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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

We had another beautiful, sunny day here at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania... Even the temps, at this moment, are above normal. Today we saw about 64 degrees. Not bad, not bad at all!
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We went grocery shopping today at the Weis store near our favorite Chinese Restaurant near Harrisburg today and they had a beautiful old truck there on display that was the first truck for a local business that originally started in 1921 as a "mom and pop" business. Talk about a small home business. Well, as you can see by the sign, this is one home business that grew into a very large business that's still around today. How far do they deliver now? I'm not sure but it would be interesting to know.. I know a lot of businesses here in central Pennsylvania that we're started years ago, even though they now seem huge, still are not in many other states. Such as Lebanon Baloney. I thought once that they delivered Lebanon Baloney everywhere but that sure isn't true as we have a friend who lives in the State of Washington, and every year she used to have Betty and I pick up a large Lebanon Baloney and send her and lots of Tasty Cake, cup cakes. We used to send her a very large box of this stuff to her and she in turn would give them out to her family as Christmas gifts. All of here Children were born in this area and now live out that way and one even lives in Florida. At any rate when they get a taste of things from home, I'll bet it sure brings back childhood memories for them.
I just love hearing about home business success stories. There used to be many, many more before all of the large shopping Malls cropped up...
When I was a kid, we had a "corner store" that carried just about anything you needed around the house, to get by. Yep, they still had the big Weis stores back then, but in-between trips to the Weis market for food, mom would send my brother and I up to the corner store..
If my dad needed some 8 penny nails right away to use on a project he was working on, my brother and I would be on our way to the "corner store" for a pound of nails for him. I'm sure you get the idea..... It was not only a grocery store that carried food, but a general store that carried just about anything you could imagine.. Heck, I remember that my brother and I used to buy packs of "B-Bs" there for our B B guns... Yep, they came in a small isinglass packet. The packets were connected together and were a penny each.. They were on a very large wheel. When you bought 10¢ worth, Mr. Mickey would count out 10 packs of the off the wheel and cut it off. I remember that 10 packs of B Bs were pretty heavy and they all wouldn't fit in just one of my pockets but I'd have to tear them up and put them in several of my pockets... Front and rear.....
Yes, the "corner store" was run by Mr. & Mrs. Mickey.. That was really a fun place, and yes, just like in the old pictures of general stores, there seemed to always be a couple or 3 oldsters playing checkers near the old wood/coal stove... Even in the Summer it seems they would hang out there and that was long before air conditioning...   If you took away the sign, and the gas pumps out side, the place would just look like another big house... Matter of fact, before Mr. and Mrs. Mickey turned it into a store, that's just what it was..
That was back when my brother, George and I, would roam the neighborhood looking for empty soda bottles as they were each worth 2¢ at the time... This was long before soda cans or even toss away bottles... If you would start to drink a 5¢ coke there, at the store, and decided you couldn't finish it and wanted to take it home with you, you had to give Mr. Mickey a 2¢ deposit fee on the bottle. Then when you took the bottle back, he would return your 2¢.
George and I didn't really buy that many sodas though as they, at 5 cents each, were pretty salty back then, when you figure you could buy a pretty good size candy bar for 3¢! That was called a lunch bar. If you wanted a Hershey bar, it cost you 5¢, but that was long before they cut down the size of them and for 5¢ you got a pretty good sized bar of candy. Plain chocolate, or chocolate and peanuts in the "Mr. Goodbar", or you could also get a "Mounds Bar" or a Mounds with Almonds Bar, that was made from Chocolate and Coconut and Almonds.... Boy where they ever good back then! That's usually what George and I would get with our bottle deposit money... Either a 3¢ "Lunch Bar" each or a couple of packs of B Bs for our B B guns... and if we were really lucky in finding empty bottles, both!
Back then, you rarely saw any bottles along the road that someone tossed out of their cars because they were worth money and if someone did toss out one or two, there was always someone like my brother and me to gather them up and turn 'em in for the money.. Heck, it was like finding treasure....
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A few notes for the home business folks...
Don't forget that postage is going up on May 14th! Now is a great time to do as many mailings as you can for prospects and customers... Click here for the whole story on the Postal Rate Increase on May 14th.
It sounds pretty simple when you first hear about it. Postage is going from 39¢ to 41¢. Well, believe me, that's just the beginning. And if it weren't for Email, the postage rates per letter would increase much more than that!!! The only thing that's holding them that low, and yes, I realize that it's not that low, is the fact that more and more people are using Email...
Take flat rate priority mail that is now an already whopping $4.05, and that just went up to that a short time ago. Well on the 14th of May that cost alone is rising to $4.60!!!
Yep, no puny 5% increase for the good ole' post office but a whopping 13%+!!!!!
I've said it for years, and I still say the the government is THE biggest inflator of money in the entire U. S. of A.!!!
It's very, very complicated this time and the article that I have posted just gives you some various ideas of some of the changes, but doesn't get down to the nitty-gritty like all of the various bulk mail costs that's going up... It's a multitude of sins this time for sure...
So, you home business owners that depend on the mail to get out your promotions are really going to be scraping and costs on a lot of things are going to go up... They have to..
It's like for the last 4 postage increases of the last few years, I've eaten the costs of not only the postage increases, but the cost of paper, envelopes, etc. for my bulk mail Print and Mail Services, but this one is the "straw that broke the camel's back" as I cannot eat them again... The cost of a case of regular white, 8½" X 11" printing paper has risen from my cost of !6.99 to $24.95, and this I feel sure is due to the cost of shipping because of the increased fuel prices... That' just over the last year... I think since the "dreaded" hurricane down south that the oil companies originally blamed the jack up in gasoline and diesel prices shipping costs has hit the ceiling...
I think for awhile the shipping companies were "eating" the high fuel costs themselves waiting for the fuel to go back to where it belonged but after the first year and they realized that it was NEVER coming back down they had to adjust their shipping prices to compensate for it. That shoved the cost of everything, and I mean everything, that is shipped by truck, including food prices to shoot up... and you can't blame them as they can't "eat" their rising costs either...
At any rate, I'm going to hold out until May when the postage goes up once again, but then my Print & Mail rates will be rising to help compensate for the cost of just about everything... Heck I'm making much, much less now then when I started the Print & Mail service about 10 years ago!
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Talk about the cost of gasoline.... It's still going up around our area here, with not even the peep of an excuse from the oil companies as to why...|
Most places that I passed when I was out today were up 3¢ a gallon than they were Monday when I was out last! That's ridiculous, but what are we going to do about it? Just what we did when it went up to 3 bucks a gallon... Keep buying it... No one wants to cut back... They just let other bills go so they can buy gasoline... We, Betty and I, have cut back just about as much as we can without staying home completely, but I think there are very few people who have followed suit...
Well, It's time to knock off and close up here in the office.... Betty was just out here asking me if I was going to work all night! (Ha!) Not tonight, my dear... I'm headed for the hot tub..... So.... I'm outta here, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(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..
Anyone who thinks that theater tickets are expensive today might consider what happened in 1854. That was the year the famous Academy of Music opened on New York's 14th Street. The prices ranged from $3 to $40 per seat!!!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Wednesday March 28, 2007

Thursday, March 22, 2007

It's a beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania as the sun is bright and shinning and the temps are supposed to hit 60 degrees today. Truly a beautiful Spring Day!
