Archive for January, 2008

Contacts and Eye Glasses on the Cheap

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Daily Wear Contacts January is usually when I order my yearly supply of contact lens.  I usually get them from 1800contacts.com.  I usually wear my lens alot longer than the recommended 2 weeks, but I had been thinking about ditching that idea and wearing each lens one week only. I use the ...

General Rambling Day

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Geek Squad  I was in Best Buy asking questions about a new 19" flat panel monitor that I bought.  The problem is that my laptop graphics card doesn't seem to work properly.  The salesman told me to go ask the Geek Squad.  The geek there says "I don't know I usually don't buy laptops ...

I’m a slacker

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Walt over at Walt's Wisdom says I'm a slacker. Check out the video:

Home swapping

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Every year it's the same tough decision, where do we go mountain biking.  This year again, it's a 50/50 toss up between Sun Valley, Idaho and Crested Butte, CO. While looking for vacation homes I came across a site called HomeExchange.com.  A home exchange is an alternative to renting a place ...

Kevin Sorbo’s Celebrity Golf Classic

Friday, January 25th, 2008

It's Friday and Superbowl madness has arrived in the valley.  I've noticed that the traffic for Super Bowl rental homes has dropped significantly.  I think that the people coming here have already solidified their plans.  Aside from the parties at nightclubs there are some events with a combination of activities that are perfect for ...

I just realized why movies keep getting worse and worse

Friday, January 25th, 2008

I saw "Cloverfield" two days ago.  It was a decent movie but I got tired of the shaky camcorder style filming after about 30 minutes.  Don't worry, there are no spoilers in this post.  So as I was thinking about the movie, I thought of some ways to improve it.  ...

Exotic cars

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

My friend had purchased a new car for $50,000 in 2001.  Last week he sold it and got $11,000 for it.  In the 7 years he's had the car it depreciated $39,000.  We were talking about expensive and exotic cars and I was saying that you don't really spend $100,000 ...