Day: March 5, 2016

As if we didn’t have enough problems when our dog ran away and someone running into our truck while it was parked on the road, our bathroom and kitchen drains also backed up during that the same week, so we neded sewer cleaning in Bronx NY quickly. We had guests from out of town at the time, and I would not doubt if they wondered if things were always this dramatic around our place. In the case of our beloved dog, we got him back. And with the issues with our two drains, we were able to call to get someone over relatively quickly to fix them.

First, the people who were visiting us were a husband and wife, with the husband being one of my husband’s clients. He came to stay with us because my husband had great box seats for a big sports team. That is the nature of the business my husband works in. You “wine and dine” the clients. We have a nice house and a lot of property on a mountain. The husband and wife love nature, the woods and hiking, so we thought it would be nice for them to stay with us. At night, they were having a wonderful time sitting out on our expansive deck listening to the sounds of nature each night.

When our dog escaped, I spent one entire day walking around and calling for him. I knew that it meant that it took time away from my hubby’s client, but my dog is family. After 10 hours, I found our furry family member. The next day, someone crashed into our vehicle, which took half a day to deal with, further taking time away from entertaining the client. When the drain troubles happened, I was highly frustrated by all that had gone on. But my hubby was calm and quickly made some phone calls to get someone to come do something about it. I was so grateful that the issue was fixed within only hours.

I have just started thinking about where I am going to move to. It is really time for me to begin, because they are going to tear down the place where I am living at the moment. We have about three months before this place has a meeting with a wrecking ball or some other sort of demolition. Of course they are going to tear it down, along with half a dozen other buildings. and build a skyscraper,I went out this morning and looked at one of the places with a new launch condo in Singapore. It was really nice and about half as far from my office building as the place that I am living right now, but as I expected the price was probably just out of my budget. I could have afforded it if I was going to stretch a good bit, but the truth is that I am not ready to give up what I would have to give up in order to make this work. I am going to probably have to pay a good deal more than what I had been. I have a really good deal on the place where I am staying now and so I am going to probably delay the move until the last moment. I do not intend to wait until they bring the wrecking ball into play, but I shall likely wait nearly that long. I am thinking about moving in with this friend of mine, even though I seriously doubt that it would be a good idea in the long road. He really likes to enjoy his life and so he is going to make a good bit of noise after I have decided to go to bed for the night. It probably will not work out in the end.

I have been doing some research about billionaires and their habits of giving to charity. I am trying to compare them all and figure out which ones give the most and the least. I want to look into finding least charitable billionaires because that interests me much more than the opposite case. I wonder what could compel a billionaire to donate much less to charity than all of his peers.

I guess there could be a lot of reasons why this would happen, but I am not sure why someone would really decide that they can’t at least contribute enough to not make themselves stand out. It seems like it would be in their own interests, and they can use it as a tax ride off in any case. So for someone to just contribute far less than everyone else, I would guess it is a symptom of genuine apathy towards those less fortunate, and that is kind of disturbing.

Anyway, I guess I shouldn’t make too many bold claims without actually knowing these people, or how they think. But that is the impression that i get when considering the situation, and I don’t think there is much of a better explanation. At least, I can’t really think of one. I am going to try to go back and consider the most charitable billionaires in the world next. That is something that also interests me, but not as much as why someone who has everything, would give back relatively little. Although, some people just seem to be greedy, and it might be against their nature to give back. I guess that could be the case, but I probably will never know for sure what motivates people to do the things they do. But it won’t stop me from continuing to speculate about such matters.