September 2007

Shopping With Coupons

rmiles7721September 25, 2007Site News

With Christmas coming I have already started my shopping and one of the things I do while trying to get it done in the easiest manner possible is to also try and get the same deal. It used to be that all of the best deals were to be had online and that is the way I prefer to shop. With GoGoShopper I was able to get a JCP.com coupon with some really good deals. They also have online coupons for hundreds of other online stores as well such as PetMeds, Danskin, Gevalia, Hallmark, GoDaddy, Shoes.com and Roxi among many others.

One thing I have noticed the last couple of years is that some of the stores are saving their best deals for the folks that actually come in to their stores. I try to stay out of the stores during the holidays, preferring to do most of my shopping online but I will go out if I have to.

GoGo shopper not only has coupons for the places I listed above but they also have coupons for the major department stores as well. I have already mention JC Penney’s online store but you can get them for Target.com and WalMart.com as well.

Update on Ahmadinejad

rmiles7721September 24, 20073Site News

More of an update on his pre-speech stuff. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger apparently gave a speech prior to Ahmadinejad and in the speech challenged Ahmadinejad on quite a few things. From what I have been reading at Debbie’s site (The Right Truth) Iran has a Columbia University Alumnus under arrest and maybe that’s part of why they are allowing him to speak.

I have been extremely busy and have not listened to the speech but she will be posting updates at the Right Truth through the day if you want more information. I’m sure that later today I will be posting some type of nonsense and ranting about it.

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Quote of the day:
Only fools are positive. – Moe Howard

Wordless Wednesday Blogroll

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Site News

I started participating in Wordless Wednesday a couple of weeks ago and think I will continue posting Wordless Wednesday posts, therefore the blogroll is in the extended entry so that I can get to it from my sidebar.

If you are interested in participating and joining the blogroll (you can participate without joining the roll) go check out Wordless Wednesday.

Blogroll is below.

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Can’t get much closer than that…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Technology

Just playing around with Live Writer and some of the built-in plugins.

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There is also a now playing plugin that you manually add, which is good because it’s a pain to have it in every single post on a page. Here’s what it looks like…

Now Playing: Pixies – Wave of Mutilation – Best of Pixies – Debaser

There is also a "Quote of the Day" Plugin that I may or may not start using if I can remember Smile

 

Quote of the day:
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. – Jules de Gaultier

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Windows Live Writer

rmiles7721September 24, 20072Blogging, Technology

Thanks to Owen I found out about another offline blog publishing platform that I wanted to check out. Windows Live Writer is what I am using to type this up. I have a few different sites and sometimes it’s hard to keep in my head which ones I am posting to.

I don’t think that this will particularly solve that problem because mine is more related to the fact that sometimes I will post to several different sites at the same time and that is what confuses me.

So far I like the setup and the options. This is the only blog I have added to it thus far but I will add the rest shortly.

There are options to add ping servers, which are a must and buttons to insert hyperlinks, photos, tables, maps, tags and videos. I will post more about it and maybe a review on my tech site once I have used it for awhile.

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Have Coffee…Will Travel…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Uncategorized

I have a ton of writing I need to get finished today and for the last ten minutes or so I have been dozing off in front of my computer. I guess that shake only lasted so long. Time to go make a pot of extra strong coffee. Too bad I ran out of the good Starbucks stuff…

Dance? I Don’t…

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Entertainment

My girls love to dance. I think that’s just one of those things that children enjoy. My wife likes to dance as well, although since she has been with me for the last almost twenty years she doesn’t get the opportunity to do it all that often. That’s because I Just Don’t. I dance at our wedding in 1988 and I may have danced once or twice since then but I really can’t remember. It’s not that I don’t like it but I just look stupid. I dance like an ape in heat or so I was once told and that was that.

I wouldn’t mind learning ballroom dancing as long as I could keep it quiet, perhaps from someplace like Dance Crazy. If I could use the great tools that they have to offer and really learn how to do it and not look bad at the same time I might even be willing to attend a ballroom dance with the wife. Now THAT would surprise her for our twentieth anniversary next May…

Breakfast of Champions

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Uncategorized

After my breakfast of a couple of handfuls of Turkey breast lunch meat there’s not much better than a homemade chocolate shake made with Chocolate ice cream, a touch of milk, and some chocolate syrup. Damn that’s good. I’ve had most of my major food groups now, poultry, dairy, vegetables (chocolate beans), caffeine and tobacco. Good to go.

Boy Scouts in N.C. found

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Site News

A troop of Boy Scouts in western North Carolina that were supposed to come home yesterday had still not returned this morning. CNN is now reporting that they have been located.

Costa Rica

rmiles7721September 24, 2007Travel

One of the places I would eventually like to go on vacation and spend some time is Costa Rica. When I wanted to find Costa Rica information of course I used the major search engines as well as the links I already had to see what I could find out about the country, about Costa Rica Travel and Costa Rica Real Estate because that would give me a general idea about the people and the economy down there.

Costa Rica is a constitutional republic in Central America which is bordered by Nicaragua and Panama. It is also the first country in the world to constitutionally abolish it’s army. It does have a national police force but no standing army and unlike most of it’s neighbors in Central America there has not been a civil war since 1948, the year that the army was abolished. Funny how that works.

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Costa Rica is a beautiful place. Although probably a tad bit warmer than what I like I would still love to visit for awhile, and up in the mountains it would not be nearly as hot as the coastal regions.

I would like at least once to go see Volcán Irazú, an active volcano near Cartago.