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Monday, July 31, 2006

It's a beautiful sunny morning here in Central Pennsylvania but it's also hotter than the hinges of you know what! Yep, the heat's on here at the Blue Bird Cottage and the humidity is right there with it... Over the next few days we're supposed to have record heat here. It already feels like record heat but I understand that we're just getting started with it.. The 2 air conditioners we have are barely keeping up with it and they are running full blast... They don't seem like they're are doing too much until you walk out side and then back in.. Then it feels like a refrigerator in here!
Oh well we're in for a hot ride here this week that's for sure!
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The weekend turned out pretty good here, in my home office as I had a lot to get done and still have a lot to get done... This is the end of the month and that is the busiest time of the month for me. I have all of my "end of the month" stuff to get done.
I have to finish the end of the month "stuff" like everything for the Once A Month Association, the Newsletter and the Monthly Member Benefit Directory, including the commission checks that are supposed to be done by the end of the last day of the month. I got just a little of that done yesterday but still have plenty to do today... I had 3 new entries into the Once A Month Association that just came in on Saturday to get done and they usually take me over an hour each to do the custom promotional kits for them.. That took up a lot of the time yesterday... Meantime it seems like Betty and I are always working on another bulk mail as we always have a load of stuff that needs mailed in addition to the "stuff" that I must mail for myself...
So looks like most of today will be used for the OAMA "stuff."
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Friday was a GREAT day as we hit the..... oh, wait a minute... I'd better start at the beginning...
Every week on Wednesday and Saturday Betty and I go thirds with our Chinese friend, the manager, down at the Grand Buffet in Harrisburg, to play the "PowerBall Lottery." Each of us, Betty, Larry, (our Chinese friend), and myself, usually kick in a buck and we each play a number. Larry picks his, Betty picks hers, and I always play her and my birthdates.... that gives us 3 numbers to hit it with....
We've been playing the darn thing this way for months.... probably more like a year... Up to last Wednesday evening all we ever hit was the powerball a couple of times for $3 bucks, and I think one time we hit 1 regular number and the powerball for a big $4 bucks!
As usual we played for last Wednesday evening but Betty and I didn't even bother to check the darn number until Friday afternoon as we thought we'd be going in to see Larry and we'd better check the numbers to see just how we made out...
Well, as Betty reads the number out of the paper, I usually check the numbers on the card and tell her if we have each one on "A" - "B" - or "C."
She started to read the first number and we had it on "A" which would be Larry's number and then she read the next, which I had on "C" my number, and the next one.... geez... I had that on my number too, and the next and then the next... Boom, boom, two more right in a row!!!! But that was it.... We didn't have the powerball but we had 4 of the regular numbers out of 5!!!!
I held my breath as I went to the "PowerBall Lottery" site to see how much we had one... Apparently we won $100 dollars!!!! Not bad at all unless you look at what just one more regular number would have gotten us ---- $200,000.00!!! Yep, we were just one number, 2 digits from the 200 grand! Even the powerball would have only gotten us only $5,000 .... But just one more regular number...... Yeah, I know, that's what we all say..... Just this number or that one ---- whatever....
That's okay though as we were really happy to tell Larry that we finally won more than 3 or 4 bucks.... Of course we each got $33 bucks with an extra dollar to play an extra number...
Now that we were rich, Larry wanted to spend "big time" money and go for $3 bucks each... Betty and I agreed and with our extra "free" number we had 10 chances at Saturday nights powerball!!!
Incidentally we did HIT Saturday night..... yeah, you guessed it we had the powerball number for another $3.00 win!!! Wow, two wins in one week, can you beat that!!!!!
Oh, well, we'll be playing some time today again for Wednesday night..... you never know.....
Oh, but I do think that we'll probably go back to our regular "insane" bet of a buck a piece... Betting that BIG TIME money like 3 bucks each makes me get just too darn nervous!
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With all the heat and rain here lately at our cottage the grass is growing by "leaps and bounds"... but it will have to continue as I'm not going out in this heat to cut the darn stuff... No way 'Hosea' no way at all.... I'm about ready to buy a couple of sheep and let them have a good time with it...
If I could do it I would as unless they changed the zoning around here in the last 15 years the guy beside us used to have a few steers that he raised every year...
The only thing though is that I couldn't stand the darn house flies that would without a doubt come with them.
As it is now, around our cottage, I've killed maybe 3 houseflies all Summer here. That's it..... not bad at all... If we start getting a bunch of animals, that's all going to change!
Out toward the end of our lane the owners of the property out there are going to put in a dog kennel... That's about a quarter of a mile from here, I've got my fingers crossed that it's far enough away to keep the flies right there at the kennel... I know, it's not really that far, but I can hope, can't I???
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I did have a couple of more things that I had wanted to cover here this morning, like gas around here is again at $3.00 a gallon, but I guess they'll have to wait until tomorrow morning... Right now, I must get back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!! (I'll see you right back there tomorrow morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Should New York City secede either from the Union or from the state or New York? The question has been raised repeatedly. In 1788, it was feared that New York would not join the Union. Some New York politicians proposed that the city secede from New York State and join New Jersey or Connecticut. In 1804, there was an abortive plot to form a Northern Confederacy, of which New York City would have been a part. In 1861 Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that the city secede from the Union. In 1969, mayoral candidate Norman Mailer proposed that the city secede from New York State and become the fifty-first state!
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Friday, July 28, 2006

