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Archive for July, 2009

July 25, 2009

Sending Email to a Cell Phone

I don’t have a fancy cell phone. I can’t take a decent picture with the camera on my phone. I can’t surf the web from my phone. And I can’t even check my email from my phone. This annoys some of the people in my life who want to send email messages to me on [...]

July 24, 2009

How We Got Rid Of All Of Those File Cabinets

About eight years ago I left one of the big pest control companies that everybody has heard of. I had been with them for many years and was a district manager at that point. It wasn’t that I disliked what I was doing though. I just thought that it was time to spread my own [...]

July 23, 2009

Dressing for Work When You Work from Home

One of the biggest tips you hear for freelance writers on how to run their business is to dress like you are going to work, even if you are only going to your home office.
I don’t think they mean that you have to get dressed up in a suit to work at home — well, [...]

July 22, 2009

Homesick

I was working on some graphic design in Birmingham, England last summer.  It’s quite lovely, but I still got homesick for the good old USA.  Funny the things that you miss.  Mainly tacos and corn, for some reason.  But I do love a lot of history, so I got to travel around and learn a [...]

July 21, 2009

Hoping That Maintaining Shuffleboard is a Breeze

I’m not that familiar with shuffleboard maintenance.  I’ve been doing some research on buying a table ever since I was at a party and found out how much fun the game can be.  Is the maintenance a pain?
Who out there has had one that was used by a lot of teens and then also transported [...]