On Excellence

I know it’s harder to be excellent than not, and harder to notice one’s own errors and correct them. Perhaps folks just don’t care enough to bother. If so, what does that convey?

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It’s Getting Batty in the Garage

We’ve even seen bats flying — but until today, never roosting on the house — much less in the garage. Cool.

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Life Insurance Warning for Federal Employees and Military Veterans

If you are a federal employee and keel over, the FEGLI (the federal group life insurance) lump-sum payment is not up-front money, but a so-called “checkbook” tapped into a non-insured (by FDIC) account held by MetLife. Risky, risky, risky…

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