Love Books? Consider Alternatives to Amazon

Wooden bookshelf filled with paperback and hardcover books.

I love books.

I’ve always loved books. I still have my children’s dictionary from when I was in first grade.

As well as dozens of paperbacks I read when I was in high school and college.

I would spend hours at the public library. In college, I worked at the university library as well as the public library.

When I volunteered at our public schools, I naturally found my way to volunteer at the school library. Continue reading Love Books? Consider Alternatives to Amazon

Yesterday – A Database Administrator’s Backup Song

A white sheet of paper with a headline of Yesterday: a DBA's backup song with lyrics from the first two stanzas of the song:

Decluttering my physical file cabinet this week brought a smile to my face when I found a print copy of something I saved years ago, but is still appropriate today.

Not sure when I saved it, but I’m thinking it may have been when I was volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Detroit in the late 1990’s to mid 2000’s.

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