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A Decent Bass Equializer Pedal

It’s so good to get a hand written thank you card in the mail these days, it just makes me think that they are cool enough to take the time and effort to write the card, address the card, put a stamp on it and then get it to a mailbox. When these days in just a matter of minutes you can shoot someone a thank you and or a card with all of today’s technology communication options.

The reason I bring this up is that in today’s mail there was a thank you card from my 19 year old nephew for the bass eq that we, the aunts and uncles, all pitched in a bought for him as his High School Graduation gift. He is a good kid and he deserves a decent Bass Equalizer Pedal, and so much more, but that’s another story.

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Tutoring Offered Online

My God, where was the Internet and all that it has to offer when I was in school? A co worker of mine was telling me that her son was receiving tutoring via the Internet and I thought that that was pretty cool. I could have used some Math homework help back in my schooling years, especially middle and high school. Numbers and I have never gotten along, lord knows what I would do with out my handy dandy calculator.

I spent a good amount of time with the little old lady down the street that tutored the neighborhood kids for a small fee. It helped and I got through the school, but it was a real drag, I can tell you that. She smelled bad, like old moth balls and her teeth were always, well, just nasty. Just what a teen aged boy wants to spend time with after school.

From what I understand you can go to tutorvista.com  where they offer folks Free math help and Free homework help for a large variety of subjects, K -12 and even up into the college years. Pretty cool huh? Pass the word it’s all good!

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The New NEC DSX System

It has taken the company that sis works at over nine long months to figure out that ABC Telecom has the best business telephone systems to offer. My sister was put it charge of researching the various business phone systems available to suggest to upper management for their review and await for their final approval. She has put a lot of time and energy into this project and has really been looking forward  to the day that the whole system to be installed and put to good use.

That day was today and she couldn’t be happier and her supervisor is thrilled with the whole NEC DSX System that was the talk of the whole company this afternoon. Having the right telephone system is so crucial for good customer service and will keep the employees content as well. Lord knows the receptionist will be in a much happier mood after today.

Hopefully all of my sister’s hard work will pay off when her Employee Evaluation time rolls around. She is proud of what she does and loves her job, but getting a good evaluation can make or break a persons career. Getting a decent pay increase is always a bonus!

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Cell Phone

I’m looking forward to ending my 2 year relationship with Verizon come the end of August of this year. I haven’t been happy with their service since day one. I could use a new phone, as this one has seen better days and I’m ready for something with a few more bells and whistles on it.

I know of several  web sites that I can go to and compare different providers and plans that I will be checking into soon trying to get an idea of which provider I go with and what type of phone I think will fit my needs.

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Thinking of San Diego

Before I settled down and took over the family house and farm, I had the opportunity to do a bit of traveling. I can’t tell you how much I miss that part of my life. One of my favorite places was San Diego, California. And thanks to Facebook I have been able to reconnect with a couple of good folks that I met there and they are still living there after all these years.

I found one friend on Facebook through the Meservy Law link that I followed, which took me to another site that I clicked around on and 45 minutes later I stumbled onto one of the greatest bartenders that I’ve had the pleasure of working with. He is a lot older than I and quit the bar tending business and it’s crazy lifestyle and last I heard was driving a city bus some where in Wisconsin. I used to have his phone number and his address, but then it turned into utilizing email and then he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth, so finding him on Facebook, by complete accident was a nice surprise.

If I ever get out that a way I will certainly have to spend some time with this guy. They just don’t make them like him any more. But then again, I don’t get out much anymore.

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Virtual Servers

From what I have recently researched and found, mainly online, is that RapidSwitch is a leading server hosting company over in the U.K., with well over 4000 servers that they host for a wide and ever growing range of clients and have been in this business since 1999 and still growing by leaps and bounds. It was only three and a half years ago that they were very happy to announce their launching of virtual servers,  and that they are still offering promotions in honor of that launching that folks could be taking advantage of.

Virtual servers are an interesting method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers in a way that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. Each virtual server can run its own full-fledged operating system, and then each server then can be independently rebooted. A good thing to have and to know about. RapidSwitch has an interesting website that is easy to understand, which can be a challenge for me sometimes. Always being busy with the farm, always in a hurry, no time to really focus and get good quality time to try and learn things and then find the time to process the information.

