You Are What You Watch.

I was at dinner the other night with some people from work I don’t know well, and the subject of TV came up.

I said, “I love The Bachelorette.”

“You watch The Bachelorette?”

“Why yes I do. Does that surprise you?”

“It sure does. I thought you only read books or maybe watched the History channel.”

I didn’t get much into it but the next day I was riding to work with another person who’d been there and asked her if she thought the comment ...read more

Work Uniforms

Men are so lucky. Their clothes are so much easier than ours. Always have been, always will be.

Dressing for business as a woman in the seventies/early eighties was much easier than it is now. We bought five or six suits from Brooks Brothers or Paul Stuart. If you didn’t need it to be a suit day, you would wear the skirt from one of the suits with a round collar, cable knit sweater, also from Paul Stuart or Brooks Brothers. Paul ...read more

Don't be Evil

Google has a motto, “Don’t be evil.” When Google was first growing they were concerned about cliques and groups forming with different agendas and the resulting demise that the growth and resulting ‘groups’ would cause the company. They assembled some peeps together from different segments of the company and charged them with coming up with a motto for the company that would ensure they didn’t lose their cohesive culture. “Cohesive Culture” in a company. Hmmm.

The group came up with things ...read more

Bankers a No Show at the White House

I just want to say that if Obama summoned me to the White House, I would have walked George Washington type miles to get there. I would have ridden my bike. I would have taken the train. I would have hitched a ride on the expressway.

The fact that three of the bankers; the CEOs of Morgan Stanley, Citibank and Goldman Sachs were ‘fogged out’ so they called in on a speaker phone to the President of the United States boggles ...read more

Car Insurance

I have to write and give props to my new car insurance company. When I moved to the fabulous, sun-ridden LA, another person I work with told me to go to AAA to register my car. I had to take their insurance to get registered there. There is nothing like a not-for-profit company when it comes to insurance.

When Buck met his demise at the hands of my Audi SUV, I did what was instructed and called the insurance company twenty-five ...read more

Email

We need to talk about email. I need to talk about email. I tracked this past week and realize that I get approximately 600-800 emails per day. No wonder my to do list is longer than my life span. It’s out of control and the truth is that I spend all my day answering emails instead of doing new initiatives personally and professionally. Not ok.

So, I sat down to figure it out. Then I went to lunch with a friend ...read more

Golf Carts? Well, alrighty then...

In case you haven’t heard, there is a federal rebate on golf cart purchases through the end of the year. You can get as much as $15,000 if you buy a golf cart. I work in an office where most of management leans toward the elephant trails. I’m the sole donkey in the group. These are not evil people, just misguided.

I was in the office of the CFO, the papa elephant in the office, when all of a sudden he ...read more

Pilots and Paying Attention

I hate to fly. Hate it. Discussing why is not even worth the time. I do have my reasons and they aren’t totally irrational. The latest antics by the pilots of the Delta flight fall right into those reasons. I used to interview the pilots when I got on the plane – stick my head in the cockpit while walking on board and say things like, “Hey gentlemen, how was your evening last night?” If I didn’t like the answer, ...read more

Time Warner Cable. Or, it's all about them.

I’m pretty sure that I couldn’t make this up if I tried.

I waited three weeks to get a much coveted appointment for Time Warner to come install my TV and Internet cable in LA. As you know if you follow my blog, I unabashedly love TV. Love it. So, having suffered through weeks of sunshine with no relief and thin – very thin – people who are inordinately cheerful, I was thrilled to get back to my old favorite; TV ...read more

Water, H2O, Outlawed

I was at the airport yesterday and bought a bottle of water at the counter near the boarding gate for $3.85. One bottle. Nothing but water in it. I actually looked in the bottle, held it up above my eyes to make sure there wasn’t a ring or something in the bottom. You know what I mean. When you buy the cereal and you get a prize at the bottom of the box? I thought at least there should be ...read more