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What a storm!

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There’s a furious thunder and lightening storm going on right now.

It started about half an hour ago when I was trying to complete a post on another one of my sites. I kept saving the post in case the power went out – again! The power always seems to go out here when there’s a bad storm.

The wind picked up so fierily when the storm first started that it blew the lids off of two of our garbage containers in the driveway and other items flew to the end of the drive as well.

I actually thought that it might turn into a hail storm.

I took some photos of the rain coming down, but I think I’ll post them later when I’m sure the power won’t fail as I’m transferring. I don’t want to mess up my memory stick!

It was something like 31 Celsius when the storm hit, and with humidity it was about 37 Celsius … in case you don’t know your metric temps that’s very very hot! It’s now cooled down to 20 Celsius! (about 70 F). That’s quite a drop in a short period of time isn’t it?

It’s actually going to be on the cool side tonight and tomorrow will be a reasonable summer day temperature wise.

The rain has slowed now, but I can still see lightening and there’s the occasional crash of thunder in the distance. It could come back.

I hate storms in case you can’t tell. Especially when they happen as I’m trying to get some work done.

Go away storm!





Can’t go back to school but want to get a degree? Try Almeda University

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Since I’ve been stuck at home due to my illness I’ve often thought of what I might do if I can’t return to my nursing career. I’ve even gone so far as to consider going back to school to change my career.

If I decide to pursue this train of thought I now know that I can pursue an education online through Almeda University.

Almeda University has been serving the international community since 1997. This online institute offers degree and non-degree programs through online instruction.

I think the idea of getting online degrees should be quite appealing to a number of people. Those who are stuck at home like myself who might need to make a major career change, and those who are in the workforce and can’t take time off work to pursue studies at a traditional college or university can now take courses online, and in this way better their education and their chances for a better career when they graduate from their chosen program.

In the course of the last eight years Almeda University has evolved. They’ve created a cutting edge curriculum based on the feedback they’ve received from their students regarding their students needs.

This online university offers a wide range of Bachelor’s, Masters’ and associates degrees in a variety of fields including arts and sciences, business and technical fields.

The university also offers 1000 professional development courses. All of which can be accessed through their stay at home e-learning channel. Those interested in e-Learning can put together a subscription package of online courses to suit their needs.

The e-learning courses range from building customer loyalty, project management, web development to health insurance.

Almeda University utilizes an online education network so that they can provide service quickly in order to meet the needs of their students, no matter what their backgrounds might be.

Worried that the program you choose might not be accredited? Stop stressing. Almeda University has been granted accreditation or membership by several certifying organizations.

Almeda University is an online educational resource that offers a variety of styles of learning. They emphasize the value and encourage students and faculty to develop one on one relationships to enhance the educational experience.

If you’ve always wanted to go back to school but your current situation has made that seem impossible do take a look at what Almeda University has to offer. You just might find that you can take your degree or non-degree program online.

Did I sleep too much?

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I was so tired yesterday, because I didn’t get much sleep the night before, that I actually fell asleep on the couch at about 9:30 in the evening!

I remember waking up again around 12:30 am when my husband was going to bed, but I think I fell asleep again while trying to watch TV within half an hour. I slept until 6 a.m., stayed up for a bit doing a few things on the computer and then went back to bed, my real bed this time, by 8:30 am.

I still managed to sleep for another two hours!

I must have needed sleep! Either that or my illness is about to worsen. Unfortunately I’m afraid it’s the latter.

I’ve been up for about two hours and already I’m feeling sleepy again. This can’t be good.

I’m someone who, for most of my life, has only needed five or six hours of sleep at the most. Last night I had at least 10 hours of sleep! I shouldn’t be tired. Somethings up.

I am glad that I managed to get a good sleep. I know I needed it. It’s just worrisome that I’m still so tired.

Spanish lesson audio books

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If you’re planning a holiday to a Spanish speaking country it’s always a good idea to know some of the most important phrases that you’ll need to use while staying in that country.
Actually, if you could manage to learn a good portion of the language before you go on your holiday you’ll probably have a much more enjoyable vacation.

If you’d like to start learning Spanish visit An Ear For Books and take a look at the Spanish audio books that they are selling. The first book in their collection gives you five hours of Spanish language classes broken into 10 30 minute sessions.

You can listen to your Spanish language lesson tapes as you commute back and forth from work if you’d like. Why not put that time to good use for a change? I’ll bet you’d learn Spanish in no time.

AnEarForBooks.com also has audio books that range from best sellers to the classics so take a look at the rest of their selection while you are there.

Quick Blogging – Just Do It!

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John who is affectionately known as Techie in some circles, of the Something for Nothing Blog, came up with a great idea the other day.

He coined a term for a method of blogging that you might already practice at times, or that you might wish you could do more often. He’s called it Quick Blogging, amd I must say, I’m jumping on the Quick Blogging Revolution band wagon.

I think to some degree I already practice Quick Blogging. It’s basically blogging something as soon as you think of it rather than holding on to it and thinking about it.

I’m going to call my post Stephen King on the Hour and Surnames in China my first official quick blogging post, but I’m sure I’ve practiced this form of blogging in the past. Perhaps even as often as once a week. Now I think I’m going to try to make a quick blogging entry at least once a day from now on. Why not.

Basically all you need to do for quick blogging is blog whatever you are thinking about when it comes to you.

Take my Stephen King and China Surnames post. I was watching a television show, enjoying it, and I thought “Gee this is a great show, and that fact about Chinese surnames is really interesting. I’ve got to blog about that.” So I just did it.

Do the two main topics of that post go together? No not really, but at least they were tied together in the guise of the TV show that I was watching. That’s not the point thought. The point is to blog about something as soon as it comes to you.

You know how you’re at work, the bank, shopping or just walking down the street and something either happens that makes you think “I’ve got to remember to blog about this” or you think of something to blog about? Well how often do you end up blogging about it when you finally get in front of your computer? Probably only half the time right?

Well stop that.

If something occurs to you to blog about get to a computer and blog it.

Whether it’s just a few lines or turns out to be a few paragraphs it doesn’t matter. Just get those thoughts out there. Make sure you have a spell checker on your computer or in your browser, and watch your sentence structure and grammar so that your post doesn’t end up looking really bad.

There’s some posts that I spend a lot of time thinking about and going over again and again as I write them up.

There’s other posts that I write in advance and save as drafts, and then go over before I publish them.

Then there’s some that I just write on the fly and post without much thought.

You know what I’ve found? While the posts that I’ve taken a lot of time over get a fairly good response, it’s the posts that I just write quickly, the ones that just pour out of me that tend to get the most response.

So what do you say? Are you ready to give quick blogging a try? It can’t hurt. You can always delete or edit the post if you change your mind about it.

Write it, read it, post it. Just do it!

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