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he client follows the advice working together to help the clients live the dream so it is in this context that i got this advice and found that it is applicable to every aspect of my life there are basically three types of people that you will meet as an advisor and in all of your life as well the first is people you can t help you want to help them they want to be helped they know they need help but they don t have the means or ability to achieve what they want or what you would like to do for them instead of wasting a great deal your time on them give them what advice you can and refer them to another agency to get help do what you can and sadly move on the second is people you can help this is the bread and butter of your practice and in your life these people also want to be helped they know you can help them and you can work with them they have the means they have the desire they will take your advice and give you useful feedback they will know that the path forward is not a straight one and will have some potholes and bumps the people you can help are a joy to work with and the feeling of pride and satisfaction in spending your time and energy to achieve their goals is immeasurable spend your time with these people and your business will thrive and you as the advisor will have a wonderful life the third category is people too stupid to help here is where an advisor can go wrong ruin their practice and develop ulcers these people are just too stupid to help don t be fooled or sucked in because often they have a lot of means money and it is tempting to try to court them as clients they won t listen to you refuse to take your advice and when things go wrong will blame you they will suck up all of your time asking you to explain over and over and over the most simple concepts and still won t listen they expect to be treated special if they are the ones with the deep pockets these people just cannot be helped because they are too stupid to help run away from these folks refer them to someone else refuse to take them as clients and if you have taken them on as clients before you recognized that they are the third category nicely fire them and refer them to some other advisor my stock phrasing was something along these lines mr and mrs client we have been working together now for some time no we haven t because you just won t get your head out of your ass and pay attention or follow my advice and you argue with everything i say unfortunately i just don t think that we are compatible as a team my philosophy as an advisor doesn t seem to be compatible with yours i want to make you money and you seem to want to lose it and ignore all of my professional advice so i believe that it might be for the best if you found an advisor that can give you the time and attention that you deserve so i regretfully think that you should search for another advisor as i can t service your account any longer find some other poor schumck who has more patience that i do and don t let the door hit you and your fat portfolio on the way out followed by a letter stating similar concepts the three types of people concept has been invaluable in my personal life and in my time spent commenting on various blogs and chat rooms in the internet i thank my long ago mentor mentally all of the time for giving to me this pearl of wisdom just realize that some people are just too stupid to help and distance yourself from them time is too precious to waste on the stupid posted by dust bunny queen at 8 50 am 11 comments thursday march 21 2013 knitting what there s math aka swatching sucks being thoroughly sick of making hats and scarves for gifts i have decided to make a sweater for myself so i m sitting on the couch swatching grumbling and cursing the dumbplumber my everlovin sweetie of a husband who rarely pays attention i swear i could dye my hair green but i digress he asks what are you making a swatch i say or more correctly bitch the knitters will understand and feel my pain swatching is the bane of a knitter s existence and requires math dun dun dun duuuunnn scary music sound for those non knitting people let me explain swatching is when you knit a bunch of samples to find out if your knitting gauge and number of stitches will make your project be the right size attempting to explain to the dumbplumber ladies don t attempt this at home especially if you have both had a drink or two me explaining you have a pattern like this one that i plan to make there is a suggestion on the yarn size of needles and the number of stitches per inch and the number of rows per inch if you can knit this gauge you are in like flynn whatever that means if not then your sweater will fit godzilla or your sweater will fit a midget but certainly not you for example 1 the pattern calls for 20 stitches to equal 4 inches on size 7 needles 2 the pattern calls for 60 stitches for a particular piece say a part of the front then the piece should equal 60 20 3 units so then 3 units should be 3 x 4 a 12 inch piece all well and good until you substitute another yarn and when you take into consideration that each person has a different style and tension in knitting also if you use a different yarn it may not knit up the same for example if my gauge works out to 16 stitches 4 inches then the piece will be much larger 60 stitches 16 stitches 3 75 units 3 75 x 4 15 inch piece three inches too big on just one piece multiply this effect over all of the other parts of the sweater and you have a gigantically larger than you want sweater go the other way and assume you have more stitches per inch and then your sweater will be tiny all that time you spent knitting will have been wasted the only way to know your gauge is to make a swatch which is to knit in the pattern a 4 x4 inch at least section boooorrrring but what is worse is to not make a swatches and make a sweater that no one born on this earth can wear if you don t swatch you will be wasting hours upon hours of time even though this is boring beyond belief it s better than not doing it and so on until the dumbplumber s eyes begin to roll backwards in his head dumbplumber having listened to all of this above reasoning or rather bitching asks so what do you do with this stuff you are knitting now i tear it up and roll it back into a ball i say staring at me in disbelief you are f ing nuts says he i can t disagree posted by dust bunny queen at 10 21 am 2 comments labels crafts dumbplumber knitting wednesday march 13 2013 we took a sunday drive and had a picnic this last weekend we finally had a beautiful sunny day we have had months of sub freezing temperatures between christmas and the first week of february we had only 20 hours where the temperatures were above freezing there still is snow and ice that are lingering in the shady spots but as always this too shall pass and spring is in the air so the dumbplumber and i decided to take a sunday drive and have a small picnic arriving at a client s house to sit on their overlook we borrowed their view for a bit we have a lot of absentee or seasonal clients for which we do various plumbing maintenance services like winterizing so the pipes and pumps won t freeze and break then recharging the systems in the spring sitting on a bluff of ancient lava rocks and looking at the beautiful view we ate fried chicken chips and fruit salad and tried to fend off some crows who felt that we should share the view is spectacular majestic