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Thanks to TechCrunch for this humorous look at the banking economy.

Basketball fans who’ve been watching the bank failures and consolidations recently will understand and appreciate this September Madness chart.

This is so sad.

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One of my mom’s favorite stories about me: I was probably almost a year old and had learned to climb. Mom left me alone with Daddy so she could run an errand. She included a warning something like, “if she’s quiet, something is wrong.”

I helped myself up to the tank on the toilet and snagged a box of Kleenex.

Mom came home to find me saddled under Daddy’s arm, and him picking up the entire box of kleenex off the floor and stuffing them back in the box, one by one. Apparently, I thought it was funny toss them up in the air and watch them float to the floor.

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Quick, someone tell Grammar Girl!

Our local TV station ran a quick story about a shooting in College Station. Unfortunately, their mis-use of quotation marks around the word accidental implies that there is more to the story—that perhaps the shooting was intentional or made to look like an accident.

Shame on you, KBTX! Unless you have factual reason to believe that this shooting was intentional, you have no right to tarnish this man’s reputation with your implications. He is most certainly in a living hell right now. Why would you allow a punctuation error to make it worse?

Punctuation matters!

We went to bed on Friday knowing the storm would come through in the middle of the night. At 6:30am, we woke up and watch the trees sway for a few minutes. We looked out of each window of our home and saw no evidence of any damage. We went back to sleep.

At 11am, when I came downstairs, I saw more tree than car in our driveway! (The pile of wood, etc. is from some recent work we’ve been doing around the house.)

Where is Little Blue Car?

Is Little Blue Car in There?

After we cleared many of the smaller branches.


Bobby & Patty and Mom came over to help us get the larger branches off the car. Bobby’s chain saw came in quite handy!

The car’s mirrors were folded in from the branches. We found one piece of trim that was not attached. We also found the clips that hold it on, so Emil was able to replace that. The weight of the branch rested on the sunroof (which surely would have put a large dent in a regular metal roof), so we’ll have to watch that for leaks. There aren’t even very many scratches.

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http://www.businesswritingblog.com/business_writing/2008/09/the-beauty-of-e.html

Lynn Gaertner-Johnston’s article, “In Praise of Email” highlight an example showing the biggest reason I like to conduct business by email.

“…we overuse email….we should pick up the phone more often….

But sometimes email can be better than a phone call.

…when busy, we can forget a crucial step such as typing or recording an appointment.

…next time I schedule a meeting efficiently by phone I will send a confirming Outlook meeting invitation–by email.”

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I looked all over for the source for this, but couldn’t find where it originally appeared. It’s all over the ‘net, now. I can’t believe I never saw it.