when someone says, “Will you borrow me a dollar?”  What’s wrong with this sentence?  The word borrow is a “one-way street” when it comes to allowing someone to use something of yours.  You can “borrow” from someone, but they cannot “borrow” something to you.  Instead, they can “loan” something to you. The definition of borrow [...]

Every week I get at least one person who is spamming my blog with garbage comments.  Spammers, be advised that you are wasting your time as I have WordPress configured so all comments have to be approved before they will show up in the blog.  Go bother someone else.

Two different companies in the last two weeks have choosen to completely ignore a customer (me) with a question or issue about their product.  In both cases I filled out the webform on the companies website asking for assistance.  In both cases, I was articulate, provided all the requested information, and gave them a correct [...]