1700 Martin Luther King Jr Way

Delicious Enchiladas

10/19/11

An amazing thing happened at LMi.net today. A first in our 19 years of operation. Two wonderful LMi.net members, Dolores and Tommy gifted us with the most elaborate, generous and heart-felt expression of gratitude we’ve ever experienced here. They cooked our entire staff of 15 a delicious organic gourmet lunch at home and delivered it to our office with a beautiful card made by their family.

Dolores and Tommy brought vegetarian enchiladas with a very tasty red sauce and a filling which included, among other ingredients, sun dried tomatoes, green bell pepper, cilantro and cheese. The enchiladas were scrumptious with fresh heirloom tomato slices on top. We also enjoyed delectable refried black beans, and rice with petite peas and cilantro. Going even further above and beyond, Dolores and Tommy brought a copious amount of refreshing Jamaica Hibiscus agua fresca sweetened with agave, and a vegan carrot cake from Black China Bakery, a woman-owned Santa Cruz business that Dolores admires. LMi.net co-owner Gary said that he wished a restaurant existed in the Bay Area where he could get food as good as Dolores’ cooking!

Dolores began cooking as a child — this news came as no surprise after today! She’s passionate about wholesome nutrition and bringing people together with healthy, enjoyable meals. She believes that if people got together more often to break bread, our world would be a better place. She also said that she always puts love and positive intention into her cooking. This made our lunch today as soul-edifying as it was nutritious.

THANK YOU Dolores, Tommy and Family!

We have nine employees at LMi.net. Each of us strives to use the services of our customers. It just makes sense for all of us to help and support each other. For instance, we go to the Meal Ticket every Friday for lunch. When we have a pizza day, we buy from either Gioia Pizzeria or the Cheeseboard.  When we needed new gutters, we had our customer Gutter Works do the work. When we needed contractor work done, we used our customer DBC Builders. Our accountant, 2+2=5 Accounting Services, is also our customer. We buy guitars from Subway Guitars. We get them worked on by John Mellow.

Why do I mention this? It is vitally important that each of us considers the ramifications of where we spend our money. By supporting LMi.net, you are supporting a wide swath of other small businesses, in that the employees of LMi.net also buy locally. Each time that we spend a dollar locally, our community is enhanced. The money stays in the area so that libraries can be built, so our schools can be improved, so that we can have parks. Each time that you support a giant corporation, most of your money is shipped out of state and is used to fatten the wallets of executives. In addition, these large corporations use out-sourced technical support in Bangladesh and India which worsens the US’s unemployment problems.

Whenever one of our customers leaves us to use one of the Big Guys, we make a point to never utilize their services any more. We used to buy cakes and pies from a local bakery, we used to buy breakfast and lunches from a local deli, and we used to use a local veterinarian right up the street, but no more. The owners of those businesses decided to send their dollars out of state, so we have also made a choice. We have chosen to support businesses that keep their dollars local. We have chosen to support our customers as they support us.

We’re all in this together. You should be too. Or not, it’s your choice.

Update: Brian is going to lunch at the New Amsterdam Coffee Shop on University. He is a fan of their Big Salad!

Do you use Comcast? Well, you shouldn’t.

Read this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/comcast-busted-new-tolls-_b_789786.html

LMi.net does not limit the flow of data to, or from, any of our customers. ( Spam filters excluded)

We respect your use of the internet as your own personal freedom.

Also, We support an open Internet!!!

The recent talk about Comcast charging Netflix users for usage reminds us of our own dedicated policies.

You get the speeds you pay for, and you use them however you like.

We don’t limit downloads, uploads, freeloads or wide-loads.

We let it PHLO. You can check out our rates and policies through this link!!!

Thanks again for choosing your locally owned Internet Service Provider!!!

The Folks at LMi.net.

Imagine if there was a ballot measure in California that would authorize amending the state constitution to discourage competition for a specific for-profit corporation. This initiative would benefit only that one corporation, and result in higher utility costs for everyone else. Who would ever be in favor of such an initiative?  Its hard to believe that such a bad idea would ever get on the ballot in the first place, much less win voter approval.

Well, apparently PG&E thinks that are enough uninformed voters out there that can be fooled by an expensive, misleading marketing campaign. They have pumped 35 million into promoting state proposition 16.

Prop 16 requires a two-thirds vote for communities to choose lower cost electricity provided by nonprofit municipal utilities. In California, customers of nonprofit municipal utilities pay an average of 20%–25% less for electricity than customers of for-profit electric utilities.

This is serious abuse of our state initiative system. Vote NO on Prop 16

http://noprop16.org/