Yet another month is gone in 2025. So what did you get done in the past 11 months that you needed to complete in 2025 ?  

Let's see, um, er, hmm, I don't know. I guess that is the advantage of not making New Year's Resolutions, nothing to complete  I guess it is always prudent to have a plan for your future. Hmm I'm sounding like me mom and dad 😮 

So did you spend any money on Black Friday if they have it where you are? Any plans to spend on Cyber Monday? Not sure if around you neck of the woods but  they have also these other days: Shop Local Saturday to support your local small businesses, and to wrap it up with Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday seems somewhat new around here, where you are encouraged in our season alf gulutney to maybe give a few dollars or make some kind of donation other than cash to a charity. In addition to the Food Bank Hamper I pick up on every grocery shopping trip for the Food Bank, next week I'll give $50 to the Food Bank and my company will match the same. 

I have to admit that winter has come in like a lion the past week here in my next of the woods. Monday was a huge dumping of snow that brought out the best of first snowfall drivers of the year  Although I got all new snow tires last Saturday, I chose to work from home on Monday and Tuesday. Looking out the window and watching the news, probably a good thing I did  Tuesday was not as bad, but sill a lot of snow. Then it eased off until Friday were we got another good dump. The other issue was it was cold 🥶With windchill, we did get down around -20 C, or -4 F for my merican friends. 

Well enough of cold and snow, I imagine if you are down in the Southern Hemisphere, you are all laughing at me and wondering which way the water spins going down the toilet in North America  Psst, it is a myth . 

So moving right along, since it is like 4:20 AM here, had a poker night at a friends , time to wrap it up and get to bed.

Monday Cia kicked off the week with a very interesting CSR Discussion Day. Check out Thirdly's comments:

I'd like to tell you about Myr's Deep Dive on Tuesday, but it is a bit of a mystery to me :

On Thursday, Val shared a Thanksgiving message to all of you here at GA!

How'd you do this week on the Words of the Day?

bureau, machination, propel, tutorial, captious, initiative, vouch

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