Osler's Razor

WOW that is an AMAZING portrait. Your Dad is a GREAT artist!!!

I work on puzzles from the outside in but I work on LIFE from the inside out. I am unemployed as of yesterday. I had enough of 7 Habits guy and his nerdy Habiteers. SO I am out, but not worried. BUT, I do have to stay home with Spencer now for a bit and I have run out of ideas of what to do with him already But as I am an INSIDE OUT LIFE person I know I will figure it out.

What a GREAT question!!!!!
 

Who is the painting of? Your father as a younger man?

Given the announcement today of Pres. Ford's death, I wondered about your perspective... given his Michigan and Yale Law background. He seems to have been a great leader in his soft spoken mid- western way.
 

See, I told you that people would be clamoring for a Ford-related pronouncement out of you!

I just keep thinking about the time you told me that (insert suitable internet safe nickname for woman from Indiana we knew, you much better than me, in college) really liked Gerry Ford and thought his defeat was a major calamity.

That and the time my high school band played before a speech he gave in front of Union Station in Washington.

Tyd, let me know when I should hook you up with the Chocolatiers in Portland
 

Get this.. I hate to interrupt the memorial to Gerald Ford but I have a breaking story out of Portland, OR. SO get this The guy - Mr Seven Habits, he calls me today and says that he loved all of the things that I wrote and he wants me to continue on the payroll at the same rate but just writing that stuff that I loved to write. SO: I get to get paid the same, make my own hours, work FROM HOME most of the time, STILL LOOK for another job, do the ONLY THING I liked doing there, and I hardly have to see the Nerdy Habiteers!!!!

But I am still looking for a new job. I have a few leads, but maybe its chocolate time.... What would I be doing there? You should know that I come from a long line of people who cannot cook their way out of.. well, any type of container, really. Would I be COOKING the chocolate? Because seriously... that would not work out.... but Selling it? Marketing or Advertising it? I could do any of those things, as long as I did not have to either cook or decorate it...

I am looking but not really hard right now because I have hardly had anytime off in a year. My birthday is Jan 10 and I prefer not to either interview or be working on that day. I prefer to celebrate the fact that I am turning 42 - really! but after that I KNOW I will have had my fill of Kipper the Dog and Thomas the Train and be EXTREMELY ready to get back out of the house. I was NOT a good stay home mom... never was... but at least I can admit it.

And I AM sorry to hear about Gerald Ford. If anyone is ever interested there is a sort of a shrine to him in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Kind of down the road from AMWAY. SO frightening.
 

No, I think you're overqualified to work on the floor of the chocolate factory. Apparently, all the woman who do are from Eastern Europe.

I have no idea if they're hiring, but yes, I was thinking marketing. This company has cafes in Portland as well as its manufacturing facility -- which happens to be located in the building where a well-know outdoor gear company was also founded.

If you're serious, let me know and Prof. Razor can line us up off-blog.

As for Gerald Ford..., well, maybe I'll save it for Haiku Friday if we don't get a posting all about him tomorrow.
 

P.S.:

That painting... that picture HAS to be an Osler don't you think?
 

Don't know.... never seen one with hair that short.
 

Tyd--

I was sorry, then happy, to hear about all the work stuff. Maybe the boss should only have two habits or something.

As for the painting, it is of a woman who was drinking coffee in a cafe someplace, I think-- no one I know. I'll have to get my dad on this one. He actually looks at the razor from time to time, using his dial-up service from Hell.
 

Well, to me the face looks Osleresque However, the coffee cup WAS weird. It looks like a very YOUNG Osler but then why would a young person be drinking coffee?
 

Youthful coffee drinking is a habit they picked up in France, most likely. Part of the French plan to sap the American spirit.

Hey.. are we the only people reading this thing over Christmas break? Don't Baylor students have home computers? Or are they so glad to be out of law school for a few days that they don't go near a keyboard? I certainly didn't go near my computer while I was on break in law school. Then again, no one had email back then.
 

I remember the days with computers and no email. WOW. Scary.
Function Keys too. YIKES
 

Hey, why can't young people drink coffee? Yummy.
 

First coffee, then cigarettes, then beret wearing...

Next thing you know the poor youths will become existentialists, listen to really bad faux rock and faux rap, and try to surrender to Germany