Speaking of school issues. I remember last year I attended a school function with my sister, her husband and my niece. It was a Christmas Chorus event and it actually was pretty good considering that it was held by middle schoolers that have just started singing in their young lives.
I remember looking at the School Lockers in the hall ways and thinking how little the Lockers have become since I was in school. They are now half the size of what they used to be, I don’t know how these kids are managing to cram everything that they need into them. During the winter months with your coats, boots, mittens, umbrellas and the like it must be a real hassle for the poor kids.
Now my Gym Locker was small, if I remember correctly it was a Wood Locker, which was a poor choice, in my opinion, since wood absorbs odors and we all know how smelly our gym clothes were back then. Now a days they don’t even make the kids take a shower after gym class, which is something that we always were made to do each and every day.
Anyway, I had a few minutes to spare last night and found myself looking at the variety of Lockers for sale on the Internet. We have come a long way baby, but I still think that they need to give today’s students bigger Lockers.
The Washington Redskins are having a rough time in these recent pre-season games. Last night’s game went downhill and quickly. They certainly have a lot that they have to work out before the real games start this up and coming season. They haven’t had a decent season in years. I’d like to see them impress their fans this year.
Cruising around online last night I was checking out some of the more popular game sites. I don’t play many games online but on occasion I will have a bit of time on my hands and feel the urge. You don’t see many girl games, or at least you didn’t use to. I stumbled onto a site easygirlgames.com that is chock full of girl games. I sent the link to my 10 year old niece that has her own computer and may enjoy some of the girl games that they have offered and listed there.
I remember that there was a major push about 6 years ago in an effort to get more games that would appeal to the female population, girls in particular. I haven’t paid that much attention to it to tell you the truth but I do know that there seems to be a good effort from the gaming companies to fulfill this need.
Next spring will be my father’s 70th birthday. My brothers and sisters have decided that we want to surprise him with a a special surprise party and give him a gift that he has always dreamt about – a trip to Myrthle Beach. He’s been retired for five years now, and he’s dreamt about playing on the Myrtle Beach golf courses as one of the retirement fantasies that just haven’t come to pass yet.
My wife and I have been trying to review the many different Myrtle Beach golf packages on the http://www.myrtlebeachgolf.net web page to see which ones might be the best ones to get. We all agreed to split the cost equally, but we still need to keep a close eye on the cost. And we want to make sure that our mother has plenty to do while our father is out on the course.
We also need to figure out if any of us should accompany them, or if we should try to make it a romantic getaway for the two of them. After all, maybe booking some spa time for our mother while our father is out on the golf course would be the perfect touch!
My brother and his wife have decided that they want to take their kids to the beach for school starts. Apparently school starts very early down where they live. The first day of school for them is in the beginning of August, while we have always had our schools start after Labor Day which of course is always in the first week of September. So time is running out and they are running into some snags in finding a good spot to travel to.
Since BP has destroyed most of the beaches on the east coast the choices have been narrowed down considerably and the word is that folks are flocking to resorts in Myrtle Beach, which I’m sure Myrtle Beach is just loving all the money that is heading their way this year. I’ve heard that Myrtle Beach has been trying hard to get more business their way so I guess they got what they were asking for, by default.
So it looks like they have been busy using the Internet to find the best Myrtle Beach hotel that they can find in such a short time frame. They have been using sites like http://avistaresort.com to find what they are looking for. Not only do they want the whole beach experience for the kids, but they want to be able to get in a game or two of golf as well. I wish them luck and hope that they have a blast before the time runs out and it’s back to school once again.
I’ve really been surprised by how many of my friends and co-workers have been following the World Cup Soccer games this week. One of my co-workers even took the entire week off as vacation so he could stay home and watch the games! I’ve never been a big fan of watching soccer, but I used to enjoy playing it when I was in school.
I know that there has been a lot of effort to bring more popularity of soccer in the USA, but when I see all of the violence and riots that happen overseas at the games, I have to wonder if we really can deal with it! We don’t need more of that, do we?
I’ve loved downhill skiing ever since my very first experience on the bunny slope over thirty years ago. Over the many years since I have had several wonderful skiing holidays, and some not so wonderful.
One of my most memorable holdiays was when I signed up for a long weekend ski trip with a singles ski club to charter a bus to go to SugarBush in New England. I can’t even remember now if it was in Vermont or New Hampsire! I just remember it was a terribly long bus ride with a rowdy crowd of folks. We had rented out several condo townhouses. Shortly before we arrived we stopped at a small grocery store and were advised to buy “supplies.” No one knew exactly what that meant so although I stocked up on a lot of food items to get me by for the duration of the trip, most of the folks just bought beer and cigarettes. When we arrived at the condos, many of the people then realized that there was no grocery store or convenience store nearby and they were out of luck on getting much food!
