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Good morning! Brunch invitations, babysitting over the weekend, a baby who can say 'Yeah!' before 'No!' ... that's different. Most new speakers can say "NO!' before anything else, and can say it quite emphatically, too.
We gather round the Coffee Cart once again for our conversations, support, and community, over coffee, tea, and the muffins and spreads that the Wonderbaker has created for us to indulge in. The tea water is boiling, the coffee is freshbrewed, and the muffins are fresh and warm from the oven. Everything is ready, everyone is welcome. Come in and join in!

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By the way, can someone set thigs up and plug in the coffee tomorrow morning? I will be awya from the keyboard, for a previous engagement. Thanks!
 
I had a busy week at home while my husband was away visiting friends and family. He returns today. I lunched with friends, attended various meetings including two book clubs, and spent time with grandkids. Plus I visited my mom at the nursing home almost every night. Yesterday, I cleaned a messy linen closet...Why did I keep bedding from so long ago, never used again???? I donated the sheets and old towels to the animal shelter, and I feel like one small part of my life is less cluttered. But I still have too many table cloths....
 
Philosophy? Can you define the evil attached to the love of knowledge and wisdom?

More chaos ... as folk hate knowledge and thinking as we drift move towards the pleasures of an absence of such things ... and grasp will ... in Italian that's Giuseppe ... father of that wooden headed item ... with strings ...

Folk also deny connections ... except in single lines ...
 
Maybe we should all smoke a metaphorical doobie and agree that most of us are largely incomprehensible to neighbour and only a little more to oneself.

A glass of wine, Odario Williams playing something pleasant on AfterDark, a few pistachios in the stash, big guy snoring in front of a dated tv show.

I doubt very much I will be up early tomorrow, so hope someone else makes coffee and boils kettle for tea for @Redbaron . However, in honour of my rather prodigious efforts last week, the Wonderbaker has been provided with butter tarts - walnut and raisin, and slices of fruit pie - apple, pear with lime, and plum with a ground almond centre.
 
Looks like I am the first one up- so coffee is running and pancake batter is ready for everyone to make their own. Blueberries, bananas and a apples are ready for toppings, whipped cream is in the fridge.
For people who like more basics, there is toast and jam and cottage cheese next to the yoghurt and muesli.
Come on in, enjoy the company and leave the troubles outside- or share the load in the room.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
pancake batter is ready for everyone to make their own. Blueberries, bananas and a apples are ready for toppings, whipped cream is in the fridge.
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Oo, pancakes. Blueberries. Mmmmm.

Nice day again here so far. That's not supposed to last. Cloudy with showers for tonight and tomorrow.
 
JayneWonders said:
Bit disappointed in my pharmacist tonight.

For the 2nd time, when I got my prescriptions home, I found that they had given me someone else's prescription in addition to my own.

Need to call tomorrow.
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Definitely not good.
I got someone else;s meds ONCE. I actually took a dose or two before realisong. . No actual harm done but it could be disastrous.
JayneWonders said:
Bit disappointed in my pharmacist tonight.

For the 2nd time, when I got my prescriptions home, I found that they had given me someone else's prescription in addition to my own.

Need to call tomorrow.
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Good morning! Tanks, @Mrs.Anteater, for getting things ready yesterday, and others who helped. It is appreciated. This morning, as we gather for coffee and tea, as well as the morning conversation and mutual support session, our Wonderbaker has provided us with bagels, freshly baked and ready to toast, along with varied toppings and spreads to enjoy. The tea water is boiling, coffee is fresh brewed, and bagels are even now toasting. All is ready, and everybody is welcome. Come in and join the chat!

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Do you know how many folk are not welcome in many dispersed churches?

Last night I attended a semi spiritual event in which my comment about having a hand in a major church was queried as if improbable ... it is a long tale. But imagine a spiritual structure without hidden connections ... because the powers are ag'in gatherings ... the threaten them up-there ... then up there was once considered a costly function as AD ... more recent kings and emperors after the demo was introduced? As nothing's they became demos to the powers ... consumables?

As immersed in a world of conspicuous consumption ... that was quickly disposed of in ignore factors ... innumerable factors of this sort ... demanding great depth! The separation goes on as divined ... quite a phenomena ... serving fusion and fission ... in extended domains ... dark and heavenly when it goes off? Agitation to a faction ... sometime anaerobes ... something was exposed! Black Smokers ... smoldering discomfort ... GEO Logical irregularities ...
 
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My expertise is is about Privileged Access Management, and in particular a product called CyberArk. I was first exposed to it in 2009, and was full on engaged since 2010, and what my consulting business focussed on.

From when I started, I watched it become the leader in the PAM space, go public, grow exponentially, and more recently be purchased by Palo Alto.
It is based in Israel, with US headquarters in Boston, and I know and appreciated many of the leaders for the company and in the space.

This week was the annual user gathering. Something that I have spoken at, enjoyed connecting with people and championed new products / etc. I didn't go last year or this year, due to Trump and US border shenanigans.

It was the first of the gatherings since Palo Alto took over.

The first disconnect, was that it was held just before Passover, and so, many of the Israeli product leaders did not come, nor did the R&D folks, as they couldn't make it home in time for Passover.

Then, in a stunning announcement, Palo Alto announced the product's name has been changed to IDIRA.

In a way, I am thankful that i wasn't willing to travel to the US.
Heads are reeling.

I'm formatting my rant regarding the ego of corporations, and the comparison to how other companies have integrated a purchase, but kept brand loyalty
 
When Microsoft bought Great Plains Software a year or so after we implemented Great Plains Dynamics as our ERP, they just kind of switched things around, making Dynamics the brand and GP (for Great Plains) the specific product. So Microsoft Dynamics GP, and so it remains to this day. After MS acquired Navision, the original Navision became Dynamics NAV and Axapta became Dynamics AX, keeping a connection to the original brand. Which is how it should be done, I think. Get your own name on there, but keep a connection to the original brand.

Dynamics has now moved heavily to the cloud, so they are establishing Dynamics 365 as the new branding, but that's more than a decade after the original acquisitions that built the division. So there's Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (formerly Dynamics CRM), Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (enterprise ERP derived from, I think, AX), Dynamics 365 Business Central (mid-sized corporate ERP derived from NAV), and so on.

Sadly (not really), Dynamics GP itself is being retired after 2029 (they no longer sell it as of last month, mainstream support ends in 2029, extended support in 2031). I don't blame them. It's a very 90s client-server system and is not adapting well to the world of clouds and web interfaces and such. I hate on it quite regularly as I deal with its foibles day after day.
 
I stepped my rant down about 4 notches for my linkedin post.

I worked for Allen-Bradley when it was acquired by Rockwell Automation.
Decades later, the Allen-Bradley product stands strong, and leadership was strong throughout as was R&D.
That is the way to do it.

I do feel Palo Alto is about ego, and I worry for the people at CyberArk...i do see departures.
 
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