One of the greatest things about the Internet, as far as I’m concerned, are the websites like YouTube and Hulu. These websites have so much entertainment stored on them that if for some crazy reason I can’t find something “good” to watch on television, I can always find something great online. I was watching the Today show a couple of mornings ago and they were talking about Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon Slow Jamming the news. They showed a short clip of it, and it was a riot! I did a search online for the excerpt because I wanted to watch the entire gig. I tried YouTube, and they had several episodes of the two of them slow jamming the news (all a total riot, believe me!) but I guess the episode was still too new to have made it onto YouTube. I DID find it on Hulu, and was really glad to see that I could embed the code here on my blog so I can share it with my readers. I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I did!
Archive for the ‘opinion’ Category
Teacher of the Year
There is a sign in front of the local elementary school congratulating a woman for being selected “Teacher of the Year” for that school. It made me wonder how they go about selecting this person? I mean, if you don’t have a child in that teacher’s class, how do you actually know how good of a teacher she is? I would hope that all the teachers in this school are good teachers and they all deserve our thanks and recognition.
Flats to rent
Guest post by Daniel MacDonald
When I think of all of the great ways the Internet has made life easier, I am simply amazed. For example, back when I was a young adult, looking for Flats to rent in Glasgow I had to depend on a newspaper advertisement. And if I was coming int own from a place far away from there I had to first rent a hotel room for several days before I could get my bearing.
Now it seems as easy as pie because with the Internet you can go to to a variety of websites designed to help people who are looking for Flats to rent in Edinburgh or Flats to rent in Aberdeen or any other place in the UK.
The website I was just looking at is called lettingweb.com, and what I like about the website is that in addition to looking for flats to rent, you can also use the searching wizard to find a room mate. I think that is an especially handy feature for single people, to be able to find not only a place to live, but someone to share the rental fees with. Yes, the Internet has definitely made life a lot easier for a lot of people.
Too many calories, too much salt
One of the biggest contributors to the problem of obesity in my opinion, is the sad fact that Americans are too rushed. The financial pressures that they are under are causing them to work more hours, which leaves them less time to cook nutritious meals. Because of that lack of time they end up buying quick-fix short-cut convenience meals which taste really fantastic, but have too much salt, too much fat, too many calories, too many additives, too much everything bad for you and darn little anything good for you.
To make the problem worse, the foods that are good for you are more expensive to purchase than the foods that are not healthy. So when a person is short on time and short on money then they are going to go to the fast and cheap meal. I know that there are families where all of the adults work outside the home and are happy with their jobs because they have rewarding careers and are making great money and can afford to hire people to help raise the children and cook good and nutritious meals, but that is not the majority of the families in America. I sure wish that it WAS the majority of the families, but it isn’t. And now I think that I had better end this post before I start a political ranting that will prove to my readers that I am a nutcase!
Collection harassment
Guest post by Lucinda Barkeley
Have you ever been the victim of collection harassment for money that you didn’t even owe? Let me tell you, having collection calls from companies when you really owe them the money is bad enough, but when you don’t even have an account with the company that is harassing you it can make you crazy mad! It all started out innocently enough, there was a phone call from a collection agency asking to speak with a person that I had never heard of before. It was one of those recordings, that says “if you are this person, please hold on for an important message, if you are not this person, please hang up now.” So I hung up. And hung up again. And again.
Got to the point where I was hanging up on the collection calls more often than I was talking to people who I actually knew! I had no idea how to stop collection harassment for good with this robo company. Finally I decided that I’d just go ahead and take the call as if I WAS the person that they were looking for, thinking that I could explain to the operator that there was nobody here by that name, and would they please take my telephone number off of their robo collection call procedures. Well, the representative did not want to believe that I was not the person that they were looking for, and gave me a really hard time about it. I asked to speak to the supervisor, and was told that the supervisor was “in a meeting” and could not be disturbed. So I left a message for the supervisor to call me. (Supervisor never DID call me!) But about forty-five minutes later the robo call comes in again.
Margie suggested that I do two things at this point – to Google “stop collection harassment California” and see what resources I can use to make this stop, and to use my telephone features to block the telephone number that the collection calls are coming from. D-UH – why didn’t I think of call-block before? Ah, sweet, sweet peace and quiet; I love you!