1. This morning while going over my bank accounts, including the one I still have from my dad, I noticed something quite wrong, but in my favor.  While the Federal and State income tax refunds were correct, there was a third deposit. The IRS had direct deposited a stimulus payment to my dad’s bank account. Think of an angel on one shoulder and the devil on another.  I kid you not I had a check made out to the the IRS and in my neighborhood mailbox within the hour. #DontMessWithKarma

2. I freakin’ love Dave Grohl.  I bawl my eyes out every time I hear this #StayAtHome

3. In my last blog post, I listed the following ten jobs I’ve had, one of them was a lie:

1. Radio DJ
2. Editor-in-Chief National Magazine
3. Inspector Construction Management
4. Clothing Store Clerk
5. Newspaper Columnist
6. Webmaster
7. Bob’s Big Boy Waitress
8. Sandpaper Sales Rep
9. Private Investigator
10. Concert Photographer

I never worked as a clothing store clerk, though I did work at Music Plus as a seasonal worker during Christmas for a couple of years to make some extra cash for presents. I really learned to hate the alphabet as I mainly had to restock the merchandise…in alphabetical order.
I was surprised that a few people thought it was the P.I. job which has to be the most boring work in the world. You sit there for hours at a time waiting for your target to leave their home or work. The stupidest case was when a psychiatrist had us follow her boyfriend to prove he was cheating on her.  He was, but the kicker is that she was married.
Of course my favorite jobs had to do with music. My last full-time position in radio, I earned my Program Director stripes where we flipped an oldies radio station to alternative rock in the mid 90s.
All the other positions sort of speak for themselves, except maybe the sandpaper sales rep. After the radio station got sold and flipped to Spanish (I should have paid attention in class), I found a job through a temp agency and they hire me full time.  It was honest work, my boss was great, and I got paid to go to North Carolina for some training at Klingspor Abrasives. And no that’s not where I got my “abrasive” personality.

4. It’s been years since I’ve bought cereal, and correct me if I’m wrong, but the packaging is shrinking, right? Same price, smaller package.  #Capitalism #CheapBastards

5. Awhile back, I posted this photo on Facebook as a Throwback Thursday pix with the boys in Maroon 5. I have to share the backstory: So we were launching a national music and entertainment publication called Buzzine Magazine and our launch party was at Deep in Hollywood.  It has since burnt down, I think it’s a parking lot now. Deep was located at the corner of Hollywood and Vine just down the street from Capital Records (Deep in Hollywood…get it?).  In fact, if you’ve ever seen Ocean’s Eleven, they film the card game where Rusty is teaching the Hollywood youngsters how to play poker there.  In any case, we had a step and repeat red carpet leading to the entrance with lots of paparazzi and young and upcoming stars who walked the carpet with myself (Editor-in-Chief ) and Aaron (Publisher) as a ways of getting in the magazine and gaining some publicity for themselves. These guys showed up and owned the red carpet and with a little nudging from the record company we did a small write up on this “up and coming” band, though no one knew who they were.

About a year later I’m looking at the issue with the photo and I went “Holy Moly! That’s Adam Levine and Maroon 5!”  Their record, Songs About Jane, was a huge hit once they released it a couple of months after our launch.  #WeHaven’tStayedInTouch

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7. After reading this comic, henceforth, all my plants shall be named Robert. #WhatIsAndShouldAlwaysBe #RambleOn

8. I’m really enjoy working from home. I find I put in more hours, but I don’t mind. I don’t bill for them either. I really hope all businesses that can do so will learn from this experience and allow their employees to work remotely at least a few days a week. An office job should be based on production and not hours put in.

9. Mother’s Day was lovely enough. My daughter is still hundreds of miles away (682 to be exact) in Oregon but we got to video chat and yes, her gift did arrive in time!  I love you Sydney Rose!!

The rest of my day was spent relaxing, taking long leisurely walks with the senior pups and treating myself to some Chinese take out.

10. From my favorite quotes file, “What you do makes a difference. And you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

Thanks for listening!