ShovelBums 22nd Anniversary

Ok. Before anything else, while I have your brief attention 😉 It is ShovelBums not “Shovel Bums”. It is a huge pet peeve of mine I have for absolutely no good reason, lol! The pattern is the CamelCase/medial capital convention adopted from computer programming. And I just like it better, it is a 90s thing … Read more

ShovelBums @20 & A Free CRM Expo at the SAA’s in Albuquerque Saturday 12-4 (Read/share/encourage your friends to go!)

    For those of you who live within 4hrs of Albuquerque I would like to encourage you to come to the SAA’s for the Free CRM Expo being held at the convention center tomorrow on Saturday 10-4. The expo will have 50 companies represented(*), but more importantly will serve as a gathering place for … Read more

#Respect – For our sisters and brothers in the field #IStandWithWildlandFirefighters

December 2017, California: Tehachapi Wildland Fire Crew 11 crew sleeping after 24hr shift. Photo Credit: Kern County Fire   Where there is smoke, there is Wildland Firefighters.    Fire, when finally mastered by our ancestors hundreds of thousands of years ago, cast the very light which illuminates the darkest shadows of our shared history. Unlike lithics or … Read more

VOTE! Election November 6th 2018 – WWID (What Would Indy Do?): Or “How is the country doing so good? It’s the Trump Stimulus Stupid!”

Regardless of how the election turns out today it is worth noting that in late October 2018, after the big drop, all of the “gains” from 2018 were effectively wiped out (someone made a profit, and it wasn’t most of us!). And while jobs grow continues (*)(a trend started early in the Obama’s administration) wages … Read more