12 Best Sensory Experiences

1. Lover's very intimate touch
2. Gentle summer rain on the high Kaibab plateau
3. The feel and taste of very dark, rich chocolate accompanied by a fine red wine
4. Very cool, high thread count sheets against your naked body
5. The blue sky against the bright white freshly snow-covered mountains after a big snow storm
6. First whiff of ocean breeze on the first day of vacation
7. Bare toes in clean white sand, gently lapped by the sea
8. The smell and taste of your lover
9. Aquamarine Caribbean water
10.Laughter
11.Spring in the desert
12.Star gazing

Blogging for a Living

Who knew just a few years ago when I started blogging for fun that it would come to this. I'm actually going to get paid to blog. Not under my name, thank you, but paid to ghost write a corporate blog. The first edition is live, now. No, I'm not advertising it here as I will not advertise my opinions there.

Yea. To write, to espouse corporate ideals, for money I can do it. This will remain my forum, totally unconnected and totally uncensored. The world according to Joe - only seen here.

I'm smiling.

Blister Packaging

What disturbed, convoluted individual invented this? Yes, it's economical and yes it hangs nicely, packs easily but just try to free whatever is trapped in that clear plastic!

When I was in the packaging trade (a fact I'm not proud of, but that's yet another rant), I used to walk past the blister packaging company exhibits while attending Pack Expo, seething, swearing at them under my breath and glaring. If not for the official exhibitor badge I wore I would have given them a piece of my mind.

The only revenge is to take the inventors and those that today mandate the use of this horrifically non-customer friendly idea and blister pack them. Give them vents to breathe and challenge them to escape from within!

Things to Do When Your Power Goes Out

1. The obvious. Just use birth control to avoid becoming a statistic. If alone, then you need to get creative.
2. Enjoy the silence. With luck, your neighbors will all leave for warmer places and leave you in total solitude.
3. Go for a walk. It's exercise and it warms you up a bit.
4. Talk to neighbors, have a warm-up party. Misery loves company.
5. Cyber - talk/text on your cell till battery dies then go to Facebook and do the same until your laptop battery dies.
6. Eat or drink something or everything then do number 3. Alone it won't warm you up but it will fill you up.
7. Close the drapes and close doors to conserve what heat you have.
8. Kick yourself for not buying that battery powered lantern for your 72 hour kit. The kit that contains necessities like boxed wine, smoked oysters, bottled water and batteries for your handheld appliances.
9. Change the batteries in your smoke detector and carbon monoxide detectors - this may be the only time they're in use so they're probably dead and that beeping sound is highly annoying. Just be careful on the stool or chair while trying to juggle the flashlight and insert the batteries.
10. Leave - also pretty obvious.
11. Rediscover radio. Our parents and grandparents did and it is still entertaining.
12. Go to bed and just hope you wake up when you need to.

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