Jerry Loggins

Can you remember life before the Internet?  (BI)  What an extraordinary change to our lives the Internet has become!  I can remember that far back (yeah, I’m showing my age!) and I can remember that our family depended heavily on the local yellowpages to find all of the businesses that we needed; from local plumbers and banks to local restaurants and barber shops! 

With the advent of the Internet, and the rapid acceptance and dependence of the Internet, I find it so much easier to use the Internet to do a local search for any business than going back to the old paper version!  And yes, we DO have the old paper version in the cupboard by the telephone, but I gravitate towards using the Internet first.  I really like how once I find the listing that i need I can often get directions to the place if I need them!  The paper version doesn’t do that at all!

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The weathermen were predicting a winter storm for last night, and for once the weatherman was correct. It DID snow. Just a little bit, but when we got up this morning there definitely was a little bit of the white stuff on the ground. Not so much that it completely covered the green grass; we could still see blades of grass coming up over the top of the snow. But, you could make a snowman if you wished to do so.

Knowing how crazy this area gets when it snows a little bit, I was really glad that no one in the family needed to leave the house for anything. Being the weekend, no one had to go to work. So if it has to snow, this was good timing. Of course the school children would have preferred to have a snow day from school, but the parents are relieved that they don’t have to scramble to get back-up babysitters for the snow day. Thank you Jack Frost, for the weekend timing of the storm.

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Do you remember back in the 70′s the Smothers Brothers (Tom and Dick) had a comedy television show? That was a favorite show of mine back then, there was plenty of good music and lots of laughs. One of my favorite bits that they would do was when one of the brothers would be “The Yo Yo man.” I think that might have been the first time I had ever seen someone actually do fancy tricks with a yo yo.

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One of the things that I enjoy about playing the lottery is that you never know what you are going to get. Are you going to win a few dollars? A lot of dollars? Will it be a bust? The suspense is what I enjoy about it, and if I win something that is a great feeling! That is one of the feelings that I get when I go to the nomorerack website. I never go when I go onto the nomorerack.com site what great offers are going to be there to grab up, and whether there will be an insanity deal waiting for me to claim.

So far I have not timed my visits to the website right for grabbing an insanity deal, but I have purchased a few of the items that the website sells at outrageously low prices. In some ways, this new website has put a little bit of fun into shopping that I haven’t had outside of going to an auction house. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know how long this website has been online, but I have a feeling that it will be a success for many years to come.

In addition to selling various products such as handbags and jewelry, the website also sells travel packages and electronics. I was looking through the section that they call “Insanity Deals” and saw that they had sold some really expensive electronic products for some really crazy low prices. There is no way possible that anyone made any kind of profit from those “insanity deals.” Not being an expert on marketing, I would imagine that those products are what are sometimes referred to as “loss leaders” by the big chain stores – products priced so low that the sale actually loses money, but the hope is that while customers are in the store that they will find something else that they really like and spend money buying the other items.

Not the old illegal “bait and switch” routine, more like the “while you’re here looking around, maybe you’d be interested in buying some of this other stuff” type of marketing.

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Did you watch the series premier of The Lost Girl the other night?  I was relaxing in the living room and my wife came in and turned on the television to watch it.  I grumbled because I thought that the title of the show sounded like some “girly show” that I would not enjoy watching. And the opening scene started off fairly slow, like a tired old repeat of Law and Order, where a schmuck is trying to date rape an unsuspecting pretty girl. Well, before you know it the would-be rapist is being drained of his energy through some kind of energy sucking going on through a major french kiss!

My attention was quickly grabbed, and I watched the entire show. The pace picked up with a few little twists and turns, and now when my wife says she wants to watch it again, I will not complain the next time!

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