I’ve been seeing a lot of news stories about “McMansion” homes - modular homes that are huge modular houses that have been cropping up all over the countryside.  Just the term “McMansion” that has been tagged onto these large homes is offensive to me. 

These cookie-cutter type modular homes may be large, but they just can’t possibly be as nice as a custom-built on your lot house built by Schumacher Homes.  Schumacher Homes has been building high quality custom homes for the past sixteen years in Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.  They offer over fifty floor plans, all of which are completely customizable to suit the needs of the families that they are building the houses for.

Posted: October 5th, 2008 under Business, Home and Garden, Internet, Life, Online, Shopping.
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I was reading an article on the Time.com website about how a town called Riviera Beach Florida made it illegal for anyone to wear pants that dropped below the waist, exposing underwear or skin.  I know that the law was intended to be directed at guys who wear saggy pants that show their underwear, but it amused me because I had to think about all of the young women that I know who wear “low rise” pants that are below their waist, that exposes their beautiful midriff sections.  I had to wonder how many of these girls would get ticketed by police for wearing their clothes that way?  I just cannot even imagine these lithe young women wearing pants that come up to their waist - they would freak out!

Posted: October 5th, 2008 under Computers / Software, Internet, Issues, Life, News, Shopping.
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I know a lot of people who wear eyeglasses.  Most of the people that I know that wear them just don’t want to have to bother with the routine of taking contact lenses in and out, or cleaning them, or go to the expense of buying disposable contacts.  I’ve heard that the ZenniOptical website is a really great place to buy eyeglasses over the Internet.  Their frames start as low as $8 a pair!

Their company has even been reviewed by the popular consumer advocate Clark Howard radio show, the host claims to have bought some eyeglasses (and several other staff members from the show) from them and is delighted with the good service, inexpensive price, and good quality of the frames.

ZenniOptical has also been featured on the Fox News TV show, as one of the best consumer bargains around.  They sell sunglasses, as well as progressive lenses, bifocals, or single lenses.  They claim that the reason that they can sell glasses so cheaply is because they sell only their own manufactured frames directly to the consumer.  They use no middlemen, and have a very low advertising budget.

It’s time for me to get a new pair of glasses myself, so I’m going to check them out too!  I’m getting pretty tired of spending hundreds of dollars for a pair of frames!

Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Business, Computers / Software, Finances/Money, Health, Internet, Life, Online, Shopping, Technology.
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I was reading a news story today on the Time.com website about a New York police officer who committed suicide today.  This really is a very sad story.  He committed suicide because he caused the death of another man by ordering another police officer to fire a stun gun, which resulted in the death of the man who was shot with the stun gun.

Upon reading the story, it is evident that this was a very bad judgement call on the police officer, to have ordered the stun gun to be fired, and it truly is a tragedy for all families involved.

Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Internet, Life, News, Online, Technology.
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There is a free Lesbian Dating matchmaking website that verifies the members are real women, and has members in all fifty of the United States.  The website also has members (and matchmaking services) in Ireland, South Africa, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Australia.

The members can post tasteful photographs of themselves along with a short description of their likes and dislikes and what they are hoping for in a relationship.

Posted: September 29th, 2008 under Computers / Software, Friends, Internet, Life, Online, Technology.
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