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Saturday, December 30, 2006
It's late evening here in
Central Pennsylvania. We had a pretty nice day again, weather wise. Not real
cold around here yet but I'm sure that's about to change now that January is
just a day away.
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This year Betty and I are going to stay home on New Years Eve as I think the
roads will just be too dangerous for one thing and Betty likes to be home at
midnight when all her kids call to wish us a Happy New Year... That's
just fine with me as I'm at that age where I enjoy just watching New Year
transpire on the television set.
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Every year Pennsylvania Lottery has a game they call, "Millionaire Raffle."
They only sell a certain amount of tickets and when they are sold that's it.
They sell for $20 bucks a piece but that doesn't seem so slow up the sales and
each year it doesn't take long for them to sell out of them.
The drawing date was tonight... The first 5 numbers they draw are for 1
million dollars each.. That's right, 5 millionaires! The next 5 they
draw are for $100,000 each! That's not a bad haul either. They they draw 750
winners of $1,000.00 each!
Lot's of chances to win... you'd think.
Betty and I went half and half and bought 1 $20 ticket.. We didn't even
come close to the any of the $1,000 winners... Oh well, what's that old
saying? You can't win them all. I just wouldn't mind hitting one once in a
while though... You know, just to keep my spirits up...
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We just about have another bulk mailing ready to go. We should have it ready
to mail on Tuesday right after New Years.... Now I just heard on the news that
all Federal buildings, including the Post Office will be closed on Tuesday to
honor Gerald Ford... Looks like we have an extra day to get mail ready
now....
That's probably good though as it's the end of the month and I must get a lot
done as this is the busiest time of the month around here.
Especially, I must get
the
Once A Month Association,
the Newsletter and the
Monthly Member Benefit
Directory, including the commission checks done and in the mail, the first
of the month... Which now, in this case, will be the 3rd of the month... I
guess it just can't be helped and I'm sure that the post office situation is
affecting quite a few other businesses as well..
Hopefully by Wednesday morning, we'll have the back of the Jeep full of mail
to take to the post office, including the bulk mailing.
This is a good time of the year for advertising and I must get out as many
bulk mails as Betty and I can get together.
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address... What the heck, give it a try...
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That's enough blatant promotion for the start of a brand new year.
I know a very long time ago, I read a little quip that said, if you want to be
in the same position next year that you are right now, don't try to improve
yourself or try and make more money or anything and you'll just be in the
exact same position like you are now... (Or something to that effect.)
That really got me thinking. That very same day I sat down and started going
through some home business opportunities and publications that I had received
in the mail. I didn't have the Internet at the time to check on
anything... I've got a few things I'm trying on the WEB to develop into
some nice income, but I'm still staying with what I really know and that's
mail order... Yes, it's more expensive to promote, but it DOES work. I've got
the nice commission checks coming in each month to prove that....
I will say one thing, don't think you'll be able to retire on Social Security
and live any where near the comfort you are now... You'll be lucky if
you get enough to eat and have a roof over your head, let alone anything extra
like going out to eat or anywhere else.
Each year they tell you that you are going to receive a "cost of living"
increase on your SS check and in the same letter that they tell you how much
it is, will also be a notice of how much more they are going to take from your
check, before you get it, extra towards Medicare..... Yep, you actually
NEVER get a "cost of living" raise...
Usually, the "raise" only amounts to a few dollars anyway... Can you imagine
the way gasoline has went up in the last year and trying to keep up with it on
a "limited income check" like a Social Security retirement check? No way
Hosea!
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Well, you know I'm not going to wrap this post up without mentioning something
about the cost of gasoline... It seems like the last few days that gasoline
has stopped rising and at some gas stations has even come down a couple of
pennies...
Let's hope the downward trend continues.... However, DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH,
as I do want you back here to read the next post!
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I'm going to wrap it up now and jump in a nice warm tub..... and YOU,
YOU have a GREAT day and a GREAT
New Year Holiday!!!
