Although I'm confident the title needs no explanation allow me to flesh it out a little. If you're like me you've been burned enough by sneaky auto service professionals to leave you permanently suspicious of them. Especially the guys in oil change centers where you walk out paying $100 bucks for a $30 oil change. Somehow they manage to talk me into paying them to change filters in my car that I'm pretty sure don't exist!

So now I get to tell you about Jiffy Lube in London Ontario, Canada. I h...
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Over the past few days I've been vacationing in Massachusetts. I've been here before and LOVED IT!

In the weeks leading up to this vacation I had been daydreaming about all the wonderful things I would do and the amazing things I would see. Well, as is often the case, this time reality didn't match up with my expectations.

It took me hours to get across the border from Canada into the US, and then, a few hundred meters after passing through US customs my car started misbehaving. I went to acc...
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I know this is a bit of a departure, but I've decided I'm going to use this blog in two ways: 1) To talk about all things music, and 2) To relate the stories of people whose actions and character inspire me. In this installment I'd like to explore the phenomenon of staying calm in the midst of a crisis. Recently a new story highlighted this phenomenon. It was about Antoinette Tuff, a school clerk in Georgia. A typical day took a sudden terrible turn when Antoinette was  confronted by an armed...
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