In my younger days when CB radio was in vogue, my handle was “Pennypincher.” I love being thrifty. Just as men like game hunting, I love bargain hunting. The key with anything you want is being willing to wait for it. If you have to have it right now, you will probably pay top dollar(…)
From the mailbag this morning. Got this laughable spam from someone with an apparently poor grasp of English: “When emergency appears you always thank your wisdom and clear mind that make you spare smackers for rainy days. Having a solid amount of smackers in your account or several wads of smackers in the distant corner(…)
I love spring and fall, the two moderate seasons. This week’s weather change with the drier air and clearer skies (unless you count the chemtrails) is so refreshing. Just makes you feel like moving and doing things, unlike summer and winter that make you feel like sitting still. This has been a very odd summer,(…)
I’ve been on the roads a bit more than usual this week, and have been encountering drivers on the wrong side of the road with frightening regularity. Either we’ve had an invasion of European tourists, or people are driving with too many distractions. The back roads in these hills are unforgiving, and sliding across to(…)
Last month my husband, who’s always the hale and hearty one who never gets sick, came down with Lyme disease. He found a small bump that looked like a mosquito bite, and two days later it was a reddened area the size of his hand with a dark ring around it. One of those surefire(…)
The world is becoming a weird place. Not just because we’re all getting older, but because everything with which we are familiar keeps shifting and changing in meaning and purpose. Words don’t mean what they used to. Teenagers no longer date, or even “go out.” Today they are “talking” which can mean anything from what(…)
Scripting, databases, extensions, addons, and plugins are all part of my vocabulary, just part of the growth in technology I’ve had to experience since starting web work in 1996. HTML is rarely part of my work anymore. But the added dimension of security has become the camel with its nose in the tent. Yesterday is(…)
The longer I live the more conscious I become about time, how quickly it flies by, and how much of my life is wasted on dealing with stupid trivial junk that doesn’t matter. And so I spend some of my time finding ways to avoid wasting it. I now have a telemarketer blocker on my(…)
I think I’ve chased my tail for so long I forgot what I planned to do if I caught it! Have you had one of those weeks? Where things snowball one into another and you just keep rolling with very little slowdown. Sometimes we roll from one urgent need to another, and finally the day(…)
In the last month I have lost two very dear friends. It seems the older we get the more frequently we visit hospitals and funeral homes. And quite frankly, sickness and death seem to be touching everyone I know lately. Several friends are battling cancer, a few others have children with recently detected serious health(…)
A friend asked me tonight if I was going to write any new ramblings since it’s been several months since my last post. I kept intending to write. In fact, I think of all these things I want to write about…when I’m driving in the car. If someone would come up with some technology that(…)
My husband just laughs and shakes his head when I come home from shopping. He knows I will have a bag of dog treats, several cans of cat food, sunflower seed for the bird feeder, and a bag of feed for ducks and chickens. He calls them my feather and fur babies. I have a(…)
This month we have been treated to a couple of meteor showers. Unfortunately they are harder to watch when the weather turns cold has it has this month. We would wrap up and dash out onto the deck and look into the sky to see if we saw any of the shooting stars before the(…)
Scanning the local obits today, I came across the usual assortment of obits and memoriams, and it crossed my mind to wonder why people post the memorial ads. I realize dealing with grief is a long process and missing someone you love hurts, so maybe they get some solace from posting these. Some are written(…)
I use a pretty standard cellphone with a slideout keyboard for easy texting. Some of my kids have ipads and iphones and smartphones. They rave about apps for this and that, and compare notes with each other on the features of their devices. But I just couldn’t see the need for a smartphone. Really, I(…)
Donald F. Aldridge on Facebook: Not if you buy it in a "Thrift Shop"!!!!!!
Rose Shelor Bowen on Facebook: Yes, Mr. Thrift Store King!
Donald F. Aldridge on Facebook: Pay attention... I had a good day today..... 20 lbs Halo tangerines 6 bucks
Rose Shelor Bowen on Facebook: That sounds like a deal and a half!
Donald F. Aldridge on Facebook: All kinds of other goodies from the other shops