grandchildren

I recently received an email picture from my daughter of my grandson, he's my boy's new child.I had to reflect on how I was seeing my grandson for the first time, through an email with an image taken by a cell phone.I remember when my son was born.I called everyone from a landline Ma Bell phone.

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Learn the Basics Of Accounting In an Hour

(NewsUSA) - What can you do in 60 minutes? Watch another rerun? Get a good workout? How about learn all you need to know about corporate finance? Now that's an hour well spent.

A new training program called "Accounting in an Hour" seeks to demystify corporate finance for non-financial employees.

The program's creator, Rick J. Makoujy Jr., touts the course as a way for employees to gain accounting knowledge, which can make them more valuable and productive to their companies.

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I have some other blogs about various things, such as music, reviewing DVD's, one for interactive story telling. but this one I decided to use for my own space. The space that I take up in this world, the air I breathe, me me me me. A place to gripe, cry, complain, and just get things off my chest. So here goes.

I got a call today around noon. It was my mother. She lives about 10 miles from me. I had found out that she was sick from my sister-in-law Friday night. She said she was short of breath and was really couphing quite a bit. I and my sister-law wanted to take her to the hopsital to get her checked out. We had talked about the clinics all being closed and she would not be able to get in until Tuesday after the new year. We then called my sister and told her what we were going to do. She told us she would call mom and then call us back.

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Earlier in the year I had posted on the web in a comment on a particular blog.

I have had problems with the Child Protective Services in Alaska. I havemade a couple of reports to them over the years regarding the welfare of mygrandson.

There is no sign of physical abuse ie bruising etc. But there are a numberother factors that have raise red flags to many to go into. Safe to say that Child Protective Service has not followed through despite me contacting Alaska's governor.

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When my youngest child got her driver’s license and could finally transport herself around town, I breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Our oldest had learned to drive in a Volkswagon Van which presented a bit of a problem when it came to parallel parking. It was pretty unwieldy. The second child was easier, even though she really didn’t want to get a license, but we were convinced she would change her mind as she got older and made her learn how to drive, anyway.

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