A Bit of This and That Blog

What an awesome idea! My girlfriend is still paying off her used car, even after three years and the payments are rather high. But now, you can refinance your auto loan and reduce payments, remove co-applicants, and maybe even skip a few payments!
Car Refinance from Rate Genius is a great resource for financing your car, truck, and [...]

Between my neices, step-granddaughter, and goddaughter, I am feeling REALLY old right about now!
Kids grow up incredibly fast! It seems like yesterday that my brother had his first child, and now she is 16! College seems like yesterday too, but in reality…ok, I don’t want to date myself!
So where does the time go? It seems [...]

Ok, so it’s about two weeks away, but don’t be a last minute minder!
I never did understand how St. Valentine has his own holiday about love and couples, but his history is rather…interesting, if not mysterious.
One myth is that Valentine, a priest, went into the Roman soldiers rooms and secretly married them with their brides to [...]

So now I am into my second week of drum lessons (doumbek). I have already learned far more than I ever have from any other lessons I have taken! I have a more confident style of playing and getting better sound from the drum by using these new techniques.
And to top it off, the teacher [...]

I think back about 15 years ago. I was in the best shape of my life! I was younger, busier, and the only aches and pains I got was from occasionally overdoing it while playing hockey. I was financially ok, even though I wasn’t making a lot of money. My rent was low, bills were reasonable, [...]

I was fairly new to the computer and technology world when the internet went public. At the time, we used e-mails for internal use, and intranets (web sites and files internally) to “surf” through as well as playing first person shooter games against each other on the network.
My computer system was a 386/25 with 8MB of [...]