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For some odd reason this time of the year, Spring, we are always plagued with hundreds of gulls.. After about a month, most of them go away. Oh we'll see a few throughout the entire Summer but only a few. Now, it seems like they are every where.
Yesterday, toward evening, they were getting pretty close to our cottage, so I grabbed my camera to see if I could get a decent shot of some of them.
Most of them were scared off as soon as I opened the back sliding glass door to our deck and porch, but some of the braver ones stayed anyway in mid air for me to take a couple of shots of them.
They are a beautiful bird and look handsome as they ride the air currents, however, like most birds they can get pretty dirty.
But like I said, 'til it gets time to get the boat out and docked in our back yard, it will be time for the birds to leave. Where do they go? Darned if I know as I never could figure out where they go unless they all head down the river basin to the ocean. Where ever they go, they will be back next Spring as they are every year..
It's fun to sit on the deck and watch them float down the river by the hundreds.. They float down for quite awhile then they'll fly up river to begin their journey all over again. They are feeding all the time they are floating in the river..
I guess they are fattening up for having small ones as it's that time of the year. I see the geese all around us, in the river, and the ducks are pairing off, so it won't be too long until we start to see them "stop in" our back yard to feed with their small ones.. Some have gaggles quite large. I've seen just one family of geese with fourteen babies in it! Then I've seen others with as little as just one. I feel that something must have raided their nest, and got the rest of them, as it would be very odd for the female to have only one egg.
When I was growing up on our dairy farm, we had a tame gaggle of 15 geese and my Mom would have my brother and I gather their eggs as well as the chicken eggs. Boy you should see a goose egg in the pan. It fills the entire pan! It was always hard for me to even get one whole egg down and my older brother used to finish mine for me. Those were the days when you could actually eat eggs without worrying if they had salmonella in them or not. Now days they say that all chicken eggs have some salmonella in them and that they must be cooked well done to make sure that they are safe to eat.
Back then I remember around Christmas time my Mom would make her famous "eggnog," she used regular, raw, chicken eggs, but now days you could never do that as you may get salmonella should you eat raw eggs. (Salmonella causes food poisoning.)
Oh well, just another thing we've lost over the years... I guess you could consider it a minor thing, that is if you've never tasted Mom's eggnog. Mmmmmm that sure was good! No, she never made it with liquor.
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Yes, I know that you can publish blogs from several different sites for free, but I'm saying to do it with your own page as with your own page, you can make money on the side.
Now days you can get your own websites for a pretty reasonable charge... You can rent space on a server for a year at a time, and also some of them will give you a FREE domain name along with the package... You can sell things at your site, you can start your own blog, and many, many other things.. Don't worry about how to make your web site either as some of the web space suppliers even offer packages that you can use to set up your own site... All for the same money which is probably cheaper than you can imagine...
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Check it out. Today with gasoline so high and everything else climbing in cost as a result of high shipping costs, it's a good idea to make some extra money. Like I said there are many ways to make money with your own site and from time to time I'll list some here and also how to do it.... Check it out yourself! Web Site Package....
I see it's getting late, so for now I'll wrap it up as I must get some things done to go out in today's mail, so for me, I'm off to see the wizard, oops that was another story, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!
(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..
One of America's great naval heroes was born John Paul, in Scotland, in 1747. After killing a mutinous crew member in self-defense, he fled to the colonies) to avoid trial) and added Jones to his name. He commanded the Bon Homme Richard during the Revolutionary War and won a great battle over the British ship Serapis, Jones is also known for his proud statement when he was asked to surrender; "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!"
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Thursday March 22, 2007

Friday, March 16, 2007

Normally I start out this blog with "it's a beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania", but I haven't been able to do that lately... Yesterday it rained all day and the mighty Susquehanna River that flows through our back yard is rising like all get out and it now "FLOWS OVER" our lower back yard!
They are calling for it to crest by tomorrow afternoon just a foot or so under flood stage. At least that's what they are saying at the moment but sometimes that changes as the river continues to "grow."
Now, let's get to today..... Well, it started to snow not too long after I got up this morning and has not stopped since then. Plus, it's supposed to snow all night tonight until early tomorrow morning. Right now they are calling for it to quit at 8 A.M. tomorrow..
As you can see by the picture on the left that it's coming down pretty darn good. That's a shot of our back deck and you can see that there is about 6 to 8 inches of snow on the railing already.... I took this picture right as it was getting dark and had to use the flash to get it.
All that dark blue that you see behind the railing is the river! Yep, it's getting pretty close to our cottage and even though they say it will crest below "flood stage", it's high enough for me to lose some sleep tonight keeping an eye on it...
Geez, I really hate rolling over in bed and putting my feet down into water before I hit the floor of the bedroom!
No, that's never happened yet, since we've lived here, although the river has already surrounded the house since we have at least twice. But back in 1972, the water was high enough that it would have been "over" our bed! It was actually about 4 and a half to 5 feet deep inside the house!
Earlier today I got ready to go to the post office and was out cleaning the snow off the Jeep. I took notice that all of a sudden there seemed to be a lot of Robin Redbreast Birds in our yard and across the canal in front of our Cottage.. Lot's of them.... I then didn't think about it anymore until I was going out our lane, in 4 wheel drive, and I started to take notice of many more of the Robins... I started to count what I could see and in just the distance it took to go out of our lane to the highway, I counted a little over 100 birds! Wow, I thought, normally I see a few in the spring, but never this amount in one place. I mean I have NEVER seen this many in all the years that I can remember... When I got back from the post office I grabbed my camera and tried to get a decent shot of one... I took the picture above with the zoom lens cranked up to all it would go, but it was snowing so hard the picture almost looks like a "white-out", instead of a picture of a Robin... It's enough to give you an idea that it is definitely a Robin that really looks perplexed at why all the snow is here and it shouldn't be at this time of the year. A bit later, a friend of ours called Betty and said to her, "I'll bet that you can't guess what's all around my house." Now this guy lives about 3 miles from us.. Right away Betty said, "Robins", and the dude almost had a fit.. How did you know that? he asked... Betty said, because they're all around over here as well...
I looked them up on the WEB, and sure enough they are a migratory songbird that does come back about this time of the year and are usually a sign of Spring for us... However, I think there must have been a lot of them flying north and the snow storm must have grounded them. You can check them out by clicking here. American Robin Redbreast
It's funny how Mother Nature can screw up a lot of other things in nature with freak storms and what have you... At any rate, that was the most interesting thing that happened here at my house today.
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As it was bad weather, Betty and I pretty much just stayed home and I worked all day so far here in my home office... I did get the mail so I sure have plenty of orders and inquiries to fill. I also received a phone call and a customer FAXED me information to design him an 8½" X 11" circular, so that alone will take a few hours...
Even stuck here in the snow, I still get plenty of business to take care of me... Yep, it's nice to get up and sip on a cup of coffee, usually in my "jammies", and check my email to see what the world is bringing me each day... Sometimes if something in the news catches my attention, I end up learning, via the Internet, more in a half hour, than I used to learn all day before the WEB...
So people can say what they want about the WEB, but in my estimation it's the best thing since "mashed potatoes!"
