Found Not Lost

People who travel for business regularly know how frustrating it is to find parking at most major airports. Of course you can always have your spouse or buddy drop you off, but that routine soon gets old, you do it often enough. You can take a cab or a shuttle, but that can get pretty expensive not to mention time wasted waiting for them to come pick you up. The most convenient way really, is to drive yourself to the airport and leave your car there until you come back.

Now, there is an easy and convenient way if you live in Connecticut. For $7.95 a day, you can leave your car at the Hartford airport parking lot, take the shuttle to the terminal, have some coffee and muffin while you’re waiting. Compared to what you would pay in hourly rate or day rate at most airport parking lots, $7.95 a day is quite cheap. Even a week’s worth of parking fee is cheaper than a roundtrip taxi ride to the airport. The best feature is that you can reserve your space in advance, saving you the headache and time looking for a space. If you have a company who have employees travelling regularly, the ZAirportParking offers discount parking.

It is lunchtime where I am and I am starting to get hungry. So why suffer by myself when I can make you miserable too?

This is a braised rib dish I cooked up a week or so ago. It was different, and it was delicious! Eat with plenty of steamed rice.

Why is it that good hotels and restaurants seem so much nicer that what you can put together at home? Well one, they probably have a bigger budget than you; but mostly it’s the quality that the big budget can afford that makes the difference. Hotels and restaurants don’t go to the furniture place at the mall, they have suppliers who provide quality, professional grade furniture.

Contract furniture is one of those places. They offer outdoor and indoor restaurant furniture in varying designs and style for whatever purpose a business might need. They have furniture for banquets, for outdoor/patio dining, or booth seating. For outdoors, they have metal, wrought iron, aluminum, wood, rattan or resin furniture that can match whatever ambiance you are trying to achieve. They can also provide umbrellas and radiant heating solutions.  They have showrooms in Los Angeles and New York City if you would like to browse their huge collection of professional grade furniture for your business. 

Marked is another book borrowed from my daughter and her friends who are right now into vampyre books, so I guess I am too. I must admit though, that so far, I have been enjoying all the books they’ve let me borrow. This is another easy read, partly because it is short, just a little over 300 pages and mostly because you get hooked from the beginning and can’t put it down. Again, this book was devoured in one sitting.

This book is written by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, a mother-daughter team of authors. How great is that?

The formula for the story reminds me a little of the Harry Potter series. In Marked, vampires exist among humans and it is generally known and accepted. Once in a while, a human becomes ‘marked’, they are located by the tracker who then marks their forehead with a crest or a half moon. This means they have been marked to become a vampire and they must go to vampire school in order to be trained. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? No matter though, it is still an interesting premise and it is still full of all the teenage issues like cliques and insecurities only a bit of magic and vampyrism is thrown in the mix.

I won’t summarize the story for you here (I never do), there is plenty of them out there including at Amazon if you’d like a synopsis. Amazon! They are a vampire tribe too. hehe!! You’ll have to read the book to see what I’m talking about.

Marked is first in the House of Night series, so be prepared to read on. It was also interesting to note that P.C. Cast has a blog on Blogger.

Everybody hated when they used to get their mailboxes full of flyers, catalogs, credit card applications and other forms of junk mail. Now junk mail is called spam and we get them on our Inboxes but they are still annoying as ever, in whatever form they take. The company I work for spends a huge amount to keep spam from entering our system. They have multiple layers of protection that if it were represented graphically, we would look like a high security prison.

Anyone, any business large or small, can have this type of security. Prevent spam, phishing scams, viruses and other internet pollution from affecting your productivity. AppRiver is one resource where you can get service such as Novell spam filter for protection. AppRiver provides fast and quality support for all the products they offer. For several of them (Linux or SendMail spam filter) they offer a free 30-day trial period to test their product. The AppRiver Shoreline management interface which is what companies who use any of their mail exchange solutions would use to administer their program, has received good feedback from customers regarding its ease of use. And if you have any problems, AppRiver’s expert team will be available at all times.