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Community Connections—September
Employees from TDS Telecom, Baja Broadband, and OneNeck (BendBroadband employees we’re sure you’re busy too and we’ll tell you how you can be featured in this segment at the end of this story)continue to make strong community connections through their good works! From helping out local food pantries to getting soaked for a good cause, employees across the enterprise are doing what they can to help others. Find out some of the great things being done…
Read MoreCheap Tunes Tuesday: Weezer
If you thought last week’s Jack Johnson review was tropical and laid back (and is still $5, by the way), this has a very similar vibe. Sure, it has absolutely nothing to do with the oceans of Hawaii or even acoustic rock – but once you get a couple times through this album, you’ll find yourself happier and more relaxed. And isn’t that what music should be?
Read MoreSavvy Spending: Five Favorites For Seasonal Fall Decor & Home Inspiration
We love making our homes look, smell and feel in tune with the seasons. The problem? If we raided the Pottery Barn catalog every time a new collection was released, we wouldn’t be able to pay our mortgages. We also seem to generate a bigger collection of “Pinterest fails than we do DIY wins, so the “make-it-yourself” route isn’t always the best bet. As a result, we’ve turned online for inspiration — and found a slew of relatively affordable but high-end-look catalogs with great websites to bookmark for our new design and decor crushes.
Read MoreTech news roundup for September 5
This week’s tech news: get a quick overview of all the good stuff announced at IFA in Berlin and the latest credible Apple rumors for their big shindig on Tuesday. Also, Dyson is coming out with their own robotic vacuum to take on Roomba, Tesla decided on a location for their battery factory, and David Hasselhoff and KITT have a tiff in a pretty amusing commercial for Samsung’s smart home system. If that wasn’t enough, mellow out with a Dalek relaxation tape and have some fun reading more about “the potato salad guy” and the biggest dinosaur ever discovered.
Read MoreCheap Tunes Tuesday: Jack Johnson
This week’s segment tunes into some cool ocean breezes, a laid-back vibe, and an overall feeling of simpler, easier times. Some might call it folk rock, indie pop or a generic soft rock – but I prefer to think of it as island music, or maybe shorten that even to just surf – because it reminds me of the place where our featured artist is from, and that’s Hawaii.
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