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Esnailer lets you send real letters to people

June 26, 2007 by Tricia

More than likely some of you reading this are too young to remember the days before the internet and email came into our lives, but for those of us who had to find other ways to communicate with friends and loved ones before email became so popular letters and phone calls were the main modes of communicating with others who lived far away.

It is nice when you receive a letter in the mail, or a card from someone that’s just writing to say hello, isn’t it?

I think getting a letter or card from someone these days is much more special now than it was 15 or 20 years ago. Do you feel that way too?

If you want to send formal correspondence to your friends and loved ones, but perhaps don’t have quite as much time as you’d like to do this, ESnailer.com has come up with a great way of sending real letters to people.

Just go to the ESnailer.com website and start writing a letter to a friend or loved one. EnSnailer will print your letter, tuck it in an envelope and place a stamp on it and send it off to the recipient via regular US postal mail free of charge.

So it’s just like sending an email but the person that you’ve written to will have the thrill of receiving an actual letter.





Filed Under: Culture, Family, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Socializing, Writing Tagged With: cards, email, email to letter, Esnailer, Esnailer.com, formal correspondence, friends, Internet, letters, post, print, reading, regular mail, send letters free, special, US postal mail, website, Writing

Heat Wave

June 26, 2007 by Tricia

I’m not going outside … I’m not going outside …

It’s 34 Celsius right now outside, but with our humidity factored in it’s 41 Celsius. That’s almost 106 F. The temperature is still going up too.

If it was just heat I think I could take it, but the humidity just makes a hot day absolutely unbearable.

We’ve got the air conditioning on inside so I’m comfortable, but I’m sure if I went outside for a few minutes I’d end up feeling terrible.

Ever since my Crohn’s started to act up really badly two or so years ago I can’t seem to take drastic temperature changes. It’s like my body doesn’t adjust to cold or hot temp changes very well.

I do have to keep peeking outside though. My elderly neighbor – she’s about 89, keeps going outside. I saw her sitting on her porch knitting a while ago.

Elderly people do not regulate temperatures all that well either. They often don’t sweat much so the built in self cooling protection our bodies have doesn’t work on the elderly. That’s why it’s so dangerous for them when it gets hot outside like this.

My neighbor is apt to water her garden in the middle of the day when it’s this hot, or pull out her lawn mower and cut the grass! So every half hour or so I get up and look out the front and back to make sure she’s not doing something stupid. I mean, if it’s too hot for me it’s way too hot for her!

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, The Neighborhood, Toronto Tagged With: cold, comfort, cool, cool down, crohns, elderly, garden, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, hot, humid, humidity, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, lawn, neighbor, not going out, pain, plants, stupid, sweat

Get a deal of the day and save up to 70 percent

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you know someone with a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion coming up I’m sure you’ve been searching for the perfect gift? Right? No … you’ve been too busy?

Well, if you need to find some great deals on gift items you might find the CityDeals.com website to be right up your alley. Each day at 9 a.m. mountain time there’s a feature that allows you to get up to 70% discount on gift cards every day. Isn’t that great?

The gift cards or gift certificates are from well known restaurants, clothing retailers, hotels, restaurants and more. You do have to act quick when you visit the site though as there’s a limited quantity gift cards each day.

It appears that todays deal was a golf course certificate.

You’ll also find hot deals, shopping deals and much more. The site is billed as “Your source for national and neighborhood deals”. Just register with City Deals and you’ll be ready to get your hands on a great deal of the day.

Filed Under: Gifts, Home and Garden, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services, Shopping Tagged With: 70 percent off, 70 percent savings, City Deals, Deal of the day, Entertainment, Gift Cards, gift certificates, Gift ideas, national deals, neighborhood deals, resorts, restaurants, retail

Spam!!!

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

Ever since I installed Bad Behavior back in early February I’ve had a marked decrease in Spam. Sometimes I go a few days before any spam makes it through and of course Akismet is still turned on so it catches whatever Bad Behavior misses.

Now before I installed bad behavior I was sometimes getting 600 + spam in my Akismet Spam area each day! Not just on this blog either! My husband and I have several blogs on the go and a few were getting extremely high amounts of spam each day, and others were only getting the lowly amount of a 100 – 200 spam messages each day.

Bad behavior put an end to all that. As I said there’s days that no spam gets through to me, and others where there’s only one or two on each blog.

However, I’ve noticed over the last week or so that spams been on the increase again, particularly for this blog. It’s up to 20 or 30 a day. Maybe more. It’s not like I’m counting, however I am regularly cleaning out 10 or 11 at a time.

So what’s going on? Have I become an even bigger target than I used to be, or has something changed with Bad Behavior and or Akismet?

I’m not really complaining. Not that much anyway. Heck, if I hadn’t installed bad behavior when I did I’d probably be getting 1000 spam each and every day on several blogs!

Is anyone else using both Bad Behavior and Akismet? Have you had an increase in spam getting caught in your Akismet Spam area lately?

BTW while we are talking about spam … if you are leaving me multiple links to add to the Do Follow Blogroll or one of the other blogrolls that I run – don’t do it, unless you’ve already added the blogroll to your site. Just send me an inquiry as I’m going to email you with the blogroll code and other helpful info anyway. You can give me the links when you reply to the email.

You see, if you put multiple links in your comment it often goes into my spam folder. Luckily I do check my spam box but if I start getting hundreds of spam comments again believe me, I won’t be checking anymore.

Also, if you sign your comment with an Alexa redirect or use a tiny url to cover the Alexa redirect that often goes into spam too. I look at my spam comments – a lot of other bloggers don’t. Your comments might be going to spam and never being read! Don’t waste your time, sign your comments properly. Please.

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology Tagged With: akismet, bad behavor plug in, blog, blogger, bloggers, Blogroll, blogs, comment, comments, Do follow, do follow blogroll, email, increase in spam, link, Spam, spam box, Wordpress plugin for spam

Do you use Ortho Evra for Birth Control?

June 25, 2007 by Tricia

If you use, or if you have used the ortho evra patch you may be at risk for side effects.

Apparently there is a legal claim in the offing for those who’ve used Ortho Evra in the past and have experienced side effects.

If you’d like to learn more about the side effects and symptoms as well as take a simple screening test where you’ll be asked to answer a few questions which will help determine if you are at risk or if you should seek medical treatment or if your symptoms are serious enough to qualify for legal assistance to help pay the medical treatment fee’s please visit this page: Ortho Evra Lawsuit – Birth Control Patch. I hope that you do not have any side effects, but it’s best to be as informed as possible about any medication that you are taking.

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty Tagged With: article, Birth Control, experienced, law suit, legal, medical, medication, Ortho Evra, patch, side effects, symptoms, treatment

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