Continued from here where I was talking about my assistant and how disappointed I've been in her work ... Catherina had no idea how to turn on a vacuum cleaner ... the retractable cord had her totally flummoxed for starters ... or use one, and because she didn't grow up in a house with electricity or hot water needed instruction on how to make the tap water go from scalding to tepid. Ironing is done with no technique, so clothes end... more

You know that proverbial sack full of nickels I mention occasionally? Well, it smacked me upside the head something fierce a few days ago.

I'll warn you now that this post is the first in what is bound to be an ongoing saga. I have no idea how the situation I'm about to begin to describe will turn out, and I may end up being sorry I shared it with anyone. There is every chance of ugliness, resentment, regret, anger and a load of I-told-you-sos in my future. But ... and this is a big but, but not to be confused with a big butt ... there... more