Awhile back I posted a message about the Fresh Air Fund – Half Marathon. I am happy to announce that they have raised $80,000 this summer with their NYC half marathon.
I think that’s wonderful that they were able to raise that much money to help pay for summer camp for the children.
Hey if you want to check out all the pictures you can find them online:
www.facebook.com/freshairfund
www.twitter.com/FreshAirFund
www.freshair.org/the-fresh-air-fund.aspx
Amazon has added a new service to their website called Amazon Wireless. This is kind of neat because you can choose your wireless company, which by the way they only have 2 so far which are AT&T and Verizon Wireless, then choose a phone then choose whether you want a new individual account or if you are already part of an existing individual account or family account.
Most of the phones are only a penny and so you basically get a free phone but when you click that you already have an existing account the price may go up to about $50-$75 or more depending on the phone. I found that certain phones you still get for just a penny with an already existing plan.
I think that’s great that they will give you a free phone if you are upgrading your cell phone but not your plan because it just makes it easier to get a new phone. I’m sure people don’t want to upgrade because they just can’t afford to so this makes it easier.
I didn’t see any iPhones listed but I did see Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Bold. They also have some other well known companies like Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony to name a few.
Now here is my question and I hope someone will find this via google blog search so they can answer. I have a pre-paid cell phone with T-Mobile. Of course they don’t offer T-Mobile yet but it says coming soon. But when they do get T-Mobile I wonder if I can buy a new phone for my pre-paid plan with GPS and Mp3 capability. I wonder if it would work. I don’t need internet, I just want to be able to have the GPS and Mp3 along with being able to call people.
I currently have a Nokia 3390 cell phone pre-paid plan with T-Mobile that I’ve had since 2002. The reason I got a pre-paid plan is for 2 reasons. #1 being that a friend of ours in Hollywood was always driving to Malibu to visit her mom (this was 1997-1999, she passed away in 2000) and she couldn’t get reception and she was having nothing but problems but to be fair she knows that she didn’t have reception due to the mountains that she was driving through but she blamed it on the cell phone company anyway. She insisted on getting out of her contract to go with another company and she had to pay big bucks to get out of it which was dumb because she had the same issue with another company lol. So it’s for this very reason that Darrin forbade me, yes, I said forbade, from getting a contract.
Reason number 2 is that I have a little to no credit score since I never really established credit in my late teens. No credit cards means bad credit score which means the cell phone companies will only give me a cell phone with the highest paid plan which makes absolutely no sense to me. They should offer me their cheapest plan so they know they get their money every month. Also, I’m on disability so I can’t really afford a monthly plan fee. All I really can afford is the pre-paid because I only pay for minutes when I need them and I don’t use it that much to warrant buying a lot of minutes.
Darrin has taken over the phone though because he needs a phone at work so when he’s driving if he needs to make a call to AAA for a tow or whatever then he has a phone. Also if he has to call 911 then he has a phone. He usually uses it to call me at the house on his way home. But he’s always asking me to go to map quest and tell him the directions that he writes down and I think it would be much easier if he had a GPS on the phone.
Sorry I rambled on but you have to know the full story of why I’m asking lol. Thanks for your response in advance.
A week ago I got in the mail a letter from our cable company “Bright House Cable” saying they are going to be making some changes to the system and to keep an eye out or something. I don’t have it anymore and I don’t remember what it said.
Yesterday a 1-800 number called and I let the machine pick it up and it was Bright House calling. It was a recording and I let the machine record it but before it hung up I picked up the phone to hear the rest of the message. It said that it was going to be upgrading 1 of our cable boxes. It didn’t say which one, just that 1 of our boxes is going to get the upgrade and the other one will get it in a few weeks.
It was the one in the living room and I am so glad that it was that one and not the one in my bedroom because Darrin would never let me live that down lol. I have an HD box in my room even though I don’t have an HD tv set. The cable company gave me the wrong one but I insisted that I’m going to be upgrading my tv anyway (which was a lie) so let me keep it lol. I said that because some of the HD channels are eastern time zone and I like being able to see the shows 3 hours earlier so that I can watch my network shows when they come on at 8 and 9pm.
