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Thursday, October 26, 2006
It's a great sunny day here
in Central Pennsylvania but a chilly one with temps only supposed to reach the
low 50s.. That's okay though as it's certainly better than cold temps and
rainy weather.
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Seems like we don't have enough people from Mexico here in the good old U. S.
as President Bush apparently still want's more!
 Even though he still
has his weird ideas about letting people sneak over the border to do jobs and
then go back home, (yeah right), across the border when they are done, he
still finally signed the Secure Fence Act.
President Bush signs the Secure Fence Act of 2006 in the
Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, Oct. 26, 2006. Standing, from
left are, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Ralph Basham, U.S.
Border Patrol
Now, lets just see if and when the fence gets built and how well it will be
kept in order and patrolled.
Here's some more of what the President had to say:
WASHINGTON - President Bush wanted an exchange of
workers with Mexico to bring order to the border, but wound up signing a law
Thursday that approves partitioning 700 miles of the United States from its
southern neighbor.
The administration once talked of "orderly migration" — workers entering the
United States and returning to Mexico or other countries when their jobs were
finished. But political realities have replaced phrases like that with "border
security" and plans for fences, surveillance cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles
and watch towers.
Bush still wants a guest-worker program. But the toughest resistance to that
idea has come from his own Republican Party — and has intensified as the
midterm elections have drawn near.
His White House signing ceremony for the new fence law — just 12 days before
the Nov.
7 elections — gave Republicans something to point to as they try to convince
voters their party would do a better job of cracking down on illegal
immigrants and keeping criminals and terrorists out.
"We're modernizing the southern border of the United States so we can assure
the American people we're doing our job of securing the border," Bush said.
Click here for the rest of the story and about financing the bill:
Bill Signing
A lousy 14 mile stretch in the San Diego area is estimated costing a whopping
126.5 million dollars! That's just for 14 miles of it!
Maybe it would be less if we used some of the Illegal's labor to build the
darn thing BEFORE shipping them back home.
Boy, would that have the "do-gooders" raising heck? They would really be
"up in arms" wouldn't they? Oh well it's a thought anyway. We'll never see it
but it still would be ironic.
I guess I'm just happy that someone is even thinking about doing anything
about all the illegal's coming in from Mexico. Even if it is right before the
election. Yes, that's mentioned in the above article as well and it's probably
true... In the same breath Bush mentions that this bill is not at all what he
really wanted.
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No, I'm not picking on George Bush! I'm not a hard line Democrat, Republican,
or Independent.
Shit, if I was convinced that Pee Wee Herman could run this country capably
and honestly, I'd cast my vote for him!
Actually as big as our country is, and as populated as it is, (Over
300,000,000 now), we should have more than 2 prevalent parties to make our
candidates choice from. I still say that's why a lot of folks don't vote.
After the primaries are over, many feel that the candidates that have been
chosen to run from the parties are not any that they feel will do any kind of
decent job for them. So, they just don't bother to go vote at all!
I know here in Pennsylvania, the Republicans didn't even give their own people
a chance to choose a candidate...
The party "big wheels" all decided that they wanted Lynn Swann to be the
governor so that's all they supported and consequently that's all that showed
up on the primary ticket! I didn't like Lynn Swann so I couldn't even make a
choice. My vote for governor will either go for the running Independent, or
the Democratic candidate!
Talk about 2 parties not being enough of a choice.... Geez.... They, the party
"big wheels," sometimes don't even want to give us a choice with just the two
parties!
I hope the Republicans in PA fall flat on their faces when it comes to the
governor's race.. Maybe it will teach the "big wheels" a lesson, but I doubt
it.
I will be voting for some other republicans running for other offices AND for
some Democratic runners as well! (I always vote for whomever I think will do
the best job.) And in some cases, due to the lack of good choices, I vote for
the "lesser of the two evils," in my opinion.
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I can't figure out if the gasoline is still going down or headed back up.
The little gas station here in Dauphin, Pennsylvania has went up twice in the
last 4 days from $2.11 to right now a price of $2.18 on regular gasoline.
However when I was in the Harrisburg area yesterday just about all of the gas
stations were "holding" their own. None had went down since Monday but they
hadn't gone up either..
I just looked up crude oil prices on the WEB and it says that it had dropped
another 42 cents a barrel over night! Go figure....