T.G.I.F.
It's a nice sunny morning here, but again the weather people are calling for showers today and with the temps again going up to the upper 80s with high humidity, looks like were in for another hot one.. That aside though, it's another beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania! Hot Dog!
(These days when I wake up in the morning and realize that I'm still breathing, it's ALWAYS a GREAT day!)
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Geez... I don't know what was wrong with me yesterday but apparently I had some kind of 30 hour thing rather than the 24 hour flu or what ever... Day before yesterday about mid morning I started to get "sicker than a dog." Don't know what it was, one minute I was cold, the next minute I was roasting... I developed the runs, stomach cramps, you name it... If it's bad, that's the way I felt. That went into Wednesday night and yesterday until about mid day... Yesterday when I was writing this post, I felt like crap... I was so screwed up that later last evening when I was looking this site over I took notice that I never linked the joke sheet for yesterday properly... That's repaired now if you were trying to get the jokes for yesterday and couldn't.... Sorry about that....
Again all morning yesterday I felt like crap and had stomach cramps, the runs, the cold and hot thing and then about 12 noon to 1 PM everything just started going away and what ever was wrong just disappeared out of me.
After racking my brain as to what the heck happened, I think maybe it was the new medicine that the doctor put me on a few days ago. Well, actually, he prescribed it a few days ago but I didn't start to take it until yesterday morning.... One of them out of the 2 new drugs is a very powerful diuretic, (water pill), and I'm supposed to take 2 of them a day..
I sometimes think that it's takes some time for your body to adjust itself to a new medicine... That's what I've decided to blame it on anyway as I can't find anything else that it could have been...
There for awhile though, I thought that I'd had "bought my ticket." That's how dog gone bad I felt!
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I mentioned last week that I had bought some movies from the Amazon.com site and they came a couple of days ago...
One of them was a DVD of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise and I just couldn't wait to see it.. A few years ago when I found out the Tom Cruise did all of his own stunts I really started to like him more and more... For a little guy, he sure has a lot of guts..
I got the album of War of the Worlds with 2 disks in it... One that has the extras on it... I haven't looked at that one yet but I did get Betty to watch War of the Worlds with me last night.. She's not a Sci-Fi fan but she too, is a Tom Cruise fan.
It, the movie, was not as good as I had expected it to be. But, it wasn't that bad either.. It got a bit slow here and there, but there was a lot of excitement and just wonderful "special effects!" Who ever did the special effects should be the ones that really get some kind of award for this picture....
Of course when I was younger, I did enjoy the first War of the Worlds movie as well, but with today's special effects, there is certainly no comparison! If you haven't watched it as of yet... You just might want to rent or buy a copy for yourself....
It, in my humble opinion, is well worth the time to watch it...
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I know some of you won't have the time to check out our joke sheet at the end of this post so here's a pretty cute one I thought would bring a smile to your face that I didn't want you to miss:
After stopping at the pet store to pick up supplies for Whiskey, their dog, my sister-in-law, Amy, and her young daughter, Shelly, went to the supermarket. At the checkout, Amy couldn't figure out why she didn't have enough money to pay for the groceries. "Don't you remember, Mom?" Shelly reminded her in a loud voice. "You spent all your money on Whiskey."
Now wasn't that a pretty good one! Check out all of today's jokes by clicking on the "Joke Page" at the end of this post... Watch though as some of them are R rated!
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Now to one of my favorite topics, or maybe I should really say one of my LEAST favorite topics!
GOVERNMENT WASTE!
*Citizens Against Government Waste reported that between 1996 and 2002 the U.S. Postal Service spent $48 million sponsoring sports teams. During the same period they reported a $675 million corporate loss!
*Senator Ten Stevens of Alaska added a provision to the 2004 Military Construction Appropriations bill to replace a dog kennel at Elmendorf Air Force Base. Cost: $1.4 million!
*In 1999 the Pentagon spent more than $5 million at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. ---to build a golf course. (Another golf course, that is: It already had two!!!)
That's just a few of the gross examples of Government waste! Now doesn't that make you feel better when you write that check on April 15th!
Those examples are from "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader - Calendar"
Would you like to learn and read more about Government Waste..... Check out their web site here: Citizens Against Government Waste
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Well, we've had a pretty decent week and I still have plenty to do before my weekend starts.... So for me, right now, its' back to work, and YOU, YOU by golly, have a GREAT weekend!!! (I'll see you right back here on Monday morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
While there is no law that forbids the mentioning in Swiss newspapers of suicide as a cause of death, suicides are not specifically mentioned in many cases. The reason for such omissions is related particularly to Catholic doctrine that regards suicide as sinful!
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

It's cloudy outside at the moment here in Central Pennsylvania and supposed to rain off and off all day. No relief on the heat though with temps supposed to climb into the upper 80s and the humidity supposed to be as high as ever... Other than that, it looks like we're in for another beautiful day here!
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I finally got a chance to spend a full day in the office yesterday and DID get a lot of work done... However not enough I'm afraid as I still have piles of it on my desks to be done. I think I need a break... Yeah, that's it, I'll have to get away from it for awhile so I can get a new perspective on it... Or as I like to think of it, play hooky for a few hours and enjoy myself! Yeah, I think that's just what the doctor ordered!
You don't supposed I'm just getting lazy here in my advanced years do you? Naw, that can't be it... At least not to the point that I'd want to admit it to anyone..
I'm just going to "conserve my energy." Yeah, that's it... "conserve my energy!
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Are you old enough to remember when the head of IBM way back in the 80s said that there would be no market for personal computers... After all, What would people want them for?
Well, apparently someone did.
There were over 820 million PCs in use throughout the world in 2004 and the total is projected to top 1 billion in 2007. Why is no one talking about birth control for PCs? What will we feed them?
Growth is slowing in the industrialized world, but will continue in the developing countries for another decade, according to Computer Industry Almanac. The U.S. is way out in front with over 220 million of the suckers, accounting for over 27% of all PCs in use. By way of comparison, the U.S. only accounts for 4.6% of worldwide population.
PC usage is growing rapidly in China (and is expected to surpass Japan in 2007), and also in other populous emerging countries.
Yep, I'd say someone was just a bit off on that prediction that no one would ever want a personal computer.
Kind of reminds me of one of the jokes today that went into the Joke page for today.
One day the Bishop Wright was discussing philosophy with a college professor. The bishop's opinion was that the millennium was at hand. As evidence, he cited the fact that everything about nature had already been discovered and that all useful inventions had already been made.
The professor politely told the bishop that he was mistaken. "Why, in a few years," he said, "we'll be able to fly through the air."
"What a nonsensical idea," Bishop Wright said. "Flight," he assured the professor, "is reserved for the birds and the angels."
[Bishop Wright was the father of two young budding inventors named Orville and Wilbur] Just goes to show us all that we'd better think things over, real good, before we open our mouths with any kind of prediction!
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Yep, computers are here to stay for sure... I've used mine so much over the last years that I'm not even sure if I could even get along without it.. Oh, I guess if I had to we could.. I can always adapt... That's part of being human... But having the choice, I think I'll just keep mine!
It never ceases to amaze me just what is available lately on the WEB.. Just type in about any question on any decent search engine and you have an answer of some sort.. It just may not be exactly what you want but with a little "fine tuning" you'll be able to find exactly what you want...
Pretty soon they'll come up with a game show on television, "Stump the Computer!".... Oh come on, that's no more outlandish then some of the crap that they have on TV now days...
I think the one that I dislike the most is the one where they get people to eat bugs, raw meat and various raw organs of the bodies of animals...
Just to prove that people will literally do just about anything for a buck!
Oh well, what ever turns them on.... I just can't see why people would want to watch that crap... and people must want to watch it or it wouldn't be on!!!
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Well the weekend is crawling up on me real fast and as I mentioned above there is still plenty of work around here to get done before it gets here so for me, it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day today! ( I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
May 10, 1869, marked the completion of the first single-track transcontinental railway in the U.S. as well as the giveaway by Congress of 155 million acres to railway promoters and buccaneers. In addition to land, promoters received millions of dollars in U.S. subsidies and bonds. Some of these found their way into the pockets of the congressmen who had given them away! (Now, does that really surprise you? Graft? I know it doesn't me! - Chuck) **************************************
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

