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Many stores have extended Black Friday to Cyber Saturday. Cyber Monday sales are extended to Cyber Tuesday. We're on a roll and I see special sales that should be extended all through the month of December.
Black Friday extended... extended... extended...

...Google, Facebook, MSN, and others, those you all will know, love and use. And their powerful monopoly business behaviors.
Personal data mining/marketing, control over advert access, robber baron marketing of their own products, bullying every little guy with a swinging D-ck, and lots more.
Back in 2016, the Justice Department talked the talk on these cartel behaviors, but a case was never filed. And EU regulators issued fines for such---chump change fines that did little.
So now 11 US States ARE filing anti -trust actions, with evidence to boot. Others will join in. And knowing well, VERY well, that fines are laughed at by these corporate giant entities, these A's G are including ATT-like break-ups upon the courts' tables.
In the capitalist system, "free" is never really free. Someone always has to pay.

'bout PepsiCo....



A 'heart warming ' [ warning!
Amerikan Adventure.

The company I'm working for is 'in bed' with Google products... It's a double edge sword for me, but I have no choice but to be onboard. My phone, Laptop, Notebook, Desktop are all synchronized. My sales manager has access to my calendar and assigns new projects and schedules appointments.
We went over my workload this morning and she fills in the missing information on our scheduling system... also a Google product.

I make it a point not to share photos on Google Drive or Dropbox. Anything work related gets downloaded to my computer and copied to my folder on the company server. It's cloud based and I have a special application to access it, not that I have sensitive data to store, but it's more secure.
My phone has close to 5,000 photos in different folders. When I'm meeting a new client and they are asking for a design, I often pull up photos of something I've done that matches their request.
Once in a while the Google server has an outage and it's 20 minutes for the email and calendar to repopulate. Not often, but when it happens, it's usually when I need to access something important (like invoices pending payment) and I don't have hard copy or saved the PDF locally.

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Today I was at a local display garden filled with flowers.
I was there to take butterfly and hummingbird photos and accomplished both.
While waiting for some hummingbirds, I spotted 2 birds of another species......human.

One was TRYING to take a photo of a butterfly with her phone, but the insect wasn't too fond
of her getting close and thus flew away. I heard the 2 gals speaking Spanish, so I uttered "miras !"
and turned my camera around so she could see a full screen image of a monarch butterfly on a flower.

She exclaimed "muy bonita !" and called her friend over to see. Her friend took a look and also stated
"muy bonita !" and then the two of them started asking me a bunch of questions.
However, it was too fast and too complex for me to understand in Spanish. So I uttered,
"Yo comprendo solo un poco espanol." With that, she started shouting out for someone else, who was
apparently not too far away behind us. It was her boyfriend, who understands both English and Spanish well.

So, he asked me if I take pictures professionally.. I replied "yes" and I asked him if he and his girlfriend planned to get married. He said, "Yes, that is the plan." I joked that I heard yes from him, but I did not hear yes from his girlfriend. He smiled and said, "that's because she doesn't understand English".

I laughed and said, "oh right".

At that moment a hummingbird arrived at the flowers and I said look and pointed at the bird.
All 3 of them were oooing and ahhhing while the bird darted to different flowers.
I then showed them the pictures of that hummingbird, that I had just taken and more oooos ans ahhhhs were elicited.

So, they hired me to take photos of them in the park later this week. I'm guessing that, if they turn out well (of course they will), they will probably hire me to do their wedding.

And yes, you will get to see the photos........... of the butterflies and hummingbird in a few weeks.
But (in the voice of the Soup Nazi)....... No photos of people for you !

Saving money can be tough these days. It seems everything is so expensive, which can make it challenging to get ahead. But saving money doesn’t have to be an uphill battle.
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Saving money should also be a priority — as much as 40% of Americans have less than $300 in savings. Fortunately, saving $1,000 per month is possible without making significant changes. There’s no need to be an extreme coupon-er or resort to cutting your own hair.
Of course, saving $1,000 per month may not be possible if you have a very limited income. In that case, you can pick a goal that matches your salary, even if it is just an extra $100 per month. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Budget, Budget, Budget
You have probably heard it many times, but that’s because starting a budget is an essential part of saving money. If you don’t know where your money is going, it will be difficult to direct some of it into a savings fund.
So if you don’t already have a budget, consider starting with this step. There are many popular budgeting methods, such as the 50/30/20 method. With this style, 50% of your money goes to needs, 30% goes to wants, and 20% goes to savings. However, there are also many alternative methods that may suit your situation better.
Separate Wants and Needs
The first step above is to start a budget, and we touched on a budgeting method that separates wants and needs. One problem is that the line between wants and needs is becoming increasingly blurred.
For instance, some subscriptions can feel like a need, but is that really true? Try going without one for a month and see how it changes things for you. If the difference is small or there’s no difference at all, you likely have a want and not a need.
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Get Out of Debt
This list might be about saving money, but you can’t completely forget about your debt. That is especially true if you have significant high-interest debt like credit card balances.
For example, suppose you have $5,000 in credit card balances with 19% APR. If you pay the card off in 12 months, you would incur $440 in interest. And that is assuming you pay the card off — if you aren’t making your payments or just paying the minimum, you’ll end up with even more interest. High-interest debt can crush your money-saving dreams, so be sure to take care of it sooner than later.

Automate Your Savings
Many savings accounts will let you set up automatic monthly contributions. While that is convenient, it can also make it easier to reach your goal.
Since your savings is happening in the background, you won’t be tempted to spend it on one of those pesky wants we talked about. Online savings accounts let you save the precise amount you want each month, so this works for all incomes.
Try a Money-Saving Challenge
Money-saving challenges are numerous online. However, one that is especially common is the type where you consistently increase the size of the contribution.
For example, consider one in which you save $25 the first month and increase your contributions by $25 more each month. By month 12, you would be saving $300 per month. While that doesn’t quite get you to $1,000, it gets you a good part of the way there on its own.
Reduce Your Transportation Costs
While changing how you get around might be difficult, think about how you might be able to reduce your transportation costs. For most Americans, the biggest three expenses are housing, transportation and food, usually in that order. The difficulty of making changes to these expenses also tends to go in that order.
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