I am so mad this morning. My car has a flat tire. The tire is less than a month old. I don’t have a second car available to take it to get fixed, and since Mama and Daddy are both working, DH is having to try to find a neighbor to take him down the road to the tire place. Now why am I mad instead of just frustrated? Because my tire is flat because SOME JERK OF A KID WITHOUT ADEQUATE PARENTAL SUPERVISION was busting bottles in the street. I could just smack him, his mama, his daddy and all his redneck relatives.

This is why I keep my kids in the yard.

Stay tuned, I have another jerk to tell you about later, and if I miss my family reunion because of this, I’ll probably tell you SEVERAL little stories.

*smoke comes from ears*

Edit: Ok, it was a nail, it’s fixed, and we’re going. There’s still glass in the street.

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There may never be a better time for buying silver bullion than right now. World demand for silver now exceeds annual production, and has every year since 1990. Above ground stockpiles of silver bullion are low, shrinking rapidly and approaching zero. Since the end of WWII, for example, the U.S. government – once the largest stockpiler of silver on the planet – has dumped billions and billions of ounces of silver bars onto the world market, effectively depressing silver prices. Today, that government silver hoard is gone . . . and now the U.S. government is a silver buyer. For these reasons, silver bars and silver coins represent an outstanding investment opportunity. You can find the latest silver price at Monex.* As an investment product, silver is available in coin or ingot form. Ingots are generally silver ingots of pure bullion cast in a convenient size and shape. Coins have a currency value or they are actually defined as ingots.

*gathered from Press Release

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I checked out a site that offers free insurance quotes today. I was looking at home-owners insurance. I filled out the forms, which were pretty painless. I had expected to get actual firm quotes, so I was disappointed to just see a listing of agents at the end of the process 🙁 I think the service is a great idea, but it could be improved by actually providing a quote at the end. On the upside, I got a phone call right away. On the downside, I had put “do not call” in my instructions.

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feebeeglee » Delta/Freedom Airlines Hates Nursing Mothers

This just infuriates me. I guess I’m a lactivist, but it sickens me that Victoria’s Secret can have boobs all over TV, but someone would whine about breastfeeding. That’s what they’re there for. Your pleasure is merely secondary to the purpose.

And, Delta, I hope you are ready. You must have forgotten what we all did to VS when they pulled a similar stunt last spring.

Man, I need to go relax somewhere. My blog seems a little angry today.

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Some things just chap my hide, and this is one of them. I know everybody needs to make a living. I understand that our legal system depends on attorneys defending clients. I also know that not all attorneys are like those I have known. Here’s one San Diego DUI attorney that posted his “victory sheet” for the world to see, and it includes but is not limited to these two gems:

Atkinson, BAC .30 by blood test, Accident + child in car
Logsdon, BAC .40 by blood test, Accident + Hit & Run

I report, you decide.

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Back to OpticsPlanet. Awhile back we did a study on astronomy. Lacking a good quality telescope (actually lacking a telescope at all) we relied on the naked eye and pictures in books. I can’t help but think how much more fun that would have been if we’d had a real telescope.

More recently, I’ve tried to show the children the visible Mars without much success. Since I have 39 years experience in looking at the sky, I was able to pick it out, but the children were not nearly as successful. It’s a little hard to explain “look over the top of granddaddy’s house, where it would be if you could see granddaddy’s house from here”, especially when they also have only a marginal sense of direction at best.

OpticsPlanet has an incredible selection of telescopes in all price ranges, including Meade Telescopes, Celestron and Bushnell.

It’s been long enough now that I think we could pull off another unit on stars. Or do birds again, this time with the help of binoculars. In fact, it might be worth revisiting several areas we’ve covered with the addition of good tools. Of course, there’s always independent study, and I’ve had reasonable success with just leaving a new “school tool” out and not saying a word about it 🙂
*cass begins to ponder what to study for the next school term*

Do your kids love flashlights like mine do? They got some little cheap ones for Christmas several years ago, and I think those were their favorite presents! Around here, the children are thrilled to feed the dogs–after dark, because they get to use a flashlight to do it! We have about 5 of the things.
OpticsPlanet has neat-o lights like SureFire, StreamLight, Pelican LED flashlights, hands free headlamps, pocket, gun mount lights, as well as flash light accessories. They also offer FREE UPS delivery on orders over $29.95.

I may need to think about getting Dh a new flashlight for Christmas. He’s been having to go under the house to work on the air ducts, and the ones we have are just not bright enough to suit me. I get spooked, and I’m not even the one going under the house. I’m always afraid he’s gonna meet a new not-really-friend down there of the serpent variety. I’d prefer something like football stadium lights for that job, LOL! It would be much easier for him to do what needs doing if he had a hands free headlamp, though. Come to think of it, if I had a tiny one, I could knit in the dark, couldn’t I?
Whatever the reason you need a flashlight, they’ve got you covered.

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