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Time to Upgrade

Admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:27:09 +0000

It’s time for me to look into ipod docks again. The one I have spent too many nights by the stove playing music while my husband fried – food that is. It’s been splattered with so much oil, it doesn’t turn off anymore. And tuning in a station is a temporary thing – if you walk by it, the station changes. Don’t get me wrong, this particular dock has been great to me. It’s just time to get a better one. Maybe something oil proof.

Speaker Quality Important

Admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:09:42 +0000

Rock stars need speakers. No matter what you do, you have to make sure you’re heard over the din of the crowd that came to see you. And you have to be able to hear yourself in your JBL Control 5 monitor. So, you want to always make sure that your equipment is high quality. I know there’s the desire when you’re just starting out to be able to get the cheapest gear so you can make the most money but when you factor in the inevitable replacement costs, going for quality over price becomes REALLY important.

Keep that in mind when you buy!

Time to Upgrade Your Camera?

Admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:10:23 +0000

Now that Kodak finds itself in troubled financial times, it might be good to find another camera maker. Fuji digital cameras have a good reputation and I intend to look into their products when it comes time for me to upgrade. Which might be sooner than I want – I dropped my camera a while back and now the shutter doesn’t open and close the way it is supposed to.

Tablet Envy

Admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:39:42 +0000

I am finally admitting to myself my envy for people who have tablets. I keep thinking to myself that I want to spend my money some other way, but it’s not true. I try to tell myslef that if I just get something like a smart phone, it’ll be good enough, but I know I’m just lying to myself. I know that the instant I get a windfall of several hundred dollars, I’m going to put it on my shopping list. At least now I am being honest with myself.

Dating Online

Admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:47:07 +0000

If you’re in the mood to try online dating but not sure about how to do it, I encourage you to go the free online dating route. Certainly, if the company is making you pay large amounts of money up front when Facebook can do run it’s website with just ad revenue, then it’s not worth it. What if you pay and don’t find someone – do you get a refund?

Free is the way to go. So go.

Appropriate Times for Cigars

Admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:21:42 +0000

Apparently you can look for Acid cigars free shipping. I personally wouldn’t recommend smoking them for health reasons, but cigars are a traditional gift for the proud papa to pass out when a baby is born and make a nice display piece. And I’m not so much of a stick in the mud that I do not whole heartedly endorse smoking a good cigar after having taken an alien ship into outer space to infiltrate the lead ship of an invading hoard and defeating them by implanting a virus in their mainframe.

Then I say, smoke away:)

Camera Envy

Admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:24:21 +0000

It won’t be long before I’m back in the market for a digital camera. My husband is looking at the $50,000 version which we’ll be able to afford a couple years after we die. I am looking at those slr cameras that are lots more affordable and still give high quality pictures. It’s not like I need to take slow motion film at 1000 frames per second. I just want to take pictures at my kids birthday parties.

Gift Giving Made Easy

Admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:20:26 +0000

My husband sometimes has trouble looking for wedding anniversary gifts for wife, but I never seem to have any problems. I take the kids to the store with me and point them in the direction of the men’s things and have them pick something out. Then I just say that the kids picked it out and he can’t be disappointed. This may stop working in a few years when they out grow cute but until then I’m golden.

Baby Announcements

Admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:51:54 +0000

Even though we know several people who are likely to have new children soon, I’m sad to say we aren’t likely to see many birth announcements. It seems like the way these things are announced now is over the grapevine. I think it’s time birth announcements made a come back. Not only would it be a boon for the postal business, it is fun to get to know the stats of the little one and sometimes see nice, cute pictures. So if you know someone who is going to have a kid soon, remind them about this tradition and volunteer to do the leg work if they write the check. That’ll help them out and they’ll probably like the idea enough to do the same for the next family.

Fun Stuff

Admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 05:34:20 +0000

Diring our recent travels this summer, I came across a lot of different jewelry including glass necklaces and moissanite rings. I managed to pick up one of the glass necklaces with some interesting swirly colors in it at a reasonable price (in other words super cheap – it’ll probably break the first time I drop it). I had all my necklaces and other things stolen a few years ago and I’m just starting to replenish my stash so I hope to include a wide variety of interesting jewelry in the future.