Month: <span>April 2022</span>

Ohhh Arlo …


Pre-Amazon


Comic Strip – Bliss


HK NSA on NSQ about early birds and worms …

This is a very old Howard Theory. Early risers are always more successful, prolific, disciplined, organized etc … Once again, they have the stats and studies. I thank the scientists of the world once again. There are a few night owls who get plenty of worms. I would say the artists, the creatives of the…


Marriage Reality … according to Arlo.


WSJ on “Several Million Still Missing from the workforce.”

not too difficult to understand. It’s a labor supply chain problem really. 1) COVID pushed around the already tight workforce. 2) Plenty of money sloshing around from 10 year + bull market, strong housing gains and stimulus to companies and people. 3) No one likes doing the crummy, labor intensive work, if they do not…


WSJ _ The ‘Hell or High Water Clause’ article regarding equipment leasing.

I loved the Tom Wait’s reference. “The large print giveth and the fine print taketh away” 1) As part of a group that now leases equipment and helps finance people and small business …. It is incredibly lopsided in our favor and wickedly profitable, most of the time. 2) Lending or leasing money to people…


This hung in the kitchen at 1343 Farmington ave. West Hartford. It hung over the trash can, and since emptying the trash was my job. I read that alot.


AJ, Big Bet, Ethel and us …


Comment to NYT on “wealth from nothing in america” isn’t always a pleasant story.

A little fortunate by birth, opportunistic, hardworking and diligent, a self serving, or self preserving personality, to move himself forward. (American Traits.) Willing to compromise, to see opportunity, to cross an ocean by age 20 and then back. To find himself in the favor of local, then regional government. A British government. Then an American…