I know it won't stay down for long but I was hoping to see it drop below 2
bucks a gallon in our area before it started to rise again... I take
notice on the WEB that in the Lebanon, Pennsylvania area at a Hess station
down there it's down to $1.98 a gallon.... Seems to me that if Hess
could sell it for $1.98 down there they should be able to sell it up here at
the same price. Yet, yesterday when I passed a Hess station in the Harrisburg
area it was listed there at $2.18 a gallon... They try and pick the last
bit of change from us that they can get, I guess! If they can get that for it
in the Lebanon area, only about 36 miles from Harrisburg according to the
Google Maps and get away with it, I guess they will....
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Looks like this week is moving right along and between the work coming in for
my small home business, and the work that needs to be done around here before
Winter sets in it's been a darn busy one so far... I just about have our
garage "battened down" for the Winter but we still have to get up in the attic
and close up the windows up there and seal them yet...
I guess with all that in mind, I'd better get back to work right now, and
YOU, YOU have a GREAT day!!! (Don't work too hard!)
(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 the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun was being produced, the
production staff, including director Joshua Logan, decided that the leading
man and leading lady needed one more duet. At a meeting they asked composer
Irving Berlin to write it. When the meeting broke up, Mr. Logan went right
home, and when he walked in the front door of his apartment the phone was
ringing. It was, of course, Irving Berlin, who proceeded to sing the
just-written "Anything You Can Do, I can Do Better." Berlin had created the
whole song, words and music, in the ten to fifteen minutes it took him to ride
home in a cab!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Thursday October 26, 2006
Sunday, October 22, 2006
It's a beautiful sunny day
here at the Blue Bird Cottage in Central Pennsylvania but very windy. I went
outdoors to do a few small things and I swore that I was in the middle of a
hurricane! It's REALLY windy. So I finally gave up and came indoors to get
some things done in the house and here in the office.
Betty decided to take today to clean the pantry, so I'm trying to stay away
from the kitchen to keep out of her way.
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I mentioned in the last post about a trip to the hospital last week for an EGD,
(explanation in the last post), and I actually was pretty worried about it.
Well, apparently I got a late birthday present as when my doctor put me to
sleep and put the hardware in my mouth and "scoped" out my esophagus he
found that I didn't need any of the blood vessels "banded" this time as they
were all too small. Hot dog! As far as I'm concerned, as my birthday was on
Tuesday and I went to the hospital on Thursday, I'll just take the diagnosis
as a late birthday present. Other than being a bit sore, I had no other
pain, and the rest of the week went by pretty good. Yep, that's the first time
he did the procedure that I didn't need any banding done. It's been well over
a year since the last time so apparently I must being doing something right
and perhaps my swollen spleen, that is causing the back up pressure in the
blood vessels, must be doing a bit better... No complaints coming from
me. That's for sure.
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 The picture on the left is
a picture of the mountains across the river from our cottage. The two that
follow are the same mountains on "zoom" shots.
As far as Fall colors go, since we are in the southern/central Pennsylvania
area our trees and mountains are about half in full color at the moment.
I just went out in the back yard and snapped a few pictures to give you an
idea. I'll try to get  better
pictures when they turn Fall colors completely.
I couldn't get any photos last year as right as they were in full "bloom" we
had an entire day of "driving" rain and it just took most of the leaves right
off the trees all in one day and I missed the opportunity to get some good
pictures.
Oh well, I'm keeping a closer eye on them this year and I'll be "on my toes"
this time.
Then I'll put them up  here
and hopefully show you just how beautiful this area around our home gets in
the Fall. That's one of the reasons why I just love it here, and also why I
love the 4 seasons.
As you can see by these shots they are just about half way into full "bloom",
but they are getting prettier with each passing day.
Once they start it only takes a couple of weeks for them to get to their
prettiest and then only a few days for them to lose all of their foliage.
That's when I consider it the beginning of the Winter around here. After that,
the mountain's look pretty drab until the first snowfall and then they take on
an entire new look and it IS beautiful!
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Friday was a GREAT day and also a good day for mail. I received a bag full of
mail and I've really only gotten about half way through it. I've got about
half to open yet. I have it all sorted and probably would have had it done by
now if I hadn't goofed off just about all day yesterday, Saturday.
We went out to eat yesterday and get a little shopping done so that pretty
much blew the day as we got home just as it was turning dark. I did work a
little bit here in the office last night but not late at all. I think I closed
up around 9 PM so it was a fairly short day.
It's best sometimes to get in some short days and take a break. I can tell
when I do get a little time off, it seems my brain works a bit better and I
seem to get more and better ideas for different projects as well.
