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Today’s most valuable lesson
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014 - Posted by Rich Miller * When your smart phone is also your alarm clock, please make sure it’s sufficiently charged when you go to bed. If you don’t, your phone could run out of power and no morning alarm will sound. Is there any “wisdom” you’d like to pass along today?
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- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:52 am:
Slip on shoes at the airport.
Ties waste time.
- Jack Handy - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:53 am:
There are two types of people in this world, those with the stamina to finish things
- facts are stubborn things - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:53 am:
Always set 2 alarms — need a back up for all kinds of reasons: set pm not am, turn off one in your sleep etc.
- cover - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:54 am:
Put a power strip near the bed, so you can plug in your alarm-clock phone and let it charge overnight.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:55 am:
Never eat the yellow snow.
- door gunner - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:56 am:
if your bedroom window faces east and you have not drank yourself into a stupor the night befor, leave the shade up if you have one.
- phocion - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 10:57 am:
If you drive all the way to Springfield for a legislative reception and see Rich Miller there, make sure you walk up to him and say hello instead of wondering why he didn’t wave back at you.
- Anon - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:00 am:
Vacations have health benefits!
- MP - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:01 am:
Don’t have an outside press conference in downtown Chicago on a windy day. The wind will make it difficult for microphone to pick up the audio feed.
- Under Further Review - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:02 am:
Stop using the term “corrupt politician.” The use of the adjective is redundant. The fact that politicians are corrupt is understood.
- Big Joe - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:04 am:
If you wake up to music, make sure the volume on your clock radio is high enough to hear in the morning. Don’t do what the marathon runner on Seinfeld, Jean-Paul Jean-Paul did in the Olympics.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:04 am:
Don’t play pool with a man named after a city.
- Louis G Atsaves - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:07 am:
I put my smart phone charger next to my bed and set the alarm. Just don’t put the volume on “mute!”
I’ve long given up on all the little tricks as to how to extend battery life and shut down running apps. I just keep on charging the phone every chance I can possibly get.
Proof that the smart phone is a lot smarter than I am!
- PolPal56 - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:08 am:
When you take the time to make a list of errands and groceries because your memory needs help, don’t forget and leave it at home.
- Norseman - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:08 am:
When your smart phone is also your alarm clock, don’t use ear buds to listen to music to help you sleep. When they fall out during the night the alarm will play to an unresponsive pillow while you snore away.
- Loop Lady - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:08 am:
first thing you do when you get home is plug your cell phone in, then let the dog out…
- JoanP - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:09 am:
The reason the teakettle hasn’t whistled yet is that you didn’t turn the flame on (which is actually a good thing because you also forgot to put water in it).
- Cabildero - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:10 am:
And make sure your phone is not on vibrate.
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:10 am:
Ship golf clubs on vacation to your destination.
You will thank me.
- Downstate - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:11 am:
Use your smart phone as a scanner.
On occasion, when I need to simply scan one or two pages of a document for transmittal, and a scanner is not available - I simply snap a photo of the document with my phone and send it via email or text.
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:12 am:
When your SMART phone is your alarm clock, your SMART PHONE is smarter than you are.
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:13 am:
The guy with the most votes after all of them are counted…wins.
- Sheesh Hecuka Cupajava - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:14 am:
Buy your apples from the grocery store before fall veto session. All the stores here in town seemed to be out of them…
- Casual Observer - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:16 am:
Retire when you can. Money isn’t everything.
- Uptown Progressive - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:18 am:
@a guy - ask Al Gore about that one
- William j Kelly - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:25 am:
Well rich, i am not sure what you mean by wisdom but if you are looking for true wisdom be prapared to suffer, because even the most basic review of history would seem to indicate that standing up for what is right will probably result in being called a dope. However, you might take heart in the remote possibility that hundreds of years after your death someone might say you were right.
- Wensicia - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:30 am:
My smart phone charger is next to my bed, easy to plug in at the end of the day.
Always leave your car keys in the same place; my worst bad habit used to be searching for them right before work.
- Try-4-Truth - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:30 am:
Always, and I mean always, turn on a water fountain BEFORE put your face down to drink.
- William j Kelly - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:30 am:
Oh and let me add that the best way to make sure you don’t over sleep has nothing to do with phones or chargers or alarms but instead being filled with a burning desire to reform, rebuild and redeem the city you love! Williamjkellyforchicago.com
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:35 am:
=== Uptown Progressive - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:18 am:
@a guy - ask Al Gore about that one===
Up Pro, if you bring up Andrew Johnson, I’m going to steamroll you on it. Last I checked, there’s no electoral college in Illinois statewide voting. But keep hanging on to that one. Can’t you just be happy he invented the internet and Love Story was about him and….uh, his ex.
