Scratch on the Door

My grandson rode his bike over to see us a couple of weeks ago. As usual he parked in the garage, to keep it from being taken from the yard while he was visiting. Unfortunately for my Hyundai Azera, he knocked the bike over and it scraped a long scratch in the dark blue paint on the drivers’ door. I tried to use one of the products from the auto parts stores to remove the scratch. It did not work. I guess I will have to get my neighbor to use his airbrush system to restore my door to its previous condition.




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Fall!!!

Yesterday was the official beginning of fall, and here in South Texas it is still 90 degrees or higher each day. We are cleaning up after Hurricane Ike and worrying about generators for our fans while the power is out.

But I expect those in places like Montana and North Dakota are preparing for the first snow fall of the year and wondering if the snowmobile parts they have ordered will get to them before the season to use them.




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Teen Driver!

My grandson is fifteen and has just acquired his learner’s permit to drive on the streets and highways of the State of Texas, and the rest of the country for that matter. He is very happy and always volunteers to drive his mom or dad to the store or to church. Everyone is glad, except perhaps his dad, because the car insurance bill just went up significantly!





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No Leisure After Ike!

Following the devastation inflicted by Hurricane Ike, everyone in the area is working hard to clear the debris and trying to get their lives back in order. The damage is pretty extensive here, schools will not be able to resume till the 29th, because there is so much damage to some buildings that students are having to be reassigned to various campuses! It is a headache. I long to see the day when things are back to normal and mothers are leisurely pushing strollers through the park.




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Health Insurance Hunting

My wife has worked for the past twenty years. She has made some income that we enjoy, but the primary reason she has worked is to provide health insurance for our family. She is getting close to retirement age, and we may have to find individual coverage. It is an expense we are not eager to assume. We have been talking to an agent and will hopefully make a decision in a few days.




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Ad Space Direct

My daughter has put together a small consortium of blog sites that will allow advertisers to deal directly with the bloggers to place ads at reasonable prices and cut out the middle men expenses of dealing with a broker.

The blogs are carefully targeted and present the advertiser the opportunity to select the blog or blogs that match their advertising interests. Each of the blogs is maintained with a high level of writing and creative content.






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What's Old Is What's New!

When I was a little boy our first television set was in a cabinet that became a part of the furniture in the living room. Most televisions were such console models. For the past few decades televisions became more modular. But a recent development is the pop up tv, which has the flat screen monitor is housed inside an elegant piece of furniture, such as a dresser or cabinet.




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