Well, I shared much of what I had bought, and in return the group paid for a lot of my meals at the ski lodge (something I wasn’t exactly planning on eating, but oh well!)
Lesson learned? Make sure you really know where your food supplies are going to be coming from so you don’t get caught without anything to eat!
A few years back I got hold of some Houston Rodeo tickets from work. The tickets were being handed out pretty freely so many of us in the office ended us with tickets and so we decided to made a day of it. We generally don’t do much together outside of work so it a big to do and we all had a good time. For not having to pay for the tickets, we ended up with some pretty descent seats and had a clear view the whole time, which really is a big deal considering that you are sitting there for several hours at a time. There is nothing worse than having bad seats at an event like this. The only thing worse than having bad seats is being stuck close by a little kid that will not shut up and parents that won’t do anything about them!
I really enjoyed that rodeo and I would really enjoy attending another one, maybe this spring or summer. Think I’ll start looking around online and seeing if anything is supposed to be going on rodeo wise some where in the surrounding towns and counties. I like going to outside events. I don’t like being stuck indoors in a big crowd. I like being able to walk around and see everything that is going on everywhere during the whole event. I’ll bet I can find a few people who would like to attend a rodeo with me, something to look forward to!
I’ve always like penguins! I was cruising the youtube site and found this really funny video of a penguin racing down a luge. It is being presented as an animal olympic type race. What a riot!
I went to the Harley shop today. Come to find out, they were having an open house! I don’t know why they call it an open house, they’re open six days a week! I went in and looked around at all of their motorcycles; it made me feel young again! Salesmen asked me if I was interested in buying one. I told him I’d love to, the only problem is that I’m afraid I’d have to use my grocery money to fill the gas tank! He just laughed and said “welcome to the crowd!” Well, I did get a free hot dog and a soda out of it! And I did enjoy looking at some really nice bikes. On the way home, I stopped at Hardees and bought a cheeseburger. I hadn’t been to a Hardees in two years. It will probably be two years before I get the chance to go back again!
My sister-in-law recently decided that she wants to learn how to shoot a gun. She has had one for several years but never learned how to do anything with it at all. A few weeks ago some new neighbors moved into the house next door to her and she is afraid of them; she thinks that now is a good time to learn how to shoot! So she’s going to come over to my house this afternoon and I’m going to take her to the shooting range and teach her how to use her gun.
My friend Bryce has a new 4-wheeler. Actually, to me it’s a four-wheel drive Cadillac! It looks like a golf cart, and it’s all enclosed with a fiberglass top, windshield and doors. It has a full bench seat and a heater that you actually have to shut off even when it is cold out because you get so warm! It has four big all-terrain tires on it and you can go anywhere in the snow, but the other day, when I went over, to my surprise he had bought a conversion kit and turned it into a bulldozer! It actually has four independent tracks on it in the shape of a “V” and it really looks funny when you stare at it because the tracks turn independently on the front and you can go anywhere – and I mean anywhere!
The first one I ever saw belonged to the bait dealer in town where I live. He wanted something that would go anywhere anytime he wanted without worrying about getting stuck. The kit was an extra $3,000 but he said it was worth every penny. Now there are two of them in town! It’s camouflage green, so when you park it in the woods in the summer you can barely see it. He keeps asking me to come over and go for a ride, he says I can drive it, but I just haven’t had time. I hope to do it soon!
I’ve been practicing my pool techniques lately because I’m getting ready to enter a couple of amateur tournaments coming up next week. There’s a lot of shots I’m a little bit rusty at, and some that I’m real good at. But I haven’t played for a couple of months, and I need to sharpen my skills. Because if I do good enough, they have several tournaments out of state next month that pay money. As I won a tournament last year I would like to win it again this year!
I just bought a new stick and a new set of balls. What a difference they make! I’m not sure if it’s the stick, or the balls, but I seem to be shooting a lot better! All I can do is practice, practice, practice and hope for the best!
Our neighbors love to play golf. That seems to be all they ever talk about! When the weather is good, and they have a few hours to spare, they are off to the golf course! Lucky for them the nearest course is only five miles away! During the winter they like to take a golf vacation at a Myrtle Beach Resort. They spend a couple of weeks there every year.
