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Free Website Templates, Free Is Good

My blog has been on my mind lately and I’ve been considering and seriously thinking about getting a new look for my blog. There are so many gorgeous free web templates out there now. Either my blog needs a new look or I need a new haircut. But something needs to have a fresh look . . . guess I’m in the winter doldrums today.

Actually, if I had the time and the right software I would love to design some free templates on my own. I have some ideas for themes that aren’t represented now – at least in the sites I’ve been browsing through as of late. But there are so many free website templates out there right now that it just boggles my brain.

To make a premium template it takes a lot of time and effort from people that know about programming, music, animators as well as usability experts, just to name a few that come to mind. So it is a team effort, whether you have an expert from each important and very necessary field or one person that “knows it all”  and can get the job done on their own. I do know some folks that can and do it all, no way I would even attempt most of the stuff. Even though I’ve been blogging for numerous years now, I still consider myself to be a newbie.

Most of what I learned I taught myself and thank goodness for my sister who quite frequently drove all the way up here for a few hand’s on sessions. That made so many things so much easier to do and it helped a lot of what I learned to make sense.  There is just so much to learn and things are always changing. I feel a headache coming on/out and my stomach is being “sensative” just thinking of those times. Not the best

 

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The Benefits of the Acai Berry

According to my latest readings, I found that, acai berry can be used for numerous beneficial health concerns, such as the slowing down the aging process, it strengthens immune systems, it assists with burning of extra calories, while boosting energy levels and also helps with the digestive system. That is a lot of good and positive effects due to this berry that has been known to be difficult to purchase in raw form or even concentrated in supplement form. It is now available to online shoppers at Acai-berry-online.com and can lead you to trial offers to try for yourself, on their homepage.

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New Pennies

For years there have been rumors about the possibility of the Government discontinuing the production of pennies. They say with the cost of living going up and up, that pennies should become obsolete. I’ve never agreed with that presumption and think that pennies will always have a place in American society.Today I read an article that the Government has come out with new designs for the penny. That’s quite a 180 from never making any more to coming out with 4 new designs!

I haven’t seen any of these new pennies, not sure if they are out yet or not. From what I understand people are hanging on to their pennies, being led to believe that in a few years the pennies older than 1986 will be worth a lot more than one cent. I’ll believe it when I see it, in the mean time I’ll keep adding pennies to my penny jug, the same one I’ve been dumping them in for years.

 

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The Global Food Shortage Crises

I was reading on the Internet an article titled “How to end the Global Food Shortage.”  The article was explaining that the US Government subsidizes the US farmer fifty one cents per gallon to divert their corn to biofuels.  The article was also explaining that a lot of the third world countries could grow a lot more of their own food if they could get a little bit of help with getting good seed, fertilizer, and irrigation techniques.

I was very disappointed to read that the US Government was subsidizing the farmers to divert their corn from the food market.  Other plants can be used to make biofuel that are not part of the world’s food supply.  Is there no end to the stupidity of the Government?

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Down Time, During the Snow

Today was promised to be a nice day all week long by the local news weatherman, and I was looking forward to getting a few things done around the place outside and in some of the out buildings today. Once again all of their technology which is used for weather forecasting has done us wrong, this happens way too often and gets my dander up when it occurs on occasion.

Looks like I will be spending most of the day taking on some much needed inside projects and tasks, while keeping a good fire burning to keep the place warm during this below freezing weekday, down at the farm.

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Herd animals detecting magnetic field

I was reading that there was a study done about animals detecting the earth’s magnetic field.  The study showed that cows and deer tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.  The scientists say they are surprised that hunters and herdsmen and farmers didn’t notice it.  Who says farmers didn’t notice it?  Did they ask any farmers?  Maybe farmers noticed it but were too busy farming to care about something like that and get all excited about it and report it to a scientific community.  I mean really, why would a farmer even think that anyone would care about something like that?  Big whoop!

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The Price of Oil Is All About Today’s Investors

I was surprised to stumble on to a site that talks, explains and give good solid advice on today’s day trading oil issues. To be honest I had no idea that investors play such a key role in the price of oil that we have become so dependent on in our daily lives. Millions of investors are buying and selling oil contracts and the whole thing sounds like a whole lot of extreme risks that should be left to the experts and not the novice trader. So with that in mind, I’m glad I found this site (Daytradingcenter.net)that gave me such insight on this issue that is so controversy and complicated and I would urge anyone to give it a read and find out for themselves what this oil business is all about. Very enlightening indeed.

 

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New And Improved Park and Playground In The Works

I’m so glad to see that they are finally go start to fix up the park and playground that I have been visiting all my life and spent many years as a young boy playing at. It has deteriorated so badly the last decade or so that it was becoming a safety hazard and an eye sore for way too long. I know that there has been a lot of cut backs but something like this just can’t be left to rot for heaven’s sake.

I hear that they have ordered new playground equipment for the kids to play on as well as new Park Benches and Picnic Tables as well for families to us and enjoy. I am assuming that they will be using the new rubberized playground equipment which is so much than the old wooden equipment that was used back in my day. Can’t tell you how many splinters we all got from that junky old rotten wood. Today’s kids don’t know how good they have it, I can tell you that!

They plan on having everything ready, good to go for next spring. We will see if they manage to hit that target date or not.

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It’s All About Getting The Best Bang For Your Buck

We are all looking for ways to cut back on our expenses these past couple of years. There is a lot of information on the TV about ways to reduce your expenses, but for folks like me that don’t get to see much TV, we depend on the Internet for information and tips instead. I just watched a clip on a new book, “Living Large in Lean Times”, that was just recently released by Clark Howard, a money expert, who is famous for giving us all kinds of advice on how to get the best bang for our buck and how to avoid being ripped off in the process. I don’t have much time for books these days but hearing short clips like this that let you know that you can get prescription eyeglasses for $7 at ZenniOptical or that you can extend the life of your razor just by drying it after each use, I can take in small doses and not get over whelmed with too much information.

Shopping online is the way to go these days, especially for people like me that don’t live right in town, the nearest town to me is over 35 miles away, so running into town is a time consuming chore and takes a lot of gas just to save a couple of bucks on something that is on sale. With so many companies catering to the ever growing online shopping population you can find great deals all over the Internet and if you stick with only the companies that provide you with free shipping you can really make out on top. Let them bring it to me, yes indeed, that is what I’m talking about.

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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