Jerry Loggins

One of the things that annoy me the most about the Internet is that so many times I get a form sent to me that is a PDF file.  And I get instructed that I need to fill out the form and return it.  But I didn’t have any way to edit pdf files to be able to fill out the form and return it.  And that would get very annoying – I would print out the form, fill it out by hand, then scan it with my scanner into my computer as a jpg and then email it back to wherever it needed to go.

What I didn’t know until recently was that I needed a pdf editor software to be able to do that.  Apparently that software is not something that comes auto-installed on computers when you first buy them.

I think that should be a standard software program installed on every new computer.  The ability to do a pdf conversion from word to pdf and from pdf to word seems to be something that everyone that uses the Internet is going to need to be able to do.

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Last night I was in the mood to snack.  I don’t know why, I just seemed like I couldn’t get full!  And it didn’t make any sense to me at all because I had eaten plenty of protein, which sticks to my ribs better than anything else.  I don’t know, maybe I was just bored, or stressed.  All I know is that my stomach was growling at me and I felt hunger pains that just would not stop!  I was going nuts trying to find something to eat that would not be terrible for me.  Cookies and chips were calling out to me; it was so hard to resist!  And I know that experts say to eat fruit, but that makes me even hungrier!

So I scrounged around the pantry and found some microwave popcorn that had been sitting there a long time.  It had a “best if used by” date on it that was over a year old.  I considered throwing it away, but then I decided I’d pop it and see if it smelled or tasted bad; if so, then I’d toss it away.  Well, I think it had a few more “old maids” than normal, but not bad, and it tasted just fine.  And today I’m alive and well, so I guess maybe today I’ll eat that second bag of expired popcorn!

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The key to smart investing is to diversify your investments.  As the old wise adage goes “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.”  It’s long been known that when the stock market goes down, precious metals go up.  Right now the stock market is down, so gold and silver is rising again.  I remember back in the 80′s when that happened too.  People were taking their silver and gold wedding gifts to the local dealers and trading them in for cash because they could get more for them than they had been worth when they were brand new!  Beautiful jewelry and household items being sold for its weight value to be melted down.  Rather sad, I think.

I’d rather invest in a gold IRA where you buy gold coins and put them in a special IRA gold account.  Or similarly invest in gold 401k and put them in a 401k gold account.  In the long term, the value will increase and help out your retirement plans.  I just recently learned how to put gold in an IRA and which coins can legally be put into an American IRA or 401K plan.   If you would like to learn more about how to do that, check out the goldcoinsgain.com website – it is full of information that can help you.

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I was just reading an article on the Internet that the secret recipe for the KFC original recipe for their famous fried chicken may be “out.” It’s going to be published soon in a book about recipes that are clones of famous restaurant recipes. My wife cooks fried chicken using a recipe from the back of a Bisquick baking mix box called Oven Fried Chicken and I have to tell you it tastes like KFC to me! And being baked in the oven instead of deep fat fried it has to be better for you than KFC! Try it, I think you’ll like it! It is one of our favorite family dishes!

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We got a phone call from Aunt Ellen this morning. She’s invited us to come spend a few days with her at her camp on the lake. I spent a lot of boyhood summers down on that lake, and so I jumped at the chance to go again. There is great fishing and boating, and I like the remote location. Even though her camp has all of the modern conveniences, it is decorated with a rustic charm that gives you the “feel” of being in the wilderness, which I love!

Aunt Ellen cautioned us not to arrive before she does because she is going to have to disarm her new Home Security Surveillance System before we go in. If she doesn’t go in ahead of us, her Home Security system will call the police on us, and no one wants that! She said that she gets charged for false police alarms! And we certainly don’t want to have to try to explain to the police that we were invited relatives! After all, with the recent news story about that poor guy getting arrested for trying to get into his own house is enough to make anyone nervous!

Aunt Ellen had been talking about getting one of the new Home Security Systems installed at her camp because she was concerned that there had been so many break-ins in that area that she was afraid that her camp was going to be hit pretty soon.  I think it was a wise decision to make.

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My wife has taken an interest in learning how to dance. She’s been spending a lot of time on the Internet, looking for free video lessons. It’s amazing how many free lessons you can find on youtube.com! To be honest, I think I could spend days and days just watching the videos on youtube and stupidvideos.com!  When the Internet first came out I really didn’t think that it was going to be this entertaining AND useful too!

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My sister Sara was asking me for help in creating her own blog.  She’s been reading a lot of other people’s blogs and she thinks it would be fun to do her own, too.  She wants to use her blog to put her short stories and poems on.  So I told her that if she would come over tomorrow I’ll help her to buy a domain name that is to her liking.  I’m not sure what domain name she is going to want.

After we get her domain name bought, we are going to try to set up a hosting account with a green web hosting company.  According to the webhostinggeeks.com website, there are several web hosting companies that are making an active attempt to reduce their carbon footprint, and give back to the environment.  I’m sure that Sara would like to do business with one of them; she is always lecturing me about making sure that I am not polluting, and am recycling.

One of the things I like about their website is that you can count on them to give good reviews and ratings of the many different web hosting companies.  And I like the fact that they have a really informative blog, too.

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Last May I sent out two packages certified mail, return receipt requested. That means that the person that I’m sending the package to is supposed to sign a card that says that it was received, and then the Post Office is supposed to return it to me. One of the packages went to New York, and the return card was signed on May 20, and I received the return card a few days later.

The second package was sent to Houston Texas. Last May mind you. It is now late July. What was in that package was a garment that needed to be altered. I have already received the altered garment back (and it’s fine thank you.) Yesterday I finally received that card from the Post Office telling me that the package had been delivered to Texas, but no one had signed or dated it! What’s up with that?

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In this ever-growing world of technology, people are going to need to learn more than your basic math skills.  The business world is getting more complicated, and the employers are expecting their employees to come to them with a good solid education.  It’s getting so that it is hard to get even a basic job with only a high school diploma.  Largely, I think, because the public schools are not doing their jobs in preparing the children for employment. 

Having said that, I think that many schools are trying.  My friends have been telling me that their kids have been coming home from school in fourth grade asking them for algebra help on their math homework.  Many of my friends have forgotten how to do it, or never learned it in the first place!  So there seems to be a growing need for algebra tutoring services.  Not every parent is able to help their kids with these kinds of problems! So I think that it’s great that people can access an online algebra tutor and get both algebra 1 and algebra 2 help for free.

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My wife and I are thinking about getting a couple of chickens. We’ve been hearing from a few neighbors that the reason that they have chickens is to keep the tick population under control. Neither one of us has had anything to do with raising chickens, so I guess we will need to do some research on the subject! I don’t know how much protection they will need in the form of a hen house, and I don’t know if we just let them run loose in the yard if they will try to come into the house through the doggie door! I know we have foxes in the area, so I’m concerned that a fox would get them too! So much to learn!

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