mt shasta close up sand hill cranes next we decided to drive up to the next valley over the mountain and at an higher elevation to see what was happening the geology of the area is that these valleys are the remnants of glacial lakes every spring the valleys are full of water from springs and are the perfect areas for the multitudes of migratory that come through ducks and geese are common in the thousands this time we had the exciting moment of seeing hundreds of sand hill cranes in one place unfortunately i severely lack camera foo abilities and was unable t see where i was aiming due to sun glare so this is the best photo i could get driving along we also saw a sight that while unpleasant is a fact of life in the outback of rural western living liberal and urban heads are exploding everywhere am i a really evil person because one of my first thoughts was what a waste of fur coyote coats are the most beautiful things yeah i guess i am life in the country note these photos were re sized to be small enough to post the actual links are here majestic mt shasta the wider view coyote on a fence posted by dust bunny queen at 9 28 am no comments labels beauty birds california nature random musings what did i do today wednesday october 03 2012 the circle of life sometimes it just gets broken the circle of life sometimes it just gets broken and there is nothing to do but to deal with it by circle of life i mean where you grow in several stages this is my perception of how it works based on my experiences your results may vary as they say in the commercial disclaimers stage one as child dependent upon your parents to guide and mold you for a while your parents are as gods they are wise all knowing the source of comfort and everything else that a young child must have mom and me stage two soon you grow into a teenager straining to find out who you really are ah the teen years teen age angst what a trial for the parents you go out of ways to assert your independence and to just be contrary to all authority there is an ongoing power struggle between teen girls and their mothers sons and fathers at this point you realize that maybe the parental units are not perfect or god like you ve seen the cracks in the facade in some ways perhaps it is the party where someone got a bit too drunk was having fun and became embarrassing maybe an uncomfortable argument between the parents everything your family does is now worthy of an eye roll or two stage three thankfully we grow out of that teenager stage you go out on your own college maybe get a job and an apartment of your own move to another town now you begin to realize that life is more than being a child or an obnoxious teen dependent the bills keep coming in and you suddenly realize that woah someone has to clean the bathroom change the toilet paper roll and buy the food and all that stuff this means i have to keep going to my job and i can t just spend all my money on fun things maybe that home and family thing was worthwhile still figuring out who you are you experiment will all kinds of things you might occasionally think about your parents and the fact that they were young at one time and remember some of their stories if your parents were of a mind to share their own youthful indiscretions but mostly it us all about you and your new exciting life somewhere between stage two and three you discover sex you are sure that it has never been this way for anyone before you are special then suddenly it dawns on you that your parents have had sex too at least once or twice depending on how many siblings you have eeeewwww this may require that i rethink my views of my parents and think about why they dropped us off at the theater every saturday so we kids could spend the afternoon watching bad b movies naaah stage four the real relationship stage you find a boy or girl that you like a lot and you discover that the way of love is not all that easy it might work out and turn into marriage or you might find out that it is just a way of woe suddenly your parents seem to be more understandable those arguments and quirks that they exibited that were so embarassing to you make some sense you might be able to confide in your mother or father and even ask for advice they aren t gods like they were when you were small but somehow as you have gotten older they seem to have gotten so much smarter amazing how that can happen stage five marriage and children if you manage to make it past stage four you are now married and have children of your own there is a moment where it dawns on you perhaps when you are changing diapers or getting up yet again in the middle of the night to feed the baby or walk the floor at 2 am trying to console your colicky child wow my mother father did this same thing for me and i took it all for granted as a new mother or father you will now be able to reach out to your parents for advice and ask them how did you handle this problem what was it like for you they they are now grandparents and working their way through their own circle of life now you can talk woman to woman or man to man you parents are morphing into friends and confidants people not just parents but people who have pasts likes dislikes as your own children grow and you deal with the intricacies of a marital relationship this friendship grows ever more strong stage six finally you have gotten your children through their teen years and you also remember just what a little prick or bitch you were to your own parents i apologized to my father at that point your children are in stage three ahhhh at last the empty nest free at last free at last adults without young children and you can do the things you put off while raising the family travel go to resorts and experience fine dining sleep in on sunday and walk around the house in your underwear without a snotty teenager rolling eyes at you three generations stage seven finally grandchildren of your own to spoil now you are the valued source of information somewhere in these last stages you begin to realize the mortality of your parents and yourself life isn t eternal as you think it is in your teen and young adult years friends family are dropping like flies and you realize that time is precious you d better spend as much of it as you can with your parents if they still exist and your children and grandchildren before the circle stops spinning such is the circle of life wheel within wheels we are all on the circle at various points but sometimes the circle breaks as it did for my mother and for the rest of us read more posted by dust bunny queen at 9 42 am 5 comments labels nostalgia random musings saturday september 29 2012 scanning the past i ll admit it i m a compulsive clipper and saver i clip out recipes from magazines and file them away into categories when i go to yard sales i buy old cookbooks i especially love the small books put out by clubs and ladies associations interesting regional books old cookbooks that are a view into what our lives were like in other times like the depression or the roaring 20 s i have binders and shelves full of crafting magazines mccalls better homes and gardens good housekeeping american home crafts i have clipped and saved crafting ideas and instructions from magazines for decades since the 1960 s when i started crafting boxes and files full of old and yellowing clippings that i can peruse when looking for a new idea or an old idea that is new again 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