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Picasso and the poet Max Jacob, down but not quite out in Paris, shared a bed
in turn. Jacob slept at night while Picasso worked, and Picasso slept by day
when Jacob worked as a novelty-shop clerk. On arising in the morning, Jacob
often would have to walk on a floor carpeted with drawings. Later, Jacob's
foot prints had to be removed by art experts!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Saturday December 30, 2006
Sunday, December 24, 2006
It was a beautiful sunny
day here at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania with temps going up
into the lower 50's. Yes, a GREAT Christmas
eve... No snow, but still a great day.
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I've been watching Santa's travels on the NORAD site here:
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/default.php and at the moment, Santa is in
France. Wow the old fella sure does get around and cover a lot of territory in
just one night... It's good he uses reindeer as transportation as he'd
really not be able to go the distance that he does by buying gasoline....
Especially at the latest prices!
As I have the coal stoker really fired up as it's supposed to get pretty cold
around these parts tonight, Santa won't be able to come down our chimney so he
will really have to use his magic to get in our Cottage to leave a couple of
gifts for Betty and I... He's never failed yet, so I have no reason to
think that he will tonight.
Betty and I used to have the whole family get together, here at our place on
Christmas
Eve where we would all exchange gifts and watch all the children and grand
children open up theirs and really have a great time...
After years of that, we kind of gave that up about 3 or 4 years ago as it was
just getting to be too big of a deal for Betty to decorate the whole house and
for us to get everything together and the clean up afterwards etc....
So now, we take a trip on Christmas
Day and try to get to the kids houses to exchange gifts etc.. I kind of
like this better as we get the chance to see everyone else's trees and
decorations and when we're done we can come home and plop down if we want
to...
We do have a GREAT time but most of the time we can't get to everyone's as
many have their own Christmas
plans and we have to visit them all through this coming week.. That's okay too
as that seems to extend the Christmas
holiday and spirit... and makes it even more fun.....
Oh we still put a tree up, but it has become smaller since we stopped having
the get-togethers......
It's big enough for us but all the gifts will not fit under it so we kind of
have them spread all over the couch and under the tree until we get 'em all
delivered...
Yes, tonight we're just fooling around and having a good time, but tomorrow,
we're off to deliver gifts and have a great time... They are calling for some
rain and maybe rain mixed with a little snow tomorrow afternoon but it
shouldn't be that much of a road hazard. After all the Jeep does have 4 wheel
drive if we need it... Yep, I used to really look forward to Christmas
Eve, but now I look forward to Christmas
Day....
We get older, the kids all get older, and times and things change, but the
love and fun of getting together, never changes! - THANK GOODNESS!
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I hope that you're holiday is coming along as you planned and you are having a
good time as well... There sure is a lot of celebrating on the web and
I'm going to investigate some of it as soon as I post this blog.. I do
have work to get done, plenty of it, all over my desks, but not tonight..
Tonight, I'm just going to take my time and have plenty of fun...
I will be sending out some Emails as well to some folks... Even some that
we've already sent "snail-mail" cards to. But that's okay as you can never
spread too much cheer!
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We, Betty and I, went down to visit her son John and his wife Debbie
yesterday, to exchange gifts etc., as they have a commitment to visit her mom
and dad on Christmas
day. Had a GREAT time and before we went to their house we had lunch at our
favorite Chinese restaurant. The restaurant is in the middle of a large
shopping center and the traffic was terrible... It's hard to believe that
there were that many cars! Where the heck do they all come from the last few
days before Christmas....
Wow! They must have been coming out of the wood work as you could barely
move.. It took 15 minutes just to get out of the Shopping Center! I'll
bet all the store managers in the Shopping Center just loved it...
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I just checked and Santa just finished in Europe and he's in the middle of the
ocean. Looks like from the world map they were showing that he's headed for
South America so it won't be long before he's headed our way I'm sure...
I remember when I was a kid, oh about 6 years old.
In our house we didn't have heat at night. When the big, giant, fireplace went
out, that was it until Dad got up real early in the morning and built a new
roaring fire to heat up everything.
Usually until my brother, (we shared a bedroom), and I got up, everything was
nice and warm.... However, it was a different story on Christmas
morning as George, my brother, and I always got up real early in the morning.
