This is your chuckle for today, though I have to say it was not the least bit funny at the time.

Good Morning, Addowayers.  

I am really technically challenged.  But I wanted to publically endorse Debbie Shank, Indinoza.  I asked her a while ago to make a logo for my ebay store.  I gave her no indication of what or colors I wanted.  The only thing I explained to her was that the word "Byhalia" (the town I live in) is an Indian word meaning "White Oak".

Debbie in her typical way, dug in, messages flying back and forth. Questions asked, questions answered.  And, oh, by the way, would you like a matching listing template for that?????  Of course I did.  And while you're at it, can you do business cards as well?

To make a long story shorter, Debbie did her usual outstanding job, all at a price that I could afford.  Way too cheap for all the work she put into it.  As I said, I am technically challenged, so I cannot seem to get...  Read More

Merry Christmas.  This is the time for giving and helping others, so I'd like to tell you a little story that I'm sure most of you know.

The story goes that way back when Danny Thomas was working to make it in the entertainment industry, he prayed to St. Jude, that if he made it big, he would build a hospital for children.  Of course, he made it bigger than big, and he picked Memphis, Tennessee because of it's central location to build the hospital.  It is, of course, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

I have a friend who is a nurse at St. Jude.  She says that St. Jude is not a place for sick children, that they are a "happy" place.  What made me think of St. Jude today is that my sister and I went out to breakfast.  The waitress was wearing a St. Jude pin and she told us this story.

Her 4-year-old neice is currently a patient at...  Read More

Mobile is the fastest growing channel in the world. Today, 40% of U.S. mobile subscribers regularly browse the Internet on their phone. By year end, 12.5% of all ecommerce transactions will be mobile. Is your brand mobile?

Do you know what that means???????  I don't, specifically, but from all my reading today.  It appears that we need to modify, or apply an App somehow, to our listings so that they can be pulled up on our mobile phones.  Here are a couple of sites I've been reading today.  Am I confused?  You bettcha!

http://www.bizreport.com/2011/12/brands-what-you-need-to-understand-about-mcommerce-leading-u.html

http://www.toptenwholesale.com/news/adapting-your-site-for-mobile-5615.html

Do you use on line banking??  I do.  I, frankly, couldn't pay my bills if I did not.  I check my bank account daily and sometimes twice a day.  It's important.  Very, very important.  Read on for the reason why it's so important.

My sister had several minor strokes last Christmas (if any stroke can be considered minor).  The strokes were in the memory center of her brain, affecting her ability to remember as she used to.  This banking saga began around this time.  It was as if someone were watching and thought, "Ahh, she can't remember, so I can tap her for all I want!"  

It all began by her being overdrawn and we couldn't understand why.  A trip to the bank showed all these bounced transactions.  She was already on my accounts because of a medical problem in 2006, so we decided to add me to her accounts.  I went home and ran off a copy of her...  Read More

Is there a difference between fake and replica anything???????  Be it purses, clothing, shoes, toys, iPhones, anything???  There does not seem to me to be a whole lot of difference between the two definitions below.

REPLICA: A replica is a copy closely resembling the original concerning its shape and appearance.

FAKE:  A term used to describe or imply that something is not real or that it is false.

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Well that's just great!!!!!!!!!  I had this thing written, hit return and POOF, up into thin air.  Of course, I had not copied it.  I'll try again.

Do you name the photographs you upload into your listings?????  I did not until a few months ago when I was trying to identify Tibetan Gods by searching Google photos for pictures of Tibetan Gods.  I pulled up something like 300K pictures of Tibetan Gods.  Suddenly, it hit me.  I'd just been uploading photo P113102 into my listings.  That wouldn't do one bit of good if someone was searching for a picture of a coach purse when photo P113102 was a picture of said purse.

So several days later, all my photos are named before uploadinjg into my listings.  Whether it helps or not, I don't know, but it makes sense.  So I will continue naming them.

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I've got a bunch of cats and a few raccoons.  The raccoons I can do without.  They're not near as cute in person as they are on pictures.  They're not the least bit afraid of me either.

But back to my stray cats.  Each and every one of them are strays that have shown up to be fed.  If they stick around a week or so, off they go to the vet to be fixed and get shots.

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I'm going this morning for new tires on my car and as I was getting dressed, I got wondering what I'd do if I had a flat tire.  Why would you worry about that, you ask.  I haven't the faintest.  My mother always told me that that is borrowing trouble.  I firmly believe that, too.

But wonding about that reminded me of a trip my sister and I took a few years ago.  My uncle was moving back to Mississippi.  So my sister and I were on our way to Indiana to help drive them and their household goods home.  We were tooling right along on I-55 doing probably 75 MPH when  a tractor trailer passed on the right and I saw something flash as he passed us.

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Klout.  Klout!  Do you have Klout?????????

Well, you should.  If you don't have Klout, then trot on over to the Klout site and join.  It's FREE.  Then you can join the rest of us in working to build it up only to watch it disappear.  There isn't even a wisp of smoke as it disappears.  It's just gone!

Seriously though, I think Klout is a good thing.  It gets your name and merchandise out there in front of the buying public.  For instance, I am an "Influencer".  I have no idea what exactly that means.  According to Klout, people pay attention to what I say, but I'm not verbal enough on many subjects.  Huh!  

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