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Old Spice Guy

podcaster — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:40:43 +0000

Ice Cream Tasting

podcaster — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:32:32 +0000

There is an annual event here that charges a flat admission price and that entitles you to all the hand cranked ice cream that you can eat. Now, that’s a good deal. I can eat a lot of ice cream! My favorite is a good vanilla, but I like them all.

Fathers Day

podcaster — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:28:42 +0000

Any man can create a baby. It takes a special kind of man to be a father and create a family. My father and mother had their share of problems over the years, but I never felt that either one would leave our home in anger. They stayed together for 36 years. My father died at age 56 of cancer. I miss you, Dad.

Cash Talks

podcaster — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 04:34:29 +0000

My personal war on the recession has been to continue spending at the same levels as I always have. But now I spend cash instead of putting it on credit cards and giving the banks more of my money. I don’t leave much money in the bank, either. I keep the minimum balance so I don’t have to pay a monthly maintenance fee. I never ever ever bounce a check. The banks are not going to get rich off of me.

Their “Russdriver”

podcaster — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:37:57 +0000

FB at Work?

podcaster — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:10:21 +0000

A survey by Liberty Mutual’s Responsibility Project was released todaythat measured the attitudes by Americans toward using Facebook at work.

The responses indicated that 56 percent say “it is irresponsible” to be friends with a boss.

On the other hand, 62 percent said it is wrong to be friends with an employee.

Among workplace peers, 76 percent claimed it is acceptable to be Facebook friends with a coworker.

And with a rising practice in the Human Resources departments, Americans are almost evenly split on whether companies should review a job candidate’s Facebook or MySpace personal profile. From those surveyed, 52 percent said it is appropriate for the HR people and 48 percent said it is unacceptable.

Good Food

podcaster — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:43:33 +0000

What’s your favorite fast casual restaurant? I’m not talking about fast food like Mcdonalds. I mean a place where you can be seated without a reservation and a meal for two people will cost about twenty bucks.

I like O’Charleys better than Chilis and Applebys, but the O’Charley’s restaurants are a regional chain and are not in all the same cities that Chilis and Appleby’s will be.

I also like Cracker Barrel a lot, and love the way they will serve you a full country breakfast any time of day or night.

Welcome to Twenty Ten

podcaster — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:10:50 +0000

This is the start of a new year and also a new decade. The year Twenty Ten has great promise for us all, as our President gets settled into office and is able to use his influence to create the great changes that he has promised to bring us. There have been some economic stimulus plans, such as “cash for clunkers,” that were a huge success. Now we need to see some serious, lasting jobs created and help for Americans to keep or buy homes, and a new approach to our health care.

Christmas at Home

podcaster — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:15:07 +0000

Looks like I’m the only one who won’t be gathering with the family at the homeplace this year. Everyone in my family lives within an hour or two of my mom’s house except for me. It is a 14 hour drive to get to mom’s house, door to door, which is a long hard day of driving, and to be honest, I’m not up for that long of a drive in one day. I would need to stay overnight at a roadside motel to get some rest and not take the chance of an accident due to driver fatigue.

The cost of gas has risen so that just paying for gas up and back is cost prohibitive. It costs $70 to fill the tank and I estimate it would take 3 tanks to get there, one tank to visit locally and then 3 tanks back. That is a lot of money for gas that could be better spent benefiting my family instead of some Arab sheik.

So we are staying home this year and I guess we will get everyone on the video cam sometime around noon to exchange Christmas wishes among the family.

Merry Christmas to all!

Turkey Day

podcaster — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:21:36 +0000

Last week I bought a huge frozen Butterball turkey to enjoy on Thanksgiving. We took it out of the freezer and put it into the refrigerator to defrost 3 days ago. It is still as hard as a rock and I guess we will have to soak it in the kitchen sink or figure out how to use the microwave to finish thawing it out before we pop it in the oven today. I think the turkey is too big to even fit into the microwave. This will be an interesting problem to solve, with physics and logistic coming into play.

Looks like dinner will be in the evening rather than late afternoon as originally planned. LOL