It's another sunny morning here in Central Pennsylvania and it sure looks like we're in for a beautiful day.. The humidity is setting back in, here in our area and it's going to seem like a lot warmer than it actually is but beyond that it looks like a clear, sunny day!
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I'm really surprised that we are at the middle of the week already but I guess I'm really screwed up with all of the doctor's and hospital visits this week so far....
Thank goodness that's behind me for a few days and I can concentrate on getting some work done here in the office...
The work has been piling up all this week and I have piles of it on my desks just "glaring" up at me in expectation.
Well, I'll be getting to that as soon as I post this blog today.
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We had somewhat of a commotion here last evening as fire trucks and mainly "river rescue" trucks were going up and down the lane in front of our house.
It seems that a man and his wife were trying out their new kayaks in the river and both of them upset the crafts and all the emergency vehicles were out hunting for them..
Well, as luck would have it not only did they find them but they rescued them, and both are doing well today.. I do think that in the future they will be much more careful with their kayaks until they learn how to safely operate them though!
Thank goodness even with all the high water that we've had this year, we haven't had but more than one or two drownings in the river near where we live. That's a "good thing" as Martha would say!
With all the crazy weather we've been having this year and the high water, several times, we haven't even had a chance to get our own boat in the water yet... I'm hoping for at least a couple of weeks in the water before Fall weather gets here...
The way things are going we'll just have to wait and see.
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Betty and I just found out that our neighbor that lives just 2 properties up the road from us had a heart attack about 3 or 4 weeks ago.. When I went down yesterday for the "nuclear stress test" would you believe that our neighbor was there about 10 minutes before I got there for the same darn test, what a small world!
That's what usually happens... Once someone has a problem with their heart, they tend to start taking care of it... But up until something does happen, no one thinks about their ticker... That's why I think all men especially over 50 should go and get a complete physical and have extensive tests on their hearts...
That's why a lot of folks just die on their first heart attack and don't have a chance... again, they don't think anything is wrong until it happens..
That's what Randy, our neighbor was telling us this morning... He had no trouble what-so-ever up until the time that the heart attack actually occurred!
Unfortunately, for a lot of people, by then it's just too darn late!
A good friend of ours, brother, just died from a heart attack last month... His age? 47 years old!!!
So if you know anyone around that age, urge them to get themselves and their hearts checked with a good going over..... It will pay them in the long run!!!
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I'm really looking forward to getting a lot done today so I think this will, unfortunately be a fairly short post this morning... So for me it's definitely back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day! (I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Elsa Maxwell was a unique phenomenon in the twentieth-century social world. Starting without beauty, money, or social connections, she made herself into the social arbiter-supreme. Her contacts with the wealthy and titled of the international set were so extensive that when the Waldorf opened in New York in 1931, she was given a suite rent-free in hopes of attracting a rich clientele. Both the Ritz Hotel and Maxim's restaurant in Paris never presented Miss Maxwell with a bill when she honored their premises!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Wednesday July 26, 2006

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

It's on the sunny side here this morning at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania.. However we're supposed to get rain this afternoon and a bit warmer today with temps in the upper 80s and some more humidity back... Oh well, it was nice while it lasted... It still looks like a pretty darn good day though!
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My trip to the doctor yesterday turned out pretty good and he changed some of my medicines.. I sure hope that it's for the best....
Today I'm gone to a different doctor or actually like a mini-hospital for a Nuclear Stress Test... I've been off all of my heart medicines for 2 days now and believe me, that alone is enough to give me some cause for worry... I'm not used to going this long with out my huge cache of medicines that I've come to rely on to get me through each day. When I don't take them, it now worries me that something may happen...
Hopefully I'm worried for nothing... What really DOES worry me is that I'm off all my medicines and they are going to put my heart under terrific "Stress" and then shoot some nuclear "stuff" in me and then shove me in a machine so they can "see" what my heart looks like under stress... Now do you see something awfully wrong with that scenario? No heart medicines, and then place my heart under terrific stress... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... I don't even like the sound of that one!
Oh well, I've lived through it before as I've had this type of test done several times over the years... It still doesn't make me any less worried about it however. I've lived through it but at the time they are doing the test it sure feels like I'm not going to make it until the end of the darn thing... And that's the truth!
Well, when I write the next installment of this blog, all of that will be over.... and I'll still be here TO WRITE THE NEXT INSTALLMENT, Hopefully!
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I was thinking about this whole mess yesterday and although I bitch and moan about these darn tests I thought to myself, if these tests would have been available when my dad was alive, he may have lived many more years to live than he did...
Dad had all kinds of heart problems too and eventually one of the strokes or heart attacks finally finished him...
Yep, even since I began having heart problems with my first heart attack back in 1991 many, many improvements and more modern ways to treat my problems have been developed...
When I first had a "heart cath" I had 4 of my blood vessels "ballooned" to open them up so more blood would get through my system.. I then had over the years 3 or 4 more balloon jobs.. But then year before last when I had the last "hearth cath", instead of ballooning open my arteries, the doctor put in 3 "stents" to keep the vessels open! Quite an improvement over the years. And they are always experimenting and trying new methods for taking care of my heart disease. Heck if I can live long enough maybe they'll come up with a cure!
Well, no, I guess they won't come up with any cure too much until President Bush's term expires.... (Come to think about it!)
That's just about as much as I'm going to say on that subject as when I talk about it, I just get upset when I think of all the poor devils that could be helped with "stem cell" research.
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These trips to the doctors and hospital are really putting a cramp in my doggone work load here in the office.. I keep working later into the night and it doesn't seem to help that much... I'll just need a few days in a row to help get caught up. Like I said before though, I know I'm complaining but I'd sooner have the time to complain about it then to just plain "run out of time."
After visiting my one doctors yesterday though, I think I can finally understand why it's so darn expensive to visit a doctor now days than it used to be...
All you have to do is look around at all the expensive equipment that it takes just to keep track of your appointment and billing of your insurance company and you...
Also, the office crew to take care of it... People have to make decent wages no matter where they work and folks that work at the doctor's office must be, (unless they're cleaning the bathrooms), fairly intelligent. They probably make darn good wages...
Then there are the buildings that they use and work out of. They always seem to be in a very good part of town and very expensive. All the equipment, the electronic stuff and just everything.. Even down to a hypodermic needle...
When I was young and visited the doctor to get a flu shot or something, he used to use his hypodermic needles over and over... He used to have a company even sharpen them for even more use... The same with his scalpels etc... They would get sharpened as well.. Now days not only do they NOT reuse the needles but the knives as well just get tossed out once they are used just one time...
No conservation... and I'm just not so sure that any of us would even want them to use conservation of such items any more with all the new, various diseases going around now days that we didn't even have back then such as "aids."
Yes, a lot of things were reused back then. That's one of the reasons why the doctor was so cheap compared to now days.. And back then I only ever remember one other person at the doctor's office and that was his "girl Friday" that would do all the scheduling, billing, clean the office down to laying out the magazines, and also she was his nurse as well.... and believe it or not, she did all of that without computers, printers or copy machines... She used what they called "daily appointment books." And apparently they worked quite well as I don't ever remember not having our appointment "reserved" as promised for any of us that had to go to the doctors... and just one other thing...
As we couldn't schedule our sicknesses, when we were sick, we could call and get an appointment with the doctor the SAME DAY!
Now, to get an appointment you're lucky if you can get one the same darn month!!!!
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Oh well, as I mentioned above, I have another "appointment" today for yet another test so for me, right now, it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day today! (I'll see your right back here tomorrow! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
As artists and traders in medieval cities began to form organizations, they instituted tough initiation ceremonies, journeymen in Bergen, Norway, were shoved down a chimney, thrown three times into the sea, and soundly whipped. Such rites made the belonging to the guild or corporation more precious to those who were accepted, and survived!
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Monday, July 24, 2006

