http://www.projectspossible.com For the things I WORK on, PONDER, and ENJOY! Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:25:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received an email from a business associated that had some of these neat little tidbits below... All it said is that it was from an advertising firm.   If you happen to know or have a link to the original source please let me know. Since our current economic condition ... http://www.projectspossible.com/just-how-much-is-a-billion It was payday last week and much to my surprise it looks like the stimulus package has kicked in and I had $6.93 to spend that I didn't have in prior paychecks.   I just had to go out and celebrate.  Wooo Hooo!!!! I had more money to spend. Needless to ... http://www.projectspossible.com/spending-my-stimulus-the-reality Mark your calendars for May 11th.  We are going to get another postal rate increase.  Your .42 cent stamp for a first class letter is going to go up to .44 cents.  Some of the SPIN being placed on the increase is that it is only $3.00 per year ... http://www.projectspossible.com/postal-rates-rise-ideas-to-curb-the-increases   Local community theatre in Spokane is alive!  My wife and I have been doing a little volunteer work at the Spokane Civic Theatre this year and recently had an opportunity to watch a dress rehearsal of the competition version of the production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  ... http://www.projectspossible.com/spokane-civic-theatre-state-competition At 2am on the second Sunday in March most of the United States will begin Daylight Saving Time.  What that means is you have to remember to set your clock ahead 1 hour.  (Spring ahead, Fall back is usually the reminder device that people use.)  I prefer to set ... http://www.projectspossible.com/dont-forget-daylight-saving-time I have been spending quite a bit of time on eBay lately.  And while I can still say that I am NOT an eBay fan these days I was able to find a couple of really good deals on geocoins as well as a couple of study aids for ... http://www.projectspossible.com/ebay-sniping-with-gixen Image by Geodog via Flickr As many of you are aware, I am currently a project manager for a software company.  My job specifically has me managing implementation and migration projects.  I have been doing this for a number of years, enough in fact that I have another of the requirements ... http://www.projectspossible.com/the-pmp-exam-here-i-go You know there are a lot of things you can do to make a blog post more interesting for the readers. While none of these are rocket science it is important to review them every once in awhile to make sure that we're doing a good job. So in no particular ... http://www.projectspossible.com/making-blog-posts-interesting A  great big "Thumbs Up" to the first, in what is anticipated to be an annual Employees' Choice Award by the folks over at Glassdoor.com.  The article that I link to below includes the top 50 which was derived from more than 11,000 companies based on approximately 75,000 employees responses to ... http://www.projectspossible.com/50-best-places-to-work   The holiday brought us a lot of snow!!! I thought I would attach a few pictures to this post to give you an idea of just how much snow we are dealing with. As a new "front" comes in tonight we are expecting to get another 10-12 inches and of course there ... http://www.projectspossible.com/deep-lake-snow