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I took notice in today's paper that OPEC is going to cut down their oil
production 1.2 million barrels a day to try and stop the "slide" of gasoline
prices.
Geez.... we're not even down to 2 bucks a gallon yet and they're trying to
raise the prices already... They want to "tap" us for all they can get
out of us...
I hope all of their wells run dry. That would force us not only to find more
alternative energy sources but also force us to start tapping our own oil
sources like the "zillion" barrels of oil that's in Alaska that we haven't
even touched because of the environmental crazies that are afraid a few oil
rigs will ruin the millions of square miles of scenery that up there.
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
early today announced plans to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a
day, equal to 4.3 percent of the group's total, in an effort to stop the slide
in oil prices over the past three months.
The unexpectedly large size of the cut, the cartel's first since December
2004, was aimed at the many oil traders and analysts who still take a
skeptical view of OPEC's will to follow through and carry out meaningful
output reductions.
In contrast to the jawboning about production cuts that has been going on for
the past three weeks, this plan emerged from an emergency meeting in the
Qatari capital of Doha and had the crucial support of Saudi Arabia, the
biggest producer in the group.
Qatar's energy minister, Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, announced the decision
after a late-night session and said that the production cuts would take effect
Nov. 1 and be shared by all OPEC members except Iraq, but he did not say how
the cuts would be allocated among the members, a key issue.
You can read the rest of this article by clicking here:
OPEC Cut
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They sure are greedy little devils in my opinion.... Now that they've
been receiving so much more per barrel over the past year, they don't want to
go back to where the price was before hurricane Katrina hit us. I feel sure
that they'll get theirs, before too many years go by. You would think that
they should think about their own future as, let's face it, they are causing
us to look for alternative energy sources and that will put a big dent in the
oil that we will be buying from them in the future.
Seems like their greed is getting in the way of their good sense...... I think
that happens to a lot of people and apparently it doesn't matter what country
they come from.
Gasoline is still dropping around here. It's not dropping as fast as it was,
but it's still slowly sinking. Costco had it yesterday for $2.10 a gallon not
quite to the $2.00 mark though. I will be VERY surprised if it DOES drop under
the $2.00 mark... I just don't think we'll ever see gasoline below 2
bucks again.... Not if the large oil companies can help it.
In the above article it says that all of this will take affect November 1st.
Hmmmmmm, doesn't that seem coincidental that it is almost right on election
day.
If you remember, I predicted that as soon as the elections are over, gasoline
would shoot right back up..... Looks like that prediction is all
coming together right now.. We'll see as all of this is not that far
off.
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Well, I think I'd better rap this post up if I want to get anything done here
today in the office.... 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..
The first draft-card burners were members of the International Workers of the
World, during World War I. The I.W.W. was the first great working-class
American protest movement, flourishing from 1905 to 1920. Nicknamed the
Wobblies, they fought for the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, and the
dispossessed. They set the pattern for sit-ins and other types of
demonstrations that were utilized by civil-rights groups and war protesters
half a century later. Leaders of the Wobblies were intellectuals and Marxists,
poets and singers. They gave America such songs as "Casey Jones," "Dump the
Bosses off Your Back," and "Solidarity Forever." They failed in their
aims---overthrow of the capitalistic system---but they created a new awareness
of the right to protest!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Sunday October 22, 2006
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
It is a nice day here in
Central Pennsylvania with a lot of clouds... The temps are up to 72 today
though and it's really nice considering this time of the year. We're supposed
to get one more nice day tomorrow before it turns cold again... I'm looking
forward to it.
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I had a great birthday yesterday. I got about 15 to 20 phone calls wishing me
a Happy Birthday and some cards, gifts etc. All and all I made out like a
bandit. I was 63 years old yesterday, (and feeling every day of it!) (Ha!)
On Monday Betty and I stopped in at our favorite Chinese restaurant,
The Grand Buffet, and the manager
bought our meal as a birthday gift to me.. That was really nice of him.
Yesterday, however, right on my birthday, we stayed home and worked all day
putting a bulk mailing together. That was good though as I was home for all of
the phone calls that I received.
We did go out again today to eat lunch after we dropped off the bulk mailing
at the post office and once again stopped at
The Grand Buffet to eat. The
owner's wife was there and had called me yesterday to wish me a Happy Birthday
which was nice, but today SHE picked up the tab for our meal! Wow! I'm eating
awfully cheap this week!