It's a nice sunny Monday morning here in Central Pennsylvania. It's going to be a very nice day where temps will reach the mid-eighties with low humidity just like yesterday.. Yesterday was absolutely beautiful as compared to ungodly high humidity on Saturday...
I kept threatening to get out side yesterday and get some work done in the yard but that's about as far as it got as I just had too darn much work here in the office...
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Today is Betty's birthday... Happy Birthday Betty!!!!
We had the yearly birthday party down at Betty's son John's on Saturday.. John and her birthday is on the same day, today! Can you believe she had her son on her birthday. What a birthday present...
At any rate John's wife Debbie made a great meal.... Some kind of shrimp dish and it was really good... And some kind of dessert that she found in a magazine... I thought it was good but only tasted it because of the sugar content... (We call her "Little Martha" after Martha Stewart.)
John is the son who received a new liver just last year on May 31st.... He's been back to work for a few months now but is finally able to make his full 5 days a week which he's done now for 2 weeks in a row...
When he received the new liver his weight was down to 135 pounds and now's he's back up to his original weight of about 230!
He looks much, much better and now he only has to make a trip to Philadelphia once a month or sometimes every other month. There for awhile he had to make a trip down there every week...
He is definitely getting better!
When I think last year about April and the first part of May, we didn't even think John would have a birthday this year and maybe not even last year.... He's been very, very, lucky!!
At any rate...... Both he and his mom had a really good birthday party....
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Seemed like this weekend really went fast.. I think it's because I have so darn many doctor appointments and tests for this week.. I'm dreading most of them.. Some because they just plain ruin my day and others because they are just miserable to prepare for them and then miserable to take them!
I had to stop drinking coffee yesterday morning, and also any kind of carbonated soda, and any kind of chocolate... Like I eat any chocolate anyway.... At any rate I also had to stop some of my heart medicines... All this for a "nuclear stress" test Tuesday.
Today I have a follow up appointment with the "internal" doctor... No big deal, but it will screw up half the darn day... (What else is new.)
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Wow... the technology is really coming down in cost lately... You can get a pretty nice computer with the latest operating system, plenty of ram with an ample hard drive for $299 to $599..... Some even come with monitors, speakers, and some even with a FREE printer!
Just about every day I get an Email of Specials from the Tiger Direct Company... They have really good stuff and some of the best prices... I've bought from them before and have NEVER been displeased with the service or the order...
Go here: http://www.tigerdirect.com and don't forget to sign up for their Email service.... You won't believe some of the prices... that they offer... I've purchased a many birthday and Christmas gift from them!
There you go.... that's my "tip" of the day! NO, I'm not going to have a tip everyday but when I do give you one, you can bet that I've bought it or used it myself BEFORE I recommend anything to you!
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I saw on Saturday that a couple of gas stations I passed was either at the same price or a penny or so cheaper... At least, for the moment, it doesn't seem to be climbing any higher.. What difference is a few pennies though... Heck it's been running near 3 bucks a gallon all Summer long.
Once you're around 3 bucks, 5 or 10 cents one way or the other I guess really doesn't make much difference.... I'd really like to see it drop down about a buck or so but I doubt that we'll ever see it below 2 bucks again..
Just looked up the price of gasoline when I was born in 1943 and it was 19¢ a gallon! Actually that was a little high because of the 2nd World War.... Before that it was around 12¢ a gallon! WOW! I know, I know.... inflation set in... but if you check the cost of other things and how they have risen in price since then you'll find very few items that have climbed higher than gasoline!
But then we are using something that cannot be replaced... Once it's gone, it's gone.... That's just another reason that we must find alternative fuels and alternative methods of transportation other than gasoline and diesel engines... Same with heating our homes... The only thing that I can see at the moment that can actually produce enough energy to replace all of the fuels is electricity!
Did you know that back in the 1930's, the fellow that was fighting Thomas Edison about what kind of electricity we should use here, in the United States, Nikola Tesla, claimed that he had found a way so that everyone in the world could tap into a supply of FREE electricity! He was building a plant to do just that on Long Island, New York, and being financed by I think, J. P. Morgan, (don't quote me on that but I'm pretty sure it was Morgan), when J. P. found that Tesla was going to GIVE away the electricity for FREE he pulled his backing and the project was closed! He said he would NOT finance anything that he couldn't make money from!
Here is a direct quote from Nikola Tesla;
`We are confronted with portentous problems which can not be solved just by providing for our material existence, however abundantly.
On the contrary, progress in this direction is fraught with hazards and perils not less menacing than those born from want and suffering. If we were to release the energy of the atoms or discover some other way of developing cheap and unlimited power at any point of the globe this accomplishment, instead of being a blessing, might bring disaster to mankind... The greatest good will come from the technical improvements tending to unification and harmony, and my wireless transmitter is preeminently such. By its means the human voice and likeness will be reproduced everywhere and factories driven thousands of miles from waterfalls furnishing the power; aerial machines will be propelled around the earth without a stop and the sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land...''
This dude was no crack pot... He is the one that made all of the generators up at Nigara Falls. He was also in a famous battle with Thomas Edison.. Edison claimed that direct current electricity was the best source of electricity to use the the good old U. S. A. and Tesla claimed that alternating current was the best for many different reasons... Guess who won? Well when you go to plug in that computer, television, or sweeper, you're using A.C. or alternating current just like Nikola Tesla said we should... He beat out the famous Thomas Edison even though Edison ran a many of smear campaigns against him and had much more money to sponsor the smear campaigns...
I read a Biography about Tesla several years ago and it was so interesting that the book was one of those that was hard to put down once you got started...
See some more about the "not so famous" Nikola Tesla by clicking here; Nicola Tesla.
Yes, when Nicola died, some government men came into his apartment and "cleaned" out all of his notes and essays.... What ever happened to them? Your guess is as good as mine... but I bet we'd all profit from them....    Read his quote again above... Very interesting........................
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As I mentioned above, I must go to a doctor's appointment today and before I go I have a few things to get done... So for now I'm going to have to get back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT Monday!!! (I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Texas has 254 counties. Alaska, which is more than twice as large, hasn't any!!!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Monday July 24, 2006