If they feel their children will get into mischief or get hurt by the WEB, then they should either teach them the right and wrong way to use it, or un-plug the computer, period!
I just get so darn sick and tired of hearing about how our poor children will get hurt with this and that...
They may get drugs that they shouldn't if we don't have a "child proof" bottle cap to prevent them from getting to them.... ----- MY SOLUTION ------ Teach the children what they are allowed to touch under the sink, in the medicine chest, and all through the house for that matter... That's what my parents did to me and it's what I taught my children as well.
For gosh sakes, take some responsibility when raising children, and don't depend on gadgets to do your job!
Then you hear that a child can't ride in a car unless they are strapped into some kind of seating device. That's bunk too... But that's too big of a story to get into at the moment.
Then it's toys...... we have to recall this toy, or that toy, because the parts are small enough for a child to swallow them... - MY SOLUTION - For gosh sakes teach the kid that it's not food he or she is playing with, and there are some things that don't BELONG in your mouth! That's what my parents taught me.... What's so darn hard about that?????
The whole point of this story is that kids would be much safer if the parents took the time to just teach them the difference BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG - PERIOD - and quit relying on everyone else to change everything in the world so it won't hurt Junior!!! And of course, that includes the Internet. Every time you turn around you hear something on Television about someone wants to sue MY SPACE, or YOU TUBE, or some other Internet service, because their children might get hurt by going there... That's CRAP! Teach you kids what they should put up on their sites and what they shouldn't....
Every child that I heard was molested, or usually just propositioned on the WEB was because of them sending instant messages back and forth with some dirt bag... You go and look at some of the things that 13 or 14 year old girls put up on their sites and it's no wonder that someone has propositioned them! Some have pictures of themselves with so much make up on and dressed like hookers, and no way can you tell from the picture that they even are a teenager... Now, don't you think that mom and dad should have a look at their kids site once in a while by themselves...
No, they don't want to take their time as it's so much easier to blame a company that's giving their kid something to do with their time and doing it for FREE!!!
If anyone ought to be punished, fined, or what ever, it should be the mom and dad for not taking the time to watch just what their kid is up to!!!
I don't want to surprise any of the younger parents but kids were getting into trouble long before the Internet came to be, so don't blame the Internet because you have a kid that's just, Plain Bad!
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Around my area here gasoline is still on it's way up and even though every time I search the crude oil news it seems to be going down! I just looked a minute ago and crude oil dropped below $57 a barrel today... This week it went down to $60 a barrel, now it's dropped more than another 3 bucks and the cost of gasoline is still going up! Go figure.....
I found a neat little applet that you can search before you leave the house to get gasoline to tell which gas station in your neighborhood has the cheapest price at that moment... It's at the top of this blog on the left, right above the picture of me...
Just click on where it says "zip code" and type in your own zip and then click Go. It works pretty darn neat... Check it out....
Bookmark my site here, and come back and use it anytime you want...
Oh! If you want to read the short article about oil dropping below $57 a barrel just click here: 0IL PRICE DROP BELOW $57 A BARREL!
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I've got to knock off now as I do have some more to get done before I wrap it up for today. So for me, I'm outta here, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!
(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..
John Dalton (1766 - 1844) the English scientist, was the first to advance a quantitative atomic theory and the first to prepare a table of atomic weights, but he was a rather clumsy and slipshod experimenter because ---of all things! for a chemist!----he was colorblind. colorblindness, specifically the inability to distinguish between red and green, is now called daltonism!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Friday March 16, 2007

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Today was like, evidently, lately like a typical week here in Central Pennsylvania. Yesterday it was beautiful, sunny and up into the 70s. Today it has been raining most of the day and they are calling for flood warnings. Also, it barely made it into the 40s today and believe it or not, tomorrow they are calling for a Winter storm watch with up to 6 inches of snow on the ground! Geez..... what a week.... I sure will be glad when Spring gets here... for sure!
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Before I forget, I want to wish my oldest Son, Chuck Junior, Happy Birthday! His birthday was on Tuesday.... Wow the time is really flying.. Let me see, how old is Chuckie this year? hmmmmmmm.... Wow! Chuck is 45 years old this year! I wonder if he can catch up to me? I doubt it as I was 18 years old when Chuck was born, so I guess not... It doesn't really seem that long ago to me, that I was 45 years old...
Back then I thought that I was REALLY old, but right now, looking back, it doesn't seem that old..
It's really weird how your attitudes, thinking, and even tastes vary over your lifetime.. When I was a teenager, I felt that everyone over 30 was ancient... Of course when I reached 30, it didn't seem that old, now I'm more than double that, and wouldn't mind being 30 again, and of course knowing what I know now... Yes, that wouldn't be too bad at all.
Take notice that I said, "Knowing what I do now." It wouldn't be that cool to be younger, unless you could realize at that time, just how darn nice it is to be that young, now would it? Heck no..... Too many trials and tribulations went on doing the last 33 years, I don't really think that I'd want to go through it all over again.. No, I wouldn't want to go through it again at all, even for the "trade" of ages.... It just wouldn't be worth it.. Because, everything would probably be the exact same thing all over again, or near the exact same thing... The only way that I could really enjoy it, would be knowing what I know now, and if I did know, then I could change what came about over those 33 years...
It's like taking care of your health. I've already caught myself saying, "I wish 30 years ago I knew that I was going to live this long. If I had, I would have taken better care of myself." Now, all I can do is sit back and tell others to take care of themselves so they can have a more enjoyable older age.. Of course, just like I was, back when I was their age, they already know everything, so why in the heck would they ever listen to what I'd have to say?
I can't blame them, as like I said, that's the way I was when I was their age as well.
It's like my mom used to say when we would do something that she didn't approve of, or we did not listen to her warnings..... She used to say, "Wait til you have your own children, then you'll know what I mean."
Boy was she EVER right!!
Yep, things like that sometimes come back to "haunt" you.
I get to thinking once in awile.... Boy do I ever wish that I knew now what I did when I was in my teens.. Now why would I say such a thing? Because when I was in my teens, I knew EVERYTHING!
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THE GOOD OLD DAYS!
Awhile back one of the grandkids was writing to me on instant messenger and mentioned to me that she was really bored. At the time she was about 13 years old. Wow, 13 years old, sitting in front of a computer that's connected to the Internet, and she was bored.
I remember saying to her at the time, for gosh sakes, how in the world can you be bored? I would love just to be able to get a little extra time to do some internet surfing myself. Besides the many, many places on the WEB to play games, and places to study just about anything that you can think of from Birds to "traveling" through other countries, there must be a zillion free books that are available on the web... How could this girl be bored?
That got me to thinking back when I was in my teens and even younger. I can't remember EVER being bored....
When I was young, if I even looked like I may be bored my mom and dad had all kinds of cures for that kind of condition.
Even before we had the farm, we always had a "truck patch", (garden) to take care of and tend that ALWAYS needed watering, fertilizing, hoeing, and of course, planting and harvesting.. We always had a big yard that was in need of mowing, and of course we had lots of trees that needed weeding at the base of them. All of that was my brother and my jobs. Of course our sister had her share to keep her from getting bored as well... There was always dishes to do and the house to help mom clean and care for.. I can't remember sis ever doing laundry though. I don't think that mom trusted her to do that job because back then there were only wringer washers and if you weren't careful to operate them properly, you could really get hurt using them.
