Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
Wow. It’s amazing how much nicer blogging is now that I’ve gotten the long term bugs worked out of my site. I have been suffering with some database issues for over 9 months. It killed my blogroll when it all happened so I’ve been running without a blogroll for that long. I also wasn’t able to use a blog editor (Windows Live Writer) due to
Our friends entered a contest for an American Standard new heating and cooling system and have been chosen as one of the 7 finalists. Their 10 year old daughter drew a picture of their house and their dad, Jeff, wrote a short essay about why they needed a new home cooling/heating and filtration system. If they win, they receive a $15,000 system for their home. They
This has nothing to do with personal finance but I found it somewhat pathetic: We have troops deployed in many hostile areas. Our national debt is skyrocketing. Politicians are all maneuvering for election day. There are a million different things that actually matter to our country and our world going on right now and CNN breaks with this? I’m so disappointed that this is what our
When I saw these images of various consumer products that are vizualized in their various quantities I was struck with how much waste we have in this country. 426,000 cel phones are retired every day. http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/11rtn.php http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/12rtn.php 11,000 jet trails are produced in this country every 8 hours http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/ http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/02rtn.php 106,000 aluminum cans are used in the US every 30 SECONDS! http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/05rtn.php http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/running_the_numbers/06rtn.php 60,000 plastic
The last 5 days of work have been brutal. Yelling, screaming, emotions running high. I wish I was joking, but I’m not. I learned a long time ago that it isn’t worth losing your cool, but certainly other people that I work with haven’t learned that. The way some people react, you’d think that people’s lives were at stake. Back in the days that I volunteered
It’s about time I made a blog update. I’ve been out at the cabin for the last few days (since last Thursday night) and quite frankly, it’s kind of nice to be home to rest. I had intended to blog a bit out there but just didn’t have time. (I did, however, manage to keep up with a lot of the blogs in my reader).
This is a great article about those fraudelent emails we’ve all gotten asking for account information so that someone can transfer us millions of dollars. All we need to do is send some money to them to cover the cost of transferring the money and we’ll be rich. Yeah right. There is a whole organization out there called 419eater.com. The numbers 419 are used to represent
It’s been awhile since I’ve mentioned how things are going with the fire claim on my parent’s house. You’ll recall that late last year my parent’s had a massive fire at their house in the middle of December and then my father passed away from a heart attack on New Years Eve. Since then, I’ve been handling all of the details for my mother to
You may recall that a few months ago I posted about buying someone’s wheels and tires from their Toyota. I always find this is a great way to get new tires (and a new set of wheels) for about the price of new tires alone. Then I can sell my old wheels and end up getting new tires for about half price. Well, you may
I am just getting hammered by spam over the last few days (on this blog). I’m glad that WordPress has the “hold comments” function. I don’t want to give those spammers any help! Most of the messages are simply a couple words. I’m not sure what these guys are doing, but I’m guessing they are trying to increase their relevance in Google searches etc. Man,