My first car was a 1967 Ford Mustang and I wish I had never gotten rid of it so long ago. Surfing the Internet earlier I ran across a site that sells Mustang Parts and I ended up taking a trip down memory lane for a time being, then I came back down to earth with only the sight of Mustang Tail Lights in the far distance once again.
Dad’s Old Harley, a Basket Case
Since my brother has caught wind that I found and am going to try and restore our fathers old 1932VL Flathead, Harley Davidson, a sweet little 74 incher, he has been emailing me much more frequently and is showing enthusiasm in the whole project that lies ahead for the both of us.
Since he rides a Harley for a living he knows a lot about bikes and their accessories, so I’m happy to hear anything that he has to say about the situation facing us. He has found several websites for me to check out, so many options to choose from and so many decisions to be made, glad that we are not in a major rush to get this “basket case” up and running and looking suitable once again after so many years of collecting dust and I’m sad to say some rust has taken place as well, understandably so.
The latest company that he is referring me to is called cruiser customizing and they have a good website that I have been drooling over for the last hour or so. A good site to bookmark and come back to in the near future, when warmer weather prevails and I have some spare time, money and energy.
Just a Bit Out of My League
Tomorrow is Father’s Day so my sister just shot me an email inviting me to come over to her place for dinner with her family. Since both of our parents have passed Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are a real drag around the farm, so it will be nice to get away for the day and spend time with her, her hubby and the 3 kids.
The bad news is that she wants me to stop and pick up a few presents for her hubby that she didn’t have time to get to this week. She wants me to check out a Blu ray Ripper and/or a Blu ray Burner, which I really don’t know much about, so I’m going to do some research on the Internet to find out more about them so that I can learn more about them before having to make a blind purchase. It is too bad that there isn’t enough time to order these online, that would be the way to go as far as I’m concerned, but stuff happens and now it is up to me to stop in town and see what I can find on my own. Wish me luck on this task folks, I think I’m going to need it.
Honda Shopping
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 Honda and I think that’s what I am going to buy.
Dean was telling me that he talked with a local Honda dealer and couldn’t get a good deal working with that salesman, so he went online and started searching for a Honda Dealer that had a good inventory of new and used cars, ho wanted to set a fair price and give him a good deal on the car. It’s not that hard to save some serious money if you are willing to put in the time shopping around and asking questions of the right people.
I might end up with a late model, used Honda before the summer is over. I just need to get a good price on the car and a fair allowance on a trade in and I will buy a car this year. It’s just a matter of how much and when it all works out to my advantage.
Always Learning
Read an article that called a man LTU and I had no idea what they meant. Turns out it means “Long Term Unemployed.” This is one more casualty of America’s economic crisis. In addition to people losing their homes to foreclosure, many people are unemployed for a very long time. It used to be that you should allow one month of job searching for every ten thousand dollars in expected salary. So if you need to make $50,000 a year in salary, you should allow 5 months for serious job hunting.
But in today’s world, it can take over2 years for that person to find a $50,000 a year job. These are the long term unemployed that need at some point to get more education or get retrained to acquire new skills. It is not hard to find help with taking more college level courses. The WaldenU.edu web site has scholarship and financial aid information on their site.
People who have internet access and the desire to learn more at the college level can enroll in Walden University and work on their studies at home – without having to drive and send money to get to a college campus every day. This make great sense to me.
Save Time and Money, Shop Online
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 and save us money along the way.
Since money is so tight everywhere alot of folks are starting to take a step back and look around for the best deal on many of the items and services that we require and have become accustomed to, before just jumping in with both feet and buying the first thing available. There are numerous websites devoted to finding deals and one of my favorite ones to check out before buying anything is http://www.savings.com. It is very easy to use and has a wide variety of ways to save money for online shoppers. This site has an “Ask, Answer & Save” page that provides you with answers from their community of deal experts to your questions that you submit, which is pretty cool. There is also a blog that you can read for useful information on savings as well.
Before I purchase anything these days I take some time to look around for the best deal that I can find. Online shoppers have so many ways to save money, the first thing I look for is free shipping, that in itself is a money saver. With gas prices once again on the rise, I don’t want to go into town for anything that I don’t have to.
More Winners
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs
2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained
3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk
5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown
7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp
8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash
9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline
11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam
12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists
13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist
14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there
16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.
Here are the winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2 Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone(n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid..
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon(n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit(n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug(n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor(n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
Healthline Medical Info
One of the hard things in getting older is the fact that our parents are getting older as well. It seems that I’m hearing more from friends these days about the bad health or the death of one or more of their parents. As some one that recently lost both of his parents I can relate to how horrible those times are. Seeing your parents grow old and sickly is heart breaking, something that no one looks forward to and not an easy thing to deal with.
Although modern medicine is keeping people healthier and alive longer these days, the end is always sooner or later enevatable. The Internet is playing a key role in people’s health more than ever with websites like what Healthline medical information has to offer online. Very valuable information can be found easily to assist with any type of medical issue that you can think of. The more you know about and keep informed and educated about your health the better, right. Not all doctors take the time to answer all of your questions and concerns, especially about medicines. Let’s say you were given a prescription for simvastatinwhich is a popular HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor which is used to lower cholesterol, you can go online and find out all that you need to know about that drug which can be very useful. Not all pharmacists have the time to talk to you about your prescription questions and concerns, although they can be a very valuable resource as well.
Wonderful Rain Chains For Mother’s Day
I have the perfect gift to give some one like my late-mother for Mother’s Day or any other gift giving holiday would be good as well. I’ve never seen one before, although I’ve heard the term “chains rain” before. But as I was mindlessly surfing the net earlier this evening I was looking at some rain barrels that would come in handy around here, when I came across a site that sells the most wonderful looking rain chains. My mother would have loved the umbrella one and my old man would have really enjoyed the fish rain chain, both of which I’ve posted a picture of below so you can see how cool these babies are.
There are plenty more rain chains on the website that I found these at. Rainchainlink.com offers Free Shipping on all their orders, they also have a link to some pretty nice looking unique rain barrells that I was eye balling as well. Since we didn’t have much snow this winter we are being told that we can look forward to another summer that we have to watch our water supply and possibly have to comply with mandatory water restrictions like we have had to do on and off for the past decade or so.
Right now we may be sick of all the rain, but it is helping with some water issues that are literally right around the corner.