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And most of them ended up at my place:
Amazon’s biggest asset is not the boxes. It’s Bezos’s awesome brain. First he did books. Then Kindles. then Amazon Web Services, the biggest cloud — bigger than Microsoft. Bigger than Google. Now comes Echo. In it is Alexa.
Ask Alexa to stream your music, read you books, turn on your lights, get you an Uber, remind you of your dentist appointment and a million other things. It’s AI (artificial intelligence) at its most innovative. Every week it gets more skills. All for $50. I just ordered one. So did Michael. Click here.
Turo.com is Airbnb for cars
Have a car you’re not using for a few days, a week, a month, whatever? Rent it out as you do you house. You can earn between 65% and 90% of the rental price, depending on insurance options. My son rented a nice Mercedes ML350 to vist us in upstate New York over Christmas. It was a better, cheaper car than he could get from the usual suspects, Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, etc.
Black and Decker Power Scrubber. Actually works on pots and pans, etc.
$12.16. Click here.
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The 98-year-old Mother Superior lay dying. The nuns gathered around her bed trying to make her last journey comfortable. They tried giving her warm milk to drink but she refused it.
One of the nuns took the glass back to the kitchen. Then, remembering a bottle of Irish Whiskey that had been received as a gift the previous Christmas, she opened it and poured a generous amount into the warm milk.
Back at Mother Superior’s bed, they held the glass to her lips.
The frail nun drank a little, then a little more and before they knew it, she had finished the whole glass down to the last drop.
As her eyes brightened, the nuns thought it would be a good opportunity to have one last talk with their spiritual leader.
“Mother,” the nuns asked. “Please give us some of your wisdom before you leave us.”
Mother Superior raised herself in the bed, looked at them and said: “Don’t sell that cow.”
Harry Newton, who indulged himself with two of his three grandkids this past Christmas weekend:
Love the photo… “And this, my little darlings, is where the money came from… “
Let us know how your Amazon Dot works…I have tried 5 different ones and was not able to get even one to work…some would not create their own network others would not connect to the internet. I would very much like to have one that works. One of them was listed as “new” and when it arrived it was marked “Refurbished” and had no power plug.
Oh yes, and when I tried to post negative feedback Amazon refused to post it.