Archive for August, 2009

Not Quite What I was Expecting

For most of my life, I have never really been someone who wins draws.  In fact, except for winning a free coffee once, I have never really won a prize in my life.  But, I have been persistent and have still tried to win any chance I get in the hopes that I would get [...]

Getting Some Auction Deals

In the early days when I was courting my wife, my future father-in-law decided to take us to an auction.  Now, he wasn’t bidding on anything in particular, but he bid on lots where he didn’t actually know what the items were.  He would bid on these mystery lots, and he almost looked like a [...]

Another Idea for a Website

I’ve discovered that I love creating different websites and blogs.  I seem to be full of ideas, and since I have my websites hosted with a FTP service that allows me to host multiple websites under the same account, I can pretty much do whatever I want with it.
For instance, I have my professional website and [...]

Maybe The Jewelry Wasn’t So Ugly After All!

After we my mother in law died we went about going through all of her personal belongings to see what things we wanted to keep and what things we would need to try to sell. Well being that she was from a different generation (or maybe a completely different planet) than us, there were not [...]

Use Conversations To Learn Things

A few months ago I went to see my doctor. I was making small talk with her about this and that. Somehow the topic of insurance came up. She informed me that she has a type of disability insurance for physician professionals. I had never heard about this before so I asked her more about [...]