Rah Rah Rah

Earlier I wrote about my daughter and her fascination with wedding dresses and other such clothing. While I do not personally care about wedding dresses as it seems a shame to spend a fortune for something you can only wear once my child adores them. Personally I get more excited looking at sexy cheerleading uniforms like the one pictured above. Rah, Rah, Rah!
Cheerleaders work very hard at what they do, I know because I have been around a lot of them through my years working at a college. Nothing they do is as simple as it looks! Even though it is a lot of hard work they all enjoy what they do which is probably why it looks easy.
However, if your cheerleading days have passed you by you can still look like a cheerleader and you can cheer the love of your life with this costume. I am certain that your lover will get a real thrill of seeing you prance around waving your pom-poms and cheering.
And, if you are single and you cheer for your lover then, who knows, you might have to then start shopping for wedding dresses. Just don't call my daughter as she will spend your entire life savings on that one dress and still not be happy.

Come Again?

My daughter has this fascination with weddings, the planning the clothing, the receptions, all of it. She can spend hours looking at wedding clothing and be totally enamored of it all.
The other night, while in the same room she wanted to show me this "adorable" wedding dress so I stopped to look. Not because I care but because it is the right thing for a parent to endure their childs silliness.
I saw nothing extraordinary about the dress and, being male, said so. She told me that it is a "privilege" just to look at this dress!
Say what? I looked again, a little closer look this time. Nope, still looks like someone saw a fancy curtain and decided it would make an excellent wedding dress lol
Not sure why my child has these fanciful ideas but good for her if she does. Just leave me out of them if you don't like my reactions, and she usually doesn't.
Maybe it's because she is 20 years old and still filled with optimism and hope while I am 3 times her age and pessimistic as well as real-life educated.

Watch Your Step

One of the things I miss about this house I live in, compared to my last house, is the garage. A place where men like me go to escape from the females in the house and do manly things like build things or tear things apart. The garage an be a fun place to escape. It also can be a dangerous place to escape if what you are doing leaves fluids on the garage floor where, once forgotten momentarily, are remembered when you slip and fall.
One simple solution to this dangerous situation is expoxy garage floor coating. Coating the garage floor with slip resistant coatings help keep you from slipping and hurting yourself. Garage work is fun, going to the hospital is no fun at all.
The garage floor coating does not have to be a boring chore either. These coatings come in different colors so you can actually change the way the floor looks, from drab cement colored floor to say a nice red or black or even brown floors. Or, if you are the artistic type you can have a multi-colored garage floor. No matter what you decide at least you will know that your garage floor is slip resistant and much safer than before.
So, coat that floor and make it safer. Then, hang out in the garage, work on your car or your favorite do it yourself projects and clear your mind.

Strangeness

My two women are watching a movie. They do this by turning on the television and inserting a DVD and clicking play.
Then one of them kicks back in the recliner and reads a book while the other gets comfortable in her chair, picks up pen and paper and starts to draw or write. Neither one is looking at the movie. Now if I went in the room and mentioned this both would take offense.
I can only conclude here that (a) the movie is terrible (in which case why have it on?) or (b) they have seen this same movie so many times they are just killing time while waiting for their favorite parts. Either way seems like a waste to me.
However, being the only male human here, I know when to keep my mouth shut, leave the room and stay gone!
My girls are strange...

Rechargeable Batteries

My daughter has a Wii and she uses it constantly. She uses it to exercise, to play games and to watch the stupidest videos on Youtube also known as The Soup. Of course she rarely ever turns the thing off so it is available right away I guess. She also goes through a lot of batteries for the little remote control gizmo that she needs to use the Wii. What this girl truly needs is a very large supply of nimh rechargeable batteries.
I like rechargeable batteries because they save me a lot of money. I use them for my police scanner as well as my "electric" razor. I have extras so some are always charging while the others are being used and I think this is the best way to go.
No matter what you may use batteries for, from hearing aids to your tv remote or even a Wii like my daughter, you really should invest in some rechargeable batteries. This website even has Liquid Image 3.7 volt Li-Ion replacement batteries for Liquid Image goggles whatever that is (sounds cool) in case you need some of those.
Need batteries? Check out the wide variety of batteries available at The Source. And, please, if possible, use rechargeable batteries. Save yourself money as well as helping to save the planet at the same time.