Friday, July 21, 2006

T.G.I.F.
It's sunny here this morning at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania but I'm not sure how long it's going to stay that way as the weather folks are calling for showers today, Saturday and Sunday as well. Just a couple of days ago the weather report was "sunny" for today and the entire weekend! Something must have "snuck up" on the weather people that made them change their minds. I still say that now days they do have more and more sophisticated equipment, but still can't predict the weather any better than they used to. Matter of fact, I think they used to do a better job of it when I was a kid! Oh well, at any rate.... they missed this rain up until practically the last minute!
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Friday is here and I'm really looking forward to an "easy as she goes" weekend.. Oh sure, I expect to get some work done over the weekend but I'd like to take a bit of time off for a change....
It seems the more I get done the further back I get. At least it seems that way sometimes but I know it can't be... I think it's because, for some reason, I've been extra busy this summer with much more work and sales than normal. I'm sure not complaining though as I'll get caught up eventually, it will just take a little more time.
I picked up another new associate for my favorite company, and the one I make the most money with, ELEMENTS yesterday. It was another pleasant surprise getting an Email last evening that in the subject line it read, "You've got some more cash coming!" It was an Email with the information of the man that signed up into the company and into my direct downline and telling me that I had a $20 bonus coming!
Yep, I just love those $20 bill bonus commission checks!.... They can send them to me all time... I'll put 'em to good use.
I'm working to earn some other bonuses so this sign up will come in handy but I'm still working to get a lot more....
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The $3 Bucks = Success downline builder, Phase XII, that I run to build downlines for the main program, the Tape of the Month Company will run out at the end of this month.. Sign ups for that has picked up a bit... For some odd reason it always picks up right before a Phase closes. Of course I'll be starting our new Phase XIII of the downline builder on August 1st. That one will run for another 3 months until the end of October.. This is a great downline builder and only 3 bucks puts you into each Phase. The first couple of weeks of next month, August, I'll be mailing out "Joining kits" to all the folks who are in the Phase XII. All the people who join the main Tape of the Month Company from those "Joining Kits" will go in the downline of whomever signed them into the downline builder.. This way you can promote the $25 a month program with a small $3 dollar program. More folks will join the 3 dollar program and when they receive the downline reports that will be in the "Joining Kits," and hopefully see people that they signed into THEIR downline, they will join the main program Tape of the Month Company immediately..
I've been in this program for over 4 years and make a pretty nice monthly commission check with it... The downline builder works just fine to continually build the business and of course who ever does join the small downline builder may join each Phase and use it to build their downlines as well! It's been working for several years now, and I don't see why it won't continue to work....
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And now, as the guys in the "Monty Python" troupe used to say, here's something "completely different!"
I was out cleaning some "cob webs" off the Jeep the other day and found myself talking to the Jeep. Yep, I've done it many times before and even as stupid as it sounds to be talking to an inanimate object, every once in a while I'll catch myself doing it again! Am I nuts, or do other folks do that too?
I know, years ago, I had this old Chevy that had a 6 volt system, and the reason I mention that is with the old 6 volt starters, generators etc. when you tried to start it, the 6 volt starter that was hooked to the 6 volt battery didn't spin the engine very fast at all. As a matter of fact sometimes it would barely turn it over at all in cold weather! But for the most part, if I kept it tuned up pretty good with good spark plugs, points and condenser, it DID start.
But, especially in the Winter, I'd find myself "talking" to the old Chevy and sometimes pretty intimately. Actually I used to call it "Baby" sometimes when I was trying to start it... As in, "Come on Baby, please kick off, I've got to get to work on time!"
Or, "Okay Baby, you've screwed around long enough now.... it's time for you to start up that engine of yours!"
Yep, don't know what makes me do this but I've got the notion that I'm not the only one that does it or ever did do it....
Not so much anymore but like I said the other day with the Jeep.. We have spiders that live on the Jeep. There must be at least 2 of them and they must live in the side mirrors of the Jeep behind the glass part of the mirror. The mirrors are electric and you can adjust them with a button from the driver's seat. Well, EVERY night and I mean EVERY night those spiders build an elaborate cob web from the outside of the mirrors to the door of the car at the side and then up to the top of the door above the side window.. A VERY elaborate web! One on the driver's side and one on the Passenger's side..
Of course we use the Jeep practically each and every day so I knock down the webs, I even have an old wiper blade in the back of the Jeep that I've designated for just that job!
Like I said, the other day I was knocking down these spider webs, AGAIN, and found myself saying to the Jeep, "Why do you allow those darn spiders to build webs on your mirrors? I said it, and I admit it and it doesn't scare me that I said it.. What WILL scare me is if the darn thing EVER answers me!!!!
So tell me that YOU'VE never talked to an inanimate object, go ahead, did you or didn't you?
So, am I nuts or does other people do the same thing???? I guess I'll probably have to keep wondering that as I just can't imagine someone Emailing me to let me know that they've done the same thing..
I think a lot of us do it, if not all, but I doubt most folks will EVER admit it!!!
Oh yes, in case you're wondering, YES, I talk to myself from time to time too!!!!
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Putting all the joking aside... I have ton's of "stuff" to get done before my Weekend starts, I even have a doctor's appointment for this afternoon... Yep, I mentioned awhile back, this is the month for doctors and hospital appointments! So, for me, it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT weekend! (I'll see you right back here on Monday morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
On the night that John Wilkes Booth killed President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., he also intended to assassinate General Grant. The Grants had been invited to accompany the Presidential party to the theater, but declined in order to visit their children at school in New Jersey!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Friday July 21, 2006

