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Need a flag? Check out The United States Flag store

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It’s Memorial Day weekend in the USA and I’ll bet that many of my US readers either have flags, or would like to have American Flags to display on such a special holiday.

If you need to purchase US Flags you should visit the United States Flag Store, the largest online retailer of flags and flagpoles.


The United States Flag store carries everything that someone wanting to purchase and display a flag might need. On the easy to navigate site you’ll find everything from small flags, car flags, pins, patches and decals, patriotic decorations, as well as patriotic wear and gifts. Along with the selection that I just listed, they also sell custom flags, state flags, World flags, flag display cases, flag accessories and Outdoor Flagpoles. There’s even a section on the site that contains information about flag etiquette and flag care.

I’ve actually been asked to write an article about the United States Flag Store website, and to tell you the truth there’s little that I can find that needs improving on the site.

The site is well laid out and it’s very easy to find whatever you are looking for by using the menu list on the left hand side of the page. There are also buttons at the top of each page that lead to the largest and most important sections of the online store.

I think the selection of flags, flag related accessories and flag poles is just amazing. I don’t believe that I’ve ever been on a site with such a wide selection. Perhaps that could be the sites only downfall in that a person might like too many products and delay their purchase.

At the very bottom of the menu on the left side of the page there is a menu selection called “Specials” and another one called “Election Campaign Discounts”. I think that the Specials menu section should perhaps be moved up closer to the top of the menu area. It’s nice when you visit a site to know if they are having a sale on certain items. Often the most popular items are listed as being for sale so it’s possible that this online store might make even more sales if it displayed it’s specials a little more prominently.

If you need to purchase a Flag – US, state or a flag from another country I would strongly suggest having a look at the huge selection at the United States Flag store first. The prices are reasonable and the selection is probably the most complete selection of flags and flag related items that I’ve ever seen.





Planning vacations and keeping expenses down

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Have you ever been to London, England? I’ve never been, but I’d love to go for a vacation some time within the next year or two. I’d enjoy going to Piccadilly Square, seeing what Buckingham Palace looks like with my own eyes, and probably attending some of the live theatre productions.

I know that some of my readers live in England. Perhaps if I ever do get around to booking a holiday in London you could tell me what sites are “Must See” places to visit.

I do know that I won’t have a problem finding a cheap hotel in London, because I’ve visited and already bookmarked a site called easyhotel.com where I know I’ll be able to pre-book a nice hotel room easily and for a good price.

Finding cheap hotels in London or anywhere in the UK is important to me, because while I know that I’d like to stay in nice hotels when I do go to visit London, I certainly don’t want to spend the majority of my money on lodgings. The Canadian and US dollar are much lower than that of the Pound. I think the pound is about 2.5 times higher in value than our money, which means that when we do eventually go to the UK and perhaps elsewhere in Europe we need to be aware of how much things cost ahead of time.

When the time comes I’ll just go to the EasyHotel.com website and locate their section for cheap hotels London and book our rooms. You can set the search to find hotels near particular areas so if I know what sites we’d like to visit before hand, we’ll be able to get a hotel that’s in that area. That will save on the cost of transportation too because either we won’t have to travel too far by cab, or public transit, or we’ll actually be able to walk to specific locations.

I think I’m going to talk to my brothers wife. Every year they go off to either some exotic location or a new continent that they’ve never visited before. The begin planning their new trip pretty much upon returning from the last trip. Well, it’s my brothers wife that does the majority of that planning. She’s good too. Their trips always seem fascinating and she always finds good deals on travel, and hotels or other lodgings.

If we want to go to London I’m sure she’ll have some good tips on what to see and some idea’s as to how we can cut costs.

If she gives me any really good tips that could be applied to just about any type of vacation I’ll be sure to make a post about it at some point.

This is almost how I react when Chris steals my pen

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Ok I just wrote a post about Chris being the biggest pen thief in the world. Is it no wonder, is it, that I get kind of paranoid about my own pens?

Just like this Kids in the Hall video, I will not accept a pen from him that isn’t mine or the one that I specifically want to use. Part of that comes from having my favorite pens stolen by him, and the other part is that I’m a lefty and only certain pens are comfortable for me to use for writing.

I’m not quite as bad as the guy in this video, but to Chris – who immediately went and found this video when I had him read the post I just wrote about him, I must seem this way at times:

My Pennnnnnn!!!!! You’ve got my Pen!!! At least we can laugh at each other.

BTW have you noticed that I’ve really upped the Canadian related content this week? It’s purely by accident. Kids in the Hall is of course an old Canadian program produced by Loren Michaels, a Canadian, the producer of Saturday Night Live.

School Shooting in Toronto

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OMG I’ve just heard that at about 2:30 pm this afternoon there was a school shooting here in Toronto.

The male student was shoot in one of the schools hallways. He was rushed to one of our trauma hospitals shortly after the incident, but I’ve just heard that he’s died.

Yes, we’ve had school shootings before, knifing’s and mob attacks. Once such mob attack incident happened just down the street from here about two years ago. It’s still a tragic and unusual event when it happens.

I feel just terrible that this has happened.

Web design and Graphic Arts courses?

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I think I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been seriously considering going back to school for some course in web design, graphics and perhaps internet marketing.

I have years of experience in creating websites for others and myself, but I never pursued this as a form of employment. It’s always been something I’ve done on the side.

Now that I’ve been stuck at home for about a year and a half due to my stupid illness I’ve discovered that I actually can make a living by doing work through the internet. Whether it be marketing or design I haven’t fully decided, but I really do think I should work on my skills and learn a few more things if I really want to make this work. So I’ve been looking at the courses at Collins College. I don’t know if I’ll take any of their courses, but it’s giving me some great ideas.

I’m actually in the middle of redesigning a few of our sites right now. This is the only one that’s giving me trouble. The coding isn’t complex but it’s not as straightforward as on all the rest of the blogs. One wrong move and the site doesn’t work anymore! Perhaps if I did take some courses weird code like the one that makes up this theme wouldn’t be as much of a problem?

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