Monthly Archives: October 2013

Pursued Ch 1:

Klair saw Tarrant’s dim silhouette against the stark darkness, but his voice rang clear through the night, as Klair climbed the last few steps of the sharp incline. “Did you bring them?” His friend asked. Klair rested two unlit lamps … Continue reading

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Buying a car on line:

I gathered some suggestions on what to be careful of, when buying car on line. I thought I’d share my notes with you. –        Be careful of buyers out of state –        Be careful where they put more money in … Continue reading

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Spelling Puree:

Bad: purey Good: puree I always get tripped up on this word so I’ll use a visual image. When you puree something you make big pieces into smaller pieces. So the two little EEs at the end of puree represent … Continue reading

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Posting of an article printed on families web site:

I had one of my non-fiction articles printed on a web site that promotes family values. Here is the link and the article: http://staging.familius.net/opening-the-box-object-lesson-for-families Opening the box object lesson for families By melva gifford  |  Sun, 10/20/2013 I’m an author and storyteller. … Continue reading

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Web sites for job leads:

Here are a bunch of web sites that offer job openings. Many of them will repeat the same jobs. The ones I prioritize on for technology jobs is: indeed, dice and careerbuilder.com. If you have some to add on the … Continue reading

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Salesmanship techniques:

During the summer, I attend a Success 2013 two day workshop that presented several motivation speakers. I took notes. Here are some ideas by Tom Hopkins. This is going to be a different topic as this is teaching as today’s … Continue reading

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A riddle given during a job interview:

I had three job interviews this week and accepted a position with dialogue marketing. It was during the interview with Tomax up in Salt Lake, that I had a very interesting test question presented to me. For anyone who can … Continue reading

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Spelling bulletin:

Bad: bullitin Good: bulletin. A lot of times a bulletin will have multiple announcements. Sometimes people will INsert a symbol to separate topics by a BULLET-points Ie: ∙.  Thus bullet-in. We’ll see if that helps me spell this correctly.

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Good, bad and the ugly

Last winter I attended a symposium called Life, The Universe and Everything. Here are the notes from one of the presentation. I don’t recall the author but look up the books mentioned here and you should be able to find … Continue reading

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Secret price codes for retailers:

Most of this info came from the notes I took while listening to a radio show called The Browser. For more efficient shopping, you can determine what products are on sale by the last number in the price of the … Continue reading

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