Thank you Patty Bell for sharing this great video from sanfelipeproductions.
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Comments: 0April 3rd, 2010 by Susan
Comments: 0March 23rd, 2010 by Susan
Curl Up With Your Favorite eBook
Can’t keep this one to myself.
I have finally found an ebook reader that I think is worth the investment. This one is on my wish list for Mother’s Day, Birthday, whatever!
Barnes & Noble and Google are working together to provide the coolest portable ereader out there.
The nookTM beats out the competition hands down.
With it you can
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preview an ebook before you buy it,
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share a book with a friend, or
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upload it to your Mac or PC and read it with a FREE eReader
Comments: 0January 9th, 2010 by Susan
Smile Madison
Our first week in San Felipe has flown by. Chuck and Larry have been busy adding electrical outlets to the shed/shop. Lynn has been unpacking and kicking back with a book. I have been attempting to put some work into my web sites. It seems I have diversified to the point of chaos so I am attempting to narrow my focus and work on one or two sites.
Yet is is easy to get distracted with new toys (Google Voice) and social interactions (Facebook) and I don’t seem to be making much progress on my ‘cash’ pages like SoWhereToFromHere and CheapLivingTips.
Comments: 0October 5th, 2009 by Susan
Pictures of San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico
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Full credit for the music goes to Jenn Grant.
Comments: 0September 29th, 2009 by Susan
Chuck and I are settling in our place in San Felipe. Finally have a phone and DSL connection… Yippee. Here’s my latest video… feel free to pass it on to your friends so they can giggle along with you at my feeble attempts at video production.
Comments: 1August 20th, 2009 by Susan
What fun! I love contests and Bill McIntosh always has great prizes.
Find his contest here.
Did I mention he is giving away over $5000 in cash and prizes AND if you sign up you get a copy of the software he uses to create your own contests from your website!
Remember! Thats’ Bill McIntosh’s Contest Burner lauching on August 25th.
Comments: 0July 11th, 2009 by Susan
Comments: 0April 15th, 2009 by Susan
What’s your vision of growing older? We all know the myth of living happily ever after on the golf course on the one hand. Or the person who goes back to work because they don’t know how to fill their time.
After the first year or two of a ‘honeymoon’ phase, most retirees have either successfully made the transition or struggled. Even though the image of retirement is one of a carefree life, you may be surprised to learn that many people suffer during this phase of their lives. Certainly money can be a factor as to whether or not someone is satisfied, but it isn’t the only issue.
Comments: 0February 15th, 2009 by Susan
This one came from my cousin Brian in Cleveland. My thanks to Brian (that’s one syllable folks) and whoever first told the story. Anyone know the source?
Mayonnaise Jar and Two Beers.
Mayonnaise Jar and Two Beers.
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded with a unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
‘Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided, ‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things—your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions—and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.
The sand is everything else—the small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued, ‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Spend time with God.
Spend time with your children.
Spend time with your parents.
Spend time with your parents.
Spend time with your spouse
Visit with grandparents.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Play another 18.
There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal.
Take care of the golf balls first—the things that really matter.
Set your priorities.
The rest is just sand.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented.
The professor smiled and said, ‘I’m glad you asked.’
The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of Beers with a friend.
Comments: 0February 15th, 2009 by Susan
Honest Friends, it was not my original intent to use this blog as a soapbox but it seems to have evolved into just that.
I daily get emails for many of you with great clips of good advise. Due to the high risks of passing on computer viruses, I am not in favor of merely forwarding them on. So hopefully you will bear with me as I use this venue for passing on the some of the ones that I think are worth taking a look at. Please forgive me if I neglect adding one you would really like to see here. Sometimes they don’t make it past my firewall. Sometimes I just don’t have the time to scan those that are forwarded.
If you really have something you would like added to my page, cut and paste it into the body of an email and with a note in the subject line saying “please consider posting this”.
Today from my cousin Homer, also known as Pecos I received the following words of wisdom Thomas Jefferson, the author of the our Constitution.
I daily get emails for many of you with great clips of good advise. Due to the high risks of passing on computer viruses, I am not in favor of merely forwarding them on. So hopefully you will bear with me as I use this venue for passing on the some of the ones that I think are worth taking a look at. Please forgive me if I neglect adding one you would really like to see here. Sometimes they don’t make it past my firewall. Sometimes I just don’t have the time to scan those that are forwarded.
If you really have something you would like added to my page, cut and paste it into the body of an email and with a note in the subject line saying “please consider posting this”.
Today from my cousin Homer, also known as Pecos I received the following words of wisdom Thomas Jefferson, the author of the our Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson – Words of Wisdom
1. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall
become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson
1. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall
become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson
2. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are
willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
willing to work and give to those who would not. Thomas Jefferson
3. It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A
principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas
Jefferson
principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas
Jefferson
4. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
5. My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too
much government. Thomas Jefferson
much government. Thomas Jefferson
6. No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. Thomas Jefferson
7. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson
8. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
9. To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson
And One Very Interesting Quote
In light of the present financial crisis, it’s interesting to read what
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: ‘I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever
allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation,
then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on
the continent their fathers conquered.
Note: When President Kennedy was entertaining a collection of Nobel Prize winning
scientists at a White House dinner. His opening remarks were.. ” The White
House has never witnessed such a collection of brainpower in one place, except
perhaps, when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
scientists at a White House dinner. His opening remarks were.. ” The White
House has never witnessed such a collection of brainpower in one place, except
perhaps, when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
Thank you Homer.