Amy Currioman

Happy 10th birthday to FilesAnywhere!  Who is Filesanywhere you ask?  Well, they are the most established and largest Online Storage company in the business.  Their customers include all types of industries as well as regular folks like you and me.  Their services include remote backup and the ability to share files online, hosting, disaster recovery, and much much more – to many for me to list and still sound like a person who isn’t just reading a list!

I was looking at their website just now and to be perfectly honest with you the multitude of services that they provide simply amazed me.   I was just clicking on links for what seemed to be forever, and each new service I learned about seemed even better than the last!  I can see how this company could be a huge benefit to many organizations.  It’s hard for me to really fathom how a company can offer so many services.

One of the things that really impressed me was that it became fairly obvious that this company’s services would be valuable in a businesses attempt to reduce their carbon footprint.  Reduction of paperwork is a good goal, and is made easier with their services.  In this day and age of technological advances coming fast and furious, ten years is a birthday worth celebrating and self-congratulations.

Several months ago I was grocery shopping and saw a Banquet brand Crockpot Classic Chicken and Dumplings package in the freezer department.  The package indicated that it included the meat and sauce, veggies and dumplings.  All I needed was some water, some milk, and a crockpot.  Well I thought that sounded pretty good so I bought it and tucked it into the freezer for a future time.  Well, today was the day.  I cooked it and served it for dinner.  No one liked it.  (Sigh….)  I guess I won’t be buying that again!

Have you ever sat at a traffic light and watched all of the cars drive by?  I was doing that the other day and trying to see if I saw more than one make and model of car go by.  There is such a huge variety of cars out there!  I think that I have a love/hate relationship with cars.  Sometimes I think that they are a necessary evil.  We need them to get to places quickly. But they are extremely expensive and hazardous to the environment! 

Don’t get me wrong, as much as I love horses I don’t want to go back to the days where horses were our mode of transportation!  What I don’t like about cars and trucks is that for many of them there is a built in obsolescence that forces the owners to buy new cars or trucks because they wear out quickly!  Gone are the days where they lasted a good long time!  And I don’t like how many of them are status symbols.  I was talking to my neighbor yesterday about his son and he told me that his son was looking for a ferrari review to help make up his mind what kind of car to buy.

As for me, cars that expensive are simply a form of gluttony!  Flaunting wealth just seems so tasteless to me!  I don’t understand why someone needs to buy a vehicle that costs that much money when they could get a perfectly good vehicle like a ford flex or acura and have plenty of money left over to spread around and help some charitable organization to get closer to their goals.

I have a very dear friend who keeps sending me emails that are slamming President Obama.  I have asked her repeatedly to stop sending me political emails.  We are at opposite ends of the spectrum politically, and I make a point to never send emails to people who are of a different political persuasion that slam their candidates or their party’s elected officials, and it makes me angry when people send me things that are slamming mine.    I don’t want to make a big deal about it, but it is very vexing that she keeps harping on the subject!  Most recently I asked her about a month ago (again) to stop sending me things like that and told her that it was going to be a huge strain on our friendship if she kept doing it.  So what happens?  Now I got an email from her comparing President Obama with Adolf Hitler!  Give me a break!