Good News Amidst the Bad

Good News Amidst the Bad

Hello, it’s a new year and I’m not looking forward to it. It’s election year, so that means all of the nastiness that goes with it. Most end of the year articles were either a compilation of pictures of what happened or distressing reviews of the years during 2010s – such as climate change, people…

Lazy

Lazy

While this time of year is wonderful with parties, plenty of food, and general jolliness, I tend to get lazy. Some years are worse than others and this year is one of them. Too much good times is not good for my state of mind. This goes all the way back to high school, if…

Pivot to the Rescue
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Pivot to the Rescue

Sometimes simple is all you need. Last month I was asked to help out in automating an activity that was needlessly taking up time. Usually when people come to me, they think “program” but sometimes formulas or pivot tables will do the job just as well. In this instance, they needed to restructure some reporting…

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Marriage in Trouble?

[My last few posts have been rather long so I’m going to try to keep this short.] This is off topic but last week I was shocked that George Conway appeared on MSNBC as a legal analyst. Of course, I had to see that to see if anyone would be “indelicate” and ask him about…