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 […]
My closet at home is out of control. It’s so out of control that it is starting to stress me! CeCe has asked me about once a week to go through it and give away a bunch of the things that I am not using. But the more I looked at it, the more intimidated […]
Well, it’s 6 a.m. in Palm Springs and as I slip out of the room with no lights so I don’t wake CeCe, I breathe a sigh of relief as the door clicks softly as it closes. Now it’s off to grab a cup of coffee and then hit the gym before my meeting. Walking […]
What have you got if you have a cricket ball in this hand and one in this hand? A bloody big cricket This is a reprint of a classic blog that I wrote in October 2019 when I first started my company Shiageto Consulting. Enjoy! One of the biggest “Focus Costs” is a lack of clarity. […]
