What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
~Erma Bombeck, “No One Diets on Thanksgiving,” 26 November 1981
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~Erma Bombeck
Happy Thanksgiving from the folks at Kingdom Telephone!
I’m no kid any more, so maybe that’s why I’ve just found out that you can email a text message. I wasn’t born with a cell phone attached to my hand. However, when I mentioned my new-found knowledge to a girlfriend, nine years my junior, she just rolled her eyes and gave me one of those “what planet are you from?” looks. I’m surprised that I managed to maintain my enthusiasm after that, but I’m here to share anyway. If you are one of the “in-the-know” folks, please bear with the rest of us!
Basically, you can use your computer to email a text message to a cell phone if you know the cell phone number and the wireless carriers. By the way, it’s free. Here are a couple of web pages with in-depth explanations and lists of the appropriate addresses to use.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-to-send-email-text-messages-to-any.html
http://thefuntimesguide.com/2005/03/email_text_mess.php
The Missouri Veterans’ Home is asking for our help! They have requested donations for care packages to be sent to service men and women deployed overseas. Items wil be collected until December 1, and will then be packaged and shipped.
The staff at Kingdom is busy filling a box with donations for this project. If you would like to add your contribution, please bring any of the items listed below to the business office. We plan on delivering the donations to the Veterans’ Home on November 30.
If you have questions about other types of donations, contact Nicole Stone at 573-581-1088 Ext. 272 at the Missouri Veterans’ Home. Donations may also be dropped off at the Home from now until December 1.
Not long ago, Shawn (Plant Department) took his bucket truck down the road to Auxvasse Elementary School to help celebrate Reading is FUNdamental Day. Reading is FUNdamental (RIF) was founded in 1966 and is the oldest and largest children’s nonprofit literacy organization in the United States. RIF targets underserved kids from birth to age 8 and provides 4.5 million children with 16 million new, free books and literacy resources each year. The young lady in pink looks like she approves!
For more, go to http://www.rif.org/.
Last January, Trevor Bonstetter, General Manager of West Kentucky Rural Telephone, had a big problem. His telephone company was right in the middle of a severe ice storm. West Kentucky’s service area was without power for several days and an estimated 6,000 of the telco’s customers were without telephone service at one time. His situation would have been much worse if he had not received help from 20 telephone companies—more than 60 workers—from seven states. In addition to the manpower, West Kentucky borrowed 56 generators to supplement its existing supply.
Kingdom was one of the phone companies to come to the rescue. Tom Young, Kingdom General Manager, dispatched volunteers Shawn (Installer/Repairman) and Regan (Cable Fault Locator/Fiber Optic Splicer) to help in the job of replacing over 50 telephone poles and re-hanging 400,000 feet of lines. Because of the assistance we gave, Kingdom was among the first companies to receive the newly-created National Telecommunication Cooperative Association (NTCA) Rapid Responders Award in September.
Shawn and Regan returned with many tales of their experiences in the ice storm clean-up. The people in the West Kentucky service area were suffering genuine hardship and were extremely grateful to see the folks who came to help. We’re glad we were able to do so – and glad, as well, that we have not had to cope with such a disaster here at home.
If you have DSL, you know there is no comparison between high speed Internet and the plodding pain of a dial-up connection. All Kingdom Telephone customers are eligible for DSL, and that’s why our holiday special this year is tailored for brand new DSL customers. Sign up for 2 years of broadband Internet, and you’ll get a Samsung N120 Mini-Laptop PC, a wireless modem/router and the first month of service. All for $295. The mini-laptop, also known as a netbook, is extremely convenient for folks who are looking for a computer to use to surf, send email, get on FaceBook and Instant Message. If you’re a gamer, you already know you need more power, but for most of us a netbook is just about perfect.The special requires you to make a two-year commitment to the BroadTrack DSL Gold, Silver, or Lite plans between November 1, 2009 and January 15, 2010. The offer is available to Kingdom Telephone customers only. Come on, let Santa be good to you!
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