I went out 2 times this week so far as I must go to the hospital this week for
another EGD, (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy),
wow, that's a mouthful, and an operation on the blood veins in my esophagus.
(Sounds like fun, right?)
I've had this done before and it's not fun at all.. Matter of fact I had
it done 3 or 4 times before and the one time, the evening after it was done,
it started to bleed badly and I had a quick trip to the hospital VIA an
ambulance. I thought I had "bought my ticket" that time as when I threw up the
blood, here at home, it about half filled the sink in the bathroom... That was
scary.
Also, once it's done you're pretty much on a liquid diet for 3 or 4 days and
there is some pain that comes with it...
So as you can imagine, I'm NOT looking forward to it.
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Surprisingly enough, gasoline is still trickling down in price around our
parts. I filled up today at CostCo's for $2.10 a gallon.
I'm really hoping that it breaks the $2.00 mark before the elections are
over... As I feel sure as soon as they are over, the price is going to shoot
back up.. At least that's my "take" on it and there are a lot of rumors going
around that are saying the same thing. It is dropping slower, much
slower, than it was, but by golly it's still going down. I just wish it was
where it should be, around a buck and a half a gallon, but I doubt we'll EVER
see those prices again, EVER.
It's dropped so much in the last month or so that when you're pumping the gas
you can actually take notice that the dollars and cents window on the pump is
turning so much slower than what we've been used to all Summer.. It's actually
noticeable!
I guess we'd just best enjoy the prices while they are here.....
I really get a kick out of the excuses coming out of the big oil companies
though as to why the prices are down.
"Well, let's see we didn't have any hurricanes destroy our off shore
drilling operations this year so the gas prices are coming down."
Geez.... that's stupid, as let's face it we haven't had any hurricanes do that
for over a year! Does that mean that the prices should have went back down a
year ago? That's just one of the goofy excuses that comes to mind off hand but
I've heard a few of them and they are all just plain dumb. It's like a little
kid explaining to mom how he stepped into a mud puddle.
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Lot's to get done here in the office today as I never even got yesterday's bag
of mail checked as I didn't want to stop on the bulk mail until we got it done
and that ran into pretty late last night. I think about 8:30 PM and then at 9
and 10 I had 2 different conference calls to attend on the phone for my
favorite program and the one that I make the most money with,
Elements. Until those two telephone
conference calls were over it was almost 11 PM. That didn't let much time
yesterday to get any of my mail sorted or any of the small orders and
inquiries I have on my desk to attend to, finished.
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With all that in mind, it's time for me to get 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 1705, John Smith, a condemned robber, fell through the drop at London's
Tyburn gallows, and dangled at the end of the rope for about fifteen minutes.
Suddenly a courier came galloping up with a reprieve. The hanged man was cut
down, found to be still breathing, and resuscitated. He lived for some years
after that, and was called "Half-hanged Smith!"
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Wednesday October 18, 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
T.G.I.F.
It's a beautiful sunny morning here in Central Pennsylvania but it's cold out
and it's going to stay on the cool side all day today with temps only supposed
to go into the mid 50s.
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 I guess that I can say that
Fall is finally setting in here at the Blue Bird Cottage as you can see by the
pictures to the left.
The two windows and a door there in the background is the entrance to my
office so you can see what I look outside at most of the day. As you can see
in the back ground, we still have a few trees that haven't even started to
turn into their Fall colors yet but that won't take long now that the cooler
 weather is here.
The second picture here, on the left, is looking out the other way from my
office. You can see that the giant pine tree in front of my office is laying
down a "carpet" of pine needles already and it's hardly begun yet. There's
plenty more of them to come down yet before it quits shedding them.
The trees in the background have barely started to turn into their Fall
colors. When they do, this will even be a better and more beautiful shot.
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As the end of the week has arrived, I have a lot to get done here in the
office before my weekend can get off to a good start. Also, because of the
Monday holiday we've had a short mailing week and that's kind of thrown off my
mailing quota some. I've been trying to double up some on my promotional
mailings but that's hard to do and keep up with the work coming in every day.
Each and every day I must work on my mailing lists as well and when I don't
get a chance to keep those up to date, it really doesn't take that long to get
behind with them.
I was really planning on getting up another post here in my daily blog site
this week but that didn't work out either.
I have had a good week though, business wise, as I've received a lot of orders
and yesterday even received another application for membership into the
Once A Month Association.
