This is a nice morning for an August (12) day in Texas. It is in the high 70’s which is cool this time of year and it is wonderful to sit out on the back porch viewing our small lake. The three remaining Russian geese are sleeping a few meters away. (I choose metric because if I said yards I’d have to explain the 3 foot kind.) I see I did that anyway. Ha! The...
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Good SPAM
I was just kicking back and scanning through my emails. I generally receive around 100 per day. Most are killed by my spam filters. That means I have to occasionally dump the “Trash” directory where the filters direct the waste material. Thank goodness email isn’t printed although I do still get a lot of snail mail printed spam that is destroying natural resources. It’s amazing how many people and corporations think it is their duty...
Continue reading...TEDEX Forums
If you read my other blogs and web sites you may have noticed I have done a bit of work getting the TEDEX forums a little more user friendly. I have taken them out of hiding and I am letting the world look at the contents again. But that is as far as I will go. Non members will still not be able to view any attachments such as pictures. There is also no easy...
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I am using up my excess PTO before the end of the year. That is Paid Time Off for the non corporate world. That started back when corporations of the Dilbert variety combined sick days and paid vacation into PTO. No more need to call in sick just to take a day off. Corporations buy each other and merge benefits. That happened to me. I didn’t lose how many PTO days I can earn (at...
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