Internet People

Let's face it, everything we do these days seems to revolve around the internet. We watch television here, we watch movies here and we play here. Like many people I would be willing to bet I even have more online friends than offline friends.
I have made a lot of friends on the game site where I am a chat moderator and I have lots of fun interacting with these people through our text chats. But, alas, all is not always rosy.
Yesterday, after a long illness, one of the players that I am friends with lost his significant other. He is, of course, heart broken, as any normal person would be. He was on the game site because that is where his friends are. He did, privately, let a few of us know what had happened, the rest he just left to wonder. Don't blame him, I would most likely do the same in his shoes.
My friend has suffered a lot of hardships in his young life and I feel truly awful about this one. I can only hope and pray that he survives it. Would be a true shame to lose him as well :(

RIP Pam...

Grilling

It's the middle of Summer and that means it is barbecue time for many folks. They can't wait to fire up the grill and cook, many come home from work dog tired but still have lots of energy if it is suggested they grill dinner.
Always seemed like a lot of extra work to me, making sure the grill is clean enough to cook on, do I have the charcoal briquettes, etc. etc. Things could be much simpler if I owned an electric grill, like this beauty:

I really like this grill because it is rather compact and is portable. You can grill in the backyard, the frontyard, heck you can take it to a party at the city park and grill! Now that is convenient. Nice to not have a large hassle if you need to be in a different place to cook.
The other nice part of this grill is that it is compact. Most people do not grill in their yard year-round so the grill has to be stored somewhere, like the garage. This one, being compact, will not take up that much space when you store it away for the year. I like that.
If you like to grill then you owe it to yourself to go and check out all the fine grills this website has to offer. Grab the one that you like best and, once you have it at your house, shop for your favorite grilling foods and throw a party for family, friends, or both.

Oh Oh

My health is acting up. Again :(
Been feeling dizzy the past few days along with a few breathinbg problems and my kidneys keep trying their best to make sure I spend lots of time sitting on the toilet. UGH
Being stubborn as usual I am trying my best to ignore these things but if I disappear for a while you will know that I couldn't ignore them any longer and have gone to visit the hospital again :(
Damned COPD!

It's A Baby

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So Rich, So Poor

ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI) -- A Florida man said he was shocked to discover he was "a billionaire for a minute" when his bank froze his account and flagged a $999.99 million deposit.

Otelo Vizcaino, 42, of Orlando, said he discovered after his card was rejected at a gas pump last week his account had been frozen by SunTrust Bank and a $999.99 million deposit had been flagged, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.

"That's right -- one penny short of $1 billion," Vizcaino said. I was a billionaire for a minute, and I have nothing to show for it but grief.

SunTrust Bank said Monday the account was frozen as the result of internal computer procedures and there were no security breaches. The bank said the $999.99 million deposit is an internal signal to bank workers that the account is currently frozen.

"We work to verify funds as efficiently and effectively as possible to limit any impact to a client's account," SunTrust spokesman Hugh Suhr said. Based on the feedback in this instance, it sounds like we could have done a better job communicating that process.

Vizcaino said the bank told him his account should be back to normal by Wednesday.