To get that new member into the data base and to make a "custom" promotional
kit for him will take about 2 hours so that alone will eat up some time
today...
Actually, I'm better off when 2 or 3 applications come in for that at one time
as it actually takes less time per kit when I do more than one at a time.
It's hard to believe that I started the
Once A Month Association
clear back in 1991. Geez.... that's 15 years ago and it sure doesn't seem like
it.
The man that was closest to me and a lot of help with the Association, Tom
Sult, passed away a few years ago. I still miss him every month when I run the
statements, write the newsletters and update the Monthly Member Benefit
Directory and the Quarterly Dealer Directory. He was a lot of help to me and
just a great guy to talk to for support and help. Oh well, they say the good
die young.. Only thing is.... where does that let me??? (Ha!)
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A couple of days ago, Betty and I took our neighbor, up the road from us,
Jane, out for a good hot meal to treat her for her birthday that she
celebrated this week. Jane turned 82 this week! Wow!
I was reading some of her memoirs the other day that she had written about
when she was a very young girl growing up. It was a completely different world
than it is now days.... Back then it sure didn't take much to keep children
entertained and busy.
Just helping her mother and aunt with sewing in the kitchen was a big treat
for her.
When I think about the kids now days I can just hear them whining how bored
they would be to help with sewing!
I remember when I was very young with my brother who was 3 years older than I,
that my dad drove truck and was a delivery man for large appliances and
furniture, etc. Once in awhile dad would bring home a big giant box that
perhaps a refrigerator was in and would give it to my brother and I. That box
would be our main "attraction" for the next couple of weeks. It would be
our "tent house" to sleep outdoors in plus our fort to have battles in and if
it was Winter time we would flatten out the big box and use it to slide down
the hill on the snow.. Yep, we could really be entertained with nothing
more than a box for quite some time... I can imagine how long that would
entertain the young folks now if you could pry them away from their electronic
games that long.
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Hot Dog!
NEW REPORT KEEPS OIL PRICES LOW!
Crude oil remained well below $60 a barrel on the New
York Mercantile Exchange on Thursday after a government report said U.S.
inventories increased by 2.4 million barrels last week.
Crude oil inventories, excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, swelled to
330.5 million barrels, the Energy Information Administration reported.
"U.S. crude oil inventories remain well above the upper end of the average
range for this time of year," the government reported On Thursday, crude oil
recently traded at $57.61 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price
peaked July 14 at $78.40 a barrel and slid to $57.24 earlier today, a decline
of 27% and the lowest price since December 19, 2005.
I just LOVE to read stories like this and I hope to see many more for awhile.
You can get the rest of this great story by clicking here:
New Report Keeps Oil Prices Low!
I know around here, where I live, the prices of gasoline are still dropping
however they are not dropping as fast as they where a couple of weeks ago...
I can take notice by the different gas stations prices though which ones are
trying to sap us for all they can.
Usually some of the stations that are usually about 10¢ a gallon higher than
those around it are now running neck and neck if not a little less at times
than the other stations, which tell me that the other stations could very well
afford to drop their prices down some too. At least it's coming down a
bit.. Beats paying around $3 bucks a gallon like we did most of the Summer.
It's still awfully high though at more than 2 bucks a gallon.. Cheapest it is
around here is at CostCo's where it's $2.16 a gallon....
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Like I mentioned above I have a lot to get done before my weekend gets under
way so for me it's back to work, and YOU, YOU have a GREAT
weekend!!!!
(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..
The most ancient report of a solar eclipse is in Chinese records. The eclipse
came without warning, according to legend, because the royal astronomers, Hsi
and Ho, were too drunk to make the necessary computations. They were
executed---the only astronomers known to have been killed for dereliction of
duty!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Friday October 13, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
It was an absolutely
beautiful day here in Central Pennsylvania today! Temps were up into the mid
70s and it was clear as a crystal outside. According to our weather folks
though that's about it for this week as a cold front is moving in and temps
are supposed to drop like a "lead balloon" overnight.
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Did you enjoy your big holiday yesterday? It was the same as any other day
around our house and I think it's that way for most folks unless you're a
government worker and get the day off, paid. The traffic was light around
these parts as all the traffic we normally have going to Harrisburg, our
Pennsylvania capitol city, wasn't there yesterday. That's the only real
difference that I saw.
Come to think of it I guess some towns and cities do hold parades on Columbus
Day.
