I finally got some peanut brittle. I was lamenting not getting or finding any all holiday season and on Christmas day I mentioned this at my parents house and suddenly I received a zip lock bag full. Life is good.
I've thinking about the interesting fact that you can tell if a person has an IOS 5.X device by the color of the text message you send to them. If sending a SMS to someone, and you are using an IOS 5.X device and the message background is blue on your phone then the other person has an iPhone running at least IOS 5.X. If the message is green, then they are getting the message as a standard text message because either 1) they don't have an iPhone or 2) for some reason it can't use the apple service. So you can tell if the person on the far end is using an up-to-date iPhone. Interesting. Don't know what to do with this, but I find it interesting. With standard text messages you have no idea what the other person is using.
It has been a busy week. Of course the holiday are part of that but we've also moved my daughter back from college as she now prepares for dental school and we've had to make a new car purchase. Someone please invent a way to make new car purchases less painful. This time I did give all the car salesmen I talked to my Google phone number so that they wouldn't be calling my home or mobile phone all the time. I recommend that to you.
I did get 5 different gift cards for Christmas this year. B&N, Starbucks, Amazon, Panera and iTunes. We have gift cards sitting on counters around the house. I've got to believe many gift cards are lost and never used which is a windfall for the retailers.
Saw a great basketball game last night in OKC and tonight we have friends coming over to celebrate the new year. We are trying caviar tonight. Right.
Happy New Year to all. May your year be filled with peace, happiness, health and prosperity.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday, December 23, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
It is the Waste
I've been stewing for months as I read or hear one person or another argue that more or less taxes need to be paid by this group or that group. I'd be willing to discuss more taxes if there just wasn't so much waste already in government. Our elected leaders can't seem to cut back on anything, can't eliminate something that is no longer needed, can't resist another pork barrel project in their home state and can't seem to find a way for our country to live within its means. We are wasting too much money!
We are in a time of crisis in Washington and our elected leaders can't even seem to agree on what to order for lunch. A super-committee is formed to figure out how to reduce our debt problems and they think it is ok to not succeed. It is not OK. You failed. Vote them all out.
There are serious fiscal problems in this country and need serious leadership to solve. I'm tired of hearing the same old hard lines from everyone. Few seem to be able to think and compromise. Vote them all out.
Here is a recent article in Forbes that reminds us that we can push the debts around, but somebody has to eventually pay the bill. Here is another interesting one, also in Forbes, called Five Simple Ways to Fix An Out-Of-Control Washington. Or here is another one that says our elected leaders should have to live by the same rules which they apply to us. Congress exempts itself from the things that they believe should apply to us. Brilliant leadership. And I liked Coburn's recent guest post on cnn.com entitled Ending Welfare for the Wealthy.
Look, I don't agree with every recommendation in the above posts, but we need serious leadership and statesmanship to sort through these complicated problems. I'm tried of all the failed dialog and collaboration in our elected leaders.
They don't seem to get it that they are failing.
We are in a time of crisis in Washington and our elected leaders can't even seem to agree on what to order for lunch. A super-committee is formed to figure out how to reduce our debt problems and they think it is ok to not succeed. It is not OK. You failed. Vote them all out.
There are serious fiscal problems in this country and need serious leadership to solve. I'm tired of hearing the same old hard lines from everyone. Few seem to be able to think and compromise. Vote them all out.
Here is a recent article in Forbes that reminds us that we can push the debts around, but somebody has to eventually pay the bill. Here is another interesting one, also in Forbes, called Five Simple Ways to Fix An Out-Of-Control Washington. Or here is another one that says our elected leaders should have to live by the same rules which they apply to us. Congress exempts itself from the things that they believe should apply to us. Brilliant leadership. And I liked Coburn's recent guest post on cnn.com entitled Ending Welfare for the Wealthy.
Look, I don't agree with every recommendation in the above posts, but we need serious leadership and statesmanship to sort through these complicated problems. I'm tried of all the failed dialog and collaboration in our elected leaders.
They don't seem to get it that they are failing.
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