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Shaken…Not Stirred

After that first glass of iced coffee I decided it wasn’t quite sweet enough so rather than taking a spoon and stirring it up I decided to shake it up. It’s got a lid, right? That was a damn mistake. Just finished cleaning up the mess but I am fairly hyped on caffeine today so it doesn’t matter.

The girls get home in an hour and a half so I need to go ahead and finish up what posting I am planning on getting done.

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Quote of the day:
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. – Scott Adams

North Carolina Schools on Lockdown

Seven Mooresville schools are on partial lockdown while police search for a suspected killer.

Authorities are searching on Bluefield Road at Cornelius Road, which is near Lake Norman High School. Principal Ben Allred said the sheriff’s office told administrators to lock the school down, so they closed all the gates and are not letting students out of their classrooms without supervision.
Iredell County Sheriff’s Lt. Darren Campbell said Monday all the schools were placed on lockdown “as a precaution.” He said police are looking for a suspect in a wooded area.

According to the website the two high schools, two middle schools and three elementary schools are on lockdown in the case of gunfire in the vicinity.

Hopefully the Law Enforcement groups involved can bring this to a fast conclusion

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Good Old Southern Breakfast

I needed a break from blogging and since I had to go pick up that Avon stuff (in a minute…) I decided to head down to about the only place in town where I can actually sit down and have breakfast, the Waffle House. Yeah, what the hell am I doing there on my day off? It’s not mine and everyone in town including myself has been waiting for this place to open up for years now so it’s nice to have.

Scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy. I am very satisfied now and feel much better that I have eaten. There are some days that I will get so busy on the computer or working that I just forget to eat and then spend the day feeling like crap so it’s a good thing to take care of myself even if I could feel my arteries hardening at every bite.

About the Avon thing…One of the ladies that works there sells Avon on the side and I will usually get part of my Christmas shopping done through here. I picked up a Dora the Explorer shower curtain and bath rug set for RePete and a Tinkerbell inflatable backrest pillow for Pete. And there you though I was getting all limp wristed and shit. Personally I prefer the Disney Princesses for my shower set. Cool

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Remote PC Access

One of the things that was really nice when I worked in our IT department in Norcross is that I had access to some cool stuff. I was normally able to access the PCs in my house from work and vice versa. I was really nice to be able to control everything (including my lights) from work and work from home on the weekends when it was my turn. It certainly made it easier than having to make that 150 mile round trip on Saturdays and Sundays.

RemotePC is one of the biggest remote access solutions for personal computers. You can access your work and home computer from just about anywhere that has Internet access for under $5 a month. They have several different plans that are really affordable and it also costs less than gotomypc, one of their leading competitors.

I’ve tried using other solutions that are built in to Windows but have had varied results. The best type of remote access I have found has always been that of a dedicated solution such as RemotePC. It’s compatible with Windows Vista, which meets my needs and runs seamlessly and is very quick.

One of the things I like about RemotePC is the fact that it’s easy to setup a temporary license key and log into someone’s computer that is having problems and called me for help. I don’t have the luxury anymore of having a lot of free time to go to people’s houses and fix computers but I can usually manage enough time to fix it over the phone. This makes things even faster for me.

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Let’s Go Shoplifting…

What a name for a site. Shoplift.com

Surprisingly enough I found out that it’s not a site with tips to get a five finger discount but Shoplift.com IS one of the Internet leaders to get brand name merchandise at great low clearance prices. They can help you to find great deals at 30-90% off all day, every day. All the items offered are brand new from the factory and include the full manufacturers warranty as well, unlike some of the overstocked web sites that give you deals. I always try to get a decent deal when I am shopping, particularly at Christmas when I am spending such a large amount of money but nobody likes to receive a gift that stops working after a couple of months. It makes me look as cheap as I am…

Shoplift.com has deals on digital cameras and accessories, car stereos, children’s play equipment, laptops, printers, clothing, home and garden accessories and just about anything else you can think of that you might want to buy somebody for Christmas.

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Go check out the site and you will see what I am talking about for great deals. They’ve got stuff that I didn’t even know existed and now I have TV envy. All that talk about shopping for Christmas and I found something for myself. Isn’t that just the way.