Even before Dad woke up to start the fire in the fire place... Wow! it
was freezing! George and I would go out to the tree to see what Santa had left
and to open presents and we were shivering all the way.. I remember my teeth
chattering as fast as they could while I was enjoying all my gifts that Santa
had brought... Boy, it seemed like forever before mom and dad got up and dad
started up the fire. As soon as he did though, George and I would drag some of
our "stuff" toward the fire place so we could play with it where it was much
warmer....
Dad would always grumble to us to get out of his way when he had to add a log
or two to the fire place. We didn't care though as we were much too
happy to worry about dad growling at us... We were truly in heaven and loved
every minute of it...
I remember the Christmas, when George
and I each got a brand new sled. They were "Lightning Guiders," about THE most
popular sled made back then. Of course now, they are antiques but boy we could
hardly wait for Mom to get up so we could ask her to go outside and try our
sleds.. Yep, back then we had a White Christmas
almost every year... Now it's rare that we get a White Christmas.
Hey, maybe there IS something to that "global warming" thing that Al Gore
keeps talking about.
Of course, we never thought about it or even cared but the Lightning Guider
sled factory was in Duncannon Pennsylvania which was only about 30 miles from
where we lived at the time... Visit the old sled factory by clicking
here: Lightning Guider.
We had a lot of fun hours with them for many years...
Years later when dad bought the dairy farm, (where I finished growing up).
outside of Duncannon, (Duncannon RD1), we used to take trips to the sled
factory to get free wood chips for bedding for our cows.. The sled
factory gave them away just for getting rid of them! So, we made use of them
as bedding and when of course the cows were through with them, they got
recycled again and were spread back on our fields along with the cow manure
where they got "plowed under" and became one with the soil again...
Yes, thinking back, even though working and growing up on the farm was surely
a lot of work, we did have a lot of fun around Christmas
time back then as well.. On the farm we had giant hills to put our sleds
to good use as well... Also, my dad's full time job was a furniture
delivery man and once in awhile he would bring home a giant cardboard box for
us, and George and I would use it to slide down the hills as well...
Especially after the snow developed a good "crust" on it.... Wow, you
could really pick up speed with the box but the downside was you had no way to
steer it... It went wherever it wanted to and we just hung on.... Didn't
matter to us as we just cared about getting up the speed with it...
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I'm sure there will be many kids getting the more modern plastic sleds this
year and having just as much fun with them as my brother, George and I had
with ours.... Things change, but kids still find ways to have fun with
or without expensive toys.... That's a fer sure!
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I just checked NORAD
again and Santa is already half way done in Brazil, South America's largest
country and just about halfway through his entire trip so I think I'd better
get something under our tree for Betty so for me it's back to goofing off, and
YOU, YOU have a GREAT Christmas!
I'll try to get another post up here by mid-week and we'll talk about some
other things then...
(I'll see you right back here just as soon as I can!
Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
A Baptist church in Hammond, Indiana, reported a record attendance of 12,350
worshipers in December 1972. The church employed a fleet of sixty-eight buses,
picking up people over a radius of fifty miles. Their advertised program for
"heaven Sunday" included Carl McIntire, and an organist without arms or legs,
a karate expert, a former Hollywood stunt cowboy, an ex-football hero, a rodeo
star, Santa Claus, and a ventriloquist!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Sunday December 24, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
It was another nice sunny
day here in Central Pennsylvania. The temps got up into the upper 40s and not
much wind so it was fairly comfortable to walk out doors for awhile. However,
I didn't even get a "heart walk" in today.
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It feels good just to set down to be honest with you. I spent the entire day
printing circulars... Almost 7,000 to be exact and folding and collating
them. I would like to get 2 more bulk mailings in before Christmas.
I'm not sure I will though. I WILL get one in for sure...
I also spent some of the day finishing writing a new copy of
Chuck's Mail Order News &
Opportunities newsletter/magazine and printing 1,000 copies of
that as well. I just finally shut off the printer about a half hour ago. I
have 2 more "acknowledgments" yet to write for print & mail jobs and then I'm
going to wrap it up for this evening.... I've had it...
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Betty spent most of the afternoon finishing wrapping Christmas
Gifts.
Geez, about the time you think all of your Christmas
shopping is done, up pops someone else into your head that you feel you must
get something for.. That's not bad but now it's getting too darn close to
order stuff the way I like to, in front of my computer with my "Jammies" on.
