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Old friends

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Today I had the opportunity to have lunch with an old friend. We were close friends back in the early 1970′s but then she moved away from the area and we lost touch. Just recently I found her through a Facebook search and we discovered that we live very close to each other – only about a thirty minute drive between our houses! We got together at a Ruby Tuesday for lunch today, and it was really good seeing her. I was surprised to see she had changed her hair color! I’m not sure if I’ll ever get used to that!

But it was really grand being with her – we are definitely going to rekindle our friendship. I’ve missed having a good friend like her around to socialize with.

Sometimes freeware is a trick

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There is nothing I like better than a great bargain! And what could be better than free? I LOVE free! Free is good! But when free brings with it a nasty virus that causes trouble, then free is a nasty trick. Today I was reading tips about trusted sources to download free software and learned that there are some trusted places that you can download free software, but that there are a lot of risks involved by going to other places.

I learned about this on a website whose main purpose is to rank and rate different web hosting services. Sometimes I’m amazed at how much information I learn by accident! Isn’t it funny how you start off reading a web page on a subject and then a link off to the side of the page catches your attention and before you know it you’ve gone off on so many tangents learning interesting things that after a while you forget what website you were on to start off with! Anyway, I just want to caution everyone about being careful with freeware – sometimes the download can be a virus.

Ethics courses

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One of the most important courses any person can take is a course in ethics. Seems to me that lately there have been a lot of ethical violations in politics and business. That is, in my opinion, the biggest reason we (as a country) are in such a big mess. So I think that it is a good idea that every employer require every employee to take refresher ethics classes every year.

Especially people involved in tax preparation. I was surprised when Janice told me that she has to take a ea ethics course before the end of the year to be able to keep her job, but to be perfectly honest I am glad to hear it. Tax preparers especially are vulnerable to ethical challenges in the course of their jobs. It is good to know that ea cpe courses are available for free on the Internet. I think it is really important that this kind of education reaches everyone involved in the profession.

Now that’s really different

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One of the things that I really love about the Internet is how creative and different so many people can be when they create their web pages! For example, some people will focus on just one particular item, like how to make oversized candles with milk cartons and crushed ice, or dedicate themselves to raising money for a good cause. Still others will use the Internet to promote a political issue, or a particular candidate. And there are a lot of websites dedicated to religion and love, others are devoted to spreading hate. And some of my favorites are personal blogs, especially from my friends who love to travel; they post their adventures and pictures on their blogs. And let’s not forget the social media of facebook, and email!

Hackers and spammers get in there and try to create total havoc. I never could figure out why anyone would want to do that, I guess it’s just pure evil oozing out of their bodies, trying to ruin the capitalistic societies of the world. Where else could you push a button or two and switch from a screen that gives you a completely honest pacific hydrostar pressure washer review from fellow Internet users, and then a button push or two be able to find out where you can get some price comparisons for the same pacific hydrostar pressure washer, and then thirty seconds later buy a brand new wedding dress size 0 and pay for it all with PayPal? And then five seconds later get the up to date weather report for a country half-way around the world! What a great world this is!

What I’m planning to read

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Seems to me that in this economy everyone is trying to sell something. Recently Janice offered to lend me a couple of books that she recently bought online from the goodwill thrift store for cheap that are a combination self-improvement/earn money kind of books. She told me that even if I didn’t want to make my living in sales, everyone is always selling something to someone! One of the books is the book by Dale Carnegie titled “how to win friends and influence people.”

I’ve always wanted to read that book, so I was pleased to accept the offer to borrow it. I’ll let you know how I like it.