Farming sure has changed a lot in the past couple of decades.

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Newly Uncluttered and Unclogged Laptops

My days seem to get cluttered with more and more to do every second that goes by lately. I already have so much to do considering I have a farm to run, so I have been on the search for different ways to declutter things. One thing that is in desperate need to get uncluttered and unclogged, is my computer and my two laptops I have in the house.

We use these computers for so many things, not only for searching the net, or social networking, or playing games, but to also keep all of our personal and business information. Our computers over the years have gotten entirely to slow, and was ridiculous how slow they had all gotten since we had purchased them.

One night I actually had a few spare moments, and I took full advantage to find a solution to this problem we had with these computers. It didn’t take long at all for me to find a great and affordable way to do this in such a easy way. Click on clean up computer and you will be amazed at how easy it really is to unclutter and unclog your computer systems.

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Nemo Tents and Sleep Systems

For many years, more than I wish to confess to, I have been wanting to go out with some friends and go hiking, camping and fishing like the good ol’ days, but had just been too tied down with work and spending time with loved ones. This year I felt was a brand new year, and was a perfect time for me to get out there and so something I had always wanted to do.

Like I said before I had been wanting to go camping for a long while, and I found myself scavenging my garage for supplies and camping gear I needed to go. I found so many things I used to use while camping, but couldn’t find my tent I used to use. While searching for it, I realized my tent is very out of date and probably needs an upgrade even if I did come across it.

I took a night to sit in the office and just search around the net for some good deals on tents. I came across a nemo tent sale, and had found great deals on all types of tents, but the one that stood out to me the most was a 3 season tent, something I’ve always wanted to own. I ordered it right away and had it shipped to my home, and in no time at all I was camping out by the lake the following weekend. I am so grateful to have found such a sturdy tent to spend many of nights in while by the camp fire enjoying nature.

photo of Nemo camping gear
Nemo Sleeping Bags

 

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Playing A Game or Two

I’ve been know to spend some time on the PC playing games, only the free ones though. Sometimes it is nice to just kick back and relax by yourself and play a game or two, when time permits. At Playitontheweb.com they offer over 8000 free online flash games that I check out and play once in a while and think enough of their selection to share their information here.

Word Master Game
Word Master Flash Game

One that I just finished playing and enjoyed was their free star trek flash game, I’ve always been a fan of the hit show and the following box office hits of the movies of Star Trek and I like seeing the variety of games that they come out with it as the theme, most are really shameful, but I like their version and urge anyone to give it a try.

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The Need for Ink

I know that everybody that owns a computer with a printer at some point needs some type of new printer ink cartridges, even people in the U.K (of course, we all know that they do) according to the web-site of 999inks.co.uk which is where I somehow stumbled and fell across last night.It was interesting to see all their products that they have to offer, most of the brands I have heard of, but there was a few that I did not recognize so I’m under the impression that they are native to the U.K. like under the laser tone category I see that they have Brother, HP, Epson, Lexmark and then they have what they call “Tally Toner”, I couldn’t resist I had to take a look and see what it was all about. I don’t know what I expected to find really, it was just a toner, it looked like any other toner, but I was confused about what they mean when saying VAT and Free Delivery Included, I wonder what VAT is. I’ll have to make a point of finding out about that one.

Then I got the bright idea to see if I could order from them, being as I am not in the U.K., but of course in the good old U.S. of A. I have no idea what the rate of exchange would be for the money issue, but I was thinking that maybe after placing the order and all that it would give you a way to change the monies over, but I didn’t get that far. While plugging in my name, address and all that to set up an account with this company, it wouldn’t let me put in the United States as the country, only the United Kingdom was listed and no way to change it, so I guess that answered my question about ordering out of there. Too bad because I was really interested in seeing how they handled it, but that is O.K., it really was interesting to see their selections of ink cartridges and office supplies, they do sell a lot more than just inkjets. They have all the usual home and office supplies and I looked under the category of home and office supplies when I see that they have something called a pritt stick, my curiosity got the better of me and I had to see what that was, come to find out it is a glue stick!

All in all it was an interesting experience that I’m glad that I took the time to do and find out about, that is one thing about the Internet, you always have an opportunity to learn from it.