Every year, on or about this time of year, someone always asks me, “Where were you when the towers went down?”. My response is always the same. I was asleep. I lived in Colorado in 2001 and I had been up late the night (morning?) before the attack.
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I did the best I could to stay off of social media today, as well as not peruse any news today. Why? Well, in case you’ve been living in a cave, then you know it’s the anniversary of the assassination of a young conservative political operative, Charlie Kirk. I didn’t know that much about him, but for the pat year on social media and elsewhere, there’s been nothing but cry for justice. Okay, I get it. The authorities have someone in custody that is accused of the murder. Good for them. That hasn’t however, stopped the speculation over the last year about exactly what happened, and who was ultimately responsible.
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Deadlines. We all have them to some degree and learn to live with them. I’ve always been pretty good meeting those deadlines given to me and of course, I came to expect the same not only from colleagues, but employers as well. When someone tells you that they’ll, Get back to you in a couple of days, to me that means, two days, not two weeks (or more). When an employer tells me thst they’ll have a decision for me by the end of the week, even if it’s Thursday when they tell me, I expect that decision whwn they said.
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I was recently thinking about how much I hear the phrase in my opinion, during any day. It’s not as if I hear it in every conversation, but I do hear it a lot, especially when it comes to sports, politics, and yes, even religion. This phrase has become so ubiquitous in our lives that no one seems to ever challenge the person that is using it. I wonder why as the definition of the word opinion, is fairly simple and provides nothing concrete to stand on: it means belief. That’s right, and opinion is nothing more than a belief. and what is a belief? Faith.
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I recently had an employment inquiry for a position as a software engineer. I was interested, a little, so I spoke with the person (this was on the telephone) and the lady went on how my resume seemed to fit exactly what they were looking for in filling the position. I remarked, “How’s that?”, because nothing in my resume is there any reference to software engineering, programming, or coding.
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