Copyright 2011 by United Press International

Save Money

Just when I thought the economy couldn't get any worse the stock market took another nose dive a few days ago. This will simply take another large chuck out of my already chunked tax sheltered annuity plan. Bad timing I guess since I had just gotten a letter from those TSA folks about what my account was worth if I wanted to take it all out in one large sum. OOPS!
The more I look at the economy the more I realize that the thinking we had as children was much better than the thinking we have as adults. Stocks and bonds sound ggod to most adults as an investment for their future but perhaps it is time to re-think that thought.
When we were kids we were certain that those baseball cards, stamps and old pennies we had were going to make us rich someday. Well, folks, looks like these days have come.
No matter how good or bad the economy is there are always people looking to invest in old coins like the morgan silver dollars. These silver dollars were a United States dollar coins minted intermittently from 1878 to 1921. These coins have rarely, if ever, been a money loser for collectors and, the older they become the more valuable most of them become.
Okay, so you'd rather have some silver coins that came from a time a little closer to your lifetime? How about some very nice Kennedy Half Dollars? These half dollars, meant to be a memorial to the assassinated John F. Kennedy began being minted in 1964. These coins, like the Morgan Silver Dollars are worth their price and are a great way to start or add to a collection of silver coins.
If, like me, you are tired of hearing little but bad news about the economy and the stock market, think like you did as a kid, start collecting coins that will, at the very least, hold their value. Most coins will increase in value and are an excellent source of investment strategy. Check out the coins and their current values then decide which ones are a good fit for you and your budget.

Too Touchy

Maybe it was the weekend, maybe it was the hot weather, maybe, just maybe, it was sheer silliness on their parts.
This weekend I managed to irritate two players both of whom decided they no longer wish to chat when I am around. Not sure if that was supposed to upset me but it doesn't bother me at all.
The first one wanted to continually talk about cake. He must have thought it was incredibly humorous but I did not. After my shift was over and I was hanging around the next shift he wanted to start back with talking about cake. The Mod on duty groaned (we had discussed it already in private). The player asked if people were tired of his cake talk and I replied that I had gotten tired of it 4 hours earlier. He left the lobby in a huff and I haven't seen him chatting there since.
The other one I upset last night. Not entirely sure what I did, probably asked them not to hog the chat lobby with their inane chatter about nothing. Who knows, who cares? He said he was leaving, we all said goodnight but he didn't leave, he was still playing on the site a few hours later. After my shift had ended he was back in the lobby chatting away again. Ugh.
The worst part of these two touchy people is that one of them seriously wishes to become a Mod! If he cannot take the mild criticism of me telling him he may be chatting way too much, how in the world is he ever going to take the abuse from players that Mods often get? You cannot be that touchy as a Mod, you can't just leave in a huff either, that just totally irritates me no end when Mods try to do that!

To Silly

The headline blurb said Bert and Ernie are NOT gay! What has the world come to? We worry now if puppets and muppets are straight or gay? How odd and definitely how silly!
People need to get a Life, they spend way too much time thinking about the darndest things.

In other news, personal news, looks like I am going to lose another Mod :( She has been on the game site as a Mod for a long, long time (measured in years) and is tired and wants a break. Also she tells me the drama that is going on around us and the players is getting to sickening for her and she definitely wants a break from that as well.

In the meantime, I have work to do so I cannot play...

Hip Hop

What started out as music and some dancing style has transformed itself into much more than just music and dancing, hip hop has kept itself alive with fashion styles as well.
I am too old and crippled to be out on the dance floor busting a move, but I enjoy the music and watching folks dance to it. And I enjoy the hip hop clothing that these folks wear. For instance, a woman would surely turn my head wearing something like these:

And how could any man be overlooked wearing something as stylish and cool as this tee:

As I said, it isn't just music and dance anymore, it is fashion! If you like busting a move out on the dance floor or you just wish to stand on the sidelines and still get noticed, you really need to check out the latest fashions offered for hip hop enthusiasts (and regular folks too) at Man Alive the website. The prices are reasonable and there are many items to choose from so shake your booty over there today!

Busy

Where does the time go? I have very busy of late with the game site and the chat lobby and working with the moderators and Time has slipped away from me.
Also it is August and my lovely wife's birthday is fast approaching so I had to be looking around for a nice gift for her as she deserves such a gift :)
It just seems as though I spend way too much time on the game site and the people there that I often find difficulty in finding some "me" time. I am hoping to change that as I really do need some time to just goof off and not be so serious about everything. The game site is fun but it also is a lot of work and time spent doing that work. Somewhat stressful at times and I need to kick back, take a deep breath and relax.