I understand that there are a hundreds of golf courses down there! Sounds like a true golfer’s paradise! My neighbors say that they like to change around between the different Myrtle Beach Hotels for a little bit of a variety. They say there are so many Myrtle Beach Resorts down there that they could spend each vacation at a different one the rest of their lives and never stay in the same one twice! I imagine the same could be said of all of the golf courses down there too!
I find it interesting how many times radar guns are used for purposes other than catching speeding cars! They are used to help people who are involved in sports, too! That’s how “they” determine how fast a pitcher can throw a ball, how fast a golf ball is flying, how fast a soccer ball is going, etc.
I was surprised when a friend of mine who is in a small local amateur team was bragging to me how fast he could pitch a baseball. I asked him how he knew, and he said that the coach of his team had bought a radar gun to use in their team’s training. I didn’t realize that his little team was so heavily invested in the game that they would go out and buy a radar gun! He said that they didn’t get just a radar gun, they got a pitching cage with a radar gun in it!
I asked him where did his team go to buy the gun, and he told me that they got it from the radargunsales.com website. I went to their website and saw that they have a large variety of sports, safety, and traffic radar guns. They also sell other miscellaneous equipment such as portable ice rinks, soccer goals, and pitching mounds.
I was watching the Superbowl commercial for cash 4 gold on their Internet Website a few minutes ago. The commercial stars Ed McMahon and MC Hammer and is promoting the business cash 4 gold, which buys gold, silver, platinum, and fine jewelry. It seems to me that in this economy, where the stock market is so volatile, that a lot of people are interested in selling their unwanted precious metals because the price of those metals usually goes up when the stock market is struggling. I seem to recall this sort of thing happened back in the 1980′s – the price of gold and silver went up so much that lots of people were selling their silverware and silver candle sticks because they were able to sell them for three or four times their original selling price!
I remember back then that my uncle worked for a coin dealer that was buying gold and silver at the time, and my uncle would bring home some nice gold and silver jewelry for my aunt that the store had bought from consumers who were bringing them in to sell. He brought her several nice gold bracelets, and some nice silver candlesticks.
Anyway, the commercial was funny – I liked the part where MC Hammer and Ed McMahon were talking about turning in their gold trophies for cash. I got a good laugh at the end when Ed McMahon was stroking some large gold cup trophies and saying “good bye, old friend.” Very funny!
A bunch of my friends at work have been talking about starting a paintball “>paintball league, and have asked me to join them in the league. I told them that I’ve never played paintball before, but that doesn’t seem to matter to them at all! They say that they know I’m in pretty good shape and would do well at it. I guess they figure that since I’ve been bragging about how good I’ve been doing on the gun range and qualified for my concealed weapons license that I’d be a good addition to their team.
Well, I think it sounds like a lot of fun to be honest with you! One of them told me that he’d lend me his gear to try it out next weekend when the rest of them get together for a practice session, since he is going to be out of town that weekend anyway. So I figure, why not give it a shot? (Pun not intended, but serendipitous just the same!)
So I’ve been spending some time on the Internet looking at where their are paintball fields in the area, and what I can expect to find when I decide that I really want to get into this sport and need to buy myself some paintball guns of my own. My friends told me to check out the ultimatepaintball.com website, saying that they have the best selection and prices on everything I would want or need for playing paintball. So I’ve been looking around to get an idea of what the expense will be if I decide to join the league. I have to say that I’m quite impressed with all of the gear that they carry!
I went shopping today at Lowe’s with the intention of buying a decorative shelf to put some statue type home accessories on (OK, it’s a small motorcycle model that looks like the perfect size for a cat to ride.) Anyway, I was walking down the lighting aisle, trying to find the shelves and walked past a really cool table lamp that is a theme lamp of Harley Davidson motorcycles! At the base of it is a soft tailed Bike, the lamp shade has HD logos on it, the headlight on the bike lights up and the lamp makes a vroom vroom noise!
The thing stopped me in my tracks! I reached out for the price tag, afraid of what the price might be. It was only $14.98! Well, of course I immediately started looking for the boxed up lamps that haven’t been opened yet and snagged one right away! I was especially excited when I went on the Internet to see what it is priced at other places and saw it for sale on some websites for almost $80! What a bargain I got! Now I have to find the perfect spot in my house for it. It’s going to look so cool!
I have been so excited to be able to watch the Olympics from time to time. I think it is incredible that Michael Phelps has managed to win so many gold medals! Absolutely an amazing record-setting feat! I can imagine he’s going to be set for life financially now with all of the endorsement offers he’ll be getting! I wonder if Hollywood will produce a movie about his life and training and his Olympic performance!
