Daily Archives: January 27, 2009

A Wake Up Call

I find it very disturbing that there are so many people who have let themselves go and have become grossly over weight. No one can deny the fact that when out in public the amount of people that you come across need to loss weight, and I’m not talking about the folks that could take off 10 or 20 pounds, but more the likes of needing to get rid of 50 to 100 pounds of blubber, ugh….While listening to the [...]

Star Trek Fan

I’ve been know to spend some time on the PC playing games, only the free ones though. Sometimes it is nice to just kick back and relax by yourself and play a game or two, when time permits. At Playitontheweb.com they offer over 8000 free online flash games that I check out and play once in a while and think enough of their selection to share their information here. One that I just finished playing and enjoyed was their free [...]

Facebook, a Social Network

Did you know that changes at Facebook affected all of social networking? The article in the New York Times details the evolution of Facebook by it’s college grad founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Interestingly, he saw a shortcoming and created a way to overcome that. Thus the concept of news feed and Twitter was invented.Read the details of the New York Times article, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” by clicking here. It is interesting to realize that we are living in an [...]

Nike SB Shoes

I never knew that they made shoe specifically for use with today’s skateboards, but as I was doing some mindless surfing on the Internet I ran across and found an ad for Nike SB shoes which took me to a site that enlightened me into that fact. I was first thinking that this site was for the shoes that are all the rage with the kids at the mall, the shoes that have skates installed to drop into place, for skating purposes. [...]

Critters Everywhere I Turn

Over the years we have had numerous wild and interesting animals that have found their way into the back yard. Everything from opossums, raccoons, ground hogs, ducks, skunks, and even a wounded dear have ended up spending time in our side and backyard, much to our amusement and entertainment.Last week a neighbor was coming to our back door to return something that she had borrowed from my mother’s kitchen years ago and had to back off because she saw something on the porch [...]