does this mean I have arrived?

I don't subscribe to WSJ and wasn't planning on buying the paper since I saw the online version. However, my mom seems to think it would be good memorabilia for my kid. The next day we went to a newsstand to see if they had the previous day's paper. They did, but didn't sell it to me at a discount!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597622797657621.html

MSLs bring additional value to a company because of their ability to help the company seek new uses for a drug, says Jane Chin, president of the MSL Institute, a company dedicated to the ethical training of MSLs.

Dr. Chin, a former drug-sales rep for Bristol-Myers Squibb and a former MSL for Aventis Pharmaceuticals and Takeda Pharmaceuticals, says she quit being an MSL because she was asked to work more closely with the sales team than made her comfortable. She adds that she worries about the training of MSLs and how they deal with off-label information.

In some situations, MSLs are "pressured to do more for the sales team," says Dr. Chin, adding that in her experience, "some pharma companies have the impression if you just hire somebody [with a professional degree] and you call them an MSL, it doesn't matter what they say."

Printed in The Wall Street Journal, page B3

Learn to reprogram the time on your microwaves and VCRs.

Even if you expect your spouse or kid to do it after a brief power outage, get out the instruction manuals (you keep those of course, right?) and follow the instructions.

Instant empowerment.

(even if I post maybe once every few months... I got too many other websites to worry about, plus an issue of having a toddler and no time...)

A friend emails me to ask about a way to set up a family site. It's gonna have lots of pictures.

I suggested the usual suspects... Picassa, Flickr, you know, the typical "picture" apps/sites.

But then I remembered Posterous! Much better than Wordpress.com in terms of looking like a regular website, and just as easy if not easier to set up.

He set up the site within minutes, wrote back to thank me and said it was very easy.

Cool.

)p.s. just checked out my last entry on my posterous... for my Toastmasters speech competition I placed 2nd in the Area contest.(

I'm competing in our area's Toastmaster's speech contest later this month, and practiced my competition speech in our club meeting yesterday.

As we were going through round robin evaluations, the topic came up about my speech, and I said that it was a true story.

Then people said, "this was a true story? wow now I like the speech even better!"

I said, "what?! aren't all international speech competition speeches supposed to be true stories?"

The club president said, "the speech needs to be original, doesn't have to be true."

I was flabbergasted. I'd still give competition speeches that are true, though. Only with tall tales or humorous speech would I make creative liberties.

I appreciate that there may be over 3000 distributors in your exciting
business opportunity, and I always appreciate the idea of financial
freedom, security, investing in myself and the future of my family.
 
However, in principal, I do not believe in any claims of "a world-wide
recession proof business that is getting ready for exponential growth"
if you follow up with absolutely NOTHING credible to substantiate your
claims.
 
However, if I know of someone who is interested in signing up with one
of the toughest selling jobs on earth, I'll point them to the many
available MLM / networking marketing programs - including yours.
 
Sincerely,
Jane

i'll be giving a speech at toastmasters, after many months' haitus, so
i feel a bit nervous.
 
i'm doing the advanced communication & leadership series - a
"specialty speeches" project for "speak off the cuff" (i.e. impromptu
speaking).
 
kind of like table topics but more terrifying by about 3 minutes.
 
i kept changing my mind these 2 weeks on which topics i should include!
 
but i think i've narrowed down the 5 topics:
 
1) parrot service or customer service?
 
2) meaningless at work
 
3) how to recession proof your job
 
4) what i learned from the maury show
 
5) lessons of mom 1.0
 
i have a feeling that the toastmaster may pick #3, which would be the
topic that i'd prefer to speak on.
 
if you get to pick, which would you be more curious about? (assuming
you don't read the articles i've written and are going only by the
topic titles)
 
here are the links to the topics for which i've already written articles:
 
parrot service: http://budurl.com/parrotservice
meaningless at work: http://budurl.com/careerascaffeine
recession proof jobs: http://budurl.com/jobsecurity

UPDATE: the toastmaster ended up picking #5 - lessons of mom 1.0!

i write multiple topical blogs (5 of which i update on a regular basis, and 10 or so which i don't).

i am on twitter. linkedin. facebook.

i can ping.fm or hellotxt to multiple social media channels if i want to...

i like posterous. i really do-

but i haven't figured out how i should use posterous.

i know people crosspost content to posterous.

i don't want to do that.

any ideas?

(p.s. given that i have no more time to start a new blog)

don't get your hair cut when you're in a bad mood.

You never know how you can help others, and what adventures wait for you.

http://whatilovetodo.com/?p=240

(P.S. I also created a new website that generates a random collage of wisdom I've picked up this year. If you have something that's weighing in your mind or feel troubled, focus on your question then click here)

how much $ would you want to have saved up before you retire? (assume you do want to, and can retire!)

at what age do you plan to "realistically" retire? (barring multimillion dollar windfalls)