One of the reasons why I couldn’t watch Ghost Hunters many years ago was because the new episode always came on at the same time as one of my shows at 9pm but I didn’t know then that they repeat it at 11 lol. Duh! But that’s ok, I like to watch the new episode at 6pm even though I don’t have any other Wednesday night shows. I get to watch the new episodes 4 times, 6pm and 8pm on SyFyHD and 9pm and 11pm on regular SyFy lol.
So I still have to wait a week to 3 weeks for my upgrade. I was just looking at it and it’s not all that different. Ok yes it’s really different but it’s not better. It’s just eye candy is all. I will record on my dvd recorder what it looks like normal then when I get the upgrade record it with the upgrade and put it on YouTube lol.
Watch this, this is our future. Try to keep with the video too, I promise you that you are going to say “WHOA!” really loud and you might find yourself clapping and laughing too.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdDhWfpqxg
Wow, this show is a roller coaster ride. Every time I watch it I’m like whoa.
In season 1 when grams died I was in shock. I just wasn’t expecting them to kill her off and so soon in the show too. Then it just seemed like every episode I was left with whoa, that happened didn’t it?
Season 2 is the same. It’s like they have this formula that just works and you can’t escape it. It’s as though the creators of this show have glamoured me just like a vampire can glamor people.
Now Sookie has a new power with her hands but it has only worked on Mary Ann so far. She didn’t even know she had this and perhaps it’s because she didn’t need to know she had it because it only works on 1 person which is the demon Mary Ann. Actually she needs to know how to control it so it would’ve been good for her to know she had it so she could figure out how to use it. Although if it only works on Mary Ann then she wouldn’t be able to practice but when she does need it I’m sure she will be able to figure it out on the spot. Trial and error I guess.
Boy has Sookie missed some shit up in her crib while she was gone in Texas. If she stayed she would’ve probably been killed because Mary Ann probably wouldn’t have been able to glamor her.
I would like to know where all the Bon Temps vampires are and why they didn’t contact their sheriff Eric to tell him that some shit’s goin’ down lol. I know Bill isn’t the only one in Bon Temps.
Well, I love the show and I hate that they only have 12 episodes. Too bad they don’t have a regular season at the same time as all the network channels do from September/October to May. 24 episodes per season would be awesome lol. I think it would be neat to have a Halloween and Christmas episode don’t you?
Well I thought that working my shoulder muscles on my home gym was going to help my shoulder but it’s only making it worse. The first couple of days I was doing it my shoulder started feeling better. I was already making plans to go bike riding after a week hoping that this would fix the problem and I’d be back to normal.
I was only doing 4 out of those 6 exercises and only doing 10 reps of each and I’m not using that much weight. My weider home gym works by the height that you have it set to. If you have it set real low then you aren’t use any weight at all but if you have it set at its highest point then you are using all of your weight and probably then some. And if you use the bungees at the bottom you are adding more resistance. I was only doing it 1/4 high. I don’t know exactly how much weight that is because they didn’t give me a chart on how to calculate how much weight I’m lifting but I can only assume that I’m only using 1/4 of my weight which would be 60lbs.
I also stopped the cold/heat because I believe it was causing problems with my left arm. For the last week I was using cold/heat the pain was going down my left arm and it was almost at my hand so by stopping the cold/heat the pain actually went away in my arm. It was going away from my back too and I thought that perhaps it was due to me using the gym. Perhaps it was a combination of both. Maybe stopping cold/heat and starting the gym. Maybe I should’ve stopped the cold/heat for a few days then started up again and maybe I should’ve only used the gym once per day instead of 2-3 times per day.
Whatever the reason the pain is coming back for is beyond me. I just know I can’t suffer anymore. I am suffering and I am tired of it. I can’t work, I can’t lay on my left side, I can’t ride my bike, I can’t really do anything at all that involves breathing lol.
