From your favorite peanut butter to no furniture, it’s the supply chain stupid In 2020, there was a standard reply to my inability to reach a phone customer support person. I would hear at almost every voicemail, “wait times are longer than usual due to Covid-19.” After a while, I…

The broken supply chain now leads to an exciting twist as consumers fork over more money for delayed products I thought the above photo was a joke, or perhaps the latest story from the Babylon Bee. But no. I copied it from a friend’s Facebook page. So, let me get…

The “ do as I say and not as I do” policy no longer fools the public As the fourth Covid-19 (Delta variant) wave grips the country, the Federal government daily urges everyone to get vaccinated. How then do you explain that there is no policy mandating employees of the…

Two recent “accicental” cases of miscounting highlight why people don’t trust the media or government The Texas Tribune erroneously reported 5800 children were hospitalized in the state the first week of August. It turns out this number was since the start of the pandemic. That’s not a small error. Yesterday…

When gardening, I think only about that one thing and nothing else. — I read “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” when I was young. This 1974 narration of a man searching for meaning during a summer motorcycle trip with his son greatly impacted me. Zen is “a state of calm attentiveness in which one’s actions are guided by intuition rather than…

Since I have so little of it, I appreciate the importance of patience in leading a happy life. — Suppose you have read this far. Congratulations, because the average Medium reader reportedly will decide to stop or continue reading within fifteen seconds. Everything in our modern world happens at warp speed. Has anyone ever complained that their Wi-Fi connection was too fast? How about a faster download speed? Even…