Of course when we were young, before we got the dairy farm, my brother and I didn't work all the time and when we did have free time, we had no problem filling it with many things to play with.. We played "Tarzan and Boy" a lot as we had many trees that we put ropes in to swing on. I always ended up being "Boy" as my brother was older than I and he figured that he should be "Tarzan." I didn't mind, we just had fun, and a couple of times we would fall out of the tree, and I still have a "scar" across the back of my one hand from a "rope burn" when I swung too hard and far and just "slid" down the rope... Ouch! That DID hurt...
We also used to play "Superman" My brother would be Superman and I would be "Superboy!" Back at that time, I think Tarzan and Superman were the two most popular heroes.
My dad worked delivering large appliances for a furniture store so once in a while he would bring us home a large box... Boy that was worth a week of "playing" time for us... At first, when the box was in good shape it would be our tent to sleep in out in the yard. Later on it would magically turn into a fort from the old days and we would be fighting off "Injuns" to keep them from taking over our fort... If it was winter time, the big box would be our "sled" to go down the hills with. Of course we couldn't "steer" it, but we could really go fast with it and that's all that counted... Yes, we had many, many ways to not be bored... I don't even remember hearing that word used back in those days as I don't remember anyone in our family or "circle" of friends, that suffered from that condition!
No wonder we have a high percentage of kids that are overweight if they don't even know how to entertain themselves.
Come to think about it, we didn't even have a radio back then, let alone I-Pods, Game Boys, X-Boxes, computers, or any of the electronic stuff they have now days to keep themselves "entertained." Yet we managed to get through our entire childhoods without getting "bored"..... How did we EVER do that?
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This month I dropped an Internet service that I was renting for 50 bucks a month to promote the one home business I'm in that I make the most money with, ELEMENTS. Actually, it was really a neat system, and it was super modern and did a lot of things such as, once a month they, the folks I rented it from, would place 50 leads into it. Then it would begin to send these leads emails about the program that really were well written and should have gotten a lot of folks interested in the program.... It would send out about 10 different emails over a 2 to 4 week period, automatically. The prospect, (lead), that received them could go to my website anytime to study more about the business, the products, the commission structure, etc. It also had a "Lead Capture" page that I could advertise in small classified ads and people could go to my lead capture site and just list their names and email address, and the program would inform me immediately that someone, a prospect, had done just that, and give me their information so I could contact them personally to ask if they had any questions about the business program, etc.. Then the program would automatically put them on the auto email program and they would begin to receive the emails... Like I said, it was REALLY neat and for what it did, 50 bucks didn't seem like too much money.... As with any programs, however, there were drawbacks...
The main one being, that with today's barrage of spam, most of the leads that were placed into the program were not getting the emails... I could tell this as I could go into the program and it would tell me who and when they opened any of the emails that were mailed to them from the program.. (I said it was neat.) However, like I said with all of the spam that flows into our email boxes each day a lot of them are set to "weed out" some good emails at times and do not let any through that are not personally approved from the mail box owner... My spam program is similar... It has to be or I would be getting 4 or 5 hundred spam emails a day instead of only about 50 or 60... However, with things the way they are, that was a big minus for the automatic system...
I was getting no sign ups from it at all from it... A couple of true prospects, but no sign ups...
So after about 6 or 7 months I had to give it up and am using that extra money for printing and postage as that's where I get most of my sign-ups. Yep, from the good ole U.S. mails...
I have got to put my promotional funds to where they do me the most good.. I didn't give up completely on the idea as I have signed up some business partners from the web, just not from that system. And I did like the lead capture page as that is a good idea... So, I made up my own lead capture page and when I get a lead from it, I can not only drop them a "personal" email or two, but I can follow up with a snail mail with the company particulars as well... On the web, from my lead capture page, I can get my prospect, just like before, only thing is, I must follow it up manually, which in a way I like better...
If you'd like to see what my lead capture page looks like, click here: Chuck's lead capture page for his Elements Business.
When you're trying to hustle a buck from a home business, or any business, you've got to stay with what is working and use your advertising bucks wisely. Advertising with any business is like an investment. You're not going to make your money back immediately. What you must do is look down the road a distance. It will be in the future, with the future commission checks paying for your initial investment in advertising, plus making you a profit, over and over again...
Advertising does pay, it just takes a while to see the results. That's why sometimes you have to stay with a new advertising campaign for awhile to see if it will be fruitful... In this case, I lost money that I will never recover, as it didn't work at all for me. However, I did learn some things from it such as the lead capture page, and that's why I made one of my own, that I can "house" on my own web site. It's a good idea, and apparently in this case, that "idea" cost me plenty!
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Well, I've got plenty more that I want to "talk" about, but I've got to get back to work as this "stuff" won't get itself done. I WISH. So for me...... it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(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..
In the summer of 1902, a printer in Brooklyn, New York, was having trouble with color printing because the hot, humid weather was causing the paper on the presses to change size enough to cause distortions of printing. Willis Haviland Carrier, a young engineer trying to solve the problem, found that air retained less moisture at lower temperatures. He designed a machine that blew air over chilled pipes and stabilized the amount of moisture. The printing improved, and Carrier's concept became the basis of the home air conditioner!
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Sunday, March 11, 2007

We had a beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania today. The temps were up into the mid 40s and it was nice and sunny all day...
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I hope you remembered to turn your clocks ahead if you live in a state that observes daylight saving time. It began early this morning at 2:00 A.M. This year it started three weeks early and will stay around an extra week in November. Boy it really screwed up my computers... Two of them is okay and the time changed. Because they both have Windows XP on them that is constantly being updated. However my large back up computer on the other side of the office has XP but was not updated as Microsoft quit updating it as it has an older version of Windows XP. It still has version 1 and not version II and Microsoft decided to quit supporting that one.. I tried almost from the time I bought the computer to download and update the darn thing... Everything looks like it's working fine while it's updating until it gets time to re-boot. It shuts down and when it restarts as soon as it starts the operating system, it goes to the "blue screen of death" and that's it..
I've tried it several times with different versions and have even purchased an up date disk from Microsoft and it still does the same thing... As the XP version, that's in it, seems to work just fine, I figured the heck with it and just left it in.. Then several months ago, I received an email from Microsoft that they were going to stop supporting that operating system, Windows 98, and as I have Windows 2000 installed on my other, smaller laptop, and that didn't update either, they must have stopped supporting that system as well..
That just happened a few months ago. I think that Microsoft was just preparing us for their new operating system that just came out at the end of January, Vista.
In other words, they are still supporting the very latest version of Windows XP, (who knows how long that will be for?) And the only other one they support is their new Vista system.
So, I think what Bill Gates is REALLY trying to tell us is, you'd better start upgrading your computer system, just so it will operate their new Vista system, or get ready to purchase a brand new computer that already has Vista in it..
Yes, now days we are a "throw away" world. Especially here, in the good old United States, and that is even for our computer operating systems...
If you've read this blog for a few years, you know that just about every time I start to think of upgrading to a new computer, I start threatening to purchase a MAC computer.. And it seems like that every time, I talk myself out of it as I have all of this software that is built for the PC systems, and that if I switched, after all these years, I'd not only have to begin again to start buying the necessary software that I'd need to operate my home business, but I'd have to take the time to learn how to operate all of it all over again.
