The Protagonist

I’m looking forward to the weekend in Michigan on the Lake. I hope all of you have a great weekend too, see ya on Monday!

There are times when you just can’t wait. When you find the perfect house on realtor.com and need to have financing before you go see it because there are other people interested in it. Or when you need to consolidate your loans before any more penalties pile up. Or when you finally find that specific [...]

According to this report and many others, the verb “google” is gramatically correct in the English language now. Its interesting that there is a lag between when people adopt and accept a new practice and when the established powers that be recognize it. Actually using nouns as verbs has been a trend for a while [...]

I discovered that they are adding another White Castle to the mall in the area where I live last week. I wonder did the movie “Harold & Kumar go to White Castle” have any affect on that? The last time I ate White Castle was when I worked for a (boiler room type) sales department [...]

I’ve long been a fan of TIME Magazine, but this week’s issue with articles about siblings and how they shape who you are is really interesting and insightful. But then again most all their articles are. Check out more information from TIME this week here.

I went to a tech group dinner the other night expecting to see people from large organizations in the area and instead saw a lot of startup companies and people starting their own businesses and sites. This was suprising to see. It isn’t easy trying to work from home (despite what the ads say) and [...]

Something seems to be in the water here at work, we have 4 women in our department that are pregnant. a We just had a party-lunch with baby games to celebrate all this. I ahve to say we have the most innapropriate games for work at this party. At least there was cake though…