by Gene Sanders | Oct 19, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
Traveling makes me fat. Not vacation travel, where there’s mild exercise, such as paddling, hiking, or snorkeling, and more importantly, my wife, who doubles as my culinary conscience. But business travel makes me fat. There’s rarely exercise, because being ‘on the...
by Gene Sanders | Oct 5, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
Sometimes I train students in non-bulk packaging, which eventually gets around to boxes. In a parcel handling environment that involves conveyor belts and/or automated sorting, a box could end up with any surface downward, even if only temporarily. So if an inner...
by Gene Sanders | Sep 21, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
Sheepishly, I remembered my step-fathers admonition to measure twice and cut once. If I’d followed his rule, I wouldn’t be repeating what I’d just attempted to do, and wouldn’t have wasted the building materials that I’m sure weren’t free. As it was, another 2×4...
by Gene Sanders | Sep 1, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
Some things in this world I just don’t understand. When I was in elementary school, the children that wore glasses were either near-sighted or far-sighted. The glasses enabled the near-sighted to see distant objects, like billboards and traffic lights, or the glasses...
by Gene Sanders | Aug 24, 2015 | From The Porch Swing
Oh my, that doesn’t sound too good, does it? I mean, it sounds like I’m a moron overwhelmed at planning a simple, intentional crime. “Well, you big ox, you put the goods in a box, and tell the carrier you’re shipping socks or rocks.” How hard is that? But I’m not...
