Happy Wednesday! Today isn’t just any ordinary day; it’s Popeye The Sailor Man Day! So, grab your spinach, embrace your inner strength, and tackle today’s challenges with the resilience of everyone’s favorite sailor.
In This Issue: Vintage Stamps ✉️ | Cisco Compatible Console Cable | Unlocking the Potential of Cisco Virtual Stacking for Simplified Network Management | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Vintage Stamps ✉️
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Hope you’re having a great week and you’re staying warm. The weather lately has been a bit wild – so much snow, single-digit temps, frozen water pipes and so much more for so many. If you have snow, I hope you’re able to enjoy it!
Over the last few weeks, I’ve gotten some very exciting packages in the mail – vintage stamps! Let me explain a bit – for as long as I can remember, I was pen pals with my great-grandmother. She lived to be over 100 years old, so I got to enjoy many years of writing her back and forth. When I was little, I would write my name a hundred times on a paper and mail it to her and she’d send me back the sweetest notes. I’m so lucky to have some of those letters to this day that I’ll cherish forever. That said, writing her back and forth made me passionate about finding the perfect cards to mail to her each time and finding the cutest stamps. Lately – I was scrolling through social media and I saw someone posting about vintage stamps. To be honest – I had no clue this was a thing!
As a result, this sent me down a rabbit hole. I started shopping on eBay and various sites where people sell vintage stamps and purchased some of my own. They are incredible! I got several variety packs and I love looking at all of them. Also, I didn’t know they’d be a “lick and stick” style. I’m not sure what I thought they’d be – but I’m fascinated.
While my great-grandmother is no longer with us, I know she would be smiling so big to know that I am finding joy in such a simple thing. Now I get to send my pen pals notes with these stamps on them and hope they enjoy the selection that I picked out for them.
Aside from my newfound love for vintage stamps, I love stamps in general. I can’t wait for the release of the new 2024 stamps this year. Mainly because there is a manatee stamp coming out. Manatees are something my great-grandma would write me about all the time. Because she lived in the Florida Keys on the water, she always had manatees coming up in the basin. She would write me and let me know that she would feed them lettuce and fresh water and they loved it! So – I can’t wait to snag those in memory of her.
Stamps may seem boring to many, but I’m grateful to have a love for them the way that I do. Between my great-grandmother and my times over the summer as a counselor, where I could not have a phone to communicate, writing home to family was so fun and it brought a new level of communicating and truthfully, raw emotion – in writing. Have you ever had a pen pal or do you still have one?
Hope you have a great week!
Ashley
PS: enjoy the photo below of some of the ones I got!
Product Spotlights & Updates
Upgrade your network with our brand new 10-foot, Cisco Compatible Light Blue USB A to RJ45 Rollover Console Cable. These cables will console your IT network by helping you communicate and configure a networking device. Console cable utilizes USB 2.0 to facilitate the console function. This newer type of console cable is compatible with most Cisco equipment.
Learning Center Article – Unlocking the Potential of Cisco Virtual Stacking for Simplified Network Management
Managing enterprise networks is not an easy task. But, what if it could be?
That might be an overstatement, but what if there was a tool that enables you to scale your networks with less overall time and energy put into design and management? That tool does exist, and it’s known as virtual stacking.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Amazon is testing an artificial intelligence tool that lets shoppers ask questions about a specific product. The feature could keep shoppers from scrolling through pages of reviews or reading through a listing to find information about an item.
- Bring a Trailer, the popular online auction site for collectible cars, saw sales climb 2% to over $1.4 billion, a record for the company. It sold more cars in 2023 than in 2022, even as prices fell.
- A federal judge blocked JetBlue Airways’ purchase of budget rival Spirit Airlines after the Justice Department sued to stop the merger.
- The Space Development Agency awarded contracts to L3Harris, Lockheed Martin and Sierra Space to build missile defense-related satellites. The fixed-price contracts are worth $919 million for L3Harris, $890 million for Lockheed Martin and $740 million for Sierra Space.