HOWEVER, and this is a BIG HOWEVER, it seems like the new Mac systems WILL operate the PC software.. I'm not sure as I haven't had a chance to completely check it all out, but I think they have not only their operating systems, but they also have Windows operating systems in them as well... Now, don't hold my toes to the fire on that last sentence as I'm not sure yet... but I think that's how they do it... All I do know for sure is, that the Macs WILL operate Windows software.... NOW, I'm REALLY thinking of getting a Mac for my next computer...
I've got the craps of every time I seem to turn around, Microsoft is upgrading this or that and the older version won't work on the newer operating systems which requires that I must buy more, later, software anyway...
I've NEVER heard of a Mac owner complaining that his software won't work because Mac has upgraded to a new operating system and I've also never heard any of them complain that Mac has stopped supporting an older system... Maybe they did, but I've heard no one complain about it as of yet, anyway.
Any Mac owner that I've EVER spoken with loves his Mac and would never even think of trading on a Windows system which makes me think that for them to be that loyal it must be a GREAT computer system...
Did you ever take notice in a movie where they are using a laptop that it's always a Mac Computer? At least I can't remember any Windows computers in the movies...
At any rate, it's something to think about... I know that they are more expensive, but I'm starting to think that if they last twice and three times longer, just maybe they are worth it...
I friend of my has been using his Mac for well over 10 years and never thought about even buying a new computer until he bought a new printer and they recommended a newer computer to operate it... EVEN AFTER 10 YEARS he was still in love with his old Mac and wanted to continue to use it. It was not a question of weather he could afford to buy a new one or not...
Heck, lets face it, in 10 years, I've upgraded 6 times by buying a new computer... I've upgraded those machines in-between buying a new one as well... Heck, if I would have bought a Mac to start with, I could have saved enough money to buy at least 4 "top of the line" Macs!!!! Yep, I'm thinking about it, seriously, for sure this time!
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The price of gasoline continues to shoot up as crude oil prices manage to stay around the same figure now for the last few weeks? Go figure.....
Oil Prices Fall More Than A Dollar A Barrel!
NEW YORK ---- Oil prices followed gasoline futures lower and settled near $60 a barrel Friday as traders positioned themselves before the weekend. Light, sweet crude for April delivery dropped $1.59 to settle at $60.05 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude for April delivery fell $1.20 to settle at $61.13 a barrel on London's ICE Futures Exchange. Gasoline futures slipped more than 2 cents to settle at $1.902 a gallon. ---Click here to read the rest of the story.
And yet gasoline prices continue to soar.... Why? Every time I see someone on a news program ask that question from a oil company representative or even from an analyst, they all seem to have the same answer, WHICH IS NO ANSWER AT ALL.
They all start out by saying that the average American cannot understand how the gasoline prices are affected by this and that, etc., etc., etc., etc....... and that it is much more complicated than we all realize and until they are all finished telling us how stupid we are and why we can't understand why the gasoline prices are rising very fast..... etc., etc., they end up NEVER answering the question anyway... The moderator doesn't ask them to explain it in simple terms that perhaps maybe us idiots could understand... I think the moderators are afraid of asking them again and that they will appear to be as stupid as we, the consumers are! They just sit there bobbing their heads up and down acting like they understand every word this "double talker" says and that they DO understand his explanation.. Bull Crap!!! They are all just a bunch of lying "double talkers!"
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Did you happen to catch the news story about the 101 year old lady in Queens, New York, that was mugged and beaten by some crud? Well, it was all caught on tape as well.. First he grabbed her by the throat and shook her, then hit her with his fist, then he rifled through her stuff and got her purse. Then, instead of just leaving as he had already robbed her, the rotten piece of crap turned around and actually slugged her and knocked her out!!! What the heck is happening in the U.S.? I find it hard to believe that someone can be that rotten... It's a crying shame.... I hope that they not only find this piece of crap, but that he gets years in jail and ends up with a bunch of toughs that rape and beat the crap out of him every day... That would even be too darn good for him! At any rate click here for the story AND the tape of the incident.   Mugger Attacks-101-year-old Woman in Queens
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Things are really going well here with my home business and I can truly say that "Business is Booming."
Oh here's another little goody that I got in on over this weekend... I don't know how good it will be yet but they have some darn good ideas and if they follow through, it could end up being quite an opportunity...
At any rate, it costs nothing to join. To Join it's FREE! Then you get your own web site right off the bat... Of course that's FREE as well... Then you can go to your back office and study the whole deal... It will be a month or so before you have to do anything... You don't have to get anyone to join anything at all...
Anyway, I figure, it's FREE, I get my own web site, and I have a month or so to see what they come up with... If you don't like anything at all about it, just forget about it and no one will contact you about anything...
Oh well you can't beat the price, FREE so at least if you have a few minutes, take a look by clicking here: Offshore Privacy Club
That's about it for this evening as it's getting late and I do want to get a fairly early start tomorrow morning... So for me, I'm outta here, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(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..
In the first half of the seventeenth century there was a small but busy fur-trading district on Manhattan Island that was visited by many different people. By 1644, eighteen different languages were spoken at the bustling lower tip of Manhattan!
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Thursday, March 8, 2007

Brrrrrrrr..... boy it's cold here in Central Pennsylvania.... As a matter of fact, last night we sat a record that was set in 1989. Not that long ago, but 18 years, with a low of 9 degrees above zero!!! For this time of the year, around here, believe me, that's darn cold!
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So much for the big news here in the sleepy town of Dauphin.. Well, maybe not as lately, I even saw our small town mentioned on the national news. Not for something that I could be proud of, but for racism! No, I'm not a bit proud, but I was surprised to hear that such news was so big that it made the national news...
Seems like the policeman that Dauphin has, actually he's only a part time policeman as Dauphin can't afford a full time cop, hired a helper policeman. A part-time, part-time helper you might say... Hmmmmm.. well you might say that, but I don't think it's proper, but then, neither was the big news....
Seems like the part-time helper cop, for the part-time Dauphin cop, is a black guy. Oh, maybe I'm not allowed to say that anymore.. It used to be, and it doesn't seem like it was that long ago, that "Black Man" was THE proper name to call a man of color, but for some stupid reason, I think the "politically correct" word is, (Geez, I hate that terminology as well,) way to refer to a black man or a black woman or heck, a black person is an "African American." I don't understand that either... Guess I'm just plain dumb, but that's another story.
At any rate, apparently when our original part time cop, hired the "African American" cop, he didn't mention the hire to the Dauphin Council. (Now hold on, I know this is taking long than it should but the gist IS coming.) When he did mention it, of course he mentioned that the guy he hired was Black, (oops), African American. Well, after that, it seems like 2 of the council people one guy, and one gal, referred to the black guy as a N*****...., yeah, whatever, the "N" word.... Which didn't go over to good with the part time cop, that did the hiring, incidentally, he's a white guy.... Well, he thought that he had to do something about it, so he contacted the NAACP, (National Association for the Advancement of Colored people), and also threatened to sue the Dauphin Council. Now it's a really big deal... Can you imagine from a couple of people saying a word that should not have been said, for sure, but that it got all this attention... I know it's a big deal, especially to the poor black cop, but I really never thought it would get this big...
