Making groceries

Ah, to be able to get liquor, groceries and a meat pie at the same place. Sweet, Sweet Louisiana.

Fwd: Ice cream

We now have a workaround for the problem of having yummy ice cream left in the bottom of a nasty-soggy cone!

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Well I spent a little time setting up VersaMail on the ol' Treo. I hadn't worried about the mail client before. Blazer seemed good enough to properly display the web-based mail I use. BUT... I wanted to be able to attache camera phone pics WITHOUT relying on Sprints horrible picture share system.

I could not get sprintpcs email to work on my sprint-branded Treo. It seems my pop/smtp password (and even user name) differs from my "Vision" account. But the tier one reps (even the ones in The States) can't seem to get past the word "Vision."

My local ISP to the rescue. Say what you will about cruddy customer service and spotty download spreeds, at least you get sub email accounts. Wheeeeeeee.

So I set up the Treo with a sub account from my ISP. Voila! Blog posted mobile-style. But alas, I still had to get to the PC, and manually insert the picture. Apparently Blogger doesn't recognize attachments and VersaMail is not robust enough to embed objects in the text of a message.

Such is life.

AH HAH! While the normal email directly to your registered blog doesn't work with attached pictures, the generic email to go blogger.com works quite nicely!

Ice cream

We now have a workaround for the problem of having yummy ice cream left in the bottom of a nasty-soggy cone!

You have new Picture Mail!

You have a Picture Mail from {###} @sprintpcs.com

Message: Now we know the workaround for "ice cream left" when the cone is just too nasty-soggy to eat. Options View Picture Order Prints and Gifts Reply to Sender Reply to All Forward Send and receive Pictures and Videos through Picture MailSM. For more information go to http://www.sprint.com/picturemail

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Take Our Kids to Work Day, Accenture Style

First the official words:

The overall theme was Corporate Citizenship and the importance of giving back to the community in which we live and work.

The younger group (age 6-9) helped out by stuffing backpacks full of school supplies for 50 homeless elementary children. These children are supported by Rainbow Days, a United Way agency. Each year Rainbow Days provides children in need with a new backpack filled with school supplies, as well as a school uniform.

The older children (age 10-14) followed the Corporate Citizenship theme by selecting a scenario that depicted an area of need for a community in a foreign country. They were asked to come up with a method and plan in order to create and implement the program. Everyone did a great job showcasing their skills, and coming up with creative solutions to world issues.

After lunch, kids were able to choose between joining their parents for parent shadowing time or playing games with the other kids and volunteers. When the group reconvened, they participated in a presentation about Aidmatrix and an office-wide scavenger hunt. At the end of the day each child was presented with a gift bag that contained a book light and other small gifts.

And now what really happened:

Lainey decided she was too old and cool to do this. At the end of the day she would say "Awe, the gifts were cooler this year." (I think she wanted that book light – last year they got a calculator)

The boys did not get to shadow me very long. I did get to bring them into my conference room for a bit. But then it was back to spreadsheets and conference calls for me.

On the way back to the other kids, Patrick broke out into a zigzagging split. And when I called out to him to slow down, he spun and whacked his head into the counter under local tech support's service window. BAM! None of the other kids bled or caused physical damage to the building. Yeah. My kids rule!

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