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I screwed around way too long to get our back deck stripped and waterproofed
though, and I'm afraid I'll have to wait until next year.. I just did it
last year so that should be okay but I really wanted to get it done again this
year. John, Betty's son, even brought up his "power washer" for me to use to
help strip the darn thing. I went out today and was going to clean and strip
it then I heard the noon day news and weather report, cold over the next week
with temps even down into the 30s, so I decided I'd better not.
Oh well, I guess that job won't be going anywhere until next year, that's for
sure.
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I did get the Jeep tuned up for winter yesterday afternoon as it was a nice
day yesterday as well. Just minor stuff like checking the antifreeze and
putting in new spark plugs etc. I do want to buy a new air filter for it yet
and put a new wiper on the rear window.
I also want to get 4 new tires and a lube and oil filter as well. Then it will
be completely ready for the winter...
No wonder a lot of older folks move to Florida. They save a ton of money on
heat and a lot of other things... The only thing is that they sacrifice
the 4 seasons, and a lot of fun in the snow. Also, I don't think I'd like that
humidity down there all year long. I do like the cooler weather once in a
while.
Like I said before, this is my favorite time of the year, October and
Halloween.
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Betty and I did get our flu shots and also shots for pneumonia, at Costco's.
You only need the pneumonia shots once every 5 years and we couldn't remember
just when we had our last ones so we got them as well. The only thing is that
Medicare will only pay for them once every 5 years so we'll get a bill for $33
bucks each for those but it's better to be safe, than sorry. (When we got home
we checked and we had gotten the pneumonia shots 3 years ago.)
Each year, about 130,000 people go to a hospital with the flu. 20,000 people
die because of problems from the flu!
Some people at higher risk of problems from the flu include:
* Health care workers and caregivers
* People over 50 years of age
* Anyone with lung problems such as asthma or emphysema
* Anyone with kidney problems
* Anyone with diabetes, heart disease or other long-term health problems
A flu shot is good for people who might become seriously ill. They need to be
protested from getting the flu. It is safe for most people older than six
months of age. It usually has only a few side effects. You may get soreness in
your arm. You may have a fever. You may have sore muscles or feel tired. (A
small price to pay for NOT getting the flu!)
Some people should NOT get the flu shot. These people would include those with
egg allergies.
Life is a heck of a lot nicer when you are in good health. Sometimes we must
spend some money and extra time to stay healthy. But it sure is worth it!
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Looks like we're in a trend, again, for people going into schools to cause
trouble and to kill kids. The last couple that did this that really hit the
news have both been adults for a change.
Near our area was the idiot that went into an Amish school near Lancaster,
Pennsylvania and killed, so far, 5 Amish girls. He did shoot more and so far
one of them will recover for sure but the rest are still "in the woods."
The morning this happened, last Monday, this guy walked his own two kids to
the school bus and got them off to school and then got in his truck and went
to the Amish school house to do his evil work.
Seems that all the Amish folks have forgiven him... That's a tall order
and I'm sure me personally, would NOT be able to do that.
Seems that this rotten so and so had some fantasies and that's why he did it..
Of course at the end of this mess which only lasted an hour or so he did end
up killing himself. So apparently his fantasies ruined not only his own
family, but the families of many of his Amish neighbors. Yes, he was a
neighbor of these people and knew many of them personally as he was a milk
truck driver and picked up milk at the Amish farms.
Another big WASTE!
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These sick adults that do these kind of deeds can usually have some idiotic
reason that they do it and let people know just why. What gets me are the kids
who go to their own schools to kill their classmates and then do themselves
in.
I still think that a lot of this kind of stuff would never happen if the
government would turn the job of raising kids back over to the parents.
The government wants the parents to be responsible for every little thing that
their children do, but take away any kind of authority that the parents have
to chastise and control and teach their children the right and wrong ways to
act and grow up.
Around here the small grade schoolers are taught to dial 911 even if their
parents raise their voices to them!
Now what does that teach the kids. If their parents get in trouble just for
yelling at them, then why should they even bother to listen to their parents.
After all what kind of control do the parents have.... In some cases NONE!
I know back when I was in school I never heard of such a thing as some student
even threatening to kill teachers and students, let alone actually doing it!
We were taught to respect our parents, teachers, other kids, and especially
ourselves. All of that kind of teaching seems lost in today's society.
Something will have to change as it will just get worse with time and more
children in the schools..
Oh, I forgot to mention that when I was in school all of the boys I knew, as I
grew up in farming country, all had pocket knives that we carried. We used
them every day. Now, a child can be permanently expelled for carrying a key
chain with a small knife attached!
