So today, I got the following email from a relative: Pass this one on to all your e-mail buddies and take the time to read the Snopes.com article listed at the bottom of the message. It is full of good advice especially about the “cookies.”To whom it may concern:Just a word to the wise. E-mail…
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Brother Card has published another great essay: Civilization Watch – Building Better Children – The Ornery American Even though the URL indicates “warwatch”, it’s part of his “Civilization Watch” series. And this one is about raising our kids. I’m sure my mom will enjoy it as he reiterates a lot of what she has been…
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To make sure you all don’t start thinking this is a BYU only blog, I figured I would post about something else. I ran across a very cool application the other day. It’s classified under “Edutainment.” That amazing class of applications that are both entertaining and educational.
So when the Mountain West Conference signed this deal with CSTV and this new MTN network, I was a little skeptical. Now, I’m just mad! They promised to have deals in place for the games to be broadcast on all the usual TV distribution outlets (Dish Network, DirecTV, and Comcast). Well, two of those deals…
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So I think I will follow suite of ProjectMom and start to blog on a more regular basis even if I don’t have anything profound or exciting to say. Perhaps more of a journal. Hopefully for the reader there will be more content interesting than not. So last week I was supposed to be in…
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I’m not sure what the typical engineer deals with each day at work, but lately, I’ve been having way too much “fun.” The last three weeks have been brutal for me. My team has been working on a new version of our product and everyone has been putting in extra time. I have a different…
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At first, this article made me laugh. But as I continued to read, I realized how very serious they were. Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t laugh because I think mothers aren’t worth that. The article indicates that if a mother were to get paid for the many roles she plays at home, she would…
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I was cleaning out my old emails and found the following. It gave me quite the chuckle reading through it again (mostly because my family has been involved in MLM since Amway was still called Amway). So I figured I would share it with others, so here you go: WardAmerica by David R. Trottier My…
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Sometimes I wish I live in Canada. My employer is rolling out changes to our healthcare plan. “You now have more options,” they say. Which of course, we do. What they don’t tell you up front is that 2 of the 3 plans will cost you more than you are currently paying on a monthly…
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Early this morning (2:30 AM), my wife wakes me up and says, “I’m contracting and I just threw up and I’m going in to the hospital to get checked out.” She’s done this before and so she said that she would go by herself and just come home in a few hours (after they told…
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