Thinking about it, I wondered if they were thinking that this “Fat Cow” company would be a “cash cow” for them. And I wondered why they didn’t just name the company Cash Cow. Maybe someone else already took that name. Anyway, this piqued my interest and I started clicking around and found a story about how this Fat Cow company was striving to make it’s company as ecologically friendly as possible. That made me think of how much fun they could have with an internal newsletter about the company with the headline reading “greener pastures for Fat Cow.”

I’d like to think it would be fun to work for a company that has a sense of humor like that.

Do you remember the old days when a young child wanted to sit at the table to eat, the parents (or grandparents) would put a big, fat, telephone directory on the seat of one of the adult’s dining room chairs so the child could sit there? Growing up in an urban area, I was used to seeing really fat telephone directories.   I had a strange kind of fascination with them.  I have no idea why, really. I just can remember whenever we would travel to a different city, when we would check into a motel I would go look for the local telephone directory and flip through the yellow pages.  I always felt that was the best way to get a really good idea of what the area was like.  And I can remember as a child, there were several times that I had a question about something and for some crazy reason I would call the telephone operator and ask her for the answer to my question. And you know something? The telephone operator always was very pleasant and had the answer I was looking for! Boy, those were the good ol’ days!

Now small business marketing involves much more than a listing in the White Pages and an advertisement in the Yellow Pages of the telephone directory.  The Internet has done its part to revolutionize local listings.  I still use the telephone directory for a lot of things, but usually it is only when I don’t have access to the Internet. I am always sure to keep a current telephone directory near the hard wired phone at home, and usually last year’s copy of the telephone directory in my car.

Whenever possible, however, I will generate a local search on my computer.  Doing that is often faster than using the paper version of the telephone directory.  It is definitely time to stop using the telephone directory as a booster seat – I think it is an endangered species.

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.

The best solution, obviously, is to take them to a place that will recycle computers parts but I have had a very difficult time finding any place local that will do that. I have been told that some places will take in a “trade in” computer if you are buying a new one at their store, but what am I supposed to do with the older ones that I have been storing prior to the time that stores took the “trade-ins?”

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!

The last phone that I had I changed the ring tone to something different. It was one of the tones that came in the library of the phone, and it was pleasant and upbeat, and I did not know anyone else that had that ring tone. But to be honest, when it went off I never did realize that it was my telephone ringing and the phone always went unanswered! I’m thinking about making my own ring tone with my own voice saying something like “Hey Katelyn, answer your durn telephone! dag nab it!” That would definitely grab my attention and I’d know for sure that it wasn’t some one else’s phone ringing!

If you could create your own ring tone, what would you put on it?

But on the other hand, using commercial hand dryers uses electricity, and electricity is produced by burning coal, gas, oil, hydro, and other methods that also pollute the environment. I’ve never really heard any clear cut break down as to whether it is really better for the environment one way or the other. But I have heard some health experts suggest that using the air hand dryers in restrooms is not healthy because the bacteria on a dirty restroom floor gets sucked up into the dryer and then blown onto your hands. Largely because of that report that I’ve heard, I prefer to use paper towels, but I also like to use the paper towels to turn the door knob to exit the restroom.

Oh well, one can dream, can’t one?