Nice thing about a wood stove is the smell of the wood and the stew pot always on top of the stove for company in the winter.

My wood this year is a mix of cherry and apple wood. My neighbour cleaned up an old abandonned orchard. The price was a lot better than the local wood price of 110.00 a face cord. And being able to get him to use his front end loader saved my back from stacking and restacking.

Hope you feel better soon DM and if all else fails, the special of the week is turkey soup as this is canadian thanksgiving and elect a turkey tueday.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 10/12 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
marysduby                         1          0      24,113,572           8,255
nl59056                           2          0      14,584,063           3,140
Dataman                           3          0      10,528,573          16,197
parmesian                         4          0       9,272,416          13,482
Esteban69                         5          0       8,292,937           7,163
Coingames                         6          0       5,564,513               0
Fanie                             7          0       4,858,896          18,464
Blizzie                           8          0       4,488,013           5,977
Graham                            9          0       4,404,191           2,583
Dave Bell                        10         +1       4,064,848          17,571
frans6nl                         11         -1       4,062,336           2,049
PohSoon                          12          0       4,045,014           3,224
RT                               13          0       3,604,579          24,114
Jonathan Figdor                  14          0       3,266,897           9,717
keithhenry                       15          0       3,256,485          19,004
sulcata                          16          0       2,460,955           3,911
Alain Bryden                     17          0       2,439,360             574
Mushball                         18          0       2,342,100          20,626
Vuj                              19          0       2,243,026             542
Rasse                            20          0       1,965,969               0
lawrencehardin                   21          0       1,824,947           1,170
stares                           22          0       1,594,915           8,488
siseberg                         23          0       1,524,267             863
finman                           24          0       1,501,709           1,585
Wunderwuzzi                      25          0       1,475,925             539
John Parker                      26          0       1,405,645               0
txjallen                         27          0       1,385,353               0
largethunder                     28          0       1,367,960           3,969
Rulkethecharon                   29          0       1,200,746           5,799
charlie99                        30          0       1,177,157               0
wrr                              31          0       1,091,404           1,936
Tomwp                            32          0       1,048,294           4,746
newtod                           33          0         933,736               0
AStafford                        34          0         918,144           1,189
Sunny L. Kae                     35          0         904,759               0
Arthur256                        36          0         751,255           5,483
laughing66607                    37          0         653,952               0
JerBlock                         38          0         607,128               0
johng                            39          0         601,164           1,773
Blueprint                        40          0         583,626           1,085
Jockin                           41          0         571,417             558
Barramundi                       42          0         564,030           1,881
John Conrad                      43          0         528,464           2,247
Airwolf_Liu                      44          0         522,327             496
dtype                            45          0         440,590               0
elpe                             46          0         392,500               0
Bon Kuhlman                      47          0         316,970           1,828
NiceMedTexMD                     48          0         259,664           1,917
shinob925                        49          0         240,369               0
Momentary Lapse of Reason        50          0         234,623               0
mapplebeck                       51          0         196,974             548
madambaster                      52          0         178,954               0
cknotty                          53          0         161,116               0
Harry de Swart                   54          0         116,971               0
sammercer                        55          0          89,333           1,148
WoytaZ                           56          0          78,316               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Ten active members returning points today:
01: RT - 24,114 points
02: Mushball - 20,626 points
03: keithhenry - 19,004 points
04: Fanie - 18,464 points
05: Dave Bell - 17,571 points
06: Dataman - 16,197 points
07: parmesian - 13,482 points
08: Jonathan Figdor - 9,717 points
09: stares - 8,488 points
10: marysduby - 8,255 points

Total points returned today: 225,841
Active members returning points today: 39
Average points per member active today: 5790.79487

Thanks Lucie, I'm on the mend. The stew sounds great.

$110 a cord ... what a deal. Oak is $285 (4x4x8) delivered here. But my winters are mild and the servers heat the back part of the house.

Summer has not given up. It was 61F and 64F the last two days ... forecast 79F for the next four. Some rain would be nice.

Early to bed for me ...

Jonathan, first, if you want to compare quads, don't pick an off day for me. Second, let's be sure to compare fairly. I have eight cores running between 2GHz and 2.5GHz 24x7. Six are running WCG exclusively. The other two are spilt 50-50 between WCG and 14 of the other 15 projects MOT has a presence at. Even then, you have to take into account how many WUs from a given day end up in the PV jail (about 25 percent of the WCG crunching I did yesterday got stuck in the PV jail).

As for loyalty, if you think that, I've got a great deal for you on some property on the east side of the beach down in Miami Beach. In today's large businesses, employees are a commodity, an expense to be managed no differently that travel, paper towels for the bathrooms and carbon paper. The fact that they are human beings is completely and totally irrelevant. You thought greed was a thing of the 80's? That was the height of philanthropy compared to today. Morality, integrity, ethics are anachronisms, signs of weakness and the practitioner the next victim of todays "sharks". For those who try to maintain, to stand on such beliefs, it is to fight our generation's "dark side of the force". It has all the time in the world, you don't. That it is on the verge of taking out the core of the world's financial sector means nothing to it. They got theirs and we pay for it. Debate that in your seminars.

The "business ethics" of modern companies is nothing more that a reflection of our societal ethics.