It used to be that if someone called someone else a bad name, or word, a simple apology would take care of it, and everyone could be friends. But apparently apologizing in this instance don't cut any ice...
Oh well, I don't know what's going to happen yet, but you can bet your bippies it's not going to be good, that's for sure... Actually Betty and I don't live right in the town of Dauphin, but our address is a Dauphin address. We live in the township that the borough of Dauphin resides in, and that's Middle Paxton Township.
Way back before the new highway came through and was routed "around" Dauphin instead of directly through Dauphin as the old highway went, Dauphin has just about lost it's entire revenue, other than taxes of course.
Dauphin used to be known Nation wide as THE biggest "Speed Trap." Yep, Dauphin was voted number one by all the truckers that came through Dauphin and got "nabbed" by the Dauphin Cop. Incidentally, that cop back then was a different guy than the part time guy they have now... The guy back then, retired and opened a bar and restaurant in another town.
Dauphin used to take in a fortune with it's "speed trap" fines. The town really screwed up though when the state announced that it was building a "super duper" highway that was going to be routed around Dauphin, and spent most of it's money for lawyers against the state's proposed action at the time... Of course, as usual, the State of Pennsylvania prevailed, and the highway went through and cut off Dauphin and it's well published "speed trap." All at once after Dauphin lost it's "revenue" from it's speed trap, the coffers soon ran dry and the town was and is on the verge of bankruptcy. I remember a few years ago at the polls there was a vote up for Dauphin merging with Middle Paxton Township. That went asunder, and now Dauphin can't even barely supply it's town folk with police protection. Which is okay with the state as they offered and do provide state police services for the town. It is tough to get a state cop though, in an emergency when something comes up that would require an officer, immediately.
At any rate, back when Dauphin had a few bucks, I would think that it would have served them better to invest the money that they made on the traffic fines instead of blowing it all on lawyers to fight what was going to be inevitable anyway. But hindsight can't be counted on once the job is done, can it?
So the cop saga goes on.
Now the peaceful town of Dauphin is held up, and rightfully so, for ridicule because of some racists remarks of two council members. Too bad you can turn back time and think before you speak. Geez.... that would take care of everything... The only bad thing is, that if people are saying something, you can bet your bippies, that even if it doesn't come out of their mouths, they are thinking it. It's a shame but all the lawsuits in the world and all the attention that Dauphin is receiving, will not change what some folks still think, and it will not change ANYTHING.
Personally, I don't think that everyone suing each other is going to serve any justice at all. That is unless the people are suing for money and the money alone.. Maybe they don't really care about what was said or the situation at all, but just found another way to make a few bucks.. Yes, maybe that's the main reason why just saying you are sorry doesn't work anymore.... Being sorry is fine and actually if when saying it, someone IS actually sorry, but being sorry don't hustle up any money for something that thinks they were wronged..
However, I don't really see why getting some money would make anyone actually feel better about being wronged....
I don't know... it just seems like these days, everyone is "sue" crazy... No one really cares about what's right or wrong anymore.... The issue is, how much money can we make from anyone's situation? Then, on the other hand, it seems like most of the people are worried about being honest so they can go to heaven..... Did I miss something here????
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Oh well, it's really late now, so I'd better rap it up, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
Don't take any wooden nickels 'til I "talk" to you again. Oops.... I forgot, most of you probably don't even know what a wooden nickel is!!! If not, click here: Wooden Nickel
(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..
When William Beebe undertook to explore the ocean depths in a thick-walled vessel suspended from a surface ship, it was his notion to make it a cylinder. A friend pointed out that a spherical shape would be stronger. Beebe adopted the better idea. The friend was President Franklin Roosevelt!
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Monday, March 5, 2007

Cold and windy here today in Central Pennsylvania and supposed to go down into the teens tonight! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Too darn cold for me. I'm ready for Springtime!
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I thought I'd put up a small post this evening as there is a couple of things that I wanted to mention...
First of all, I think everyone should know about this and as long as I'm still alive, I may as well refresh the memory of people around my age and maybe tell some younger folks that never heard the facts about Ms. Jane Fonda... When I was much, much younger way back in the 60s Jane was one of my favorite actresses. Boy was she ever built, and she was also very pretty. At least that were my thoughts about her until I saw her on television on a newscast.
It seems that as a peace activist against the Vietnam War, which incidentally I was VERY MUCH against as well, she took a trip to North Vietnam to "see firsthand" just what was going on there. And boy was she ever stupid... At first I thought, geez, did she ever make a mistake, but that was not the case. She KNEW exactly what she was doing... she posed in the large anti-aircrafts gun seat, mounted on a turret, that was still warm from firing at OUR pilots with a big, giant, smile on her face.. She had interviews with some of our guys that were in prisons and got many of them beaten and abused even more than they were already getting. She was an insensitive, idiotic, dumb bitch, that brought a lot of pain to our boys fighting over there and to their families... Now, let me say that this is MY personal opinion but that my opinion is shared by millions of Americans that are old enough to remember those times and happenings.
The reason I'm dragging up all this crap is that it seems Jane Fonda is about to be honored as one of the "100 Women of the Century" by Barbara Walters!!! Can you imagine we're going to honor a TRAITOR, as one of the 100 Women of the Century? I know I sure can't, but apparently it's true...
I received the announcement in my Email and yes, I know, some of these types of things can be a bunch of crap, but I know about this one first hand and I KNOW it's true! I've made a WEB page of the Email with the whole story as related by one of our POW's that was over there where he was "interviewed" by Ms. Fonda, or "Hanoi Jane, as she came to be known as," and she said to him, " "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?"
Can you believe this "Piece of Crap?"
The Web page can be found by clicking here, "Hanoi Jane".
If you can, copy that page and email it to everyone you can think of.. If enough people find out about this upcoming "Honor", maybe, just maybe, it can be stopped...
I sure hope so, as I'm sure there were many, many women in the 20th Century that deserves the honor of being known as one of the 100 Women of the Century!
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Now with that rant over, Betty and I went to Harrisburg today only to find that gasoline prices have jumped from 5 to 8 cents above Saturday's price when we were last out. That's just 2 days!
Talk about making no sense at all... Every time I check on the crude oil prices, the articles say crude oil is coming DOWN, not UP!!!! If that's so, and I have no reason to believe that it's not true, then why the heck is the darn gasoline price "shooting" up? Not climbing up, but literally shooting up!
Reduced demand fears pull down crude oil prices.
Oil prices have been down again, with US crude falling below 60 dollars a barrel, as the world stock market falls raise concerns that global economic growth is going to slow, reducing demand. Oil had held steady all last week helped by reduced US fuel reserves and the prospect of sanctions against Iran in reaction to its standoff with the West over its nuclear program.
You can get the rest of this story, along with a video by clicking here: Crude Oil Prices Down!
Can you believe that? Oil prices are now BELOW 60 bucks a barrel and gasoline prices around here were I live, in Central Pennsylvania, are now at $2.50 a gallon and above! There sure is something here that just "doesn't jive."
