Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
We are back from Disneyland and I’m happy to report that we had a great time!! My daughter was overwhelmed by the place when we got there but slowly started to acclamate to the place. I haven’t been there for a long time and was amazed at all the changes. One thing that didn’t surprise me was how expensive everything was. We used a few
The last 5 days of work have been brutal. Yelling, screaming, emotions running high. I wish I was joking, but I’m not. I learned a long time ago that it isn’t worth losing your cool, but certainly other people that I work with haven’t learned that. The way some people react, you’d think that people’s lives were at stake. Back in the days that I volunteered
It is about time. I just happened to check my connection speed this morning and found that Comcast had increased both my download and upload speeds. I’m not all that excited about the increased download speed, although it was neat to see the speedtest register up to 20 mebabit down (although the average was somewhere around 10-11 megabit. What got me the most excited was
Lately I’ve been seeing advertisements for Clearwire. Clearwire is a new broadband wireless service that people can get as an alternative to DSL or Cable and it is portable within Clearwire’s service area. It actually sounds really cool. It’s definitely a viable solution for many people that are outside the reach of standard broadband services but I can’t tell you whether it’s a good deal
The first thing I thought about when I read this story is, “That million isn’t going to last long”. This woman found a $10 bill on the ground and then used it to buy lottery tickets. She’s glad she did because she won a $1 million dollar jackpot. The article says that she has 9 maxed out credit cards and $8500 in debt from an
As we have been slowly working on our lake house we’ve been faced with more than a few options on what we should install. Originally we had planned on just putting in wall heaters and baseboards for heat. There is no “in ground” gas available out there and we really didn’t want to have a large tank on the property to hold gas for a
As I was working on the blog layout, I knew I needed to manipulate a couple graphics. I’m absolutely horrible at graphics work, as evidenced by my header. I’ve always liked playing around with Photoshop and really enjoyed some of the plugins they had for it when I used it a few years ago. Well, that was many versions ago so I don’t even have
I have posted about this subject before but I recently read an article that did a good job of explaining this. A professor got access to a database of people that have been participating in a study for the last 25 years. It started when they were in college and now these people are in their forties. While the original study didn’t cover finances, it
I love technology just as much as the next guy and have been watching the Optimus keyboard as it winds it’s way through the design and production lifecycle. It’s pretty revolutionary as far as keyboards go. Rather than have static, fixed text on each key, it has dynamic OLED icons on each keyboard so that you can map the keys any way you like. The
Gas prices are getting ridiculous and there doesn’t appear to be any end in site. You know it’s time to start riding the bus when: -Your extra value meal is cheaper than the gas it took to go from the menu board to the pickup window -George Bush’s motorcade is made up entirely of Honda Civics -You long for the days of $3.00 gas -Your