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Just upgraded to 1.5. This should solve the recent crashing problems that we've had.

I've noticed that you can almost guess a clerk’s age by the way she counts your change back. If she counts it "backwards" (as in "ok Mrs Smith that came to 2.57" and she hands you 3 pennies and says, "two sixty" then a nickel and says "sixty-five", then a dime and a quarter while saying...

Goody. I work for the U.S. Census Bureau and get the standard 40.5 cents per mile. We were told last week that our reimbursement rate was going up, but that we'd have to pay taxes on anything over the IRS 40.5 cent rate. Now I won’t have to pay taxes on the extra few cents per mile. We...

Except for the money, your list is pretty much standard winter readiness up here. And since this is the U.P. winter readiness is a year 'round thing I don't have a generator, but the neighbor does. So if I needed to run the well pump for a bit to refill the water jugs, I'd borrow his. If the...

Good idea. One of the local radio stations here is teaming up with the local YMCA for a big auction next week. I'm sure the other local sations are doing something similar, but I'm not going to listen to top 40 or country to find out Check out the websites of your local radio stations, the...

The on line donation page finally loaded. the Salvation Army DOES take credit cards. Salvation Army's home page is at: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/ here is the url for the Salvation Army's donations page...

Here are a couple links to help: http://give.org/news/disaster_tips.asp and http://give.org/news/katrina.asp Give.org is part of the Better Busness Bureau. it's a great web site for checking out various charities. Salvation Army is always a good place to direct your money. Your own church...

Well, I lost $2 today by not gassing up at $2.74 in the morning when I took the kid to school. It was up to $2.89 when I picked him up. On the bright side, I save $1.30 by filling the tank then and not after I did some afterschool shopping. It was up to $2.99 an hour later.

Giving away my age here. When I first started driving, at the ripe old age of 21, gas "down home" (southern Michigan) was 29.9. "Up North" where I went to college it was 39.9 Oddly enough, some (mumble, mumble) years later, the price difference between the Lower Peninsula and the Upper Peninsula...

96 I get 4 extra years just for being female. 'Bout time those 2 X chromosomes were good for something. I did the test for my dad. Dad came up with 106. He'll be 92 in August. Oh wow! I just ran the test for Mom, who is 'only' 76 and as soon as I put in "female" her life expectancy shot up...

I have a tracfone, I spend about $15 a month to have a phone that goes with me so I'm not tied to the landline at the house.

I saw a Father's Day sign on a church that said: "Fathers carry pictures where their money used to be"

Congrats and best wishes! Twins!?! When I was expecting my second child, and folks would say "What do you want a boy or a girl? Oh I know, just so long as it's healthy" My reply was "just so long as there is just ONE!" On the other hand, my great grandmother, who had two sets of twins, always...

I wasn't responding to the point of the post, I was simply letting Bugshu know why ....waitress could deliver food a few feet and get 15% - 20% tips .... It's because that 15 to 20% is a part of their wage. It's not something extra that waitresses get that pizza delivery people don't get. And...

The pizza owner paid us minimum wage plus $1 per delivery and minimum wage. The $1 barely paid for gas and that was years ago. Maintenence and vehicle costs were on me. Sometimes it amazed me that a waitress could deliver food a few feet and get 15% - 20% tips and I could drive 30 miles in my...

In the early to mid '70s, the minimum wage was around $1.65/hr ...... for people who didn't get tips. I don't remember what my cash wages were as a waitress at that time, but I know it was nowhere near the $1.65 that busboys made. I'll bet those waitresses who didn't share the tips were making...

I just got this in an e-mail, so who knows where it came from or how genuine it is, but they are (mostly) funny and I thought I'd share it with you. This is for those of you with high-school aged kids, or near that age. These came from the annual "Dark and Stormy Night" competition. They are...

INSTALLING HUSBAND 1.0 Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance - particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition, Husband 1.0...

Here's what I found at FTC Consumer Alert Q&A: The National Do Not Call Registry Will All Telemarketing Calls Stop If I Register? 29. If I register my number on the National Do Not Call Registry, will it stop all telemarketing calls? No. Placing your number on the National Do Not Call...

I just read this joke to my son and he said that really happened in his shop class in Jr High.