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Another nice, sunny morning here in Central Pennsylvania and it is getting just a bit cooler with temperatures only supposed to go into the mid 80s. However, the dog-gone high humidity is still "hanging on."
It does look like we're in for yet another GREAT day!
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Yesterday was a good productive day for me. I did get a good bit of work done here in my home office. Betty and I had to go out yesterday afternoon though and we did stop to eat at our favorite Chinese Restaurant, The Grand Buffet.
Larry, the restaurant manager was back after a two day trip home to Brooklyn, New York to visit his family. He said that the 2 days he was home it was 105 degrees in Brooklyn! He also said that he didn't even go outdoors the entire time he was home.. He stayed in his air conditioned house... At 105 degrees, I don't blame him!
The restaurant owner, Ken Lin's wife just got home from a visit to Hong Hong. Their son and daughter are over there visiting their grandfather for the Summer. Would you believe it, she bought a blouse for Betty and a shirt for me in Hong Hong and brought them back for us!
Needless to say, we were really surprised and very pleased! We have been very good friends for over a year but we NEVER expected a gift from her... It's really GREAT and I keep thinking, WOW, this shirt came all the way from Hong Hong and was just there a couple of days ago...
Then I got to thinking.... heck I buy a lot of stuff that has "made in China" stamped on it! That stuff came all the way from China as well!
I know, it's certainly not the same as someone actually going there and thinking enough of you to bring back a gift.
Oh well, we'll have to be sure to wear them to the restaurant!
The blouse Betty got is very, very colorful and the shirt I received is a solid blue color... I guess she did pay attention to what I wear... I mostly like solid colors and my favorite color for clothing IS blue....
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The conference call we had night before last of my favorite company, and the one I make the most money with, ELEMENTS was really one of the best that I've attended so far... The company has set up a brand new promotional program, actually the program is owned a different company. It's not run by ELEMENTS, but boy I've never seen one so sophisticated as this one. I get to "plug" into the system and get all the promotional stuff, all customized for me, for only $50 bucks a month and along with all the tools I also get 50 leads loaded into my contact manager that comes with the "set up."
Along with this system I get a lead generating page, (You can see that by clicking here: http://tinyurl.com/easzv where when folks "punch" in their name and address etc. they are taken right to my special Elements site... You can get a preview of that site by clicking here: http://www.103.bestsilverbiz.com/.
Once the lead is generated, the "automatic system" takes over and delivers the prospects information to my Email box and then begins Emailing them promotional letters at the rate of one a day for an entire month! In the meantime I have their contact information so I can also contact them personally!
I said this system was sophisticated!
For me to set up a system like this just for myself it would probably initially cost me several hundred dollars and another 100 to 200 dollars for the monthly software rental.
With getting the system though this Elements Company approved company and I get it for only $49.95 a month... (May as well say, 50 bucks!)
This system REALLY has me excited and I fully expect the system to pay for itself many times over... I want to learn as much as I can about it and all the ways I can use it to build my business... I've been promoting my businesses and services over the web since 1994 but have never had anything this extensive and automatic. At any rate, I took the time to set it up and today I'll be doing a little more studying and will probably take some time to devise some camera ready ads to place in magazines, that will send folks to my lead generating page. I'm going to use it for more than just the 50 leads that I get with it every month, that's for sure! I'm not going to let all that beautiful software go to waste.
Anyway, if you want to get an idea just how super it works, just go to my lead page generator and punch in your name, address, phone and email address and sit back and watch the little devil do it's job! Just click here: http://tinyurl.com/easzv
Oh, I forgot to mention that after 30 days and the folks that don't take advantage of my Elements company by joining, I can export the leads out of my contact system and use them for another of my "opportunities" as I will OWN the names! Pretty "decent" right?
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Yesterday when Betty and I were out, I was watching all the gas stations that we usually go by.. Some of them has went up a couple of cents since Monday and some of them have come down a couple of cents since Monday. The only thing I can figure is that the prices are going up and down so often, that even the gas stations are getting confused!
Actually crude oil prices are falling!!!!!!
Oil Prices Tumble for 3rd Consecutive Day
Crude oil prices fell for the third straight day on Wednesday, briefly dipping below $72 a barrel after a surprising increase in U.S. gasoline supplies.
Oil prices fall below 73 dollars
World oil prices retreated for the third straight day Wednesday on improved U.S. energy stocks report.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, fell 88 cents at 72.66 dollars per barrel after earlier touching 71.65 dollars. It hit record 78.40 dollars per barrel Friday.
So, if that's true then why at some of the gas stations are the prices rising? Like I said, I think they just got their wires crossed and are so confused that THEY can't even keep it straight whether prices are going up or down!
Oh, here's another interesting article that came across my desk top.
Scooters all the buzz:
Record-high gasoline prices prompt surge in sales of these 75-80 mpg alternatives!
Read this entire cool article by clicking here: Scooters!
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That's about all I have for this morning... Actually I have more but time is pressing and I have lots of work waiting on me so for me, it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT Thursday! (I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
The Detroit Free Press offered each of 120 households in Detroit and its suburbs $500 if the members of the household would not watch television for a month. Ninety-three of the families said no. Almost all members of the six families eventually chosen for the test were at times depressed, bored, and nervous!
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Still sunny here in Central Pennsylvania this morning and as it's been all week very hot and humid... It's supposed to be a bit cooler here today with temps only reaching into the high 80's and that's just fine with me... I've about had it with this heat and humidity and am looking for a couple of days of relief from, if nothing else, the humidity! We're supposed to get some more rain this evening and I'm hoping that my cool it off some....
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I finally couldn't hold out anymore waiting for my library to get in the movie DVD of War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise so I went on the Internet and to Amazon.com to see what they had...
I found a used copy there that is supposed to be "like new" for only $3.96. Pretty darn reasonable. Shipping on it is set at $2.49 but both together only comes to $6.45!!!
I figure that's a pretty darn good price for a fairly new movie.
While I was there I did a little browsing and came up with 3 more movies from the same company.
"Eye See You" - Jim Gillespie for only $1.02, "Species III (Unrated Edition)" - Brad Turner for only $1.75, and last but not least, "The Weather Man, (Full Screen Edition)" - Gore Verbinski, $4.32, this last one stars one of my favorite actors, Nicolas Cage! That's four good and fairly late model used movies and all are in the DVD format for a grand total of $21.01 and that INCLUDES shipping! Not bad, not bad at all!
I'll be darn if I know where the heck they get these movies that they can sell so cheaply and still make a profit on them. I realize they are making a little bit on the shipping but hey, their only getting $2.49 each for that also. So they sure as heck can't be getting rich on the deal... I guess they must deal in volume that's all I can figure....
At any rate what I'm getting at is if you would like to buy some good later or even older movies, VHS or DVD don't forget to look at the Amazon.com site first. That is if you can wait a few days and don't have to have it immediately as soon as you get the idea.
If that's the case, you can build a nice movie library pretty darn cheap... Not just the later movies but just about any darn movie you want... If you only collect DVDs then of course it would have to be made in that form... Which most are doing now.. I'd say before long they will have any movie ever made available in the DVD format...
They claim that VHS movies do not store well and will not last for years.... I think I read somewhere maybe a 15 year average life span for them where as DVD are supposed to last for years and years.... So from now on for my own movie library, I'm only going to buy DVDs..
At the library if they have a good movie on VHS that I want to see, I'll rent it, but I won't buy any more in that format....
It seems like everyone is switching to the new DVD format and the older VHS movies are getting to be a "dime a dozen".... Well, maybe not quite that bad but they are soon getting to be worthless... That's good too as you can view some darn good movies and then give them away for someone else to watch!
That low price for VHS movies sounds about right as between Betty and I must have several hundred of them... I'm thinking about having a yard sale and getting rid of them... Or maybe an "on-line" yard sale for the same purpose...
It just might be fun to set one up just to see how it "goes over."
I like Tom Cruise movies and I'll probably buy his latest when it comes out on DVD. Mission Impossible III.
My favorite actor is still Clint Eastwood though. Yes, I know that he's getting old but I don't care what he looks like as he will ALWAYS be a "cool" dude to me! And he's still one of the best actors and directors alive! I have a lot of "stuff" about him in my collection and I'll continue to buy things... Most of his movies I have but they are all VHS. Now, I'll have to get all of those in the DVD format. I have a few in that format already.... But I want as many as I can get of his.. I never tire of watching his movies.....
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We stayed indoors most of yesterday. The only time that I went out other than to get the mail in the mail box out front was when I made my daily trip to the post office...
Wow! Was the Jeep ever hot inside... It took until I was almost at the end of our lane until it finally started to blow cool air from the air conditioner ducts... That was a relief.
It makes it much easier to pay off the almost 2 grand bill to get the A/C fixed at the beginning of this summer in the Jeep... One more big payment this month and that's history! Thank goodness.
I was just saying to Betty day before yesterday when I happened to see a station wagon sitting in front of the Weis store that had a sign on it that read, "Let us deliver your groceries," that I always thought that it must be terrible not to have your own vehicle to go and do things...
I'm not too darn sure about that statement anymore though... Let's face it if you live near a city or large town you can get a cab when you must make special trips, or ride a bus for planned trips... If it's a get-together or something like that you can always "bum" a ride with someone else who's going to it. Yes, a taxi is expensive... However, you're not going to get one every day...
Geez, let's face it, when you own your own vehicle, you are actually paying for it each and every day in one way or another...
Even if you're not running it every day, you're paying insurance, registration tags, inspection, and up keep on it. Plus, when you ARE using it, you're paying "through the nose" for the fuel to operate the darn thing and take you anywhere... Heck maybe the folks who don't own their own cars are better off than us! Can you imagine all the money you could save if you didn't have a car or even two to sap all the "bread" out of your back account? Quite a bit I'll bet...
The only thing is, I doubt that I could ever get used to it after having some kind of vehicle since I've been 16 years old! It would sure take quite a "life change" at least for me!
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As usual all the time and then some that I had put aside for this post is gone for today so for me, it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT Wednesday! (I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning! Okay?)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Andrew Johnson, who served as Lincoln's second-term Vice-President, and later as President, was nearly lynched by a mob as he was returning home to Tennessee from Lincoln's first inauguration because he was the only Sothern Senator who was loyal to the Union of the eve of the Civil War. A mob in Virginia dragged Johnson from a train and put a noose around his neck. They released him only when the suggestion was made that he be allowed to return to Tennessee, which----as his home state---should have the privilege of hanging him!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Wednesday July 19, 2006

