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This is really great advice, if you can manage to remember to do in those few times you’re interviewing for jobs.

Yes, I have a friend who’s the type who says he’ll be there between 11:00 and 11:30 and he shows up at ten to 11. That happened just this past Sunday before we went to a ball game. Then on those occasions when I allow for him to be early, I’m sitting around waiting toward the end of the window. It’s like he’s a mind reader. 😁 He’s also the same guy who, I get to the bar early, he calls to say he’s just looking for parking and he’ll be in in two minutes, I order him a beer, and he shows up twenty minutes later. And I’m smiling and saying hi and thinking to myself, sorry your beer’s a little warm, man.

He’s used to pitching to minor leaguers.

Most people really hate it when other people are late, meaning really late, and especially chronically late. Yeah, I hate that, too. But just as much, I hate when appointments come early. I don't mean five minutes early. That's fine—preferable, even. I mean, like, really early. Fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes early. That's what I hate, because I got stuff that I'm working on, and now I gotta stop because they're here early? Maybe they think it demonstrates that they are eager for the business, or maybe they even think it's a sign of respect that they'll come to see you soon as possible. Me, I don't think it's respectful—I think it's borderline disrespectful, or if not exactly that, then at least maybe a tad ... I don't know, thoughtless? After all, I'm a busy man, and I have things to do. I plan out my schedule based on when they're going to arrive, so if they show up twenty minutes early, all of a sudden I'm supposed to stop what I had planned out my time out to do and deal with them instead? Media reps would do that **** all the time. They'd show up fifteen minutes early when I'm in the middle of working on a big client deck. I would ask them to hang out in the lobby until our appointed time but I always felt like they thought I was being a jerk asking them to do that, then I'd feel like I would have to apologize to them for not being able to see them until our scheduled time instead of super early. Whenever I would go to see someone for an appointment and I happened to be really early, I would let the receptionist know I was there but then ask them (1) is it OK if I hang out in the lobby and catch up on stuff until the appointment time, and (2) please don't let my appointment know I was there until five minutes before the appointment. Sometimes my appointment would be crossing across the lobby, see me, and say hey, didn't know you were here already, and I'd be like, yeah I got here really early and I didn't want to disturb you until it's time, and then I would spool out my philosophy to them on arriving acceptably early versus unacceptably early. I made a couple of converts that way. I would also explain this to college graduates who would inevitably come to the interview half an hour early to show how eager they were for me to hire them, and then I would explain to them the same philosophy, and I loved seeing the light bulb go on when I did. They're still flexible thinkers so they would totally get what I meant. I love molding young minds. There will be people here who disagree, but if you're one, you won't be able to change my mind about this.

I discovered team handball a few Olympics ago. Wow, is that game awesome.

I think this is because people are told to question everything they read and hear (and half of everything they see), including (particularly) those from institutions, without being provided the educational and intellectual basis for effectively challenging what they're presented with. So where does that leave them? Basically, open and willing to readily accept the argument that most soundly confirms their biases. This is why a lot of people who are in charge want to completely gut the public schools and make every family responsible for figuring out how to educate themselves. Sure, your family is capable of doing that well. So are yours and yours and yours. We're all capable of that. But is your neighbor's family capable of that? You tell me.

Not everybody has the day off, right? It's not like Memorial Day or Labor Day where a day off for private and public non-retail businesses is practically mandatory, is it? I gotta believe Juneteenth is considered, more or less, a secondary holiday for which it's a discretionary decision for businesses to close down or remain open. I doubt that machine shops in Alabama are closed today. That reminds me of a funny situation I lived through. I worked at ad agencies and while a lot of them, particularly the big auto ad agencies, had all the primary and secondary holidays off, the first two agencies I worked at were always open for business on President's Day and Columbus Day and Veterans Day and whatnot, even if our clients closed for them. The third agency I worked for was in Columbus. It was part of the Bates ad agency empire as a result of a merger with a local agency, and part of the deal was that Bates would give the local guys the Bates name and the access to resources and clout that went with it, but they would get to maintain their own working culture, including staying open to work all the secondary holidays that all the other Bates offices closed for. So that created the weirdly unique situation that the only Bates office that did not close down for Columbus Day was the Columbus office.

Exactly. I don't believe anyone, including I, is arguing whether Rogan is or is not qualified to hold forth on any of this. I'm arguing none of that even matters. In fact, I might argue that his lack of credentials is exactly what attracts his largely anti-intellectualist fan base in the first place. Actually, that's probably not right. It's not an anti-intellectualism because they fancy themselves as intellectualists, or perhaps more exactly, alt-intellectualists. What they are is anti-expertise. They don't respect people with expert credentials because they don't respect the very basis for the credentials. They think they're the smart ones because they know things about the world nobody else does, and that the rest of us are sheeple just believing what we are told with any agency for making our own conclusions.

How close are they to gaining control of or influencing the direction of Ukraine? Is Zelenskyy himself part of it? How do they factor into the big picture of what’s happening in Ukraine? What are the numbers we’re talking about, in terms of percent of population? How close are they to exerting their overall will in the conflict from the Ukraine side? Can you bottom line that for us?

Is this true? I’m not arguing that it’s not, because I honestly don’t know, but I’ve seen nothing along these lines taht indicate that it’s a major or existential problem. Maybe because I’m hearing about Ukraine only from MSM, tweets and, frankly, posts here. What’s the evidence that neo-Nazis are prominent to the degree that they are a threat to gain control of or influence the direction of Ukraine? Because that’s the only way neo-Nazism in Ukraine would truly matter, right? Is Zelenskyy himself a neo-Nazi? That seems unlikely to me since he is reportedly Jewish. If he’s not, then who is and how do they and their followers factor into the big picture of what’s happening in Ukraine? What are the numbers we’re talking about, in terms of percent of population? How close are they to exerting their overall will in the conflict from the Ukraine side?

To some, he's entertaining, and to some, that's all it takes.

Major league baseball is hard.

Old enough to remember Tiger fans not trusting Scott Harris because the Giants aren’t so good.

I wasn’t thinking Rodriguez could be traded after his owie, assuming he’d be out the max eight weeks, but optimistic reports have him back in early July barring setbacks, so if he could come back at that point and miraculously maintain his pace, getting something decent for him would be comfortably within the range of outcomes. It’s probably a long shot, but for anyone who’s prone to hoping, there it is.

I was with ya until the last two words … 😉

We are not trading prospects so we can win this year.

At the Cubs game today and there’s a recent friend of ours here.

Just trying to be funny in the moment. Doesn’t mean anything more than that.

That’s what I thought in 2020: no way Trump will debate because he doesn’t need to. But he thought he should be on camera eviscerating Sleepy Joe. Didn’t work out so great for him, as it’s being used as evidence against him for Jan 6. Now he knows better.

Depends on the return.

Krafty!

It was a hit and run joke.

Also, downtown Tampa is west of Port Huron. I could do this all day.

I don't think most people think of Atlanta as being farther west than Detroit but it sure is.

I don't disagree but I am interested in finding whether on base or slugging correlates better to run scoring, or more exactly runs created. I could make an argument for either going in.