My wife and I have entirely different tastes in furniture. I really enjoy the looks of modern furniture; my wife prefers traditional. It has been very interesting to see how eclectic our house looks with the mix and match furnishings that are in each room. At least I know one thing is for sure, if we split up we wouldn’t have many arguments over the furniture; I’d get all of the modern stuff, the platform beds and the wide screen tv. She’d get everything else.
It’s funny to see the expression on her face when I bring something new home that I want to put in the house. She doesn’t want to hurt my feelings because she sees how excited I am about my “find.” But I can tell by the way she pauses before speaking and the expression on her face that she really doesn’t want what I brought home. I wonder if I’m acting out some passive aggressive feelings when I do that!
I’m really looking forward to the party we’re planning to have this Labor Day weekend. Over the past several months we’ve lined up a DJ and a professional belly dancer to entertain our guests, bought several canopy tents, new Barbecue tools and cleaned up and tuned up the propane grill that we bought last year.
My wife bought a new outdoor swing that has an awning over the top of it and cup holders in the arms. She’s been wanting one of those for a few years now, and was using the party as an excuse to buy it. I wasn’t very happy about it at the time, but it sure is more comfortable than the folding chairs we’ve been using the past few years.
Now the countdown begins. I’m looking forward to a great time!
I can’t seem to get away from folks trying to pressure me into signing up with either Face Book or My Space. My social life is fine and I have enough to do rather than dealing with all that is involved with maintaining such an account. I hear good things about these sites, but I think I’ll still pass on them for now.
I’ve been going to the PP Business networking meetings Wednesday mornings for several months now, and although I haven’t seen an increase in my business, I’ve enjoyed learning about everyone else’s businesses while going there. One of the things that we do at the meetings is have a featured presenter talk about themselves and their own business.
Yesterday Tom was presenting about his Internet services business. He was talking about how he was going to be holding free classes for the members of our group so we could become more computer and Internet savvy. He plans to teach us topics such as web hosting, blogging, buying domains, managed hosting, keywords, colocation, tags, and marketing strategies geared towards the Internet. I think it’s a good way for Tom to promote his business, don’t you?
I got an email a couple of days ago that had a lot of photos included of tiny baby sculptures. The email claimed that the sculptures were made of marzipan. Well, the sculptures were truly remarkable, but I found that they were not of marzipan. They are porcelain. Extreme talent, big money! I wish I had that kind of talent! The artist’s name is Camille Allen, and she sells her sculptures on the Internet. I was enjoying looking at her website and was reading about how some of her scultures are one of a kind, but some are reproduced in resin in bulk in China. I found it interesting that the website explains that the only reason they are made in China is because there are no manufacturers in the USA that are capable of producing them.
I think that is part of the problem with our struggling economy – too many of our industrial jobs have left the country and gone overseas to countries with lax environmental laws and cheap labor. Well, this post wasn’t going to be preachy about our economy….. but it turned out that way!
I’ve heard that Myrtle Beach is getting a large amount of people this summer season. Since the major oil company, B.P. has trashed so many of the other beaches, folks are finding that Myrtle Beach has nice clean water and beaches to offer the general public and is welcoming them with open arms.
Summer is almost over and I don’t have any vacation days left for this year, but I would like to look into visiting Myrtle Beach next summer. I have not been there for a good long while and it would be good to see how it has changed since I’ve been there last. I enjoy the ocean and enjoy a good challenging game of golf and Myrtle Beach has both of these qualities.
I was online earlier and found a website http://avistaresort.com that is advertising some nice looking and sounding resorts in Myrtle Beach that I’d love to stay at next year. It is great that the Internet makes find a good Myrtle Beach hotel a much easier task to tackle. I have plenty of time to find the perfect accommodations and will keep you posted on what I discover.
I have always enjoyed watching the hit reality show Survivor. I have only missed 3 episodes since the beginning, thanks to my DVR. I just saw a commercial saying that they were switching to Wednesday evening. Survivor has always been on Thursdays, since day one. This will take some adjusting, I’m just glad that I saw the commercial.
I saw a story on the TV last week that was addressing the issue of how important it is to have a mailbox that has your information on it that is easy to read, especially at night. It seems that there are a good amount of mailboxes that are preventing the police, ambulance and fire fighters from getting to where they need to be in an emergency situation. This could be a life or death situation that could be prevented if more people made sure that their mail boxes were set up with easily read information.
I know that in the city that I grew up in the city had the street addresses painted on the curbs to help with this type of issue, but I imagine that with all of the budget cut backs most places can’t afford to take on the cost of something like that. So it is up to the individual resident to make sure that they properly display the numbers, and for their own good.
Reading the tech newsletter that the New York Times sends out, I found an interesting article about big companies using the internet to advertise and they are retargeting their web site visitors to close more sales.
Some internet consultants are retargeting companies with their banner ads. They evidently latch onto you while you are browsing their online store. But if you leave their site without making purchase, they will follow you as you click through to other sites and continue displaying tempting banner ads to try and get you to return to their site and buy their product. That’s a little spooky to me, but evidently there are several big companies already doing this and it is proving to be a very successful technique.
The term remarketing must refer to the fact that you are shown an ad based on your previous browsing experience. The first time you see their ad is their marketing. Then when you leave that site and you see their ad on a different site, that is the secondary or remarketing part.
All this talk about grilling and steaks is starting to make me hungry. I think I’ll stop by the grocery on the way home tonight and pick up a couple of nice thick T-bones. I want some fresh corn on the cob, too.Corn is in season and very inexpensive right now. I might get an extra ear for myself because I really do like grilled corn on the cob.
We will be cooking out and dining well tonight, folks!
