Wicked, an open-ended show, has enjoyed capacity crowds for almost every performance and it’s weekly gross  is over a million dollars. It broke the record for the highest weekly box office gross in Broadway history.

Based on the character in The Wizard of Oz, it is set in the days prior to Dorothy’s arrival from Kansas. It’s a great idea brought to life on the stage and deserves it’s long running success.

Now I am looking for an online broker to get my start with investing. I don’t really want to call a local brokerage office and hear a lot of sales pitches. I think I know which stocks I want to buy and I would rather try online trading and see how I do on my own. If I mess up, it will be my own fault and I am OK with that.

Stock Trading is still the basis for a lot of people’s retirement plans. I don’t want to be retired and start learning about the market. I want to learn now and get the learning curve behind me before it is critical to my financial health.

This printer was on sale for $39 and the box had a bonus of the serial cable included. This machine is a Copier, Scanner, and Fax, and does a good job on photos. It even has a preset button to print on 4 x 6 photo paper, which is what I prefer to use.

I’m looking forward to hooking up this baby and giving her a test run tonight!

Before heading out to Office Deport I checked the web sites for HP and Epsen printers, and compared some of the different models in the $100 and under range. I know these are cheap printers, but that’s all I want for casual use at home.

I decided to go with Epsen because the ink cartridges are each one color and you only replace the one color at a time as it runs out. With the HP, the cartridges are all three colors in one container, and when one color runs out, then you have to replace the entire cartridge. So you are throwing away good ink and wasting money.

The main think I’m looking for this weekend is a cheap printer on sale somewhere. The Sunday newspaper always has ads from Staple, Office Depot, Office Mac, Best Buy, etc. Surely I can find something good in the sales flyers and go get a new printer later today or tomorrow.

If not, I’ll check the internet for HP and Epsen, and see if they have any online specials that I can take advantage of. The only drawback to ordering online is that I will have to pay for shipping or wait several days for the order to arrive. I would rather find something locally and be able to carry it home with me so I can be printing again by tomorrow night.

I cleared the jam and have pressed every reset button, combination of buttons and on/off switch that I can find. It won’t reset off the error code and print.

Most of todays printers are cheap enough to be disposable after a year’s use. There doesn’t even seem to be much difference in the length of time you get to use it between the price points. I have gotten good use out of a $39 printer and I have gotten good use out of a $400 printer. But neither one lasted more than a year and had to be replaced.

She told our HR manaager today that she has been experiencing Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms, although she did not realize it until the doctor told her the diagnosis. The symptoms can easily confused with other things. There are many health conditions that cause, among other things:

• Fatigue
• Weakness
• Bladder/UT dysfunction
• Spasms
• Depression

So for a few months is was a huge medical guessing game. thankfully, her doctor was persistent and found out the cause. Of course, no one wants to hear the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, but at the very least it is a relief to have a name to put on it and then get the right treatment for it.

To be honest, this is my first encounter with the disease, so I need to get educated pretty quickly. I want to do what I can to support this woman and not sound like an idiot if she chooses to talk about it with me. So I’ll be online searching out Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms, Diet & Exercise tonight.

Most of the people who were laid off are going to be able to get their previous jobs back. However, some percentage of them had to leave the area and some found other jobs. They are expecting about 75% of the former employees to return.

In September, they will hold another job fair and open up the remaining positions to the general public to apply.  I’m curious as to how many positions will be open and how many people will be applying for each one?

The lyrics are much worse than I remember. They are all about killing people, denigrating women into possessions and victims of abuse, and about violence. When will radio stop playing this garbage and start taking responsibility for community standards of decency?

I used to say that I have no problems – only opportunities. But today I have problems.

There’s nothing consistent in the types of problems. Some are browser issues, some are Windows issues, and some are user errors.

this past year there were a lot of new versions released. They had some trouble with hackers and some new features that they wanted to get out there. So now we have version 3.0 – that’s notable.

Thank you to all the volunteers who work so hard to make WordPress as great as it is!

The IT techs want to bid out for new managed hosting solutions since we are moving and considering new equipment. But the Purchasing Department says that the servers and hosting aren’t going to change just because of the move. They are pretty swamped with other moving details and evidently don’t want to take on any more projects.

That’s why I say to let the IT guys do some preliminary shopping and configuring. If they find a good deal or a better way to go, then they can give the Purchasing Department the contact information and all the proposals. If they can’t find anything better than what we’ve got, then it doesn’t require Purchasing’s attention.

As long as they include colocation services, I’m not too worried about which way it goes. I don’t have a dog in this fight unless the system goes down, and then we’ll all be screaming for SOMEBODY’s head on a platter.