- cover - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:36 am:
= The guy with the most votes after all of them are counted…wins. =
= @a guy - ask Al Gore about that one =
Bush won the vote that counted, in the Electoral College, 271-266 (1 DC elector abstained).
- Downstate - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:38 am:
Best Political Advice:
If you are walking the precincts, as a political candidate - wait until the absolute worst possible weather (ice storm is the best)
Most voters will be home, and you will earn their deep admiration for working when everyone is home from work.
Saw a local candidate do this in a four-way primary last year - and he won decisively.
- John A Logan - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:43 am:
The best advice I ever heard was dispensed on this blog. “Never break more than 1 law at a time.”
- Uptown Progressive - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:44 am:
Bush won the vote that counted - 5 to 4. I hope you are not suggesting that is the same thing as Democracy!
- Jake From Elwood - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:49 am:
Spend a little extra to get the premium orange juice, premium bacon, a premium mattress and top-shelf alcohol. Some things are worth the additional cost.
- garlic bread - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:49 am:
Pour a scoop of ice cream in the coffee pot, so the coffee brews over it. yummy.
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:51 am:
UP, I’m sure there’s a blog somewhere where this is still being discussed. Please find it.
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:51 am:
UP, don’t forget to look next to the “Lock Box”.
- Because I said so..... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 11:53 am:
The chicken soup at Moxo today is delish.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:07 pm:
Little people in elevators Never have a nice day
- Anonymous - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:21 pm:
Never lie to the feds.
- 6184life - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:22 pm:
Hy-Vee is selling three 12 packs of diet pepsi for $8.88
- Mason born - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:25 pm:
When in the deer stand vibrate is as bad as a ring tone.
- Downstate Greg - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:31 pm:
When Rahm and his cronies tell us, “It’s for the Kids” NO it ain’t!! It never has been .
- Amalia - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:45 pm:
leave the gun, take the cannoli.
- Judgment Day - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 12:45 pm:
Northern Illinois + November = Cold.
Northern Illinois + December = COLD.
Northern Illinois + January = COLD!!
Don’t even ask about February.
- Dave Dahl - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 1:11 pm:
If you are going to drink coffee, learn to drink it black.
- Demoralized - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 1:37 pm:
==The guy with the most votes after all of them are counted…wins.==
Tim McCarver is your hero isn’t he @A guy. lol
- In_The_Middle - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 2:18 pm:
When you’re staying at a hotel,always keep your toothbrush out of sight of the housekeeper.
- garlic bread - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
When everyone is filling the train over capacity, wait for the nearly empty one almost always directly behind.
- Streator Curmudgeon - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
You’ll appreciate this one when you pass 60 years old:
Whenever possible, let a machine do your work for you and let it do as much of the work as possible. You can always buy another machine when it wears out, but you can’t buy another body.
- Anonomooser - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
You brought it up, Guy!
- How Ironic - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 3:40 pm:
Never do today, what you can do tomorrow. Or the day after.
- A guy... - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 3:52 pm:
=== Anonomooser - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 3:29 pm:
You brought it up, Guy!===
Moose, it works statewide. You just can’t go national with it.
- JS Mill - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 3:52 pm:
One immutable law of the universe..what goes around comes around.
- Stones - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 4:18 pm:
From the great Steve Martin (Let’s Get Small):
“Always keep a litterbag in your car. If it gets full you can just toss it out the window.”
- Brave New World - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 4:22 pm:
All politics is local. If Al Gore would have won his home state of Tennessee, he would have won the election handily. Florida would not have mattered.
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 5:07 pm:
Never scrimp on TP, at home or at work.
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 9:24 pm:
It doesn’t cost that much more to drive a sports car or hot rod instead of a boring sedan … and you’ll enjoy the drive a lot more.
Always take the time to play with kids and dogs; that’s what you will remember when they are grown / gone.
- RNUG - Thursday, Nov 20, 14 @ 9:25 pm:
And get one those really loud “Big Ben” windup clocks as a backup to your cell phone alarm … and remember to wind it every night!
- CharlieKratos - Friday, Nov 21, 14 @ 8:06 am:
If you have a stuffed-up nose, Afrin is a miracle-worker. Just don’t use it more than 3 days in a row.