We had almost a foot of snow at our home in Dallas last week. It snowed for about 24 hours straight. That apparently set a record. The kids got an extra day off school (thus a four-day weekend) and everyone had lots of fun. Unfortunately it’s staying cold; the neighbor’s snowman is still standing a week later.
If you buy your own health insurance, or expect to one day, you might find this article of interest. It’s an inside look at what BlueCross of Texas will refuse coverage for. I’m not an advocate of ObamaCare, but there is a real problem when relatively healthy people cannot buy health insurance. You don’t have that problem with socialized medicine.
If you buy electronic books, you ‘re buying only a license. I’ve said it before, but this is more evidence. People who shelled out up to thousands of dollars for Zondervan books on Zondervan software now have…nothing. Well, you can continue to use the software on your computer, but it ‘ll never be updated, and no new books will ever be added. Zondervan is moving their books over to Logos. If you own a Zondervan book already, you get to pay an extra 60% to buy those books again (100% extra if you don’t follow the restrictive conditions). Electronic books in proprietary format are a bonanza for publishers. You think you ‘re buying, but you ‘re just renting. And you never know when you ‘ll lose all you’ve got.
Here’s something I don’t understand: you pay hundreds of dollars for this gadget and then $70+ every single month. And yet every email you send is an advertisement for the company, and oftentimes the ad is longer than your email. I’d say it’s a brilliant strategy, except I can’t imagine why anyone would fall for it.
If you’ve ever wondered what the digits in your credit card number mean, here’s the answer.
If you ‘re familiar with the “five love languages,” you might find this response helpful.
Was there supposed to be a link to the “$70/month email gadget”, or did I misunderstand something about the Zondervan thing?
No link intended. Watch your email (incoming or outgoing). This is unrelated to the Zondervan/Logos paragraph.
Oh! I get it now! The “gadget” is your computer, & the $70 is your ISP. I was not aware that ISPs w/ high monthly payments like that added footers to mails. I know that’s true w/ services like Juno/Netzero, but not w/ Verizon. By the way, isn’t $70 for a package usually that combines regular phone service & cable/TV? DSL or dial-up by itself is usually half that price.
Strike two.
Yeah. What a surprise when I noted that I could use my Zondervan Pradis books on Logos for the incredibly low discounted price of about $1100. I think I will continue to open both programs.
George – I meant to get back on this and then forgot. Briefly, you may be right about the ISPs. I wasn’t thinking of them, but they may well do the same thing. What I was thinking of is ISP-like. At least one example rhymes with blueberry.
Rhymes with “blue berry” … Hmmm … Is there a gadget known as a “tooth fairy”?
Anyway, I figure that you must really despise the company if you deliberately didn’t post a link to it.
In any event, no matter what it is, at least you & I didn’t “fall for it”!