Things I’ve Learned…

  • Recent Chicago Cubs acquisition Kosuke Fukudome pronounces his name as “Foo-koo-DOUGH-may” and NOT “Fuck-you-DO-me” as I had first thought. Glad we got that straightened out before any embarrassing conversational gaffes.
  • If your instinct tells you NOT to click on a link, run with your instinct. Never, ever click on a link titled “Two Guys, One Horse” assuming that it was hilariously mislabeled as some sort of joke.
  • NEVER answer the “Does this make me look fat?” question. And tread lightly when the “What are you thinking?” one is lobed at you.
  • Mistakes are the workshop of growth and learning.
  • Don’t sweat the small stuff, yet paradoxically little things mean a great deal!
  • I’m not sure if it’s age, A.D.D., or early onset of Alzheimer’s, but I find I need to make notes and lists to get things done. Now, if I could just stem the occurrences of going places at work and forgetting why I went there in the first place.
  • Tackle big problems in little steps.
  • Deadlines (much like traffic signals) are merely suggestions. However, in both cases it’s usually best to comply.
  • Better to lose the battle and to win the war.
  • You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, BUT you can’t pick your friends’ nose!
  • Half the crap on the internet credited to Andy Rooney probably wasn’t his material.

    And with that in mind, a few that may, or may not be from Dave Berry’s List:

  • There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is: age 11.
  • The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
  • There is a very fine line between ‘hobby’ and ‘mental illness.’
  • If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: meetings.
  • No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
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