Now, we must go to the stores that are literally "overflowing" with people
doing the same thing as us.
Do you take notice under those circumstances that your temper gets shorter? I
know mine does...
A few days ago I was standing in line at "Borders"
to buy a few items... The line was a single file and reached several aisles
long.. There were 4 people at the registers and when one of them were
"free" they would raise their hand and that meant if you were the next one in
line you could go to them and get waited on. Then, all of a sudden a new guy
showed up down at the end of the clerk's line on a 5th register and raised his
hand and I was next up. I got to him and put my things on the counter and in
the meantime noticed that he was already having a problem with the register...
It seems that he could not get the monitor to come on. He was trying
everything and in the meantime people were going to the other registers and
being "taken care of" and sent on their merry ways. Not me, I'm still
standing in front of this guy waiting for him to get his register working...
Finally, after like 15 minutes, which actually seemed like an hour after
already standing in line for about a half hour, he threw up his hands and
called his manager and looked at me and just left. I'm standing there just
looking dumb, which incidentally, I'm VERY good at. I got behind a person on
the left and glanced down at the line.. Now the people in the line thought
that I was trying to "jump" in line... What a bummer... Finally the manager
showed up for the broken register and got it working. I put my stuff back up
on the counter and then decided that I had forgotten my
Border's card..
Darn it, every where you shop now days you have to have a darn store card.
The guy gave me a break and looked it up so I could get my discounts which
amounted to several dollars and after moving to the check out line from the
regular line, I was checked out and ready to go out the door. I looked
at my watch, the little episode took 35 minutes! Wow! Ain't Christmas shopping
fun????
That's one of the reasons that I like to shop from my computer.... A very good
example!
I think Betty said this afternoon that we only have one more item to get... I
sure hope so as every day the stores are getting more and more crowded..
Even getting around the Malls parking lots are getting worse every day.
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I must order a load of coal tomorrow.. I have enough in the bin to last 'till
right after Christmas and if the weather stays unusually warm, maybe a week
more after that. I'm not looking forward to it as I know the prices are going
up EVERY year... Pretty soon I'll be afraid to leave the house as the
coal will be so valuable, I'll be afraid of some one absconding with it!
I know since gasoline costs have gone nuts, I hear a lot more about people
siphoning and stealing gas out of folks cars... They are getting more and more
brazen about it too.
Bad time of the year to get hit with a load of coal with the cost of Christmas
etc.. Oh well, the cold weather waits on no one, that's for sure!
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Talk about gasoline.... For awhile it did go up some... around $2.25 and just
hovered around that price for a few weeks but now I take notice that it's
starting to climb even higher now with our small station here in Dauphin going
up 6 cents in just 2 days!
I sure hope we're not headed for the $3 a gallon mark again...
As far as I'm concerned, It's way too high already!
Falling US inventories, output cuts push oil higher
AP, NEW YORK Sunday, Dec 17, 2006,
Energy ministers from five leading energy-consuming nations are meeting in
Beijing today to address stabilizing oil supplies, among other things.
EPA Crude oil prices climbed above US$63 a barrel on Friday, capping a week
that reignited the market's supply concerns with news of US oil inventories
falling and OPEC's decision to cut output in February.
Global crude oil inventories are still abundant, but many energy traders see
any potential decline in supplies as a reason to bid up prices -- especially
against the backdrop of resilient consumer demand.
Light sweet crude for delivery next month on the New York Mercantile Exchange
rose US$0.92 to settle at US$63.43 a barrel on Friday. A day earlier, prices
leaped US$1.14 after OPEC's announcement. Over the last three days, the
contract has risen nearly 4 percent.
At London's ICE Futures exchange, Brent crude for February, the new front
month, rose US$0.60 to close at US$63.49 a barrel.
The delayed cuts by OPEC, spurred by concerns of bulging worldwide inventories
and anticipated non-OPEC supply growth next year, were seen as a warning to
the world's major consuming nations.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi said the price of crude did not figure in the
decision.
"What we're working toward is to rebalance the market and this decision does
this," he said.
Crude is up about 2 percent on the week.