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

It's nice and sunny here this morning in Central Pennsylvania! Looks like we're in for another extremely hot day here. Temps are again supposed to go up into the upper 90s and also supposed to be very, very humid. So a beautiful, but hot day... Looks like another day where I'll be staying in my air conditioned office...
I'll have to go out from time to time.... as trip to the post office included but I sure as heck won't be doing any kind of work outdoors... That's a big "fer sure!"
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I did get this week's bulk mailing off and into the U.S. mails yesterday. That's a big job and always feels good to get that one done...
That should last from doing that job again for another week... For those that ordered print & mail or advertising from me should see a checking copy of this mail within a week or so.
Yesterday was an extremely hot day and it was so hot that our two window air conditioners just couldn't keep up with it... It was quite livable but it was no ice-box... I must say a heck of a lot cooler than it was out doors!
Not much action on the river yesterday but that's about "par for the course" as it was a work day and usually all I see on a day like yesterday or today are folks who are retired or on vacation.... It's a great place to spend your holiday... On the river, fishing and swimming. A lot of folks take advantage of it and I don't blame them...
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I was pretty lucky yesterday. No, I didn't win the lottery, not that I wouldn't like to but I did get a great big GIANT check in the mail yesterday from the Pepsi Company! You may have seen this at the super market. The Pepsi Company had a little contest going. where you There were special caps on their Diet Pepsi bottles and when you got one you then typed the number in at their site on the Internet as a chance to win a million bucks.... No, I didn't hit that either..... However, about 3 weeks ago when I punched in one of the numbers from one of the yellow caps I had, it said, "Congratulations, you have WON $10.00!"
At the time, I thought, yeah right, and the moon is made out of "blue cheese" too! Well apparently they weren't pulling my leg as today "lo and behold" I received a check from them for $10 Bucks! That's not bad considering that altogether I only had about 6 caps total.
I like Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke both. I buy either one that is on sale at a good price at that particular time when I need it.. I guess this time Diet Pepsi was on sale...
I'm glad it was as it DID pay off! I've NEVER gotten anything back from any of the soda companies before, even though over the years I've must have spent thousands of dollars on their products so you can bet I'm going to savor this 10 Spot... Aaaaaaah..... isn't life GREAT!
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I looked up "geezer" in the dictionary to see if I was one... It says "a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric." I guess if that's all it is I must qualify... I'm old and I'm DEFINITELY eccentric! It has all kinds of variations of what a geezer is in the Thesaurus dictionary and here's the whole bunch, ancient, back number, dean, doyen, elder, elderly person, first born, golden-ager*, gramps, granny, head, master, old folks, old fossil, old geezer, old-timer*, oldster*, patriarch, pensioner, pops, relic, retired person, senior citizen, superior.
Now I know I'm not some of these. But then it also says at the very beginning of the term in the Thesaurus that it means an older man.... so.... there I am again...
Hey, don't laugh.... it was a long, hard trip getting to this "geezer status!"
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Gasoline is on it's way back up already! So what's new.... It only came down a few cents since the 4th of July weekend and that took about 2 weeks... Now, when we were out yesterday, it's definitely going up..... But then in the headlines yesterday it read:
Crude Oil Retreats From Record High
Oil prices fell Monday as traders trimmed long positions amid speculation that Israel's military offensive into Lebanon could end this week. A prediction from OPEC that higher oil prices will crimp demand also weighed on futures.
Light, sweet crude was recently shed $1.73 to settle at $75.30 a barrel on Nymex, closing below $76 for the first time since Wednesday.
Oil futures hit a record high for a third straight day on Friday, closing at $77.03.
Oil prices have soared in recent days as Israel stepped up its military offensive against Lebanon and the guerilla group Hezbollah. Click here for the rest of the story!
So it was going back down yesterday and yesterday is when the prices started to go up! hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... Geez.... the oil companies are so greedy that now they're trying to make more money on the fuel just on speculation.... They're not even waiting for the cost of crude to go up before jacking up the prices at the pumps!
Is that a surprise to any of us? The money grubbing :?x>^$**!!!! (sob's)
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The time is slipping away here this morning faster than I'd like it too and as usual I have piles of work starting up at me from my desks that do need attention... Yesterday was a VERY good mail day and I have some of that yet that needs opened and sorted as well.... So for me it's back to work and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!! (I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning! Okay!)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Because regular movements of electric current take place in the heart and in the brain, there are paper-thin, tiny fields of magnetism around the torso and around the cranium of every human being. But man does not possess, as far as is known, an organ that can (as electric fish can) exert force at a distance!
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Monday, July 17, 2006

Apparently we're in the middle of a super duper hot spell here in Central Pennsylvania... It was really hot and humid over the weekend and it's sunny now and supposed to go up to about 100 degrees here this afternoon... That's REALLY hot for around these parts... At any rate it's supposed to be humid as well... We spent most of the time in doors over the weekend as it was just too darn hot to get anything done out side or even too hot to venture out side... We used the time yesterday to get out another bulk mail... All that needs done is the weighing, the paper work, write the check, and of course delivered to our post office here in Dauphin..
We did see some action on the river yesterday with plenty of canoes and inner tube trips down the river... Even the folks in them looked like they had "had it" as far as the heat went!
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There were plenty that went by yesterday but being indoors and busy, until I grabbed my camera to go out on the deck for a picture, they had all gone by... However, I did catch this one... By the looks of these folks, they've about had the heat as well.... A lot who went by were jumping out of the crafts to take a swim and cool off... I sure couldn't blame them....
What's that old tune..... "Cruising down the river, on a Sunday afternoon." Yeah, I think that's it... Right before this bunch went by there must have been almost 20 folks in a group of inner tubes going down... They actually looked like they were having more fun that this bunch!
I was going to cook out on the deck on the barbeque yesterday, but even that idea was canned because of the heat and humidity... I swear as I'm getting older, the heat sure bothers me more than it used to.... Even though most of our deck is in the shade, even the humidity is just too darn uncomfortable...
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On Thursday evening I did get a lot of mowing done but still have about half of the lower yard to finish... Then on Friday afternoon I heard the distinct helicopter rotors beating away and it was the state paid helicopters spraying again for the black fly..
I think that since we had all the water and the flood that they almost have to start over again with the spraying...
I got a pretty good picture of the chopper as he flew over our place and it looked kind of crippled as it only had one sprayer wand on it and was only spraying from the one side... Apparently it was having the rest of the rig repaired and I guess as with any contract they have a time period to contend with...
It really did look a bit odd though and I guess he had to make twice as many trips as he would have, had he had the entire rig with both sprayer wands working....
Hey, as long as they get rid of the gnats, I don't really care how they do it!
The way the camera seems to stop the large rotor from spinning, it makes it look like it's about ready to drop out of the sky!
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I remember one weekend about 20 years ago, during Kipona celebration in Harrisburg, they had 2 helicopters taking people for rides.. I don't even remember what it cost anymore but as Betty nor I had ever been in one it looked like fun, so we got our tickets and were waiting in line... They had 2 different choppers, one was a small "bubble" job that reminded me of the ones that they flew on the show "MASH" on television... Very, very small... Enough for the pilot and one other to sit inside.. If you remember on the TV show, they had stretchers mounted on the outside above the landing skis....
I was praying when it was our turn that the big chopper would be coming in as that one held 1 pilot and one seat beside him, and then 2 large seats in the back that could handle about 6 more people that could fit in if we crowded... and they WERE crowding them as they wanted to take as many in a load as they could...
Would you believe it, the darn little chopper landed when it was our turn and the guy said "come on", you can hold your girl in your lap... I took one look at that little "rinky dink" chopper and I was NOT going to get in that little thing and hold Betty on my lap!
I told him to take someone else and we'd get the next one...
Some guy behind us with his daughter got in it... Well, that wasn't too bad as his daughter only looked like she was about 11 years old....
That WAS a great ride though as we flew across the Susquehanna River and over half way through New Cumberland until the pilot turned around to head back to the river side at the Kipona celebration...
I will say though that every little breeze you felt.... The wind blew us around pretty good up in the sky... I felt like a "bobber" in the river!
But that was fun and I was glad that we went....
You have to admit that the pilots who even use them for spraying, like in the above picture, have a pretty cool job!
And I'd bet it pays pretty darn good as well....
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I don't know if Betty and I will wander out today as we had thought about going out for lunch, but either way I must go to the post office and mail these bulk mail trays... Thank goodness we had the air conditioner fixed on the Jeep a couple of months ago... (I just about have that paid for!) It came to almost 2 grand so we took about 3 payments to clear it up... When I crawl in that Jeep now in this weather, I'm REALLY glad that the darn air conditioner works if nothing else!!!
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At any rate, right now time is slipping by and it's time for me to get my butt back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT Monday! (I'll see you right back here tomorrow morning!)
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Here's The Cool, Unusual Fact For Today..
Jean Eugene Robert Houdin (1805-1871), the founder of modern magic, was an inventor of many complicated toys and automata. His first profitable gadget was an alarm clock; a bell would peal to rouse the sleeper and a lighted candle would come out of a box. It was for his application of electricity to clocks in general that Houdin was decorated in Paris, in 1855. (Harry Houdini assumed his name from Houdin's!)
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Friday, July 14, 2006

