Have you ever noticed the Peter Principle at work? Of course you have, you probably just did not know what it was when you were observing it! The Peter Principle is simply this: People get promoted in their jobs until they reach a level of incompetency. That is where they remain.

This is why most of the time we find ourselves dealing with incompetent people in our day to day business. The people have risen to their level of incompetence. If by chance we find someone who does their job well, they have not been promoted enough!

Posted: May 30th, 2009 under Business, Educational, Life.
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I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how abandoned ships are damaging the environment. That article talked about how a lot of fishing vessels that were sunk (either on purpose or accident) still having fishing gear on board and the fishing gear (nets and traps) continue to “fish” forever. The article also talked about how sunken vessels leach iron and fuels into the water, which contaminates the water and eventually enters the food chain and is consumed by humans. Another problem mentioned is how one vessel attracted an organism that ended up killing a nearby coral reef.

This is an environmental problem that needs to be addressed internationally, but little is being done. Owners of these ships are usually only fined about $100 for abandoning their ship, which is much less money than it would cost to recover the ship and have it dismantled properly. The government is taking steps to clean up the mess at the taxpayer’s expense, but I think that the shipowners need to be held more financially accountable, and not force the taxpayer to clean up THEIR mess. I think that if you can’t afford to pay the piper, then you shouldn’t go to the dance!

Posted: May 23rd, 2009 under Green, Internet, Issues, News, Online.
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This past weekend we went to a fair. As part of the fair, they had vendors selling their wares. That’s my favorite part of going to a fair; going to all of the vendors booths and seeing what kinds of cool things they are selling.

I especially like the handmade articles of clothing, the leather belts and purses and wallets and such. I also really like hand made jewelry, and decorated articles of clothing.

I went to one booth where a lady was selling things that she had painted by hand. I fell in love with a hand-painted T-shirt that she was selling, so I bought it. The hummingbird is glittery, which I think is really cool!

I’m including a picture of it to show to you. I hope you like it too! I really love it! She only had the one in my size; if she had a second one I would have bought it too, so that when this one wore out I would have another one to wear!

Posted: May 17th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Life, Shopping.
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Yesterday was Mother’s Day.  It was such a nice day; my hubby made sure that I didn’t have to lift a finger doing anything other than entertain the baby from time to time.  He even did diaper duty!  I got to putter around in my flower garden (which is something I love to do!) planting the new pansies that he bought me as a Mother’s Day gift.  He also bought me some new Daylilies which are supposed to rebloom, and I got to plant them, too!  He cooked a nice crock-pot chicken for supper, and we had home made bread.  We had his mother join us for dinner, which was very nice too.  Yes, it was a good day.

Posted: May 11th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Home and Garden, Life, Parenting.
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I’ve always been amazed at how many people in this area love to play bingo!  It seems that there are several clubs and organizations that hold bingo games every week to raise money for their club, or for charity.  I haven’t played bingo in years, but my mother-in-law loves to go out every Thursday night to the Knights of Columbus hall for her Bingo night. 

I guess it comes as no surprise that bingo is also a game widely played on the Internet.  I was recently reading an interesting article about bingo on the gameon bingo website. The story was about a bingo scam that was discovered in Sunderland, where it is alleged that the caller fixed the game so that his girlfriend could win the big prize. It seems that the girlfriend was also an employee of the organization that was holding the game.  I was really surprised because I would have thought that employees would not be allowed to play the game!  I guess I’m just naive that way.

Posted: May 6th, 2009 under Entertainment/Fun, Family, Finances/Money, Internet, Online.
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