I decided that we are paying for the wonderful, warm weather we had during Super Bowl XLVI here in Indianapolis on 2/5/2012. That winter was mild, with the Super Bowl week being unseasonably warm here in Indianapolis. This winter has been brutal. Between the Polar Vortex and the Alberta Clippers we have been left in the deep freeze for weeks and snow seems to just stay around forever.
Right now my neighborhood is an ice skating rink, the roads are covered in a thick layer of ice. So when I walk my dog she and I both are slipping all over the place. Oh, for a few sunny, warm days to melt the snow and break up the ice.
So to all the people who prayed, wished, and did possible sacrifices to get the great weather for the Super Bowl in 2012, thanks! In the way of the Universe nature must be balanced and now we are paying the price for that weather.
I really try to be grateful for where I am everyday (see blog post on "You live where you live"). Yet right now I would be so happy for a warm spell to at least get rid of what we have, winter-wise, before the next big storm hits.
Now I know why I don't live somewhere further north. Of course if I did I would be prepared with the right clothing and boots, as well as a snow mobile to get around.
One day closer to Spring!
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Hey Bob Evans - bring back your regular sausage!
Last Saturday my husband and I went to Bob Evans Restaurant for breakfast. Having breakfast there is one of our favorite Saturday things to do, especially when we have a "buy one, get one free" breakfast entree coupon.
So we sat in the section of our favorite server and ordered our breakfasts. We were enjoying seeing friends and chatting with other Saturday morning "regulars." Then our breakfasts arrived. We had both ordered sausage patties with our eggs. What a surprise, what they delivered are the "new" breakfast patties that had just been introduced the day before. We talked to the manager when she stopped by and asked her had the sausage been changed. She first said they went to another "brand." What! You are Bob Evans and you are serving some other brand of sausage. She then asked if we liked it.
The sausage they served was pale, flat, dry and tasteless. It tasted like the worst generic sausage you could find. We said it was inedible and a huge disappointment. She offered to take it off our bill. She also said they had constant complaints since it had been introduced the day before.
I started working for Bob Evans when I was 15 years old, serving sausage sandwiches at the Ohio State Fair when the company had a booth there. Later I, and my sisters, worked at Bob Evans Restaurants all through college. Our wages and tips helped to pay tuition and college expenses.
I know the Bob Evans company is now owned by Owens and is not a family owned sausage business any more. I know you must bow down to the desires of the shareholders. I know that cutting expenses is the way you make profits. But serving some nasty sausage in your restaurants is not the way to make friends or keep your old friends happy. If the corporate wonks think that this is an acceptable way of keeping expenses low you really need to get out of your offices, visit your stores and talk to your customers!
It's just sad to see another thing being changed in the name of profits and corporate cost cutting. It would be like McDonalds serving a Big Mac without the "special sauce." It's just not the same and I am sad to see the change.
We will now be ordering bacon or ham when we visit Bob Evans for breakfast unless they bring back the original sausage.
So we sat in the section of our favorite server and ordered our breakfasts. We were enjoying seeing friends and chatting with other Saturday morning "regulars." Then our breakfasts arrived. We had both ordered sausage patties with our eggs. What a surprise, what they delivered are the "new" breakfast patties that had just been introduced the day before. We talked to the manager when she stopped by and asked her had the sausage been changed. She first said they went to another "brand." What! You are Bob Evans and you are serving some other brand of sausage. She then asked if we liked it.
The sausage they served was pale, flat, dry and tasteless. It tasted like the worst generic sausage you could find. We said it was inedible and a huge disappointment. She offered to take it off our bill. She also said they had constant complaints since it had been introduced the day before.
I started working for Bob Evans when I was 15 years old, serving sausage sandwiches at the Ohio State Fair when the company had a booth there. Later I, and my sisters, worked at Bob Evans Restaurants all through college. Our wages and tips helped to pay tuition and college expenses.
I know the Bob Evans company is now owned by Owens and is not a family owned sausage business any more. I know you must bow down to the desires of the shareholders. I know that cutting expenses is the way you make profits. But serving some nasty sausage in your restaurants is not the way to make friends or keep your old friends happy. If the corporate wonks think that this is an acceptable way of keeping expenses low you really need to get out of your offices, visit your stores and talk to your customers!
It's just sad to see another thing being changed in the name of profits and corporate cost cutting. It would be like McDonalds serving a Big Mac without the "special sauce." It's just not the same and I am sad to see the change.
We will now be ordering bacon or ham when we visit Bob Evans for breakfast unless they bring back the original sausage.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Who is the next change agent?
I have been missing for the last couple of weeks. Between the holidays and travel and the Polar Vortex making Indiana as cold as Anchorage Alaska it has been a busy time. So I start 2014 with the question I have been asking people as I talk to them. Who is the next great change agent?
With the passing of Nelson Mandela and comparisons of him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi and other great change leaders of that generation I have been thinking about who is next? Who will be the next person to rise and attack a major human wrong and lead the way to a wide-sweeping change in the way we as humans treat those who are less fortunate than us.
I have asked several people as I see them who they see as the next great leader/change agent and amazingly none of them can come up with a name. I read about business leaders having great ideas (drones to deliver our packages from Amazon!) or political leaders who say the way we are going is wrong and we need to strike out in a new direction. Yet I don't see the rise of someone who is saying they see a way to further attack inequities, discrimination, poverty or other problems plaguing our lives here on Planet Earth.
My husband forwarded a blog post to me today from Bob Lefsetz (http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/) who normally writes about the music business. He was lamenting the same thing mainly that there is so much inequity in this world that we may never overcome it. "The truth is the game is rigged. And until we're willing to stand back and say we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore...."
This is not a call to action. But if anyone who reads this blog knows of an emerging change agent, someone who you see will change the way we treat others in the future, or who will open opportunities for those who have none now, then let me know.
Just a quick edit. Today it was announced that singer, songwriter, activist Pete Seeger died at the age of 94 . To paraphrase one of the quotes I read in his obituary, maybe we don't need one great leader but many small leaders. So maybe the next change agent will come with the small things people do everyday that makes a difference in someone's life.
With the passing of Nelson Mandela and comparisons of him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi and other great change leaders of that generation I have been thinking about who is next? Who will be the next person to rise and attack a major human wrong and lead the way to a wide-sweeping change in the way we as humans treat those who are less fortunate than us.
I have asked several people as I see them who they see as the next great leader/change agent and amazingly none of them can come up with a name. I read about business leaders having great ideas (drones to deliver our packages from Amazon!) or political leaders who say the way we are going is wrong and we need to strike out in a new direction. Yet I don't see the rise of someone who is saying they see a way to further attack inequities, discrimination, poverty or other problems plaguing our lives here on Planet Earth.
My husband forwarded a blog post to me today from Bob Lefsetz (http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/) who normally writes about the music business. He was lamenting the same thing mainly that there is so much inequity in this world that we may never overcome it. "The truth is the game is rigged. And until we're willing to stand back and say we're mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore...."
This is not a call to action. But if anyone who reads this blog knows of an emerging change agent, someone who you see will change the way we treat others in the future, or who will open opportunities for those who have none now, then let me know.
Just a quick edit. Today it was announced that singer, songwriter, activist Pete Seeger died at the age of 94 . To paraphrase one of the quotes I read in his obituary, maybe we don't need one great leader but many small leaders. So maybe the next change agent will come with the small things people do everyday that makes a difference in someone's life.
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