Yeah, it’s sad. Everything’s digitized…. disconnected. But people are trying to connect. Look at Gratefulness.Org. No one person is going to save the world; not you, not me. BUT that doesn’t mean that I don’t have to do something, anything, even if it seems insignificant. We all depend on one another. Realize the person that you cut off in traffic could be the doctor that saves your life. Know that it might be easier to leave the water running while you brush your teeth, but understand that someone 10 years down the line could very likely be thirsty because of that. We affect each other every day, whether we want to or not. Why not put some energy into making that interaction worthwhile? Light a candle, add it to group A1F. Do something small, but do something. You will feel better about it.
Blessed be,
Arow
Make a Global Statement.
Talk about it…..
South-Side Chicago and the Olympics:
Let’s talk about it…
Elle’s view on Chicago’s Olympics is eerily accurate. Why is it that, and I do not say this lightly, Chicago’s interest in the South-Side, as a city, did not gain momentum until the Olypics were on the horizon? I understand capitalizing on lucrative ideas, but a lucrative idea shouldn’t have a byproduct of making ‘things better.’ (The sad part is that I only searched Dogpile.com for: ‘things better’ chicago Olympics and this is what I got!) The ‘goal’ should be to make things better and the lucrative opportunity should come from that!
The transparency of the obvious should not be obscured by DOLLARS!
Educate yourself, allow room for argument, then buckle down!
I can only be inspired
One of the most beautiful people I’ve met since I’ve moved to Chicago, Don, has a beauty in his voice that is best seen in his blog entry recounting a moment when living in L.A. is lonely. He and his partner are wonderful people that I’m glad to have met since I left home. I’m just lucky enough to know them and wanted the world to know that.
“Make the right choice and honor yourself.”
-Greg Behrendt
It does seem like a hard decision, but it’s not.
Kevin and Don know that.
E-Mail Etiquette: What REALLY pisses people off!!!
You go to your email account and it’s filled with spam that did, or didn’t, get caught. It’s annoying; it’s irritating; it makes you not want to check your damn email at all!!! I understand and I agree. Believe it or not, though, it’s mostly your own fault!
“How in the hell is this my fault?!?!” you scream.
In a shallow attempt to declare innocence, you yell, “I didn’t help this to happen, you asshole!!”
Ahhh, but you did!
When you reply to, or forward, an email, every email address on that correspondence can be read and recorded! When you are forwarding an email or sending out a ‘blast email’ use the ‘BCC:’ field. The ‘BCC:’ field will ‘hide’ all email addresses so that only the email address you’re sending to is in the email, not everyone elses!
More on protecting your email from spam:
Comprehensive resource on how to fight & stop spam email.
Prevent spamming of your publicly displayed email address.
This page will generate a HTML encoded mailto link that is reasonably ’spambot’ proof. (definition of ’spambot’)
10 tips to eliminate spam email.
More ways to beat spam email (some duplicate info).
A Little About Banking
Due to Check 21, “Generally, a bank must make funds available for withdrawal within one or two days of deposit if the funds are deposited by certain types of checks that have a relatively low risk of being returned and the deposit meets the other conditions described at § 229.10(c) of Regulation CC,. Items generally subject to next- or second-day availability include checks drawn on the U.S. Treasury; U.S. Postal Service money orders; checks drawn on a Federal Reserve Bank or a Federal Home Loan Bank; checks drawn by a state or unit of general local government; cashier’s, certified, or teller’s checks; and checks drawn on the same branch or another branch of the depositary bank if both branches are located within the same Federal Reserve check processing region. A depositary bank also must give next-day availability for up to the first $100 of any check or checks deposited on the same banking day that are not otherwise subject to the nextday availability rule.” This law is subject to the Federal Reserve’s 12 banking districts. Every bank is in a Federal Reserve District and the way you can find out what district your bank is in will be to look at the routing number which is located between the symbols. (These are MICR [Magnetic Ink Character Recognition] characters that are read electronically.) The Reserve Distirict that a check is drawn off of can be determined by looking at the first 2 numbers of the routing number. I.E: a bank routing number of 071001533 means that the drawing bank is in Federal Reserve District 7; a bank routing number of 121001578 means that the drawing bank is in Federal Reserve District 12; and so on. Banks are required to make $100.00 available to you on the next business day after deposit, regardless of Federal Reserve District, while local checks are to be available one or two business days after the date of deposit. Non-local checks should be available by the fifth business day after the day of the deposit.
Free 411? Get the Hell Outta Here!!
It’s true! Snopes.com (one of my favorite debunking sites) did a review of 1-800-FREE411. They go on to say that it’s a marketing driven system and that you may have to hear ads (about 12 seconds) from competing business of the phone number you requested, but that otherwise it’s free 411!
Don’t give your money to your phone company. Let someone else pay to get the information for you!
Check out 1-800-Free411’s site!
Where to blog and how….
Well, a friend of mine said I should start a blog, so it is only appropriate that my first post should be the email that she replied to when she told me I should start the blog thing going. Here you go:
Bloggers:
I’ve found a few additional places that you may want to post previous and current blog entries to as well as being able to comment on others’ postings. Be sure to always link your name (first and last name, preferably; search engines like this) to your blog and follow it with a link to CHE, if the hosting site permits this. Each site requires registration.
First off - Ezines: why they matter and how good they are:
http://www.realestateleadsgeneration.com/Ezine_Marketing.html
eZinearticles.com: There are currently no articles on this site (which, by the way, has a Google Page Rank of 6!!). Click on the “Submit” link to register and post!
http://ezinearticles.com/?newest=1&index=30&order=ASC&cat=Finance:Real-Estate
weHow.com is a wiki. Wiki sites are sites that have been built and maintained by the public.
Real Estate page: http://wehow.ehow.com/list_13.html
Registration page: https://forms.wehow.ehow.com/
amazines.com
Real Estate page: http://www.amazines.com/Real_Estate/article_category.cfm?catid=38&title=%2CReal_Estate%2C
Registration page: http://www.amazines.com/register.cfm
And finally:
http://www.ezinehub.com/add.html# <http://www.ezinehub.com/add.html>
I do hope that this is helpful to some of you, at the very least. Happy blogging!