If you have any idea what the heck is going on other than just a "plain in your face" rip off, I'd sure like to hear from you... Please email me, my email address is at the end of this post.. Thanks in advance..... Chuck
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Just a couple of things to ponder that I ran across:
Anna Nicole Smith was the 11th Playboy Playmate to die before her 50th birthday. Among the magazine's centerfolds who also died young were Dorothy Stratten, murdered at age 20; Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash at 34; and Eve Meyer, killed at age 46 when two jetliners collided on takeoff in the Canary Islands in 1977!
Also, and this does seem stupid but according to UNICEF here are the figures;
The U.S. and Britain are the worst places for children to grow up in the Western world! 21 developed nations were studied on such measuring sticks as kids' relationships with peers, time spent with parents, drinking and drug use, and finally, the kids' own assessment of their happiness. The most secure and happiest nations for kids, the report found, are the tight knit societies of the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland' the U.S. ranked nest-to-last, and the U.K., last!
I've been saying for years the the kids in and around my world, have no respect for themselves, their elders, their teacher or anybody! They just have that "I don't give a darn" attitude. Now, of course I'm not talking about young people 100%. I'm talking about most of them...
My solution to this is the same as it's been for the last 30 years and that is to take our government out of our private family lives, and let the parents raise their own children!! That solution however, now, may be too late as the generation now having children were raised the wrong way with the government saying how they should be taught, how they should be treated by their parents, etc.. Is it too late? I sure hope not, but it's going to take quite a change and as long as the government has that "foothold" in our private lives, it's going to be virtually impossible!!
We must give the power of discipline back to the parents. There is no way that you can raise a child to have values without discipline! No way at all!
We cannot let our children do anything they want and act any way they want toward their parents, teachers, and their peers...
Why do I think that my way works better? Well, it's not hard to see if it does, look and talk to your grandparents. Ask them how many children in their schools were slain by their classmates... Ask them, while your at it, if they were disrespectful to their elders or their parents, period..
Ask them if they were happy when they were kids. Really, really, happy....
You know when I was a kid, I had my share of problems.. I was in the hospital with a bone disease for over a year and on crutches for almost 3 years, but when I think back, when I was at home with my family, even though my dad and uncle were whipping crazy, I think, in general, I was a pretty happy kid and my brother and I had plenty of fun... I NEVER was that angry at anyone in school that I would have wished something bad to happen to them let along angry enough to "kill" anyone!
We had our share of bullies and trials and tribulations, but we just learned to live with them and didn't obsess about them... This went on for generations, long before the government decided that mom and dad could not be trusted to raise their own children and that all children were being abused, etc.. I'll tell you, some of the lickings we got though you may have think we were being abused, but I always respected my mom and dad and always loved them.. If not for the way they raised me, I could have turned out a whole lot worse than I did.
I grew up to learn the difference between right and wrong. I also grew up to respect my peers, my family and especially my parents.
Matter of fact, I think that mom and dad did pretty good without "Uncle Sam" sticking his head, or nose into our family affairs...
Yes, and my kids grew up with some values as well....
Now, I'm just wandering if mom and dads even have a chance of raising their children properly.
I remember about this lady getting her unruly children into the car in a parking lot at the mall and she smacked one of them on the behind. Lo and behold a parking lot camera got a picture of that and the mom not only got embarrassed by having this photo all over the news, but got fined, and threatened that they would take her kids from her. All for a smack on the butt!!!
Wow, if that were the case when I was growing up, they would have put my mom in jail and thrown the key away, because mom did not put up with any crap from us kids, and that's a for sure!!! That's just fine with me as mom taught us respect and what was right and wrong and a million other good things... Thanks MOM!
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Holy cats... I just looked at the clock and I should close down now, here in my home office... so for me, I'm "outta" here, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(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..
Until the late nineteenth century, there was no uniform system of timekeeping in the U.S. Time was determined locally except of railroad time, and each railroad had its own standard usually based on the local time of its headquarters city. There were at least seventy-five different railroad times. The resulting confusion and the growth of complex rail networks led Congress to call an international conference in Washington, C.C., in 1884, to establish a common prime meridian for regulating time worldwide. Greenwich in England was chosen as the prime meridian, and the world was divided into twenty-four time zones!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Monday March 5, 2007

Saturday, March 3, 2007

It was another beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania with temps up to the mid 40s with about half the day in Sunshine! Yep, another warm day. We had several warm days right in a row.
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Yep, we've had enough warm days for the ice to break loose on the river! It happened overnight and apparently it made a lot of noise as it happened, but not enough to wake me
out of a sound sleep. I only knew that it broke when Betty woke me up this morning and told me to look out at the river. Of course I then grabbed my camera and went out on the deck to get a few shots.. Out in the river, as you can see in this first shot, the ice was clearing up pretty good, however, this afternoon it was full of floating ice coming down from up river. I guess where it was continuing to break up, as it warmed up further north of us. However, when it broke, as you can see in the next few pictures a lot of the ice moved up the banks of the river and in our case, into our back yard! I mean these piles of ice are high. A lot taller than me, and must weigh in the tons....
Can you imagine the coldness coming from that much ice? It's like living with a giant ice cube in your back yard!
I'm sorry it didn't happen in the day time where I could get some shots while the ice was in the process of breaking up, but I'm sure glad that there were no "Ice Jams" and "backups" that are caused by the ice jams... Believe me, when that happens it can get quite scary when you see these giant ice cubes coming toward you and your little, puny, house! Very, very scary!
I've been there when that's happened. You just stand there watching it. You know there is no way in heck you can stop it, and you know that if it doesn't soon stop, you are one, dead duck, but somehow it's fascinating! Lot's of noise, roaring, grinding as the ice moves across the bare ground, and then comes to an abrupt stop.
I remember the one year that this absolute HUGE piece of ice came into our back yard and up to the second level and dug down into the soil so far that it lifted our concrete septic tank right out of the ground and smashed it!
That's when we really found out just how good our flood insurance was. After paying thousands of dollars for years because we live in, of course, what they call "Flood Zone 1", we called the insurance representative and he kindly informed us that the flood insurance did not cover that, as that was, "an act of God", and they didn't cover, Acts of God! Well, duh, just what the heck is a flood, "a planned catastrophe?" He just told us to check with our home owners insurance company that they should cover that.. Well, we did just that and they did cover it, some. They covered just $1.000 dollars of the cost of putting in a new septic tank and most of the "drain field" that the ice had ruined.
Well, we can switch flood insurance companies, but I'm not even sure if they have any competition that we could go to as they are government approved, and ever since the flood of 1972 here in the Susquehanna Valley, we are required by law, to carry flood insurance, and we pretty well must go along with THEIR rules and regulations or face a hefty fine.
I sometimes wander if we would get hit with a big flood that caused a LOT of damage or goodness forbid, we lost the house, just how much these yokels would cover us if at all. Maybe all they have to say, is, "Well if it was less than losing the house, maybe we would have covered it, but if you lost the entire house, now that was an act of god, and we won't cover that!" Heck after that last incident, who knows for sure. We sure wouldn't be able to depend of FEMA if they acted like they did down in Louisiana now could we?
Oh well, I guess all we can do is hope that it never happens and let it go at that....
At any rate, I doubt we'll have another "freeze over" of the river this year as Spring is just only days away. According to the calendar it is anyway.
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Not only is Spring just around the corner but this year we're supposed to go to daylight saving time early.
