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How was your Halloween?
Here I am talking about Halloween and you’re probably sick of it or over it already. Am I right? If your American you’re probably already thinking of Thanksgiving. Uh huh. Well I’m just asking. LOL
I was a total party pooper this Halloween. Usually we decorate the outside of our house and even our front yard. We’ve got a Ghost, a scary skeleton in a reaper gown that shakes and moans when something moves in front of it. Cobweb making stuff galore. A scarecrow (for autumn) with bales of hay (4) and all kind of other Halloween related decorations that we put up. We even bought two pumpkins to carve and put out too.
But did I decorate? Nope. My husband had to work Halloween evening and since I haven’t been feeling all that well I decided that I wasn’t into entertaining the hundreds of kids that usually come by. We’re also a little low on funds too, so when I thought about how much all that candy costs I nixed the whole plan.
Next year we’ll do a super Halloween event. Usually we dress up and really get into it. I think we do a good job so that’s why we end up with so many kids dropping by. Next year.
So what did you do for Halloween? Did you decorate your home and entertain the kiddies? Did you go to a party? or maybe you just stayed in like I ended up doing?
Newgie- News and Articles at your fingertips
I found another site that my readers might like. If you like staying on top of the news or have very specific interests you can visit Newgie.com and get all your news and stories in one place.
I signed up for a site- which is rather easy to do by the way – and started exploring. From what I can tell so far, the site ranks stories based on the interest that other users have shown. For example, one of the first stories that was shown in my account area was a story about one of Paypals windows being broken by an explosive device. I imagine that a lot of other users looked at that news story before I got there and that’s why it was first in my section.
Newgie seems to be very easy to use. You can navigate in two major ways. You can go to your MyNewgie page and if you’ve already set up your preferences all the stories from the topics and categories that you selected will be there for you to browse through. Otherwise, you can click on your My account page and set up your preferences there, see the stories that you’ve viewed most recently, and manage your categories, RSS feeds and communities.
I found it very easy to get started selecting categories that I might be interested in. You can do this from your Account page. Simply scroll down to categories then click on “Manage my categories” from there you can see which ones you’ve subscribed to already or add more categories. Once you’ve selected the types of categories that you like you can adjust the options for each one- such as how many articles it will show you, their rank, and whether it will show you the full article or just a summary to begin with.
When you are reading an article you can add it as a favorite, recommend it for other Newgies, or Discuss it. You can do all of that by hovering over the news story in your Newgie area. If you choose to discuss the article you can add a comment to it, or send it to one of the communities that you’ve subscribed to.
I’d need to spend a few days visiting the site before I could figure out all of the pros and cons but from what I can see so far it appears to be easy to use, and it’s full of great news stories and other information.
The only thing that I couldn’t find is a search function. I’d love to be able to type in something like “photography” and get articles or stories that have something to do with my search term.
A world without technology?
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to live without all of the technology that surrounds us today?
No Internet, no computers, no Television. Think that’s bad enough – what if we didn’t have electricity either?
My first thought when I thought about living without all of the technology that surrounds us was that we’d have so much more time. Somehow though I don’t think we would.
We’d have to work so much harder to get all the things done that we need to do. Washing clothes would take half a day if done by hand. Cooking meals would take longer and forget storing much food without refrigeration. Geez even bathing would be a chore. Imagine having to heat all that water before you could have a comfortable bath.
Have you ever spent any time thinking about how much harder life would be without some of the modern conveniences that we’ve grown so used to?
Sure, we could live without TV and the Internet. Many of us wouldn’t like to live without them but the lose of them wouldn’t be as drastic as the lose of electricity. Right?
What your thoughts?
This is my ride
Have you heard of Pinks? It has apparently become the most watched weekly series on SPEED. Pinks has been called “the hottest car show on Television” with over 2 million visitors each week.
Pinks sets up Drag Racing matches in the setting of a 1950’s drag race. Contestants drag race to win the best 3 out of 5 races. The loser gets the “pink” slip. They’re casting for season four of the program now – so if you’d like to find out if you are the best drag racer in a competition go to the site and sign up. Maybe they’ll pick you for an episode.
If you love watching drag racing check out the Pinks Marathon on www.speedtv.com Nov 23, 2006. I haven’t seen the show yet but it sounds like an interesting concept. If you are a drag racing fan you should check it out.
Here’s my ride. Sorry it’s a bit dark, I took the video at 5 p.m. and it starts to get dark here at that time.
Yeah, it’s just a Ford Contour with major muffler and manifold problems. It’s not all that fast but with the muffler problem it certainly sounds like a drag racing car.
Here’s another video featuring our Contour. Chris and I got to drive on the Molson Indy race track here in Toronto when they were setting it up. This video isn’t very good because I took it with my new cell phone and then mucked up the editing. But you’ll get the idea if you watch it. Oh and I sound like I’m snapping at Chris at the beginning of the video- I wasn’t. He’d just told me to turn the camera on and I already had, my voice sounds loud and tinny since it was so close to the microphone around that time.
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