Some analysts say the big post-OPEC announcement surge could be the impetus
that brings oil prices back above US$70 a barrel. In mid-July, crude briefly
surpassed US$78 a barrel, but dropped sharply. The contract has been trading
between US$58 and US$64 a barrel since early October.
Still, there's skepticism about whether oil prices will keep responding to
announcements of OPEC cuts -- which some market watchers doubt are being fully
implemented, and which many regard as arbitrary decisions made by OPEC members
to boost their own revenues.
To read the rest of this Article click here:
Falling US Inventories, output cuts push oil higher
They say that crude is up about 2 percent this week but already around home
here the gasoline prices shot up 6 cents a gallon! I must really be stupid
because it just doesn't seem right to me, unless of course I just figure that,
as usual, they are just plain, screwing us!
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My take on the war in Iraq
Up until now, I've never mentioned anything about the war in Iraq but I just
feel that some things are best to get off your chest.
As far as I'm concerned, we shouldn't even be in Iraq and that's just the way
I thought about the Vietnam war at the time.
There was no reason for us to attack a country that was doing absolutely
nothing to us. Everyone got confused on 9/11 and thought that Iraq was
at fault when actually, Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the terrorist
attacks on us...
As a matter of fact ALL except one that participated in the flying of the
planes to our vital targets were from our "Buddy" country Saudi Arabia.
You remember them, they're the ones that "old man" George Bush sent out "boys
and girls" over to fight the Iraqis' the first time as Iraq was attacking them
and setting their oil wells on fire. Yep, the people that we saved their ass
back then. That's where all the terrorists in the planes were from. Not one
was from Iraq!
Now keep in mind this is my uptake on this... I didn't do a whole lot of
research on it but I'm pulling from all the stuff I've read about it over the
years.
Now, about Iraq having "weapons of mass destruction." This one really gets me.
First of all, so what.. We, the United States have more weapons of "mass
destruction" than the entire world!
So what if the rest of the world decides that we shouldn't have any? Does that
mean that they should attack us and take them from us???
The other thing is that as far as Iraq goes, the only "weapons of mass
destruction" that they've EVER had came from us! We gave them to them! They
were never bright enough to develop their own... Even the darn gas that they
used to kill those many, many folks that they are "trying" Saddam Hussein"
for, we gave to him.. He used to be our, (the United States), buddy. As
far as I can figure at times he was in power only because of our help... Then,
all of a sudden he dropped from "our" favor. However, was this enough
reason to attack his country and "over throw" him and kill thousands of
people? Sounds like a piss poor excuse to me....
Now, what should we do about the war? I'll be honest with you, personally, I
don't know.. If all the "brains" in Washington and our military can't figure
it out, I doubt I have a blue ball chance in hell of doing it...
However, you know me, I do have a opinion...
As with the war in Vietnam, when we pulled up stakes and abandoned South
Vietnam to North Vietnam and left them win the war I thought it "stunk!"
All of the lives of our boys and girls that were spent over there was for
absolutely nothing. Not just the kids that died there but the thousands that
came back home all screwed up in the head and missing limbs and having their
lives ruined. All for naught!
According to our government back then, they were telling us right and left
that we were in there to "protect" the world from communism and that if the
communists were allowed to win, the entire world would be in jeopardy!
Well, of course now, we all know that was a bunch of crap. When president Bush
visited over there just a few weeks ago the country is prospering.
Personally, I think back then, we should have kept our noses out of their
business too. Why is it that we, (not all of us of course), but we, the United
States, feel that we much protect the world and we know what's best for
everybody. That's bull and it's about time we all stop listening and believing
everything our government tries to pump into our heads to further their own
agendas!
Do we belong in Iraq? Of course not. We had no business going over there and
trying to tell these folks how they should be running their country and what
they should be believing in. It's really none of our business, and it NEVER
was!
After all these years I personally still don't know the real reason that
president Bush thought it was necessary to get us involved in a war in the
middle east. One that even the United Nations would not back us on. What the
heck is the sense of having a United Nations if no one, not even us, is going
to listen to?
Now, back to my original thought.
I don't know what we should do now in Iraq that it's really messed up, but I'm
not sure bringing home our forces is the way to go. I hate to see all the
lives and maiming of our boys and girls go for nothing, AGAIN.
