GreenEye Wire

OK, I don’t usually go on and on about my spiritual beliefs, but I will say that I do believe there is a God and that things do happen for a reason. What God is, I’m still trying to figure out, but I’ve narrowed it down to two things: the energy that is like the duct tape that holds the universe together and the ‘Dude’ who is like an amazing chess player who is always 10 steps ahead of you no matter what choice you make. And I think Angels are all around us, both in the people we know and the entities we can’t see.

Anyway, this story made me smile. Here’s the skinny: A guy in Chicago is shoveling snow off his mother’s driveway when he feels chest pains. Does he call 911? Nope. Instead he figures since his chest is hurting and he’s feeling numbness in his jaw and arm, that it is a great time to discuss his wireless calling plan, so he calls AT&T. (It is interesting to note that this guy worked in an ER and was very familiar with the symptoms of a heart attack.)

*Holds tongue about the rant of why the hell don’t men go to the doctor…*

The gal at AT&T who answered the phone ended up calling 911 for him and saving his life. The doctors told the man that he had more than 90% of his heart blocked — how he even walked out the door without losing his breath is a feat in itself.

But ‘rest of the story’ is even better. The phone rep’s name: Kelly Hart. Like I said, there’s such thing as coincidence, and there *are* angels.

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This is one of the best motivational videos I’ve seen. It really makes you think.

For those of you frustrated with Inuit QuickBooks telling you that you need to have 800 x 600 setting on your monitors to use their products — *rolls eyes*, Charlie at ccrsoftware.info has found an easy way to make the fonts larger for the QuickBooks software program. If I could meet this Charlie person, I’d probably give him/ her a big kiss. Or least buy him/ her a beer at the local bar.

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I find it sad, actually, that Quickbooks doesn’t just have a button for people to click to make the font size larger…it says a lot about Inuit that they don’t give a damn about accessibility for the sight impaired. And for all the tiny lines of text that an accountant has to read on a daily basis, you’d THINK they’d be way ahead on this issue.
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Anyway, “Relief for Tired QuickBooks Eyes” tells you exactly how to enlarge the font to size 12 Arial” on the QuickBooks program. One must edit the quickbooks.ini file (QBW.ini) but Charlie has pictures and walks you right through it. I’m sure if you want to enlarge it to 14 or 16, you just change the number…

Without further Ado: Relief for Tired Quickbooks Eyes.

“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality, it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, it’s just true.” — Conan O’Brien

That is probably the best advice I’ve heard from anyone. Conan O’Brien’s farewell speech from the Tonight show is here.

I don’t play games. I just don’t. I’m not sure if I’m not smart enough to manipulate people that way, or I just don’t care for it. Probably both. So when I get played, I usually don’t figure it out until after I’ve been played.

I just figured out that I’m being played by someone close to me. The interesting thing is, I am not angry about it. I feel relief in knowing there is a game in the first place.

And more importantly, I feel relief in knowing that I can choose not to play, and by doing that I will piss the other person off immensely.