Kathy Griffin is all a twitter about Levi Johnston. You know, Bristol’s baby daddy. She has been blogging about spooning with him and even saying she is pregnant.
I love you Kathy Griffin. You are so funny. She just loves to hook up with someone who is constantly in the spotlight so that she will be in the spotlight (aka tabloids).
Anybody who is a big giant fan of Kathy Griffin (like ME) knows that she loves the attention so if it takes hooking up with Levi for some attention then you go girl. Although in my opinion and in many other peoples opinions, she is already off the D-list so she doesn’t need to hook up with Levi. I’m sure she could get George Clooney if she tried. Or she could try and steal Brad away from Angelina just like how she took him from Jennifer. Hey it could happen.
Kathy Griffin’s My Life on the D-List is over for the season and I can’t wait for the next season to air. In the meantime if you would like to pre-order her book Official Book Club Selection click the link to visit her website and order it through Amazon or Barnes and Noble (BN).
I wanted to share this. I found this on the Dvice.com website from SyFy channel. Here is the link:
WindowPhone concept points to future of touch cell phones
I think that’s really neat. It’s a new cell phone concept that is a clear see through phone. When it’s raining outside you see rain drops on the display. When it’s snowing your display looks fogged up as if it has frost on it. When it’s a nice sunny day then you get a clear see through display. When you want to text you blow on the display then you can write the numbers/letters with your finger and it translates your writing into text to call someone or to type a text message. Tuvie demonstrates that.
Ok now you might be asking yourself, Mike, how does this power up if you can see through it? I got your answer. Nanotechnology. Here is a flexible transparent battery that charges up in 1 minute. Yes, I said 1 minute. Ok you got me Mike, so, what about all the rest of the parts of the phone? Well, do you see the top of the phone that’s black that you can’t see through? Perhaps that has the nano processor and all that jazz in there? Who knows. Or maybe if they can make a flexible transparent battery then they can make everything else flexible and transparent.
I think the display is LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) or perhaps its color e-ink so it probably doesn’t use any battery power.
Ok so what about a speaker and a mic Mike? I don’t know lol I didn’t design this. Perhaps it is bluetooth ready so all you need is the bluetooth or maybe it comes with the bluetooth ear piece.
All I know is that I probably won’t be able to afford one. I still use the Nokia 3390 from 2002 lol.
Have you seen these videos on YouTube that claim that there is a “real ghost” or a “car accident” and they show a car driving on a road. You see a lot of green grass and trees and it’s winding down this road then all of a sudden this scary figure of a female ghost shows up on the screen and you hear a screaming sound. All of a sudden your legs slam into the keyboard tray, your glasses have also flown up in the air and landed in your lap and one of the arms are now bent and the headphones that were turned up full blast are on the floor.
Yeah, I hate it when they do that on YouTube.
Want to see the video I’m talking about? Are you sure? Are you absolutely sure? Be 100% positive that you want to see it. If you have a heart condition please do not watch this. Now please turn your volume down or off, remove your glasses, push in your keyboard tray and click here. I will not be held liable for anything happening.
I just saw this on the Bakersfield Californian website via Facebook.
Caught on tape: Shafter officer inadvertently videotapes himself beating suspect
This cop in Shafter turned off the safety on his taser which turned the video camera on and he inadvertently video taped himself beating a suspect who was not resisting arrest. He had his taser in 1 hand and his baton in the other hand which is what he beat him with.
Q: Do you think the city and county ought to buy cameras for all their police tasers, like Shafter has done?
A: They have the dashboard cameras for chases, they should be video taped the entire time, not just when they pull people over but also when they have to run after a suspect and they are far from the vehicle. It protects them but it also protects us from them.
Britain has head-mounted video cameras for their police officers and I think that America needs that too. Although, this article says that it cost $6 million dollars for 2,000 cameras and that’s probably more than our countries budget can afford, especially since the deficit is much higher now. But perhaps this will be put in place some time in the future. Maybe certain cities can buy 1 for each of their officers that go out on the streets only. Maybe this will force them to be peace officers instead of dickhead officers.
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