I think we should finish it. WHAT.... I'm not sure... but someone must have an
idea.....
The only idea I have of getting these darn Shiites to calm down and to
negotiate a settlement is to cut off their funds...
Yep, that simple.... These folks are fighting fiercely and using up a lot of
weapons, bombs, and bomb material, plus ammo, heavy artillery, everything it
takes to fight a war day after day....
Where's the funds coming from to support all of this? I think we should send
our spies, or whatever it takes to find out this information and then cut off
the funds... They can't fight without everything that is necessary.
They're certainly not taxing the people for the money like our government and
other countries must... So where the heck is it coming from.. It takes money
to wage war and lots of it! Don't believe me? Look up on the web what it costs
us just to manufacture one "smart bomb." WAY OVER A MILLION DOLLARS! Yep, I
say cut off their money and pretty darn soon they'll want to negotiate a
settlement.
I really think that's what it's going to take.. For us to come to an agreement
with them. We will NEVER beat them unless we plan to kill 'em all. They just
won't give up as they are fighting for their god and their country....
You know how WE are when we are placed in that situation. You remember, like
back when countries used to attack us to get us involved in a war!
I was brought up my entire life thinking that it was not a good thing to be an
aggressor. It IS however, very good to fight to protect yourself, family,
neighbors and especially your country against aggressors!
Looks to me like we have become the AGGRESSORS! That really rubs me the wrong
way!
I have a grandson that is scheduled to do a tour of duty in Iraq that begins
next month in January.
I can only hope that he will do his job and get home safely.
I AM proud of him. I am not proud of the reason he is being sent there
however..
I truly thing one of the reasons that a lot of our people are against the war
in Iraq. They don't like being the aggressors any more than I do....
I really would like to some day find out the REAL reason that George Bush
thought that we just had to attack Iraq. Of course, now, it's not going to
make any darn difference.. But I would like to know why my family, friends,
and country men and women are being maimed and killed in a war that I
personally think we should not be involved in..
That's my opinion and mine only..... It reflects on nothing else or anyone
else I'm associated with...
Like I said when I started, when something is bugging the heck out of you,
sometimes it feels better to get it off your chest....
If you have any comments about this or anything else in this blog, I welcome
them. My email is at the end of this post...
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Well, you sure don't need me to remind you that you are running out of time
for Christmas
shopping... I do however want to remind you to be very extra careful driving
in this Christmas
season as there are still a lot of nuts on the road that develop road rage
very easily and a lot that feel it's perfectly safe for them to drink and
drive...
You'd better be twice as careful to keep an eye out for them as it seems that
they are too dumb to keep one out for you!
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That's it for today... I'm not getting back to work now as it's getting late
I'm going to wrap it up after I post this blog this evening... I know it's a
bit long this time and I'm sorry for that... But you know me..... just like
running off with the mouth.... I have trouble just typing a few lines! (Ha!)
Take care...... and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
During World War II, constructions of Ice-ships was considered. Unlike crude
icebergs, these ships would be engineered and metal-clad, enormously strong
and especially buoyant. According to the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, "had not the atomic bomb been dropped on Japan and the
war come to an end, ice-ships would almost certainly have appeared on the
oceans of the world!"
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Sunday December 17, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
It was an unbelievably nice
pretty warm and sunny day here in Central Pennsylvania for the middle of
December.... and I enjoyed every minute of it.
No, I didn't get a chance to take a walk but I did get out on the back deck
some and enjoyed the river and there were actually a few fishermen out as
well...
Haven't seen too many geese lately but it may be because they are spooked from
all the gunfire the last couple of weeks from deer season..
Anything's possible I guess.
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I have been seeing a good many squirrels lately rushing around and can only
assume that they are working on building their winter hoard of food for when
the weather REALLY does turn cold and it will be "slim Pickin's" for them....
Right now there are plenty of goodies for them to "gather up" and take back to
their dens....
And like I mentioned, the weather is great for them to be working outdoors...
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Looks like I'll have to order coal right before Christmas. I'm not looking
forward to it as I know the price has went up again from last year...