Kind of reminds me of of the mentality that makes the rules and regulations
for our airplane travelers. Travelers are not allowed to take nail clippers
along on a flight but they are allowed to carry all the pens and pencils they
want. Which seems more dangerous to you? Of course, a pencil is a very good
weapon and you can stab someone with it quite easily, and that brings me back
to the school kids.... God forbid that they bring a "squirt gun" to
school as now days they may serve some jail time.
When I was in school the teacher used to "confiscate" water pistols all the
time. But if you used them outdoors at recess no one said nothing.
Oh well times and people change... In this case though, I can't see ANY
of the changes going on the "good" side.
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Gasoline is still "inching" down some around here. Although it's dropping
slower, it's almost like the gas stations are waiting for someone to tell them
to start raising it again, so far it's holding it's own. I would like to see
it at least get below $2 bucks a gallon around here before it starts up
again...
Cheapest around here is Costco's at $2.18 a gallon..... I've got my
fingers crossed!
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I guess I'd better get my butt 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..
A Senate debate on Kansas statehood in 1856 climaxed when Representative
Preston Brooks of South Carolina cane-whipped into senselessness Senator
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Sumner had insulted Brooks' uncle, the absent
Senator Andrew P. Butler, of South Carolina, during a diatribe against the
"harlot slavery" and "rape" of Kansas by "hirelings picked from the drunken
spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization." Sumner was so badly injured he
could not return to the Senate for three and a half years, and he was in pain
for the rest of his life. Brooks resigned after the incident, but was
reelected as a hero by his district!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Tuesday October 10, 2006
Friday, October 6, 2006
T.G.I.F.
It's a chilly morning here in Central Pennsylvania with temps only supposed to
reach 55 degrees today. Looks like Fall is back as far as our weather picture
goes around here.
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Betty and I are still working to get our Cottage "winterized" and as ready as
possible for the cold weather. I still must do some window sealing and some
other things like get into the attic and seal the window up there. (That will
give me an excuse to get my Halloween decorations that are stored up there as
well.)
It doesn't seem like we have too much more to do here but all these small jobs
take up a lot of time.
I also want to take some time to "tune up" the Jeep for winter. You know, new
spark plugs, lube and filter, and also a new gas filter and air cleaner
filter.. Just some small things all but the new tires that it's due for.
Yes, by the looks of it we'll have to put on 4 new tires before winter this
year. The others lasted pretty long so I can't complain about finally getting
some new ones.
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It looks like gasoline price may continue to drop for awhile as I ran into
this article that was supposed to be less than 8 hours old about crude oil
prices.
Crude oil prices dive!
From correspondents in London
WORLD oil prices fell briefly below $US58 per barrel overnight following news
of a bumper increase in crude stockpiles in the United States, dealers said.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in November, plunged
to $US57.75 per barrel in pit trading, a level last seen on February 16.
The contract later recovered to trade at $US58.85, an increase of 17 cents
from yesterday's close.
Brent North Sea crude for November delivery sank to $US57.70 per barrel in
electronic deals - an intra-day low last seen on December 30, 2005.
Brent crude later stood at $US58.30 per barrel, marking a drop of 13 cents
from yesterday's finish.
The US Department of Energy said overnight that crude oil reserves surged 3.3
million barrels to 328.1 million barrels in the week to September 29.
Financial markets had expected crude reserves to fall by 1.1 million barrels.
"The market was surprised by the crude build," said Societe Generale analyst
Deborah White.
Click here for the entire article:
Crude oil prices dive!
I sure wouldn't hold my breath, but we just may get lucky.
Even though gasoline prices have fallen below $2 a gallon in Virginia, around
here they're still in the $2 and 20 something range..... The last 3 times that
the prices got around $2 the price started to shoot back up before it reached
the $2 mark. I've got my fingers crossed that this will finally be the time
that it makes it below the $2 price BEFORE it begins to rise again as we all
know that it will.
Summer driving season is over, so demand is down. Fears
that a war with Iran was imminent have waned. Hurricane season, which wreaked
havoc on Gulf Coast oil refineries last year, is well underway, with no major
storms. And Chevron has discovered a major new oil field in the Gulf of
Mexico!
At least that's what the Chicago Tribune says.... I hope they are right
and the prices just continue to drop!
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As I look at the piles of work on my desks I can see that I have quite a bit
to get done before I can start my weekend, so for me, it's back to work, and
YOU, YOU have a GREAT weekend!!!
