I went to an Elliott’s Hardware Store here in Dallas, TX on Sunday afternoon to purchase a new outdoor US flag and a Texas state flag. As a proud US Navy veteran I fly them almost constantly on my home. Not just for holidays. My wife and I have purchased our flags from Elliott’s for 20 years as they were of good quality. Not so anymore. The store was bought out by new owners (the reason they...
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Black Vulture
I was working in my garage on Sunday and noticed a Black Vulture chowing down on some road kill rabbit at the front of my house, near my driveway. It’s not everyday I see a Black Vulture (No it is NOT a Turkey Vulture) in my neighborhood. I have seen them several times while driving in the countryside. They are much larger than a crow and the grey head gives away that it is a...
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I write about what I am thinking as much as I write about what I am doing. I do a lot of both in my blogs. The writing about my thoughts has increased as I have more time to do that. The keyboard just kind of draws it out. What a great invention for humans to express ourselves with so little effort. In the USA and many other world locations we have the freedom to...
Continue reading...Just Fix IT!
I just spent 15 working days in solving a problem at work that had to do with email routing. That’s about 24 calendar days. Something that had been working perfectly for years suddenly stopped delivering email. It was all caused by human intervention into a system that has become highly fragmented when we became a part of a global business giant and having to work with their old but dominate email systems. These email systems...
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