The reason I must wait is that are coal bin will hold a bit over 3 tons of
coal.. If I order too early, it won't hold it and if I order too late, we're
liable to run out before the coal man can get here.... Usually after I call
him it will take him a week up to 10 days to get the load of coal to us so
it's a tricky situation. Too early, no good, not enough room in the bin,
too late, and we're liable to run out...
Betty and I like to pay cash for the coal as we don't want to get behind for
our heating, but at today's prices, we'll have to save up for it and the need
hitting this close to Christmas, it's just a bad time of the year.... But as
with many things in life, it just can't be helped...
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This month really seems to be speeding by and it's amazing. It seems like just
yesterday it was the first of the month and my golly it's almost the middle of
the month already! We finally have all of our Christmas shopping done and
Betty has most of the gifts wrapped up and ready for delivery. At least
that's one big load off of our minds..
I've been working my tail off writing another Chuck's Mail Order News &
Opportunities Magazine/Newsletter as I must get out a mailing before the end
of this week, (hopefully!) So that's another big job that's under way in
addition to the regular mail and orders etc. that come every day... I really
thought business would slack off this close to Christmas but not this year
evidently, as it's as strong as ever. I don't even see a little slack as we
usually do... In a way that's good as I'll need the money to pay for all
the Christmas "stuff" but in a way I was "secretly" hoping for a bit of a
break around the Christmas season... Oh well, can't have everything....
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And now here's a bit about fuel prices
Gas Prices Remain Stable For Christmas
The big tumble in gas prices during the last part of summer/early fall has
eased with prices bumping up slightly but expecting to remain steady through
the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. This is good news for travelers,
especially for those who paid more than $3 per gallon for gasoline over the
summer.
The national average for a gallon of regular gas is $2.29 according to MSN
Autos, with the lowest price in Atlanta where consumers can find gas for as
low as $1.79 per gallon. Hawaiians will still get socked as gas prices as high
as $3.39 are being felt in Hilo.
Click here for the rest of this article:
Gas Prices
Actually, I was really surprised to read that you can buy gasoline in Atlanta
for as low as $1.79 a gallon! It they can sell it that cheap there, why can't
we get a better break up here in the east on our gasoline?
Another good article:
Gasoline's Climb No Big Deal Yet
Here's another good article I found about gas prices.... Looks like
we're not too bad off just yet... At least not as bad as last summer... Check
this one out by clicking right here:
No Big
Deal
I've still got my fingers crossed... Heck the little gas station here in
Dauphin went down a penny from yesterday from $2.29 to $2.28... Maybe that's a
good sign...
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I hope you have your Christmas shopping done and are all set for Christmas...
If not, it's getting awfully close so you'd better "get on the stick."
In the meantime I have a bunch of work that I must get back to, so for now
that's "my mission" and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Sideshow performers in ancient Greece used to amaze their audiences by
pressing a spot on a goat's neck---pinching off the artery leading to the
brain----and causing it to go to sleep. Releasing the pressure would allow the
goat to wake again. (The trick still works today!)
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Tuesday December 12, 2006
Thursday, December 7, 2006
It's a nice sunny but cold
day here in Central Pennsylvania.... It's in the 40s now but supposed to drop
near 20 tonight... Brrrrr.... that's cold......
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Today is also the 65th anniversary of the
attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese that really got us into the second
world war!
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I've been meaning to put up a post long before this but it's been quite a
week. Last Friday I started to get the "chills and fever" and by Saturday
could hardly get out of bed. I spent the entire weekend in bed and on my
recliner in the living room. That was my big trip, from bed to the
recliner and back to bed again. Off and on fever bouts that I thought I was
going to freeze to death.. To right now I have no idea what it was but
by Monday, I was starting to feel much better and by Tuesday was back on my
feet and working again.. Must have been one of those 24 or 48 hour things. No
coughing, no sneezing or congestion, just fever and a miserable feeling. Oh
well, I'm glad that's over now and I feel pretty good again. Guess I'll never
really know what the heck it was.
I have my flu shots and my pneumonia shots so I don't think it was the flu.
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All the leaves have fell off the trees in our area now and the mountains look
"naked as a jaybird." Well, I guess it is about that time of the year.. In a
couple of weeks winter solstice will be here. December 21st to be exact and
Winter will begin..
