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Ever since we moved here, we’ve been having a hard time finding people to come to the house to repair or install things that we need repaired or installed.  It seems that people just don’t want to work anymore!  I schedule appointments for people to come over and give me estimates or to do the work and they don’t shoe up and don’t call.  I keep getting fliers in the mail for a pesticide company and I keep calling them and leaving messages that I want to schedule an appointment, and they never return my calls!  Very aggravating!  It must be nice to be wealthy enough not to need to return calls for new jobs!

Charlie told me that there is a new website in England that he has been using to help find that kind of help when he needs it. It is called http://www.myhammer.co.uk/.  They provide the service for free, the Builders and repairmen register on the website, and the homeowner can post their job on the website, and they get matched up.  The repairman pays a small fee when the job is awarded to them.

That sounds like a great service:  I wish they had something like that here!

We haven’t had a Ford in the family in a long time.  I’ve always been partial to Mustangs, however.  I’ve come across someone who is leaving the state and wants to part with her Ford Mustang.  Bright red 1989, automatic with fancy wheels and air conditioning.  Since it’s an automatic, my wife will want to drive it! (She knows how to drive a standard, but she prefers an automatic.)   I didn’t have a whole lot of money to spend, but the lady didn’t want much for it anyway, so I got it for a song.  I’m supposed to pick it up by the weekend.  I can’t wait to pick it up and bring it home and get it waxed up and start driving it next week!

I was a youngster when the first video games came out, but our family bought all of the home video games that came out on the market.  If it was not available for home purchase, I went to the shopping malls and video arcades to play the games.  I have skipped many a supper (much to my mother’s or wife’s chagrin) because I was too interested and involved in playing a video game.  I have always enjoyed playing the older (now called classic) video games. 

My wife tells me that she used to be pretty good at the Tetris games.  When I see her pack items into the grocery cart when we go shopping, I have to believe her!  When we moved here to Virginia, I was surprised to find that I still have the original Pong game console!  And then we found the old Pacman games, too!  When we found them we sure had a good laugh!

 
CDEarth has put together a software program called Greatest Classic Video Games CD that is a compilation of ten classic video games that I am thinking about ordering.  I was thinking about telling my wife that I was going to order it for our kids to play, but I don’t think she’ll buy that for a minute.  I think she’ll realize that I’m really buying the games for myself.

Looking on the Internet, I found this press release about the games:

CD Earth LLC,(www.cdearth.com) is excited to announce the release of the Greatest Classic Video Games CD now available for Windows PC and Mac OSX.

The new CD includes 10 classic games and will be a sure hit with anyone who played the original video games. Stack falling bubbles, break through brick walls, stack colors against the clock, eat cookies while avoiding pesky ghosts, pop balloons with harpoons, smash tomatoes plus rescue a princess all while putting your spaceship back together.

Preview of some of the games on the CD:

1. Break through over 50 unique, challenging levels. Power the bouncing ball to smash through brick walls. Lots of power-ups plus extra balls, energy balls, extra lives, weapons, glue, bonus floors, paddle expansion and extra score make the game even more fun.
2. Gobble up cookies while escaping from hungry ghosts in this updated version of the classic arcade game.
3. Smiling bubbles. Don’t let the friendly smiles fool you. Group the falling bubbles to make them explode before they reach the top.
4. Pop balloons with a harpoon and avoid being hit in this fast-paced game.
5. Run and jump through multiple worlds, fighting off enemies by jumping on them or bumping them from below.
6. Eat your tomatoes. How many tomatoes can you smash in ten short minutes? If you have the time to spare, this game has the vegetables just waiting to be eliminated!
7. Colorful, addicting game where you quickly lineup blocks of the same color before time runs out.
8. Guide a lost traveler from outer space, through towers and across cemeteries to collect what he needs to rebuild his spaceship.

Customers can get this Greatest Classic Video Games CD for free by test-driving the CD Earth Software Library Club: http://www.cdearth.com/classic-games.htm

About CD Earth, LLC
CD Earth (http://www.cdearth.com) believes everyone should experience the benefits of a great software library. To help customers expand their software library, CDEarth offers a wide variety of some of the finest quality software on the market today through its unique Software Library Club. CD Earth’s catalog includes software for families (http://www.cdearth.com/family-software.htm), children (http://www.cdearth.com/children-software.htm), home and office (http://www.cdearth.com/home-office-software.htm), computer graphics (http://www.cdearth.com/computer-graphics.htm) and, of course, computer games (http://www.cdearth.com/computer-games.htm).

Income taxes, boy oh boy, having to pay income taxes really fries me.  I don’t get paid nearly enough money as it is to survive, and I end up having to pay the medicare and social security tax no matter what.  I’m usually lucky enough to get a full refund of the federal and state income taxes, but we don’t get the social security and medicare taxes back no matter what.  I’m probably going to have to pay taxes on the building that I sold earlier this year, so I am going to need some help figuring that out, it sounds complicated to me.  Fortunately there is an online Tax Preparation Company called Victory Online Taxes that helps the consumer prepare and file online taxes. The online filing part is free, which is good because in the past I’ve thought about filing online and found out that is usually not free.  They have a section of their website that offers tax tips for you to read, and I like that!

Anyway, the Victory Online Taxes website has a wizard that guides you through the process and helps you do your taxes.  They give you a 100% money back guarantee, which I think is really good.  I like money back guarantees!

I got up this morning at 3:30, a little earlier than usual. I looked outside; it was already 72 degrees out. I said “boy, another hot one.” I turned on the weather channel and they said, yes it was going to be 90 degrees but feel like 110. I thought about all of the poor old people out there with no air conditioning, how some of them will probably sit on their porches with their feet in a bucket of water or a wash cloth around their neck. Some of them have never had air conditioning, some of them never will. It was a sad thought, but the world seems to be a sad place nowadays anyway. Yes, it’s going to be another hot one today!