Jerry Loggins

One of our nieces had a baby right before Christmas.  A beautiful, healthy baby girl.  It’s hard to realize that she’s two months old already!  Before you know it we are going to have to worry about baby proofing our house for the many visits we will be getting from them.  It just seems like a few days ago that we put away our old baby gates!  Funny how life sneaks up on you that way.  All of our kids are grown up now, and some are having kids of their own.  I’m not sure I’m ready for a newest generation!  I don’t feel old enough to be worrying about the newest child safety tips - I was just starting to get used to (and enjoying) knowing that the kids were past that point in life!

Ahh… the circle of life.  I think maybe we should just suggest that we go visit them at their house instead, so we don’t have to go all nuts and fortify our house with all the newest safety equipment!  Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see them, but if we go to them, then they are the ones who have to make sure the baby is safe.  And, we can decide when the visit is over and leave to come home when the baby is cranky!  I think I’ll suggest that to my wife!

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My wife has been buying some more dangling earrings lately, and has run out of places to store them. She’s been looking at buying a new earring tree, but can’t seem to find any that she likes. And they are wicked expensive to boot! So I decided I’d try to help her out and do a little bit of looking around about a quick, cheap and easy way to make her something that she might be able to use. I found a website about instructions on how to make things, and found some suggestions about just taking an inexpensive splatter pan, bend the handle, and put the earrings in the mesh holes! I think that is absolute genius! I know we have at least one unused splatter pan around here! Now to figure out where to put it – that is going to be the real challenge! I’m thinking about just not even bending the handle, and just put a hook in the wall behind the bedroom door. I think that will work out just fine, don’t you?

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My wife is thinking of ways to spend the money that we should be receiving shortly from our taxes. We did pretty good this year, and are trying to come up with the best ways to utilize the new found money. Both of us could use some new clothes, we have been watching our pennies so closely these past few years that we haven’t spent much on things that weren’t absolutely necessary. So it would be nice to take just a bit of the refund cash and find some great online deals for a few things.

Dave’s New York has a website that I have had bookmarked for some time now. I’ve got my eye on a nice carhartt shirt, they’ve a great variety of top brand named clothing for good prices for their online shoppers. I used to have a carhartt sweatshirt, but it got ruined, big time, years ago and I’ve missed it, so I think that I’m due a new one by now. I like the look of this one that they are offering for under $50. It is a nice heavyweight zippered and hooded carhartt sweatshirt that would help keep my head and neck warm come next winter.

At Dave’s New York they have a 30 day return policy which gives you plenty of time to process a return, if needed. They’ve been selling clothes for over 45 years and they have a store in New York city as well. But since I don’t intend on visiting New York any time soon I’ll be more than happy to utilize their website for now.

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I am so happy that I have started saving videos onto my Favorite’s List on You Tube. I have been finding so many awesome songs that I can play at any given time on my laptop. I wish I had started this list years ago, I have a lot of catching up to do.

Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, you can’t get much better than that!

And saving the best for the last:

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While looking for a mobile broadband to sign up for my wife, I came across a blog that was featuring posts about data cards and USB Modems and mobile broadband in India.  It looked like a very impressive collection of reviews.  Reading those reviews, I became even more frustrated that it appears that there are a lot of good mobile broadband providers overseas, yet I am having trouble finding one over here!

In this great country of ours I fail to understand why we can’t get good service at a reasonable cost.  If we are to remain competitive in this global economy, these kinds of services need to be affordable to more people.  I can only hope that the prices of these services come down in the near future.  These are important tools that we will need to survive.

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Recently I decided that I’d like to be able to find a provider of unlimited mobile broadband.  At least, that’s what I think it’s called!  I’d like for my wife to be able to take her laptop and connect to the Internet anywhere she goes.  And I’d like for her to not be charged any extra fees for anything.  I see most of the providers restrict you to a certain number of “data” downloads, and that is not what I’m looking for.  I want unlimited!  Why is that so hard to find?  From what I’m seeing, only Alltell has that unlimited plan, and they have been sold to Verizon, so that unlimited plan is probably going to be eliminated pretty quickly, if it hasn’t been already!  If I can’t find a plan that we can afford, I’ll just have to tell my wife that she is going to just have to keep looking for free Wifi hotspots around town.  I understand that gets real old real fast, but I’m not willing to pay an arm and a leg for Internet on the road!

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I went into my wallet this morning to look for my “Mad Money.”  I wanted to spend some of it on a nice Valentine’s present for my wife.  She’s been telling me that she would love to have some pretty ruby jewelry, and I thought that Valentine’s Day would be a perfect time to give her what she has been wanting for so long.  I’m thinking about using one of those payday loans if I need to in order to get enough money to pay for the set that she’s got her eye on. 

My wife likes to dress very modestly at home, and when running errands, but when we get dressed up for a special occasion, she looks really terrific!  And I hate the thought that she is wearing dime-store jewelry every time we dress up!  I’d really like for her to have some really nice jewelry that she could be proud of!  And I’ve noticed lately that she has been rummaging through her jewelry boxes quite a bit lately, looking for something inspiring to wear when she is getting ready to go to a Red Hat Ladies function.  Maybe I’ll try to buy her some amethyst jewelry too, so she can have her pick between red or purple to wear to her club functions!

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So far it isn’t looking so great for the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl. The Colts have all ready scored 10 points and it is still in the first quarter. Time for me to put the computer down and get serious in watching what is left of the this year’s Super Bowl.

Go Saints!

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I can’t imagine how school would have been for us if we had had access to the Internet. The Internet is a valuable tool for today’s educational needs. These days kids are learning and using their parents computers as young as 2 years old for goodness sake, it’s just amazing to me.

Having computers certainly would have helped me back in the day. The only way I managed to graduate was from a lot of help from tutors that my parents managed to find and pay for their assistance. They usually weren’t the kind of people that I would have liked to spend that amount of time with during what I considered my free time after school was over and done with, I can tell you that!

Today’s students can receive help with an Online Tutor, now how cool is that? My niece has been receiving Math help by Tutornext.com since her parents have been having issues with her school work this year. It’s pretty cool to have an Online Math Tutor to turn to. They seem pleased with the assistance that she is receiving so far. The school year is half way over, so if she can just keep on taking advantage of her Math Tutors Online she should make it all right. Next year she will be starting Junior High and that will be a whole new ball game for her. Man time really flies, hard to believe that this one will be starting Junior High all ready.

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We still have places with snow from the storm we had before Christmas. That was a real kicker. But this time around I think we are really in for it. The weather channel is telling us to expect between 2 to 4 feet of snow in the next day or so and plus another storm is heading this way come next Wednesday. I’m so ready for spring!

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