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We’ve Got Ourselves A Relocation Situation

jeremy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:01:21 +0000

As much as I hate the idea of my kid brother taking his new bride, along with their new baby boy, up north to beautiful Calgary Canada there isn’t much I can do about the situation at hand. His new father-in-law has promised him a good job up there and with our economy still in such turmoil, with no end in sight, a good job can make or break a marriage these days.

So they are busy with looking at the current Calgary listings and searching for a good reputable Calgary Realtor so that they will have a place lined up for them upon their arrival, which they are expecting to happen by the end of June. That doesn’t leave them with much time to get all the things that need to be taken care all done. Relocating is one big pain in the rear and with a new baby makes it all the more of a challenge.

It really bothers me that they will be so far away and that non of us will be around to be involved in their new sons life as much as we would like. It will be strange, indeed.

Rough Going

jeremy — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:01:15 +0000

I am going to have to put the car in the shop this week, it is running rough, and I don’t want to be out and about going to or from an errand and have it quit on me. Especially when there are so many “dead spots” in the cell phone service out here. It acts like it is running out of gas, but it has plenty of gas. So I put a can of dry gas in it, thinking that maybe it was just some water in the tank, and it ran fine the next day, but started acting up again the day after. So maybe it’s the fuel filter, or the fuel pump. I don’t know, but it needs to be fixed!

Another aggravation, and another thing sucking the money out of my wallet and my dwindling bank account.

All’s Well Now

jeremy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:49:39 +0000

Mother is happy with the new and improved address plaque that we gave her for her birthday last week. We have been trying to convince her to start looking at alternative address plaques to replace the one that almost cost her her life last year. She was home alone one evening and started having chest pains so thankfully she was able to get to the phone and called 911. She was in such bad shape that she was having trouble talking but with all of today’s technology the emergency operator managed to get the information out of her in order to get an ambulance out and on the road to come to her rescue. But since it was dark and raining and the address signs that are out in front of her house were so old and faded that the ambulance couldn’t read the numbers and had to take extra time, when every minute counts, to turn around and try and read the darn address plaques to find the correct house.

Thank god they found her and got her up and out of there and to the E.R. so that the doctors could tend to her condition. She did have a small minor heart attack and is now having to change her lifestyle drastically and is taking several meds that the doctors have ordered. She seems to be doing much better, as long as she keeps doing what the doctors say she should be just fine for a good long time. So for her birthday we gave her a new sign, as I stated earlier, and now we all can feel a bit more comfortable and sleep a little better at night knowing that if she calls for help again that they won’t have a problem finding her in a timely fashion.

Travel by train

jeremy — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:23:30 +0000

This past weekend I had to travel from DC to Philadelphia. I didn’t want to drive, so I decided to take Amtrak. I have to say that the trip was a lot more pleasant than I expected. I bought the ticket in advance on line and printed out the receipt and took it with me in case I needed it. I took the Metro to Union Station. The Metro stop put me right inside Union Station, which was cool. Once inside I found a self-serve kiosk that I could use to print out my own ticket. From there I found a television screen that told me what gate my train was departing from, so I went to that gate.

There was no long waiting at a security screening section; I simply went to the gate. When they opened the doors to board the train, no one stopped me to security check me or look at my ID or ticket, all that was done AFTER I got on the train. The seats were comparable to airplane seats as far as comfort goes. I did not have to stay in my seat; I could walk around and go to the snack car or the restroom if I needed to. The train left on time, and the ride was comfortable and fast. Since travelling by air is becoming more of a hassle, and more expensive, I’ll be looking into taking the train more often in the future!

Forget the food, I’m seeing the Thanksgiving parade!

jeremy — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:28:45 +0000

Guest post written by Sharlene Brooks

For once, I’m not going to have to worry about which pie I’m fixing for our hugeÂ family gathering for Thanksgiving Day. I always wonder about that because my family is all about the pies and I like to make sure that we have no repeats. But instead of doing the normal thing for Thanksgiving this year, I’m going to take my family to see the Thanksgiving Day parade!

It’s something that I’ve thought about doing for a few years now, but I finally decided to just go ahead and do it before the kids get a little older and have other things that they need to do during the Thanksgiving break. I was online a few months ago booking our hotel and everything for it when I ran across some information on getting a hearing aid. That’s also something that I’d been thinking about for a while, so I decided to go ahead and get fitted before the big trip.

I think that we’re going to have so much fun with the parade and I just want to make sure that we’re all ready for the trip and pack everything. It’s going to be a whirlwind of a trip, but I think that it’s going to be amazing!

Funny or Die

jeremy — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:05:49 +0000

What is a Michigan Man you ask? Well here is the answer according to the website Funny or Die.

What is A Michigan Man? from Charles Woodson

Yummy

jeremy — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:21:45 +0000

The say in the South that they can fry just about anything. At first look, I thought this was a batch of doughnuts. But it turns out they are fried Oreos. I don’t know why anyone thinks that Oreos need to be fried. But maybe they do taste good cooked up like that.

Almost ran out of gas today

jeremy — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 20:31:13 +0000

I was really pushing my luck today.Â I just got a Shell gas credit card that gives me a 25 cent discount for every gallon of Shell gas that I buy for the first three months that I have the card.Â Some of the Shell gas stations are higher than the rest of the pack; some are running at a dead heat.Â Today I had to run some errands and I knew that I was going to need to buy gas.Â I also knew that I’d be driving past a Shell but not sure what their price was going to be like, compared to the rest.Â On my way into town I saw their price was pretty good, so I decided that I’d fill up on the way home unless I drove past a station with a better price.Â Well, there WERE some that were 4 cents cheaper, but I wouldn’t get that discount from the Shell gas card.Â So I just drove right past them.Â Well, let me tell you that by the time I reached that Shell on the return trip I only had one gallon of gas left in the tank!Â Now THAT is cutting it close!

Mailboxes Are Important

jeremy — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 05:08:14 +0000

There has been a big push for people to either better maintain their current house mailboxes or to replace them with one of the millions of mailboxes that are currently being offered, with the majority of them being available online. This has become anÂ serious issue with our emergency personnel finding it harder to locate the proper address that they have been directed to arrive and assist at.

If you don’t have your house numbersÂ big enough and/or legible enough, orÂ properly placed, you can imagine what these folks have to go through in order get to their time essential basedÂ emergency as soon as possible.Â Â Having to deal with this issue at night time must be a real burden for the driver who is all ready pumped up, ready for anything that may come along.

I have always liked the look of the wall mounted mailboxes and the wall mount mailbox was attached to the house that I spent most of my life in and is still currently owned and lived in by my folks. Â So I’m going to start looking around the Internet at the wall mount mailboxes at mailboxixchange.com where the have free shipping, which is a real savings for online shoppers like myself. And the fact that they accept PayPal just makes it even better.

Gasoline Guessing Game

jeremy — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:51:47 +0000

It is always a guessing game when to comes to purchasing gasoline for our vehicles. There are 3 gas stations in town that have had a price war going on for several years, so they are always offering their gas at very competitive prices which is a plus to us all. We had heard that gas would be at $4 a gallon at this point when in reality the prices are dropping, not by much mind you, but just a bit. I just paid $2.83 and if I had not bought it there and waiting for a few more miles I would have paid $3.02. That is a big difference!