Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Rants And Verbal Diarrhea”
2013 is coming quickly to a close. You blink your eyes and suddenly a year goes by. Time doesn’t just fly…it accelerates as we get older. Spooky. Anyway, as I did for the last 2 weeks of 2012, I’m going to take the rest of this year off from blogging. We easily burn out in this game, so I highly …
Lately, some bloggers have learned a basic advertising trick. They use buzz words and phrases like “secrets revealed” to grab attention. And then, 99% of the time, their “secrets” are nothing…just empty promises and fluff. It’s an annoying trend. Readers feel resentful but they still end up following the blog regularly. Now we have a bunch of readers who regularly …
About 6 months ago, I wrote the post “Why Everyone Sucks.” I received a bunch of emails from that one and read other responses online. Because I don’t write comments or post on message boards, my follow-up has been delayed until now. So why such a long wait? Mainly because these bloggers and commenters are a small part of my …
Dear Newbie: Welcome to this wonderful new hobby/obsession. Let me save you the suspense and tell you how things will go. You’re going to read this blog and a few others. You’ll feel like an absolute spaz who doesn’t know anything. At first, you’ll be too scared to apply for all those credit cards. You’ll stall. You’ll make up excuses. …
Every day, people tell me how much they’d love to have my mileage account balances. I’m sure you would. I’m well into the millions. I know you’d love flying in premium cabins and staying in fancy hotels. Who wouldn’t? But when it comes down to it, you don’t want to stay organized. You don’t want to open and close credit …
