Dr Copa

As a child growing up in a remote area of New England, I did not have many opportunities to go to any amusement parks.  Now that I’m older and not dependent on my parents to drag me along to wherever they want to go (or not) for vacations, I really like to go places where there are amusement parks to go visit.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to spend all day every day in an amusement park, but I like to spend SOME time there!

My wife says that she just discovered that there are several amusement parks near many Myrtle Beach Resorts.  One of them is a NASCAR amusement park!   She’s been trying to figure out what we could do on a vacation there if we accepted her parents invitation to joing them for a few days at the Myrtle Beach Resort that they have booked for their vacation.   I like NASCAR, so we’d have to check out that one!

She has also been looking at the many different websites of the different Myrtle Beach Hotels to see what amenities are included. She says she wants to have a place where the master bathroom has a private spa tub in it.

My wife loves the automatic shower cleaner from Scrubbing Bubbles. I can’t blame her, I like things that make my job easier too. The shower cleaner seems to do a good job. The biggest trouble that we’ve had with it is that it does not have a long usability life. It only lasts for a few months before it dies and we need to buy a new one. Yes, we’ve changed the batteries in it a few times; it is NOT a simple case of dead batteries. It just seems to wear out too darn fast!

I’m glad that we get coupons frequently for $5 or $7 off of the new dispenser unit because it is expensive to buy. If it were up to me, we wouldn’t buy it. But then again, I don’t clean the shower anyway, so what do I care? Since my wife is the one who would get stuck doing it, I have to trust her judgement, and if she wants to keep buying new ones, then that is what we will do. She works hard and she deserves a break when she can get one!

I find it very interesting to see how many different ways people use the Internet.  My 80 year old mother uses it only for reading emails, and only when my daughter goes to her house and opens it up for her to read them!  She is definitely NOT one to be talking with about the technicalities of computers and the Internet!  When she wants to type a letter, she drags out her old manual typewriter!  Yet there are many people who are her age who are “fluent” in their use of computers and the Internet.

My niece uses the Internet essentially for entertainment.  She is not interested in learning anything – ever!  My wife uses it constantly as a resource to research things that interest her.  She LOVES the Internet – it is her security blanket!

One of the more fascinating ways that college students are using the Internet is to form social networks to help each other with their courses. There is one website called Course Hero  that is designed to do just that.  They have support study groups and cheat sheet exam preparation papers.  If you need a Biology Exam Study Guide and you go to UT, you can join the community and type in “UT Biology Exam Prep” and chances are good that you will find that some other student has uploaded their study guide to share with the community.

I have a few antiques that I’d like to sell. The problem is, I can’t seem to find any buyers! I’ve been going around to all of the local antique stores and asking them if they buy antiques, hoping they would buy my stuff. Their answer has always been “no.” I find that hard to believe, if they are selling antiques, they had to come from somewhere, right? So where do they come from? They don’t just wave a magic wand and antiques magically appear, do they? My wife had heard that the antique dealers in this area usually travel to New England to buy their antiques because all of the antiques in this area were destroyed in the Civil War. Well, here I am, trying to save them a trip, but they are not even interested enough to ask what it is I’m trying to sell! Geez Louise!