They have this SunBrite Outdoor 46″ LCD television that you can watch rain or shine for just under $5k. Check this out:

1366 x 768 WXGA
Super-bright 800 nits screen
All-weather powder-coated aluminum enclosure protects the internal components from harsh outdoor elements.
Conformal coating protects the internal electronics from humidity-related corrosion damage.
A contrast-enhancing, anti-glare and scratch-resistant window protects the LCD screen from rain, dirt and the elements.
The user-friendly operator controls are also sealed against rain.
Baffled and filtered, dual-fan airflow system quietly keeps the unit cool in all climates and keeps rain, dust and insects from entering the enclosure.
An innovative watertight cable entry system allows the use of standard AV cables. The pass-through design makes hook-up quick and easy.
Compatible with almost all video sources, including off-the-air antenna, cable TV, satellite TV, DVD players and PCs Standard VESA 75/100 mounting hole pattern.
IR control window allows integrating the unit into high-end home theater systems using centralized control themes.
Internal thermostatically-controlled heater that activates automatically when internal temperature sensor reads 32o F. or lower.
Dimensions: 44.6″W x 27.16H x 6.85

A cooler of beer or coffee thermos next to the hammock and I would never leave the back yard!

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Woman Gives Birth To Her Own Grandkids

 

According to Reuters this is the world’s first known case of a woman giving birth to twin grandchildren. The kids are healthy and have left the hospital.

 

That’s like something you might hear about backwoods North Georgia or something “Woman gives birth to eight-headed chicken”…

Apparently her daughter can’t have children and Brazilian law requires that a blood relative has to be the surrogate mother and with no sisters her mother took on the task.

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Amsterdam

I had a friend a few years back and his purpose in life was to save enough money so that he could retire, move to Amsterdam and live out his life in the land of clogs and coffee houses. I don’t know a lot about that but I do know that it’s a pretty beautiful place and I would like to visit eventually.

EasyToBook.com has plenty of deals on vacation destinations in Amsterdam. Right around this time of year prices on flights start to get much cheaper than the warm months and EasyToBook has some great prices on hotels in Amsterdam.

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In addition to Amsterdam they also have deals for hotels in Barcelona as well as Prague hotels and vacations and information on the locations themselves. There are links to different tourist attractions and important stuff such as landmarks, restaurants and shopping. You can search for hotels specifically by location or near the attractions to make it easy. Nobody likes to book a hotel only to find out that it’s an hour drive to whatever it is that they want to see.

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Girl Assaulted on Video Found Safe

A young girl who was seen being sexually assaulted in a homemade videotape has been found and is safe with family members and sheriff’s officials, an investigator said Friday.

Police are looking for a scumbag named Chester (the molester) Arthur Stiles as a “person of interest”. Considering that he is a fugitive I bet they are interested. He is also wanted on a state warrant on a charge of lewdness with a minor younger than 14 (ewww…) and a federal charge of being a fugitive. Where’s Tommy Lee Jones when you need him anyway?

They arrested a 26 year old man who surrendered the tape to police after another man reported seeing it. His lawyer says that he volunteered the tape and shouldn’t be subject to charges, but considering that he had the damn thing for six months I think that pretty much makes him a damned pedophile and is guilty of child pornography.

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Subliminal Learning

I have been thinking about stopping smoking for a long time now. The problem is that I occasionally still enjoy it. Most of the time it’s just a habit but I fight these things, particularly since everyone in the house wants me to stop. It’s a psychological thing I guess.

One of the guys I used to work with has been in the same boat for the last few years. A couple of years back he tried hypnosis and that seemed to work briefly but not for good. Recently he has been trying subliminal messaging and thus far he has been doing a pretty good job at it. I don’t work with him anymore and only speak to him on the phone occasionally so I don’t actually know if he has stopped or not for real but he does claim he’s not smoking at all and attributes it to subliminal CDs that he ordered off of the Internet. What’s interesting is that he is creating his own subliminal tapes and subliminal CDs himself using Subliminal Studio.

Subliminal messages are supposed to be pretty powerful stuff. The only reason I haven’t done anything like that is because I am always afraid I will wake up barking like a chicken or something 😉 Seriously though, I looked around the site after he told me a bit about it and the whole deal looks pretty cool. I do know that a lot of people use subliminal audio to learn languages, refine their thinking so that it’s sharper, even get rid of fears. Hey, maybe I should make a tape that will get me over my fear of flying before I have to go anywhere again. I am deathly afraid of flying and it would be pretty cool to get rid of that one.

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Tom Cruise Building Bunker To Hide From Aliens?

Apparently he is afraid the Xenu is coming to town to kick our asses and he wants someplace to hide.

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