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Getting Fired

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Recently I saw on Twitter a prompt to share your worst/most hilarious getting fired stories. I have a pretty good one from more than twenty years ago, so I figured I would write it down. Back in 2000, I started as a contractor with a company called Capital Area Internet Solutions - CAIS. CAIS started as a small dialup access company, but it’s CEO Ulysses G. Auger II had repositioned itself to offering high-speed Internet connections in hotel rooms and apartment complexes. Read more...

New Year’s Resolutions 2022

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Here we are, come to the end of 2021, and I thought it would be a good time to make some New Year’s resolutions for 2022. I am not normally one for making resolutions like this, but I am trying to establish a New Normal - as is the whole world - and one of the things I most want to do is be more intentional in my life. Some of these are more realistic than others, but I believe in all of them. Read more...