Toyota Girl’s Album: 2010 SEMA Girls http://t.co/zWqFWOBN

Toyota Girl’s Album: 2010 SEMA Girls (cont.) http://t.co/rHTSWHaL

MuddyTacoma’s Album: 2012 Toyota Tacoma Photo Gallery http://t.co/RMtF81sP

2012 Toyota Tacoma Photos http://t.co/hI7i1Xhu

2012 Toyota Tacoma Hybrid http://t.co/vixmtMB6

What’s GM / Cadillac up to in DFW?

This Thursday Morning? 19 Dallas-Fort Worth Celebrities? 6 Charities? A bunch of Cadillac Escalades? Meeting up at the GM Plant in Arlington.

Ok, so GM’s Southwest Communications office sent me an email asking me to be part in a Cadillac Escalade event this Thursday morning. It’s a drive-away event with “19 local celebrities” to help raise awareness for some good charities. I’m gonna be riding along in one of the Escalades – hopefully I will at least be shotgun.

Gonna take my camera and hope to get some good photos. Will keep everyone up to date on what goes down.

Read more here: http://www.gmtruckclub.com/forum/f17601/very-cool-event-cadillac-team-escalade-texas-event-week-75199/#post401977

Ok, there are “Top 10 Hottest Girls on …” pages for just about everything.  Why not for Google+??  Well, there’s a problem – we’re in a limited field trial with only 25% of the users being women.  Does that skew things a bit?

Top 10 Hottest Girls on Google+

Post your comments below with links to who you think are the hottest girls on google plus, google +, google+, g+ or however you call it.

Edit: I’ll update as the nominations come in.

Google+ is suffering from lack of the following. Agree or disagree?

Not that we need to compare Google + (or Google+, Google Plus, or G+) with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn and any other social networking site, but hey they came out first so why not?

Now that I have a good month or two under my belt on Google+, here are some of the issues that I think are holding it back from being the best social networking site out there – period.  Like I said, I do borrow from my experiences with all of the other social sites, but that can’t be helped.

Features that Google+ is seriously lacking:

- Real Search Ability
- Branded Business Pages
- Fan Pages
- More direct ability to IM
- More direct ability to PM
- Update apps for blogs/forums/wikis

Social Networking sites that I use at least semi-frequently:

- LinkedIn for business networking – don’t see any replacement for this.  (It’s how I keep in touch with people I know from work)
- Facebook for personal contacts from grade school to my new neighbors.  (I love the website integration tools the most)
- I never got all that into Twitter, sorry. (Never had that much time to get involved – it all moves too fast)
- YouTube for videos – this can be improved but I’m starting video soon.

Among everything else that I am doing in life, I really don’t have time for yet ANOTHER social networking site, I hope it becomes clear who’s gonna win the battle.

https://plus.google.com/u/1/115278167179260830467/posts/gQJz6fVJxJc?hl=en

I HAVE A COBRA HEADACHE!

GRRRR, it’s been 28 days since I separated from my company (August 19) and I STILL have not gotten my COBRA paperwork from them. I’m a pretty patient guy, but this is ticking me off. I might have to start sharing some juicy inside secrets to put the pressure on them.

So after calling and emailing at least 20 times in the last three weeks,  I guess there was some type of issue where the HR person put in the wrong SSN for my account. I’m gonna file that under the “Things that aren’t my problem!” section of my round filing cabinet and hopefully this will all get straight by monday (which is 31 days).

How long does an employer have to get my COBRA handled?

So, from what I have learned, this could be different from state to state, but in general the employer has 30 days from the policy qualifying event date (termination date) to submit the paperwork to a COBRA provider.  That firm then has 12 days to provide you with notification and you must make payment before 60 days of no-coverage (not necessarily the same at the policy qualifying event date) to get your COBRA started.

So, why is it frustrating?  I’M TRYING TO PLAN A BUDGET HERE!  It’s been a month now and I have no clue if this is going to cost me $1,000 per month or $2,000 per month or more.

Ok, so not much I can do right now.  Just have to wait to see if this comes through for next monday and I can see what the COBRA is going to cost me.