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Let's Say Thanks

As our Troops fight for our country, it is easy to forget our country is today because of the men and women who serve and fight for our country.

One of the nicest things I have seen done to say thank you to our troops and support them is an effort between Xerox and Give2TheTroops^®

The Let’s Say Thanks program is easy, free, and it boosts morale to let our troops know we are thinking of them. You do not have to leave home or send anything yourself. It is easy to do!

Pick a card, Leave a name, Post a Message - either your own or a pre-formatted one

and it is sent!

The postcards are then printed on the Xerox iGen3^® Digital Production Press and mailed in care packages by military support organization Give2TheTroops^®. 

Southern Sweet Tea

3 Family Size Lipton Tea Bags
10 Cups of Water
1 1/3 cup of sugar

Adding the 3 tea bags and water, I use a coffee pot to let it ‘brew’ then I turn the warmer off, and let the tea sit for an hour in the coffee pot.

Next, pour the tea in a 4L (1 G) Pitcher, add sugar, fill the rest with water, stir and then I let it sit on the counter a couple of hours. If it is put in a fridge too quick, it turns bitter tasting.

No Spam

As a Wordpress lover, I also fight my share of Spam. When I was able to drop my daily comment spam rate from over 400 comment spam a day to less than 30 a day, I was ecstatic!

Although Akismet does its job by seperating the Spam Comments from the Non Spam comments, I still had to go through and make sure that the ones caught truely are spam.

Using Akismet and a few other great tools, not only am I able to cut tons of comment spam out, I am also helping out to catch spammers.

No, I am not trying to sell you anything, I just want to pass on how I was able to do this.

Since late 2005, I have been a member of Project Honeypot. It is a great way to set up a honeypot to attract spammers. The best part is, all of the spammers caught there are documented.

The Postcards Project

Many of you are going to think I have lost any and all sense.. But after finding some postcards my father sent to me from England and France when I was a toddler, I have started collecting postcards!

I am trying to collect them from all over the world now - Beginning with every state in the US. And every city.. and every country in the world!

If you can spare a simple postcard (must be family friendly!) and a postage stamp, head on over to The Postcards Project to see what I am doing!

More information and a place to send it to can be found on About The Postcards Project page.

Yup it is true.. I am serious! No personal identyfing information needed. You do not even have to put a message or your return address if you do not want to. I scan the front in and post it to where it is from or about. That is it!