If you’ve ever been on MySpace or Facebook or any number of other popular web sites with a demographic consisting of young, lonely, or otherwise non-family oriented people, you’ve probably run across True.com ads featuring some crazy attractive woman trying to talk to you in a chat window in front of her web cam, or…
Bread Pudding with Cherries
Last Sunday I made some amazing french toast at home, and I’d never made french toast before on my own. I made the standard egg custard mixture and got one of those whole round loafs of King’s Hawaiian Sweet Bread and cut it in half. I then took one half and sliced it into about…
Go Green With Charter and Win a Honda Civic Hybrid
Charter, the company that brings thousands of people internet, television, and phone services has a contest going on now where if you live in one of their service areas and purchase any of their services, you are automatically entered to win a new Honda Civic Hybrid worth almost $24,000. It looks to be pretty loaded:…
Light at the End of the Tunnel
The financial crisis in the economy has some light at the end of the tunnel, at least for me. I realized today as I started to get a knot in my stomach about how tight things had become in my budget, that there’s plenty of hope and I’m not at all in a bad situation.…
Is It Still Safe to Invest in Stocks?
With the stock market as a whole plummeting to dire straits, you would think it would be time to bail out before you lose all your assets, right? Wrong. That’s the problem facing the market right now: a self-perpetuating failure. People see the market plummet, so they’re taking out their money and causing it to plummet more. …
Tech Round-Up
There have been a lot of tech news bits and pieces that have been covered in detail elsewhere, so I won’t rehash them completely, but here’s the major announcements from the industry in the last few days: Man denies hacking Palin’s Yahoo Account – The man accused of hacking Governor and VP-hopeful Sarah Palin’s Yahoo…
It May Already Be Too Late
I am not usually too easily swayed by comments on a Digg.com article, but today I most certainly was alarmed, intrigued even. Digg was running a story about an army brigade being stationed here in the U.S. for domestic missions, including Federal response to man-made disasters, terrorism, or to provide support in case of natural…
Sunday, Yummy Sunday
I’ve been pretty busy here at home in the kitchen over the weekend. Friday I fell asleep (more or less passed out) on Marq and Melissa’s couch down the road, and woke up Saturday morning and came home. I realized I needed to take advantage of the weekend to get some pre-cooking done. Now that…
Get Off Your Butt and Register to Vote
Tuesday is it for many of you. You have to have your voter registration in the mail and to the board of elections by your registration deadline, or you don’t get a say in America’s future. My friend posted this video on MySpace, and I thought about several of my friends who I’ve heard say…
“Caribou Barbie” Sarah Palin Loses VP Debate
I said a while back I wouldn’t put forth any clearly political blog posts… well, I’ve turned hypocrite (or maybe liar, at least) and have decided to renig on that promise. Today I sent an emailed Letter to the Editor at the newspaper in the town where my job is, because the town where I…