Compliments -Tony

You know the guy you saw at the mall with the great sense of fashion that is all his own? That lady who waits tables at the Olive Garden who always has great hair? That couple with the well behaved kids sitting three tables over?   When was the last time you said, “Man, your [...]

Wisdom

I sat at work today very bored and impatient to leave. After all it was late in the day before the four day Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve got a lot to do tonight, like bake some pies, prep the bird, and review the Black Friday sales ads. So work can wait until Monday, and then she [...]

Thursdays 5 -Tony

5 Easy steps to make enemies   In ascending  order of effectiveness. i’ve only used 3 of the 5 to make enemies, try to guess which 3!     5) Play Texas-Hold em on the Alzheimer ward at your local nursing home: Change the rules as necessary to assure that you take home all the [...]

Muddied Waters get muddier

We are currently making plans to restructure how muddiedwaters works, returning more to the original concept of muddied waters. Soon there will be: More voices. More posts???? (dave? has anyone seen dave??) Weekly Topics. Plan to be back in action Monday May 3rd!

Thursdays 5 -Tony

5 time-wasters hopefully you haven’t found on the interwebs yet: How would we trudge through a 40+ hour week of work, in a slave-cave (cubicle or small office), staring at a glowing rectangle for hours each day if we didn’t have the interwebs & it’s conveniently minimizable windows of distraction? Well, tomorrow is Friday, that [...]

Thursdays Five -Tony

5 Books i’ve read (or Re-read) recently that may change the way you think about everyday stuff: 1) The Paradox of Choice – Barry Schwartz The basic premise of this book is that more choices don’t equal more happiness. In fact just the opposite tends to be true. Let me explain with an example: Remember [...]

Thursdays 5 -Tony

Having kids is one of the most challenging, life changing and stretching things that you can do. Surprisingly you can make a kid without any sort of testing AND tons of people do it. Some even do it multiple times, so as not to have their spawn leave their pupa stage (also known as the [...]

Thursdays 5 -Tony

5-”Kids Shows” i love to watch: Today’s thursday’s 5 is based on one of the oft denied joys of parenting: Kid’s shows! We all watch them, few of us will admit it and most of us love at least one or two. This is my list of 5 shows i sit through with my kids [...]

Thursdays (hey, i’m only one day off this week) 5- Tony

Last night (thursday, the day i’m supposed to post) i loaded up and drove to Greensboro NC. Just to watch a movie that was originally released in 1987. The Carousel was holding a special screening of The Princess Bride, the greatest movie ever filmed, shown, released on VHS & Beta Max, then later to DVD [...]

Thursdays(?) Five -Tony

A busted rear bike tire & a burnt up blender, for me they are closely related (although the bike tire is a way, WAY bigger deal). How are these two unrelated things connected in Tony-Land? they reflect two of my passions: Biking & cooking. Both of which were way-laid by mechanical failures, biking by a [...]

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