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How to make every weekend a three-day weekend
Everyone hates Monday unless it’s a holiday, right? Who doesn’t complain that there aren’t enough hours in a day to get everything done? Our busy 21st-century lives have evolved, but the quantums of time in which we live haven’t evolved with us. According to worldwide studies on labor, the U.S. takes fewer vacation days annually than any other nation in the world and ranks 7th for working the most hours. People put in 50, 60, 70 and sometimes 80 hours per week in this country despite only getting paid for 40, and take fewer days off than any other industrialized nation (only 13 per year). It must make early-20th century fighters for fair labor practices turn in their graves. Many people now work at least one day on the weekend anyway. Employers are all too happy to accept this type-A behavior, but the truth is we all need more time. We can’t put more time in a day, but what if we could put more time in the week? Wouldn’t it be great if all our weekends were three-day weekends? We’d have more time to spend with our family and friends, or “get things done” as your needs dictate.
But how can we do all this, put in a regular work week, and still have three days off?
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4th of July Cruise – Photos
These photos were taken with my new Sprint Power Vision camera phone. Their quality is a lot better than previous camera-phone pictures I’ve taken!
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The Internet Legend of John Titor, Time Traveler
(Updated 10/12/06)
The Internet is not what it once was a decade ago. Most people today look to it as an empirical source of information without understanding its true nature. From its humble and genuine beginnings in the 50’s as a means for researchers to test ways of creating a communications network that could withstand multiple failures and automatically reconfigure itself to guarantee delivery of information, it has grown to a major component of our economy and daily lives. Where once egghead researchers at government and educational institutions used it for benign and uncorrupted communication between each other, it is now the source of crime, lies, and intrusion into the personal lives of its citizens on an unprecendented scale and in ways never before imagined. But amidst the noise of all the bad influences poisoning the purity of the Net’s original mission remains some genuine truth. The difficulty we face more than ever today is in differentiating fact from fiction.
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