For the casula user of the internet, all these updates and changes are getting to be a real nuisance. Every time I turn around, there is an update for WordPress or for Firefox or for some other program that I need to use every day. The WordPress updates are the hardes tones for me to deal with. I have to get my system administrator to take of that chore for me and every time he does anything for me or my blog it costs me money.
Bad Storms
I was hoping to play some games on the internet tonight, but it looks like we are having some bad storms coming this way. Any time we have thunder and lightning, I turn off the computer and unplug it so that it won’t get zapped. I lost two computers to lightning strikes already and I’m not wanting to go through that again.
Tried Pandora
Sometimes when I am on the computer for several hours at a time, I like to listen to streaming audio over the internet. A friends told me a bout a web site called Pandora. It’s free for about 40 hours worth of listening each month. After 40 hours you have to pay them a fee or find another way to listen to music while you work. For my work habits, I can use up that 40 hours pretty quick, so I have other sites I can use. But I do like the way Pandora works for the first week or so of each month.
Who Got That Tat?
Monk Reruns
Stayed up very late and had the TV on Channel 5 – CBS – for mindless entertainment while I tried to fall asleep. For some reason I just could not sleep. Too much on my mind, I guess. So about 3:00 am I watched a rerun of an early Monk show. It was pretty funny. Loved the cast of characters. The stories are a little trite but the interaction with the main character, Monk, is the point of the series anyway. He is a former police officer with acute psycho-socio disorders, like OCD and some Autism. But those social shortcomings are what he uses to solve the crimes. Interesting concept for a TV show.
In need of a warm vacation!!
Now even my wife is complaining about the weather. She usually likes fall but this year, summer seemed to slip right by us and we didn’t really have a summer like we usually do. Normally, we would take two or even three vacations though the summer but this year, I really don’t know what happened. She’s been talking about wanting to take one of the Sharm El Sheikh Holidays that she found online. I have to be honest, it sounds wonderful to me too. The question I have is about the weather?
I personally would love to check out Algarve Holidays in Portugal. I’m sure the weather there would be great since the southern hemisphere has spring when we have fall. Besides, we have already been to Egypt but never to Portugal. From what I have seen, it’s an absolutely beautiful place and why go somewhere you’ve already been? Why not try something new, like maybe one of the really nice Benidorm Holidays. We’ve never been there either. We’ll just have to take our time and find somewhere new to take a vacation. I just want to explore a new city or country, not one we’ve already been to, you know?
Sixteen inches of snow in Colorado?
Oh my goodness!! My friend in Colorado just told me that they got 16 inches of SNOW!!!! That is awful if you ask me. The up side is that it’s supposed to be in the 60’s later on in the week. That sounds like the kind of weather to make a lot of people sick. As if we don’t have enough to worry about with the Swine Flu, now the weather out there is trying to help it all out. I think I need a warm vacation after hearing about all of that snow!!!!
Can you feel it?
Well it definitely feels like fall is in the air all of a sudden. There is a bit of a chill in the air that wasn’t there last week. I find it totally amazing how the seasons change and sometimes it can be rapidly and other times, it flows from one to the other with very little change. I like it when it just sort of flows into the next season.
A friend of mine that lives in Colorado said they are under a winter advisory next week. Winter? Not ready for that right now. Let’s get through fall first.
Official end of summer
Well it’s Labor Day and everyone looks at this three day weekend as the official end of summer. Really it doesn’t become Autumn for about two more weeks but this is probably for most people that have children, their last chance at a beach weekend. If you don’t have kids in school, then it doesn’t really matter, now does it?
Now is the time to save
With everything that you need for getting the kids back to school, now is the time to save. It can be expensive to have to buy new shoes, all those supplies that they need and not to mention, the clothes they need because they out grew most of their school clothes over the summer.
Nothing helps better than finding Wal-Mart discount coupons. They already have low prices and then add a discount and you can really save. Another good place to go is Payless shoe stores. I even found Payless shoes discount coupons online. I’m going to have to start looking online more for coupons. I didn’t realize how much we could save.