Category Archives: Advice

Am I qualified to give advice? No matter, sometimes I give it anyway!

College Advise from an Old Person 2.0

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2 years ago I wrote about 5 things I wish I had known when I started college.  Feel free to review those here: http://beckypalmer.thecomputerguy.bz/2015/08/college-advice-from-an-old-person/ And, while all of those things are still 100% true the world has changed a lot since then and so I felt that there are a few new things to consider, things that weren’t on the radar… Read more »

Local Government isn’t Scary After All

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Last night I did something I’ve never done before.  I spoke during public comment at a local city council meeting.  I’ve been to quite a few city council meetings- my husband Pat was on our city council for some time- but have never addressed the council until last night. I attended the meeting last because my city wants to reassign where… Read more »

I Need Your Help!

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I usually have anywhere from 2 to 5 blog posts in various stages of undoneness just hanging out in my account.  Sometimes I get several good ideas all at once.  Sometimes I get stuck.  Sometimes I can’t decide if it’s worth finishing.  These half posts come in very handy on weeks when my mind just goes blank. But I’ve been… Read more »

How Not to Address (Others in Debate)

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Everyone has opinions.  Most everyone things their opinions are correct and/ or better than those of folks who feel otherwise. Some people feel so strongly about their positions on certain topics that they engage folks who believe otherwise in discussion.  There is nothing wrong with healthy debate.  It’s one of our rights as US citizens.  However,  like anything else, there… Read more »

What’s Work?

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Lately I have seen a number of folks go public in varying degrees with their marriage/ long term relationship issues.  Whether or not the world wide web is the place for that kind of thing is another topic for another day, but the one common thread is how much work they are putting into repairing/ saving/ improving their marriage/marriage adjacent… Read more »

I need your help!

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Today I’m doing something a little different.  I’m crowdsourcing! As many of your already know over the weekend my husband and I went from a 2 cat household to a 3 cat household.  We thought we knew how things could go, but nothing could have been further from the truth.  Our eldest cat Hershey, who we expected to be very… Read more »

How Not to Sell

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I have a lot of friends who sell a lot of things though direct sales/ multi-level marketing companies.   Thankfully, most of them have learned that 15 social media posts a day doesn’t do anything but annoy people. Same thing with adding people to groups without their permission- not cool.  But there are lots of other, sometimes more subtle ways… Read more »

Get Over It

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No really, Just get over it.  Because today is Get Over It Day. In 2001 Jeff Goldblatt, an entrepreneur from Atlanta, started the Rejection Hotline.  This was a service that allowed people to break up with or say no to a date with someone via automated phone message.   Ironically, this same man created Get Over It day in 2004… Read more »