Beginning in 2007, most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.
I got that little paragraph from this site here: SPRING FORWARD
So if you'd like more information about it, just click there on SPRING FORWARD
Now, I realize that George Bush signed an act to do this to conserve energy but does that mean that it's going to stay like this from now on, or is this change just for this year?
By the looks of the chart on the SPRING FORWARD page, it has the times listed into 2010, so it just may stay like this although the exact same day is not listed for each year. This year it has daylight saving time ending on November 4th...
To be honest with you, I'm glad it is as I like long daylight hours.. When I used to drive to work, I'd leave before it got daylight and I wouldn't get back home again until after dark. I hated that, and I'm sure some of you have it that way now..
I'm glad they are changing it...
Although....... As our clocks in our computers, tv's, VCRs, and some other electronic things are set to change automatically it just may really screw up things with this different time change...
I was thinking that maybe Microsoft will download an update into our computers that we have set on automatic updating but I have a couple of computers that Microsoft has stopped supporting the operating systems, and they'll have to be set by hand.. It's really not that BIG of a deal for a computer, but the VCRs and other things, I have no idea how to change them except reset the time by hand... and a lot of them are not as simple as the computers are.
Microsoft gets me mad at times for the crap they pull.. I have one computer that's only about 3 years old and has the XP Home edition operating system that came with it when it was new. I could NEVER update the darn system to the Service pack 2 as every time I tried, when it was time to reboot the system right after it would reboot, even before it booted into windows, it would turn to the "blue screen of death!" I would have a heck of a time getting rid of the up date and have to reload the whole system. Of course I would lose all of my programs and stuff and have to reload and reset things that would literally take a couple of weeks to get back on track. I even bought the "Service Pack 2" on a disk and it did the same things.. They could never help me fix what ever was wrong with THEIR system and one time said they might, but it would cost me an "arm and a leg" for their time to do so. So.... since the system seemed to work fine without the update, I just used it like that.. Now about 6 months ago, I received a notice from Microsoft that they stopped updating the original XP system and would no long support it. Now, if something happens, I guess I'm on my own, even though the entire problem is THEIR fault and nothing that I can do anything about short of buying another XP operating system for almost 2 hundred bucks, which incidentally, when I was having this problem they offered to sell me... Hot dog... glad they DID have a solution.... No, I'm not going to buy something that I've technically already bought to cure something that should have been operating properly to start with!
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You know, I've been threatening for years to buy a MAC computer but always decided against it as I have all of this money tied up in PC software and hardware.... But now that they say you can run PC stuff on a MAC if you need to, I just might, maybe, get a new MAC when I decide on another computer... Geez... I hope my computer didn't hear that! Never know what it might do if I replace it with a MAC... All I hear about MAC's are good things... I've never heard anyone complain that they didn't like their MAC for some reason or another....
Matter of fact, I met a guy the other day while shopping at Office Max. We were in the software section and I was just looking to see what new they had out... Betty asked me a question about something and when I answered her I mentioned that I couldn't get that as all my systems were PCs and that would only work in a MAC... I mentioned to her that I wish I had bought a MAC years ago and by now I would have all of the software that I would need in my MAC... This guy piped in to tell me about his MAC notebook that he bought about a year ago...
Seems that he writes software for a living and he writes software that works on PCs but that he had bought this MAC as he had heard all the good things about them as well over the years... He told me that he was using his MAC everyday and he loved it but got tied up on something at work and stuck his MAC up on the shelf until they finished this piece of software at work. Here when he took it down from the shelf and flipped the button it was already in on as it was just in the sleep mode!!!
He said it worked like a top and he didn't have to reboot it either... He said he can work on it for days without rebooting it... Try that with a PC! Sometimes if you use a PC hard, you may even have to reboot it in one day at least once...
Yes, between myself, and him, I'm almost convinced to buy a MAC the next time...
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Oh, hear I am again and I'll not get though with this post without mentioning gasoline prices.... Around here in the last 3 weeks, gasoline has gone from about $2.09 to $2.49!!! Yep just in the last 3 days it went up 10 cents!!!
It sure looks like we're on another ride to the $3.00 mark and maybe even higher... I just don't know how people are going to afford it and I'm sure that all prices of things will go up again as well including shipping charges....
Oil Prices Finish Lower As Stocks Fall
Oil prices settled lower Friday as traders watched the stock market decline even further, renewing concerns that economic growth may stall. The tenuous stock market saga overshadowed tightening gasoline supplies that helped push oil's Thursday settlement price to a more than two month high.
Light, sweet crude for April delivery fell 36 cents to settle at $61.64 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, the contract fell to an intraday low of $61.35 after the Dow Jones industrials dropped by more than a 100 points.
The Dow was trading at 12,158.08, down 76.26 points, in afternoon trading.
Check out the rest of this story by clicking here: Oil Prices Lower
Oil prices really haven't gained that much but gasoline prices are shooting up like all of a sudden we've all run out of oil.. Hmmmmmm...... Now you wouldn't think that the oil companies are ripping us off yet again, would you? Heck they haven't ever stopped ripping us off since the hurricane hit New Orleans!!! Over the last several weeks gasoline prices should have been somewhere around where they were before the hurricane and I remember, I think that was somewhere around $1.25 to a $1.40 a gallon!!! They got away with their ridiculous prices and they now know they can still get away with it, and they'll never go back down where they should...
I guess I should accept that and go on with my life but it still grinds my "grits!"
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Business is going real good here at my home office and work has not even slacked a bit this month.. I did get every thing done at the end of the month. It was a race but by golly it did get done...
I still have tons of stuff to do though and I am a bit behind with getting out inquiries and orders, but it's only a couple of days so I don't think I'm that far behind that anyone will be complaining.. I sure hope not anyway... Hopefully I figure by this Wednesday I'll be caught up... I must get out another bulk mailing by then as well and have most of that printed already and it's coming together on our dining room table at this very moment... I figure by Tuesday, hopefully I'll be carting that to the post office and then we can begin on another... It's a never ending job as far as mailing goes in this business.
I just received another monthly commission check from the "Tape of the Month" program that I use my downline builder, 3 Bucks = SUCCESS to build downlines and promote the business with. Yep a nice little monthly check from them will sure come in handy as it seems here lately that I'm running out of everything and I had to buy some parts for my big printer that I finally got repaired... That's one reason that I'm running a bit behind with my bulk mail, as I had to repair the printed.. There are three small rubber wheels that feed the paper into the machine that had literally wore out and had to be replaced. They are about a half inch wide and about 2 to 2 and a half inches across and would you believe that they cost around $75.00 for the 3 of them.. Thank goodness I could install them myself as the printing company charges almost $100 for a service call even before they begin to repair anything!!! Yep, I've got them in, and the printer is working "like a top!"
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Oh! I just looked at the clock and time is flying by and I do want to get another couple of things done before I wrap it up for today and hit the bath tub so, for me, I'm going to wrap it up, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!!
(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..
When a Chinese bystander ashore was killed accidentally by a cannon salvo of greeting from an English ship, during the early days (1830s) of the China-Western trade, the English were forced to turn over to China the hapless gunner, who was promptly strangled. (Strangling was thought by the Chinese to be a less severe punishment than, for instance, beheading, because the body would not be permanently disfigured!)
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