Talking with my buddy, Dean, about the high cost of repairing cars and even just keeping up with the maintenance on older cars. It seems like every time I have to take my car in for service work it costs me between $800 and $2,500 – and that is killing my budget. At some point I have to quit spending on this money on repairs and just go get a new car. I have been shopping online for a new [...]
Yesterday’s newspaper had the normal chunk of sale fliers and brochures, which is one big reason I continue to subscribe to the newspaper. I want to see the sale prices and new items being cried by the local stores. There is no online source that is as informative and focused on my local met than the Sunday newspaper. But a new item was stuffed in with the other ads. A big blue folder from Wal Mart. It says something to [...]
My neighbor called this morning in a panic and asked if I could please drive her and her teen-aged daughter to the hospital. She didn’t want to call an ambulance, but she had no transportation until her husband got home late tonight with the family car. Of course I agreed to drive her. Her daughter looked very pale and sweaty and I was very concerned for her health. I suspected heat exhaustion – but it could have been something even [...]
I hate it when I walk in the room to a TV program that is just wrapping up an interesting topic of discussion that I would have enjoyed listening to and watching for the entire time period. I wish I had the Direct TV package that gives you the DVR that allows you to stop, rewind, pause, fast forward and even record your TV programs in record time. I’m hoping next year that things will have let up some around the [...]
We really have become a society that expects and demands instant gratification in so many ways. We have gotten to where when we find we need or want something we run right out and get it as quick a we can in order to move on to the next thing. With us growing up and living out on a farm, things move a little slower, but by having the Internet available makes it possible to speed things up just a bit [...]