Sting

May 19th, 2010

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of Correctional Safety ran a sting this week involving hundreds of parole violators. The office sent out thousands of e-mails to families of parole violators stating that they were eligible for amnesty and cash or prizes. All they had to do was show up and collect. They [...]

Projects

May 19th, 2010

Since the good weather is returning, we have been thinking about doing some more work to our home. There are a million little things that need to be done and we are taking care of them one by one. One item we know that needs to be replaced was our Mailboxes. We have two of [...]

Congress Freezes Pay!

May 15th, 2010

I was glad to hear that members of congress had the good sense to forego voting themselves a pay raise. The congress rejected an automatic cost of living increase that would have taken effect on January 1. Don’t worry; they still bring home about $174,000 dollars per year which is a pretty good chunk of [...]

Information

May 15th, 2010

I work for a very large company. We have branch offices all over the world. One item that recently came up that was unusual was the discovery that one of our offices in the U.K. had asbestos. Asbestos is a material that is known to cause health problems and the matter needed to be addressed [...]

Picasso

May 15th, 2010

Christie’s has done it again. The auction house is once again home to a record setting auction sale. This time it was Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” that fetched over $106 million dollars. There is no information on who the over the phone buyer was but he or she must be doing well! The [...]