The email for mikemcbrideonline.com is back up. Pretty fast server, I must say. 🙂 Unfortunately, email sent from Thursday thru Sunday seems to have been lost. I hope no one is too perturbed with me. Next up is getting the file permissions to work so I can get the comments script live!
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This is no joke. This is a risk all of us face, every single day, whether it’s with a work or a personal email account. We communicate electronically all the time. We share intimate details of our lives with the recipients of our messages assuming that it’ll never be public. It’s not social media after all. But if the network that stuff is sitting on gets hacked, it’s open season on whatever information you have there.
OK back from lunch. Chatting with Lisa and Marc from HMG about technology and stuff reminded me that there’s a bunch of resources and additions to this site I’ve been meaning to make, but just haven’t gotten around too. Maybe a night dedicated to the site is in order tonight? I feel a bit better…
It’s been awhile since MailChimp retired their popular, and extremely useful, plugin that gathered up comments, likes, retweets, etc. from Facebook and Twitter and showed them right here on the blog. I continued to use it simply because tbhere is no other plugin that does both and does it so seamlessly. I knew, eventually, I…
I found it interesting that Comcast is publicly saying that they are “embarrassed” by the behavior of one of their custom support reps. I mean, yeah, what else were they going to say? But it does teach us something important about front line service employees. When Ryan Block and his wife dialed the toll free…
We spent the weekend with Angela’s family, including a little trip across the border to Windsor, Ontario. It’s only about a two hour drive from where her parents live and none of them had ever been to Canada, so it was fun, even if the Border Patrol was suspicious of a car full of folks…
Let’s face it, we all have things that we haven’t had space for in the last couple of years. If you are holding off on using PTO because you can’t make the big travel adventure happen right now, why not use that time to create that space? Personally, we had a couple of weeks in October scheduled for an anniversary trip overseas that has since been canceled. I haven’t canceled the PTO for one simple reason, I still want to use those 2 weeks to create the space, mentally, to do some of the things I’ve been too busy to do, like figure out where I actually want my career to go instead of just doing the work that’s in front of me, or indulge in some of those hobbies that have fallen by the wayside, or maybe even try and catch up with some friends virtually.Â
We all need that space, and it keeps getting harder and harder to find it. There’s nothing wrong with doing the work that is in front of us, professionally and personally. Frankly, if you can keep going and getting those things done in this environment, you are to be commended. On the other hand, just doing that prevents us from making changes and doing things differently. It keeps us stuck, and I know far too many people who are stuck right now, waiting for the space to make changes.Â
Make that space, any way you can. Give yourself the PTO you deserve.Â