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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.





We’ll be refinishing our basement soon

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I must be in a mood to redecorate. We should start refinishing our basement some time in the next month or so and I’ve got to find some furniture for what will be a rec room of a substantial size.

We do have a sectional couch that we plan to use in the basement but we need a bit more furniture to go with it. I’ve been browsing online and looking at various sites that sell indoor furniture and I really like some of the north carolina furniture at this store. It looks like it’s well made and I really like some of the styles.

Obviously we have to get the basement finished before I’ll really decide what kind of furnishings I want down there, but it doesn’t hurt to do a little window shopping ahead of time does it?

Have a trade show or an event and need to rent computer equiptment?

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Own or manage a business?

Have you ever had computer equipment break down, or perhaps found that you needed extra computer equipment, but only for a short period of time? Have you thought of looking into computer rentals? ComputerRentals.com has been in business for over 25 years and is one of the oldest and most respected names in computer rentals throughout the US and Canada.

I can think of many reasons why a company might feel the need to rent computer equipment. Perhaps there’s a trade show coming up and you can’t afford to remove the computer equipment that you need for the trade show or convention from your offices? Rent it.

Perhaps your company has a large project and you temporarily hire a number of new employees? Should you purchase new computer equipment even though the new hires will only be working with the company for 6 months or less? It’s probably not a good idea as it will increase your companies cost layout for the project. Why not rent the computer related equipment that you need?

Along with the above listed reason for renting computer equipment you might have a short off-site employee training session that you need to provide computer equipment for, a short customer research project, or perhaps you’re moving offices but you decide to rent computer equipment for the new office to smooth the transition from one office to another? See, there’s probably hundreds of reason to rent equipment.

I know that when I worked with a plastic surgeon a few years ago I was there in the beginning helping him set up his new clinic from the ground up. We rented computer and other office equipment for the first couple of months until he fully moved his practice from his former office to his brand new clinic. Renting computer equipment was one of the best things that we did to get the office up and running quickly.

CRE can provide your business with short term computer rentals in the form of the latest PC or Mac desktops, laptops, plasma and LCD display rentals, and audio visual equiptment. You can also rent accessories for these products such as floor stands, DVD/VCR combo players, and audio speaker rentals.

If you manage and office or business do visit the ComputerRentals.com site so that you can see for yourself what kinds of computer rentals are available for your business needs.

Getting out the Patio furniture

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Now that Spring is almost over, and summer’s just around the corner the warm weather had definitely arrived, we’ve been getting our garden and patio ready for summer entertaining.

Chris put together most of our patio furniture about two weeks ago. We take it apart each fall so that we can store it. When you live in a cool climate you can’t just leave it out or it’ll rust. I think he still has three of our bar stool like swivel chairs to put back together.

The only thing we haven’t put out yet is the teak outdoor furniture. We have a beautiful handcrafted table that’s made of recovered teak. It looks like it was made out of fallen logs or teak tree stumps. It’s beautiful and extremely heavy. Teak is a heavy wood. We keep it in our enclose porch through the winter.

Now, I know that teak is pretty much resistant to all forms of bug infestation, but the sun can bleach the wood. So each year we lightly sand the wood and then put a couple of coats of teak oil on the table. It looks gorgeous when it’s been freshly oiled, and when it gets wet the color of the wood gets richer and multiple shades of red wood to blond wood color seems to show across the top of the table.

Do any of you have teak outdoor furniture?

Flame wars and trolls

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Wow, I’ve been talking about my other websites this week, and the mailing lists I run and I must say sometimes it’s quite amusing.

A little flame war broke out on one of my lists earlier today and I have a feeling that I might now have gained myself either a persistent troll or worse a cyber stalker out of it. It all depends on the control measures that I just took on the list as to how things go. You see, as the list owner and administrator I had to step in to put out the flames and the troll that caused the trouble didn’t like that one bit.

The person subscribed to the list with a free email after I put his subscribed email on “no post” status, and sent a semi threatening note to the list stating in it “We’ll be watching you”. With the you being me of course. I think this person needs to get sent on one of those Alaskan cruises and end up not being able to get back on the boat once it reaches it’s destination.

Hopefully nothing much comes of this. I just thought I should warn you that it might flow into the blog. Hopefully any of this creaton’s comments get moderated by Akismet before they get on the blog.

At this point I’m finding the situation mildly amusing in that this person thinks their taunts can get to me. Believe me, I’ve seen better! It could however spill over into something much more serious, and that would not be amusing at all. So my guard is up, I’m watching my email, lists, and sites carefully for any signs of attack and we’ll just have to see how this goes.

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