Sir, did you pay with a card? Hearing this being shouted in the Kroger parking lot as I put my last bag of groceries into the truck, I turn and push my buggy to the buggy return section. Turning back around, I hear it again, Sir, did you pay with a credit card? Here comes […]
This picture either makes you smile or your brain to melt :/ This is a reprint of a classic blog that I wrote in May 2020 when I first started my company Shiageto Consulting. Enjoy! In this series, I share with you some of the key learnings I have had from my first 6 months of […]
Dinner is almost ready, and here comes CeCe for what I know will be her junk food snack binge right before I have dinner ready. She will go nearly all day with very little nourishment, and just when dinner is close to ready, CeCe will come in and open five or six things and start […]
My younger sister Mitzi (Mom and Pop Joe’s favorite child) has provided us lots of joy, love, and LAUGHS over the years (you may remember her new mixer last year). Now I will be the first to admit that after raising me and Mike, I completely understand why a sweet, caring daughter might be the […]
Recently, I saw a very interesting pie crust in the refrigerator. It appeared to be chocolate with nuts in it. As I was leaving for a trip to Chicago, I opened the refrigerator to discover it had developed into a beautiful pie. On my flight home, I couldn’t wait to have a piece of that […]
Anyone need a newspaper from 2019? Where do you sit on the minimalist vs hoarding spectrum? I am firmly a person who holds onto items and takes the philosophy of “if it still has some utility, then why throw it out?” [my siblings may tell you that is because I’m a cheapskate but don’t listen to […]
The source of so much pleasure and pain The title of this week’s blog could easily be “How life is just a series of challenges for you to overcome”. As you can work out from the title, I’ve had a deeply frustrating week being completely disconnected from all forms of the internet. Yep, you read that […]
Want to know the truth about flat hunting in the current London market? It absorbs incredible amounts of FQ and EQ The face of a man who has just completed 35km on a Santander bicycle looking for flats Undoubtedly one of the biggest events to happen to me, my life and my business in the last 2 […]
Who doesn’t love a 🐫? Did you read about the recent fiasco in Lebanon with the clocks going forward for Spring? The government decided to endorse 2 different time zones in an attempt to appease Muslims and Christians at the same time, with Christians putting their clocks forward immediately and Muslims being allowed to wait a month. Now […]
Nope, that’s not red paint! Dune bashing* is fun; my first time dune bashing yesterday should have been fun but it wasn’t as fun as it could be. [*nope, this has nothing to do with moaning about the Dennis Villeneuve sci-fi film but the joy of taking a 4×4 🚙 out into the desert 🏜 to power […]