(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 seventeenth - and eighteenth - century America, women were employed in all
of the same occupations that men were, and men and women earned equal pay. A
female blacksmith charged the same as a man to shoe a horse. Women sextons and
printers were paid the same rate as men. Women were silversmiths, gunsmiths,
shipwrights, and undertakers!!!
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Posted by Chuck Rollason at, Friday October 6, 2006
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
It's a beautiful sunny
morning here in Central Pennsylvania this morning and the temps are supposed
to go up to 80 degrees today! VERY, VERY unusual for this time of the year,
but it's only supposed to last for one day and then they will be dropping back
down where they are supposed to be. Around these parts that's in the upper 60s
to low 70s. That'll be more like it.
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We started a brand new month and if you've been reading this blog for awhile
you'll know that this is my favorite month of the year. I just love October
not only for the Fall weather but also my favorite holiday is in October and
that's Halloween!
Yep, time for me to get out my Halloween decorations and get my office feeling
more on the "eerie" side. I already have my favorite skull out as I keep that
on my shelf for the entire year.... The skull gets mad if I bundle him
up in a box and stick him in the attic with the rest of my "ghoulish" goodies
for Halloween! We can't have the "skull" mad now can we?
The leaves are already starting to turn on some of our trees in our yard and
the mountains that surround our little cottage.
No, it's not as pretty around here yet as it is in this picture, to the left,
but it won't be long now!
And you wonder why I like this time of the year!
Soon it will start to look like that all around here in the valley where I
live and also on all the mountains that surround us. You just can't beat this
time of the year for being the most beautiful as far as our nature's foliage
goes. No wonder the Indians, the Susquehanna Indians, loved it around this area
so much.
Yes, we'll have some pretty foliage even into November for a couple of weeks
unless we get an early Winter with snow, and it knocks all the leaves off the trees.
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The end of the month came and passed and we DID get done all the end of the
month stuff like, 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.
Those of you members who have earned a commission check will see it in a day
or two and all of you will see your monthly package including the Newsletter
as well.. It's a job that I'm really glad it's done when it is. I like
working on it, but it does take a lot of time to get everything done and into
the mail.
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Betty and I, hopefully will be getting our flu shots this week. It looks like
the discount store, Costco's, will be providing them this year and they are the
first to advertise that they'll have the shots in so it's off to Costco's for
us!
I like to get them as soon as I can with all of my health problems in mind. I
don't know if my body would hold up very well under a good dose of the flu of
any sort! Wouldn't do any good for Betty either.
Don't forget to get yourself one this year either.... It beats the heck
out of getting the flu and that's for sure!
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I've had the coal stoker cleaned and running for over a week now and with
these cold nights I'm sure glad I did. Also, it looks like coal will be taking
another jump in price this year again. Geez...... It's getting more expensive
than oil heat! It's heading too darn close to $200 bucks a ton for me!
Especially when I remember buying it quite a few years ago for $12 dollars a ton!
They claim that China has such a demand for the stuff that they are driving up
the prices all over the world including here in the United States!
You can read some on that subject here:
China's
Coal Shortages
Seems weird that a country on the other side of the world can have such an
effect on us and our price of coal right here in central Pennsylvania.
Unbelievable!
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I have software that will make a "Birthday Page" of things and events that
happened on someone's birthday. A couple of days ago I ran one for my
birthday, October 17, 1943. When I was born the New York Yankees won the 1943
World Series! The U.S. started to ration bread & metal because of the Second
World War. James Cagney won the Academy award of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences and the Best Actress award went to Greer Garson!
The population of the United States was only 136,739,353! Also Bread was only
11¢ a loaf. A dozen eggs was 19¢ a dozen and gasoline was only 19¢ a gallon!
Wow!
That's a lot of changes in my lifetime......
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The telephone is ringing pretty good here this morning and I do have a lot of
work on my desks to get started on 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 1911, a suburban tailor named Teichelt, who had invented a batwing cape
that he believed would enable him to fly, applied for permission to fly from
the Eiffel Tower. The proprietors of the tower reluctantly gave permission,
provided that Teichelt obtain police authorization and that he sign a waiver
absolving the tower proprietors. Incredibly, the police gave permission. At
eight o'clock, on a cold December morning, Teichelt---accompanied by a handful
of well-wishers and press photographers -- climbed to the level of the first
platform, stepped over the edge, and plunged to his death!
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