Fancy resorts go that extra mile.

When your toilet paper is folded, you know that your resort really cares. It’s nice to find this because you are getting an unviolated roll. Unless someone finished wiping and this is how they tore the last piece. I wonder if this is something employees are trained to do or is this something they do on their own?

Project Management Methodologies: Waterfall

In the dynamic world of project management, selecting the right methodology to micromanage your underlings can be a critical decision that greatly influences the success of a project. Agile, Waterfall, and Kanban are essential for any project manager. In this blog post, we’ll explore the unique characteristics, advantages, and challenges of these three methodologies and how none of them work to control people’s behaviors.

Waterfall Methodology:

The Waterfall methodology is a traditional and linear approach to project management. It involves sequential phases, where each phase must be completed before moving on to the next. These phases typically include requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and deployment. The waterfall is ideal for projects with well-defined and stable requirements.

Advantages:

  • Clear and structured approach, making it easier to manage and plan.
  • Well-suited for projects with stable end users that don’t change their minds every 20 minutes.
  • Excellent for workers with integrity and the ability to complete tasks
  • Detailed documentation is produced at each phase so when you get fired people can pick up where you left off

Challenges:

  • Limited flexibility to accommodate changes after the project has started.
  • This can lead to longer development cycles and delayed responses to issues when key members of the team are on vacation or 3 hour lunch breaks.
  • Customer feedback is typically only gathered at the end of the project since everyone is working on 5 other top priority projects.

Favorite Driving Microaggressions

  • Using your blinker just as someone enters your blind spot, so they have the impression that you will run them off the road
  • Excessively using your wiper fluid so that it sprays on the car behind you.
  • Staying in the blind spot, waiting for someone to enter your lane as you are inches from their rear bumper
  • Hanging your cigarette hand out of the car window
  • Not repairing dents and dings so others know you don’t care what happens to your car
  • Easing two wheels on the line as to look around the car in front of you so that you can see what the holdup is.
  • Driving in the middle lane, and riding close to the line when a car passes, as if there are magnets in your side panels

Social Media Vacation Responders

Whenever you take a vacation and then decide to share photos or videos via social media you will have one of your pals say one of these gems…

I wish I could afford a vacation.

Well, maybe if you weren’t so terrible with your budget, you could. This is the worst kind of comment because they are trying to add a guilt trip leg to your itinerary. I get it, some can’t afford vacations, but you shouldn’t try to make others feel bad for enjoying themselves. The point is, don’t share your life on social media

Put me in your suitcase

That’s impossible and illegal. Plus, you might die of suffocation in the overhead compartment.

Drink an alcoholic beverage for me

That’s also impossible; it’s like asking someone to go urinate for you. We aren’t that close, and I’m not going to apply a catheter for you.

I wasn’t invited

No, you weren’t because this is my vacation. If you wanted to go with us, then we should have planned ahead, and you could have purchased your very own ticket. That is, if you’ve budgeted properly.

You should have done “X”

There is always someone who’s taken the same trip as you and attempts to induce FOMO feelings of “you’ve missed something crucial that would have made your vacation 1000 times better”. Sucks to be you.

Crock Pot Macaroni and Cheese

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Mac and Sauce

In my opinion, this is the best Mac and Cheese that you will ever put in your main face hole. Hope you enjoy it.

  • 12oz Elbow Macaroni cooked and drained
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • 1.5 cups of milk
  • 12oz can of evaporated milk
  • 1/4 cup melted unsalted butter
  • 1 cup of Colby-jack cheese
  • 1 cup of extra sharp cheddar cheese
  • 1 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon of pepper
  • Mix and cook in the crock pot for 1.5 to 2 hours.
  • Serve with crumbled crispy bacon as a topper.

My second favorite recipe is to cook the aforementioned macaroni only, drain, and add 2 cans of Stagg Chili mix until hot. Serve a heaping portion in a bowl and top with hot sauce and parmesan. You can thank me later.

Stagg Silverado Beef Chili with Beans, 15 Ounce (Pack of 12)

Making extra donations at Walmart during the holidays

They have some great prices, but good grief it’s not worth it about 99.99% of the time. Once you pick a buggy you can’t tell it’s got a busted wheel until you roll it over two levels of cobblestone entrance tile and hit a smooth surface. By then, they are banking on the fact that you won’t care enough to exchange it. Thus, never servicing their shopping carts..

They always have someone begging at the entrance. If you don’t give them any money, they give a condescending look and tell you to have happy holidays, but they are condemning you to hellfire and damnation. The Salvation Army is usually out the day after Halloween, and one lady was apparently using the kettle as an ashtray. I don’t know if she was smoking a cigarette or a bong, but the smoke was billowing into the solarium of vending and electronic recycling machines..

Drinking and Smoking at Walt Disney World

There used to be a shortcut to Storybook Circus beside Space Mountain. The path was lined with outcast smokers who were escaping frantic park-goers by calming themselves with a blast of hotboxed nicotine. You had to be mindful if you took your kids down this path of potential inhalations. They would get about a month’s worth of 2nd and 3rd hand smoke, which may have been enough of a taste to lead them to become lifelong smokers. In honor of that special spot, there is now a line of smokers waiting a the Tron rider out of the eye line of cast members. Smokers never give up; smokers find a way.

I don’t know if you ever could, but I know you can’t drink alcohol at the Magic Kingdom. You can still booze it up at Epcot, Animal Kingdom, and Hollywood Studios and then head on over to Magic Kingdom. However, it doesn’t stop smokers with cigarettes of an electronic nature. No, that’s not pixie dust, it’s vapor clouds.

Enough with the Daylight Savings

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St. Simon Island Sunrise

I once read a letter to the editor of a newspaper in which the person was complaining about springing forward. It was causing too much sunlight thus destroying their garden and lawn. I agree with this person. I think it’s time to stop springing forward. Let’s keep falling back though. Each fall we should continue to set our clocks back. How cool would it be to have our days and nights mixed up for a few years like newborn babies? To be honest, let’s start a petition at the White House to stop springing forward and back and just leave the clock in the spring-forward position. Let’s let God handle the daylight.

Parking lot drag strips

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Photo by Jose Espinal on Pexels.com

I’ve noticed that there is a sense of anxiety in theme park parking lots. Everyone is in such a hurry to get one extra car ahead. So much to almost cause fatal car accidents. Stop and yield sign lose their meaning. Flashing signs that indicate your speed only seem to make you want to get a higher number. For what? One extra parking spot closer to the tram ride? Is vehicular homicide worth it?

Do you let your 8 year old smoke?

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Just thought it was odd when I was renewing my policy during open enrollment for Blue Cross Blue Shield. Can’t believe it’s an option, but I’m sure if you clicked next on the signup wizard you would be denied coverage and reported to DSS. At least, that’s what should happen.

A side note, I got a letter from South Carolina Blues saying that there are cheaper options than I currently have. There was also a slam about our “current administration” in there too. But the shocking thing is I compared the two plans and one of them was $300 cheaper for the EXACT same coverage. Let that be a warning to you. Go check out your open enrollment options, don’t let your same policy roll over. You could be paying more than you should.