  Only 30 more years to go before you can collect full Social Security benefits.
According to the Social Security Administration Publication 10035 (En Espanol), […]

How NOT to go to a Bar or a Club

Human Pet Peeve
One of my biggest pet peeves about going to a bar or a club with friends is the simple fact that drunk chicas will come up to me, wrap their arms around me, slurring two inches away from my face and I have no clue what they are saying.
I always end up telling […]

5 Business Objective Tips

Understanding Your Business Objective
In order for any business to suceed, including yours, you need to be clear about where your business is going.  Setting your business objectives will do exactly that.
You are basically designing your own vehicle (your business), and guiding it from the drawing board (the business plan) to the finish line (your exit strategy) of […]

Colorado - What’s That Noise

One summer afternoon, it must have been a Friday or Saturday, when I went over to my friend’s house.  We were meeting up to ride together in his date of the month’s car up to Radium, a little campground on the Colorado River. 
The plan was we would meet up at the hot springs with the […]

Driving passion

“Passion pulls you toward something you cannot resist.
Drive pushes you toward something
you feel compelled or obligated to do.”
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living

by Randy Komisar
This is the best passage I found in the book. It seems to me there is a trick to harnessing […]

Relocation Cost of Living Comparision

I was curious as to whether the cost of living comparision calculators on the top four results in the Google search engine would give me the same answer.
This is what I entered for my data.
Current Salary - 35K/Year
Current Location - Cape Cod, MA
This is what these websites returned. (The towns listed in Massachusetts were limited to […]

Monkey Humor

Question

What did the TheLocoMono do when he lost his bananas?

TheLocoMono Action Plan

There are all kinds of plans out there, architectural plans, business plans, engineer plans, financial plans to name a few. When it comes to productivity, an action plan is a means to an end. It is really a formal way of setting goals and accomplishing them.

I could not find a satisfactory defination explaining what an action plan was in Google’s search engine results. You know what this means, yep, TheLocoMono came up with his own defination.

PC OR LAPTOP??? ONE MONITOR OR TWO??? APPLE OR WINDOWS???

That’s the question I am asking you!

PC or Laptop?

One monitor or two??

Apple or Windows???