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Have you ever made a decision and then later thought, “What was I thinking?” It happened to me once when I ate a Cinnabon at a roadside service center on Route 95 in Maryland. About an hour after I inhaled it, I felt as if I had eaten a large wheel of dense sugar-laced putty […]
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After replacing 150 burned-out bulbs on my pre-lit artificial Christmas tree, I was ready to toss the entire Faux Frasier Fir out the window and let it fend for itself among the real trees. But I persevered and ordered 150 more bulbs to complete the bulb management effort I had neglected over the past five […]
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Please enjoy these articles that support the “Do It Well, Make it Fun” philosophy: “New Study Says Humor In The Workplace Can Help Improve Boss-Employee Relationship – But There’s A Catch” A new study found that a boss’s sense of humor in the workplace can only improve employee job satisfaction if the boss already has […]
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Recently, I traveled from Redmond, OR to Denver, CO. Three hours before I was to depart, I was notified that my first flight was delayed and that I would arrive in Denver 25 minutes late. However, I only had 45 minutes to make my next flight to DC. If everything went according to this revised […]
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Tuesday was a beautiful, almost spring day. It was sunny, the temperature was 65, and a new crop of bugs was hitting me in the face. You see, I was on my last motorcycle ride where, at the end of the ride, I would sell my bike to Classic Iron, one of the largest used […]
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My wife will attest to the fact that I’m not the most patient person in traffic situations. My impatience also extends to a few other situations but for the sake of this article and protecting my sparkling image, I’ll stick to traffic. Here’s an example. While returning home from the airport recently, I stopped to […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most common questions funny people get is, “how do you ever come up with that stuff?” As a professional humorist (as opposed to an amateur humorist or even an unprofessional humorist), I can tell you that there is a formula for seeing the world as a comedian does. It’s called Congruent Incongruence […]
Continue ReadingA few nights ago, on behalf of my Rotary Club, I volunteered at our town festival. And for five hours, I wanted it to be over. The festival is a wonderful annual event that includes carnival rides, food vendors, live music and thousands of people who show up just to have a good time. And […]
Continue ReadingRon’s newest Huffington Post blog: The basis for my work is a concept called “Do IT well and make IT fun.” And when I refer to the IT, I’m not referring to information technology, but rather that IT in our life that is the basis of all that. It’s the essence of the phrase, “You’ve […]
Continue ReadingOK, so this new Treehotel falls into the category of done well and really fun. The Treehotel in Harads, Sweden was built, literally, in the trees. The six treerooms are located in unspoiled nature just outside this small town of 600 people. Here is a short description from their website: The idea behind Treehotel is […]
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