T.G.I.F.
It's a beautiful sunny morning here at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania! Yes, with temps supposed to go to 90 and a very high humidity, it will be a bit steamy around these parts today. However, it beats the heck out of rain. That's all we seemed to have around here lately..... rain. So, I think I'll enjoy today very much!
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The doctor's appointment yesterday turned out pretty good and the abdominal aneurysm that I had checked yesterday seems to be about the same size so with that, at least, I'm good for another year... Hot dog! As Martha would say, "That's a good thing!"
Now, I don't have any more doctor appointments until Friday of next week... I'm safe for a few days... I just don't want to die from taking a test.... Sometimes what they put you through with all the tests, if feels like that... I'd hate to "buy my ticket" from just trying to stay in good health... That would surely be a "bummer."
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Betty and I stopped for a nice hot lunch yesterday when I was done at the doctor's and of course we stopped at our favorite hang out, The Grand Buffet, the great Chinese restaurant down outside of Harrisburg.
This lady came in while we were there with what looked like may have been her mother and two little young ladies in tow.... About 4 and 6 years old...
That started Betty and I talking about how different things are now compared to what they were when we were small and also when we were raising our own kids...
Boy, I'll say they're different.... First of all I never took our children in a restaurant when they were that young.. At 4 years old they are just too young to listen and behave that well, stay quiet, and not bother other people..
Although now days it seems that people don't seem to give a darn whether their kids annoy people or not..
Of course, come to think about it, we wouldn't have taken our kids in a restaurant anyway as I wouldn't have been able to afford it... I think the closest we came to taking the kids to a restaurant was when I used to stop at the 15¢ hamburger joint and get them each a hamburger or a cheese burger.. The Cheese burgers were 5¢ more or 20¢ each. I could feed the whole family and get them all a soft drink including the wife and myself for a little over 2 bucks!
But anyway, I do remember when I was small once a week my mom used to go to the 5 and 10 cent store shopping, and in the store they would have a lunch counter.. Every week she would buy us, my brother and I a haddock fish sandwich with catsup on it.. Boy where they ever good..
Boy, I'll say though, that we had to "walk the "chalk line," (behave ourselves), or she would make us go sit in the car until she was done shopping and we would have to go without our fish sandwich. You can bet that we paid attention to her and did whatever she told us to do... As sitting in the car by ourselves was bad enough, but going without lunch was unthinkable! Yep, mom knew how to handle us...
We were pretty close to mom when we were very small as dad worked all the time as far as I can remember... He always had a full time job and him and my Uncle George would always be building a house to sell, on the side..
I remember something about my mom very vividly though that I really hated and it happened almost every time we went somewhere with her which was usually on Saturday on her trip to the five and dime store.... Somehow being a small child I must have gotten my face dirty all the time.. Mom used to lean over, pull a tissue out of her shirt, (you know, down the front), and then she'd spit on it and use it to clean off my face.... Geez..... I hated that, but I sure wouldn't tell her that... I'm sure though that she knew it by the look on my face when she did it, but I'm sure she didn't care, or if she did, she sure didn't show it, not one bit!....
When I told Betty about this "ordeal" she said that her mom did the same thing to her and her sister when they were very young as well.... It must have been the "thing" way back when... (Heck come to think of it, I think I saw my wife do the same to our kids.... but she didn't keep her hankie, you know where!
Matter of fact when we, Betty and I, get to talking about growing up, we have a lot in common even though our ages are a decade apart... Back then a decade was just about nothing as far as change goes though and that includes prices on various things...
When I was born in 1943 gasoline was 19¢ a gallon! (I'm pretty sure when Betty was born, it was about the same price.)
Wow, no wonder I get half sick when I pull up to the gas pumps now days....
I know we're talking 60 years ago but hey, that's really not that long ago and lots of other things have went up a little in cost and some things have even come down in cost since then! (Like radios and TV sets for just two of them.)
Bread was about 23¢ a loaf and I can still buy wheat bran bread for 59¢ a loaf!
Chicken used to be, when I was young, a VERY expensive meat and families usually only had chicken on Sundays. I remember when we used to raise chickens and dress them. Then dad would put them in a very large galvanized tub on back of the old pick-up truck and we would go through the alleys of Harrisburg and sell them one by one.. It didn't matter which chicken the ladies would pick the price was a $1.00 each... That was pretty darn expensive... back then for meat. The first I remember doing this I must have been quite young as I remember a lot of the ladies who came out to the truck to choose their chicken if I would carry it back to their home for them, they would pay me a penny all for myself! Boy I was the "cock of the walk".... Quite a big shot, and went we got home I would show my booty to mom who would tell me to save half of it and the other half I could spend when we went to the "cut rate" store with her... Wow, does that bring back memories.... and very good ones...
Incidentally we, my older brother, older sister and I would ride on the back of the truck to and from where we were selling the chickens. Dad wouldn't worry about us and sis would be in charge, and responsible for us, as she was the oldest, and what ever she said was law... So when she told us to sit down and not stand up, that's exactly what we did as that's what we were "taught" to do.. It's just like medicines.... They didn't need "child proof" caps for the medicine bottles back then because our mother's "taught" us that we should NEVER open up a medicine bottle so we didn't... Once she told me that, I never really thought about it again... It was no mystery that I had to solve, it was something that was taboo and that's what I accepted and that was "the name of the tune" as Beretta used to say!
I still say that we wouldn't need all the "stuff" we have to make now to "protect" the children, if we took the time to "teach" our children right from wrong.... we would be a lot better off and so would they...
Now days children not only have no respect for their parents and teachers, but they have no respect for themselves....
Before you get angry with me, I'm NOT talking about all the children but I am talking about kids on the whole.. Most ARE that way.... There are only a few that are raised with good common sense and scruples any more....
And yes, here I go again..... Things would be better now than they are and so would children if the

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