I guess it's time to figure not only will the days be colder but they will be
shorter until then... On December, the first day of
Winter it will be
the shortest day of the year as far as day light goes and then the days will
begin to get longer... Boy am I glad of that as I hate these darn short
days.. Even when Betty and I go out for a late lunch these days, until
we get home it's dark. Seems like you just get up and it's turning dark
outside after only a few hours. Yes, I personally will be very glad when
the days start to lengthen.
Christmas is getting closer and
closer. Do you have all of your Christmas
shopping done yet? Well, if not, you'd better get on the stick.. Although it's
getting late, there is still time to order stuff from the web and get it
shipped to you on time... Many, many outfits are having on-line sales and many
are tossing in FREE shipping!
Personally, I'd sooner do all my shopping on the WEB. It's not as much of a
hassle, you can actually find stuff cheaper and you don't have to run from
store to store in all the traffic freezing your butt off to do it either.
However, Betty, doesn't like computers and I don't think I'll ever get her to
do her shopping on the WEB. She will however order stuff from the WEB when I
find something on it to order so she's not completely against the idea of
online ordering.
Oh well, either way time is running out for Christmas shopping... I'm pretty
sure we only have one or two more gifts to buy for grandkids and the rest are
not already bought but Betty has 'em all wrapped up. Yep, the living room
couch once again looks like K-Mart or Target except everything is all wrapped
up.
I hope you get all your shopping done on time... Just a short reminder .....
get moving!
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Gasoline is climbing, climbing, climbing.... just as I predicted it would
after election day. Darn it!
According to an article in USA today they will probably continue to rise...
The recent rise in gasoline prices will likely continue
until Christmas, making the trip home for the holidays more costly than at
Thanksgiving.
The nationwide average retail price of a gallon of regular gasoline has risen
8 cents since the end of October. On Monday, the average price was $2.297 a
gallon, the highest in two months and 15 cents higher than a year ago,
according to weekly Energy Department data.
Find the rest of this article by clicking here:
Gas Prices Rise
Now they're saying that it went up about 8 cents but let me tell you, around
here it's went up much more than that... Prices were down to around
$2.14 and now average about $2.35 a gallon. In my book that's a 21 cent
increase and they are going up on nearly a daily basis! They have no excuse at
all... Every day it's a different one... "OPEC" may drop their
production...... On one hand they keep saying that our oil reserves are
the highest they ever been and the price rises anyway.. I still think,
as usual, it's just another "screw" your fellow American deal just as it's
been for the last few years!
They say anything they want but the cost continues to rise....
I just think that they, the big oil companies, get away with just about
anything so they don't really care what we think. They just do as they please
and laugh when we start to complain. They never even get a "slap on the wrist"
from the government. Why should they give a "hoot or a holler." It's no skin
off their butt and they do make a lot more money...
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How's my home business doing?
So far the last couple of months things have been going great and business
couldn't be better....
If you wish that you had an extra check this time of the year, you could join
any of the opportunities that I'm in and by this time next year have a great
residual check coming in every month... Just check around this site as I
have quite a few of them listed...
Two of my best are first of all the Tape of the Month business.... and another
is my Elements business... The Tape of the month one you can get started
for a low $25 a month or you can join my downline builder for only $3.00 and
promote that to get a downline before you even join the main program. Click
here to look at and join the downline builder for the Tape of the Month...
-- $3 = Success
And/or click here for some more information about the Elements opportunity..
The product for this company is gold and silver coins and jewelry.... I
have a lot of silver from being in this one for the last few years.... I
just sold a few pieces for almost $300 bucks... I'll put that toward my
Christmas shopping.... Or
invest in some more silver or a small gold coin, I'm not sure yet...
Anyway, click here for more information on this opportunity,
Elements.
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Well, I have a lot of work piled up on my desks that are waiting for me to
take care of so I guess I'd better get back to work, and YOU, YOU
have a GREAT day and a GREAT week!
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
The elegant songwriter Cole Porter was noted for his lavish gift-giving. One
Christmas, he gave more lavishly than he himself realized. He bought twenty
paintings from a little old lady who lived near his estate. Years later, after
fame came to the elderly painter, twenty of Porter's friends discovered they
owned original paintings by Grand-ma Moses!
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