While I’m thinking about grilling steaks, I have to let everyone know about this new line of A-1 sauce marinades. I found these in the barbecue sauce area of the grocery store. The name A-1 is what caught my eye, after all, when you say steak sauce, A-1 is the first name that comes to mind.
Well, the good folk at A-1 have brought out two distinct flavors of marinade for beef. There is the Chicago style and the New York style. I bought the Chicago style, and let me tell you, I’m not cooking steaks with anything else ever again!
Since we have been having such extreme heat with little rainfall that people are turning to rain water barrels to harvest water for their yards and gardens. It seems that rain harvesting has become a positive effort to help the huge “Green” effort that is going on these past few years. You can find some pretty interesting rain barrels for sale on the Internet. Amazing the variety of rain barrels that have come on the market for today’s rain harvesters.
These dry summers are really starting to become a struggle each year. Mother Nature is certainly not happy with us. Winter was hard and then we went straight into the 90’s and higher. We didn’t even get one day of nice spring weather. I can only hope that we get some type of fall weather before the snow start falling once again. Next thing you know it is going to be the holidays and all that goes along with that each year. Isn’t that a pleasant thought to think of right now?
One of the new releases at Redbox is the thriller called, “Shutter Island.” It stars Leonardo DiCaprio, one of my favorite actors. So I went to the local Walgreens and rented it this afternoon.
I like renting a new release for just one dollar. You can’t beat the price and honestly, why would you need to keep it longer than 24 hours? Sometimes I can watch the rental that night and watch it again the next morning, but I can always get the movie returned by 9:00 the next night. No problem.
Shutter Island is really hard to follow as a casual viewer. You have to watch it closely and pay attention to all the clues. I was just starting to get frustrated with the story when they finally wrapped it up. Wow -what a strange movie.
The cost of cable TV seems to keep going up and I’m not happy about having to pay more and more money every month to just watch TV. There are converter boxes to get just regular network digital broadcasts, but there are some cable network shows that I would miss and I like to watch from time to time. So perhaps it is time to check the www.localtv-satellite.com web site and see if switching to satellite is the way to go.
The attraction of local tv satellite to me is being able to customize your subscription so that you only get the channels that you want. If I want all sports, then I can get a sports package. If I want channels with family shows, I can pick those shows.
My friends tell me that localtv-satellite.com can be as inexpensive or as expensive as my budget will allow. I’m interested in the cost of installation and equipment to get started and comparing the expenses to my monthly cable bill. I hope to save some money and still watch quality shows.
Have a craving for a hot dog. Even better, a chili dog would be great.
The best place to get a chili dog around here is at the Sonic drive in. I like the way you pull into a parking stall and place the order over a speaker, then a server brings the order out to your car.
The Sonic has really good onion rings, and their drink happy hour is a good bargain. Usually I order a cherry limeade or a Route 44 cherry coke.
Friday Night Lights is my favorite TV show. I love to watch it in high definition. The picture is clear, and I have speakers set up around my basement so that I can also receive the best possible sound. Friday Night Lights airs on NBC, a channel that has broadcast many shows that I’ve enjoyed in the past. Once Friday Night Lights ends next season, I look forward to watching whatever new show takes its place.
Tim Riggins is my favorite character, not just on Friday Night Lights, but possibly my favorite TV character ever. My friend makes fun of me for admiring this character, and with good reason. Tim is a womanizing alcoholic. However, I do think he has a good heart and that if he gets himself out of the chop shop operation scandal, then maybe he can turn his life around. Tim is also super cute and very sexy, so watching his face in HD is always fun. They seem to find a way to get his shirt off every episode, so that’s always fine by me.
My friend likes to watch the show in HD because she likes taking advantage of the latest technology, and NBC’s HD channel has the best resolution of any that we’ve seen. We watch the show on Friday nights on spanish channels on direct tv.
I’ve always enjoyed a good milk shake. I’ve heard that Wendy’s is now serving milk shakes, so today I decided to give one a try. I was disappointed, it tasted just like the ones that you get from McDonald’s. I should have just kept on driving another mile and a half and gone to Dairy Queen. They at least use real ice cream.
I love being spontaneous. I do try and plan things out but sometimes things just happen and I have learned to roll with them as best as possible. I don’t mind getting a last minute call from someone and running out the door in order to get somewhere in the shortest time possible. I did grow up here so I know all of the roads like the back of my hand and I’m sure that I know each and every shortcut that is possible around my hometown and the cities that surround it as well, so I can get places pretty darn quick if needed.
I love going to sporting events, even though I’m not really active in very many. I do however enjoy playing a game of golf every now and then. My folks brought us up playing golf and I’m grateful for that. It is a nice easy going game that just about anyone can play and they have golf courses and tee times just about everywhere.
My folks just got back from their annual Myrtle Beach vacation last week. They wanted me to come but I couldn’t really take the time off of work and I all ready have a long weekend planned for the last part of September. My mom was telling me last night that they had a good time, the weather was a bit wacky but all in all it was a success. My dad found a website at www.48hourteetimes.com that they had to utilized during their stay in Myrtle Beach. They are a full service hospitality group that helps people with their accommodations and their 48 hour tee times. Since so many people are flocking to Myrtle Beach S.C. this year due to BP ruining so many of the other beaches on the east coast a lot of the hotels and golf courses have been slammed with customers that need some help finding their way around and finding what is available and for who.
I’m glad that my folks are computer literate. Many people their age are a bit timid when it comes to maneuvering around on the Internet, but they have mastered it quite well and use it to their best advantage when possible. And I’m glad that they are spontaneous, that must be where I got it from, a double dose of it, to be sure.
General life, Home and Garden, Relationships, Shopping | Dean | 
September 2, 2010 10:41 pm | 
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