Mike Williams

Just Wondering…

…why my $%^^%## spell and grammar checker would ever doubt me?

The grammar is correct and it REALLY is used that way!!!!

Now, leave me alone and let me live my life.

Absent Friends

As most of you already know, I have 2 full time jobs.

Podcast Production (now married with terrestrial radio and management of a young ladies career) is one of those jobs and my regular day shift job is the other.

The day job was forced to lay-off a bunch of people on Friday and while we saw this coming, it still rings hard with a sense of dread, worry, and compassion for those folks who got walking papers. Let’s face it; getting laid off even 5 years ago is not the same as getting laid off under this economic climate. It’s bad. I can’t say that this is the worst business climate there has ever been because I only have my own frame of reference. The GDP numbers just released show only a 1.6% growth. I’ve never seen the GDP that low. The number simply means that country isn’t really growing economically and that’s really bad.

So, we worry. We worry about our friends and we worry about ourselves.

There might be a light at the end of the tunnel but so far we seem to be having trouble finding the entrance.

A French Booby Trap

Alrighty then

(Reuters) – French police have arrested two teenage girls they say stole hundreds of euros from unsuspecting cash machine customers after distracting them by flashing their breasts.

Um, the side effects of an open society?

I thought Europeans didn’t get “shocked” by nudity?

Almost Got It

While this story makes me smile, the very notion of using property that doesn’t belong to you is wrong.

Whether or not the guy had a liquor license is a different issue and a different debate for another time.

via CNN

(CNN) — A homeless man allegedly broke into a California bar and served drinks to unsuspecting patrons all weekend — before police came calling.

The bar, called the Valencia Club, had gone out of business for some time and its liquor license had expired, police said this week.

But the suspect, Travis Lloyd Kevie, 29, somehow got into the California establishment in the Penryn area of Sacramento Valley last week. He reopened the bar using beer he bought from a nearby store.

Kevie allegedly started with a six-pack of beer and used money he received to buy more alcohol.

As I said, I like the spirit that Mr. Lloyd displays in that true entrepreneur fashion just can’t agree with the execution.