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Where would you live?

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Are you in the home that you plan on living in for the majority of your life or do you think you’ll move a few times before you settle into a home for a long period of time?

When we first got this house I thought we’d be here for a long time, but with all that we’ve gone through with our neighbors I know that I want to move at some point and when we buy a new house it will not be semi detached. I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in hearing what my neighbors are up to.

Actually just the other day I was thinking about how I’ve been making a fairly good living via the internet. If I keep this up and continue to make enough to pay the bills well … I could live just about anywhere. I could buy a home in Europe or move to Australia, or I could get a home in the mountains in British Columbia or I could check out Wilmington NC real estate and live by the sea, or I could move to a Caribbean island.

You see what I mean? I could live just about anywhere as long as I had internet access.

Where would you live if you could live anywhere?





Hiccups and nausea don’t mix!

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OMG I’ve got the hiccups and they won’t stop! Hiccups really hurt when you’ve got inflamed messed up insides. On top of that I think I’ve got the flu and I’m nauseated.

Have you ever had the hiccups when you’re nauseated?

I don’t believe that I have before so this is a first and I’m not liking it one bit.

I have a feeling that this won’t end well …

Chaos in the office!

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I was just speaking to my brother. The one that lives here in the Toronto area. He’s one of the senior employees at his workplace and they are renovating and revamping the whole office and their computer systems and software. By this I mean everything from new computer systems to the financial consolidation software they use, to the chairs they sit in.

Unfortunately for my brother, instead of closing down the office for a few days or moving the employees to an area that’s already been finished or that hasn’t been worked on they are trying to make them work in among the chaos.

He’s not able to get anything done so he decided to call me and see how things were going over here. We’re going to be having our big family reunion at the end of the month too so he wanted to square up a few details.

Poor guy. What else is he going to get done at work today – nothing! Hopefully they finish up his office over the weekend.

Weird sounds from our computer speakers

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I think I’ve got to move somethings further away from my desktop computer. It’s really strange. If I happen to turn our cellphone on or off when I’m within a few feet from our computer our the computer speakers make a weird do do do boop boop noise. It’s kind of an alien sound.

The speakers have power going to them, but I always have them turned off because I hate it when I hit a website with autoplay music or video so I only turn the speakers on when I really want to hear something. I can only imagine what kind of sound the speakers would make when I turn the cell phone on if the volume was turned on!

I think they need better EMI Shielding or something. I have no idea why the cell phone and speakers interact that way.

The other strange thing that happens is the infrared controller on our desktop computer (it has a remote but I almost never use it) flashes on and off when we use the cable remote for our TV. As in when we are changing channels on the TV. Weird eh?

Does your computer do anything strange when you’re cell phone or other electronics are near it?

People say the stupidest things!

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I was watching the Daily Show late last night and they did a segment on all the toy recalls that have been happening lately. Apparently a very high percentage of children’s toys are made in China. The toys being recalled have been found to have a high quantity of lead in them.

In one of the clips they showed a female reporter, she might have been on CNN or a similar all news program and she was talking about how this might affect the Chinese economy if they had to spend more money to produce toys without lead in them and …. as a result this would raise the price of the toys being sold in Walmart.

That’s not an exact quote but you get the gist. Yeah, so if the toys are made properly and don’t contain toxins we’ll have to pay more for them in our department stores. Well duh – so what! Isn’t that cheaper than paying unnecessary medical bills when your kid gets sick.

I just went looking for a clip on YouTube, but couldn’t find one. The reporters statement was so stupid it had me giggling. We have a PVR so I was able to rewind the segment and I watched it twice just to be sure I heard her dumb lines correctly.

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