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Today my wife has to go take a National Certification Exam for Pharmacy Technician.  It is particularly bad timing because at the same time she has to go take the test, she needs to go pick up some food that she ordered from the Angel Food Ministries.  She told me that she could not reschedule either one of those commitments, so she asked me to pick up the food for her.  Well, I really don’t want to do that, but it is such a good deal that we really would be foolish to pass it by.  And the food is already paid for, so we can’t get a refund if we don’t pick it up.  So I’ll be going to get the food while my wife is taking her test.  I hope she appreciates my help and I hope she does well on the test!

I was changing the oil in my truck this morning.  During my oil changing routine I always climb under the truck and give it a good “look over” to see if anything is worn out or needs greasing.  I was unpleasantly surprised to find that the driver side front upper ball joint needs replacing.  I’ve never replaced one of those before, but I’ve done a lot of work on a lot of vehicles, so I’m confident I can replace it myself; I just didn’t want to deal with the extra expense and labor involved in replacing it.  The replacement ball joint is going to cost me almost $50, which is a hard hit this close to Christmas, and I really need to fix it before winter really settles in.  I wonder how my wife would like to open a box with a new ball joint in it on Christmas morning?  (Just kidding!)

My brother in-law just graduated from college last spring.  He received his online degree in computer technology and he is pleased as punch!  The whole family is really quite proud of him.  He had been looking for a way to advance his career and make better money, and this was a good way for him to do that.  He’s married and has one baby that was born around Valentine’s Day this past winter.  He works full time and he’s been taking online courses for a couple of years. 

He said what he really liked about taking online courses was the flexibility around his busy schedule.  If he had needed to go to a traditional college he says he never could have done it because he would have missed too many classes.  One of the great things about online colleges is that you don’t get tied down to one specific physical location.  While he was taking these courses he had moved a couple of times to different states.  He never could have done that if he was enrolled in a local university.

The degreehound.com website is dedicated to helping students locate the perfect online school for their interests.  They have a search wizard where you type in what you are interested in learning and it recommends the proper schools for that need.  When you find the school you are interested in you then can request more information to be sent to you.  It’s always a good time to take classes, to further your career, change your career, increase your job security, or just to learn something new that you’ve been interested in for a long time.  And online classes make it a lot easier to do just that.

A couple of weeks ago I bought a box of window tint film. I want to tint the windows of my hot rod limo black. I tried to install the film myself without any help, but found that there were a lot of bubbles in the end result and I wasn’t happy with it at all. So after a few days of thinking about it, I pulled the tint off of the windows and decided to try again.

This time I removed the windows from the truck and brought them inside. I laid them flat on the dining room table and installed the tint in the house. I asked my wife to help me, and she did. (Thanks wife!) The end result was much better, there were still a couple of bubbles which I ended up being able to pop with a pin and super glue down. Then I put the windows back into the hot rod and I have to say it looks great!

There certainly has been a brisk business in Stock Trading on Wall Street over the past few weeks!  Consumer confidence has taken a huge beating; news keeps hitting the television that big companies are struggling and people are losing their jobs.  So the Stock Market has been having a really tough time, going up and down like crazy!

This is a good time to make some money on the stock market if you can get a good Online Broker to do some rapid Online Trading to buy stocks for you when the market is falling – you could get some really great deals if you watch the market carefully!  The firstrade.com website is a website to one such online broker that can help you to get involved in the stock market at competitive rates.

Their website has a lot of good articles and advice on the stock market and mutual funds, too.  So even if you’re NOT thinking about getting into the stock market right now, it is well worth a read.