March 2012
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Hats Off...I Mean, Hats On!
For the past 19 straight years (and more but not consecutively), If you have wanted to find me on the first Saturday of May, you would just have to look in the Clubhouse seats of Churchill Downs. The same will be true in a few weeks as Patti and I will be attending our 20th Kentucky Derby together. And for the next 25 years of our personal seat license, God willing, we’ll be right here:
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Safe @ Home
We had said we needed one for a long time but just never got around to making the purchase. And then it became 2012 and here I was on the Made in the USA push and I was sure that I was going to be locked out of finding exactly what I needed. But, on the first visit to our local lock and safe company, there it was, proudly displayed in front of all of the rest with its’ “Made in...
February 2012
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Update on Dr Dre Beats Replacement Cord
Last night I returned home from a trip to find a packet addressed to me, delivered from the Royal Mail of the UK. Patti gave me the package and said, “Now don’t you feel bad? Someone found your Beats cords and sent them to you.” I did feel bad, for a second. I could see from the customs form on the outside of the package that it was an “audio cable” with a...
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Made in America Furniture
Watch this segment of Rock Center with Brian Williams if you want to swell with the pride of Made in America: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/46198559#null
As you contemplate your next furniture purchase, consider Cochrane Furniture and what Bruce Cochrane is doing to not only make quality furniture but re-create American jobs!
Mr. Cochrane, I hope this gets back to you to know that...
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Replacement Electronics...You Just Have No Choice
Last week we traveled home from a week long vacation in England. Coming out of London’s Heathrow we went through Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class security line. I got picked on and picked upon. The security people decided to search my briefcase/backpack and take out every single item and put them in bins and rerun them through and then gave it back to me to repack. In the course of...
Right Down The USA Fairway
I need a new golf travel bag. Golfsmith is both located in San Francisco and not far from me in San Carlos. I stopped by the store in San Francisco and prominently displayed was the bag I could buy and you can see why. There are better looking ones. There are cheaper one’s but not by much. This bag will do the trick and keeps me right in the USA Fairway.
January 2012
2 posts
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Sucked In by Starbucks
Patti came home with this cup the other day:
She bought it at the Starbucks in San Mateo. I flipped it over and of course, it said, “Made in China”.
“But, I wanted a plastic glass with a straw in it”, she said. “And where I am going to find one that is made in America?”
After we discussed it, I thought for sure that Starbucks, with their in-store emphasis...
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Anxiety and Arguments
So, I decide last year that I am going to live off of Main Street and buy locally and American. Seems easy and quite doable, until. Since my decision I have had anxiety over a number of items that I don’t need to purchase this year (2012) but if I did, what would I do? I dropped my iphone the other day and as I saw it heading for the concrete my dilemma flashed before my eyes, “What...
December 2011
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Why American Spectacles?
In 2007/2008 the political rhetoric was about “Main Street”. What I liked about this was that it put an emphasis on why America’s businesses were important and particularly why our small and medium sized businesses were critical to our economy. For the past three years we still talk about “Main Street” but even in the affluent part of the country that I live in, our...
