I woke up today to quite a bit of screaming. Karen was having some trouble with the dogs this morning and considering everyone’s been a bit on edge lately I think she’s close to her breaking point considering Candy’s current health. Princess doesn’t help the situation very much either, she’s a stubborn little dog who thinks she’s capable of accomplishing just about everything and considering the fact that Candy isn’t doing too well, Princess will still knock her over trying to get to the bedroom if Karen is heading in there with food for Candy. Princess will eat just about…more»

I’ve been looking into phone cards for my friend. She’s been running up phone bills long enough and decided that for her long-distance calls she’d rather just pick up a phone card and go from there. She’s unfortunate enough to not have long distance calling on her home phone, she’s with Verizon and doesn’t realize that just upgrading to a different plan she can spend $65 a month on local and long distance as opposed to the $250 a month that she’s behind with due to the long distance calls to friends, family and even businesses around the country. She…more»

I have to say I’m a bit shocked about the news I found on MSNBC this afternoon. I missed part one of the story but part two told me more than I really needed to know. You walk into Best Buy with a mission to purchase a new laptop to use for work. You pay a little over $1,100 which includes a $300 warranty in case something goes wrong with it. A few months later your on/off switch is broken and you, under warranty, bring it back to Best Buy to have it fixed. From there you spend about 6…more»

While looking into life insurance I came across a few different websites that talk about Life Settlements. In big bold letters on most of the sites I was shown that I can get a policy from $25,000 to $500,000 without having to show any medical records or even a life expectancy report. So basically Life Settlements are a fancy way of saying life insurance, only you can collect on it while you’re still alive. According to sub-text a life settlement is when the owner of a policy sells said policy for a lump-sum payment. So say you’re life insurance covers…more»

I like coming across new and interesting products and I have to say the one that’s caught my interest is the new HiPhone. It’s an exact replica of the iPhone but it’s features greatly succeed it’s expectations. At a fraction of the iPhone’s cost it houses two SIM slots, triband GSM and is unlocked so it carries no contract with any cell providers. It also has two batteries and while at this point consumers are unsure of how much memory it has, there could somehow be a terabyte of flash memory. Or at least that’s what Doug Aamoth is hoping…more»

With numerous family health problems, it’s got me looking into what would happen if I happen to pass away earlier than expected. There are a few different options for me but feeling as though I’d last more than 30 years I assume that Term Life Insurance wouldn’t be the route to take. However, when it comes to someone like my aunts, uncles, parents or grandparents I assume that within the next 30 years quite a few of them will have passed on and something like Term Life Insurance would be the route for them to take. I’ve looked into a…more»

I’m getting pretty close on my final decision towards a new company. I’ve got it narrowed down to only two, and they’re fairly well known. There’s Surpass Hosting, who I’ve heard some mixed reviews on but they’re generally pretty good for what I need. I also remember one of the owners from at least 6 years ago. We used to chat on a regular basis, if he’s still with the company I want to assume that they’re still doing pretty well. The other is Host Gator, again hearing mixed reviews about this company but 90% of the reviews are positive.…more»

Over the course of the next few months I hope to have enough money to go out and pick up a car from one of the local dealerships. It’s going to be a pretty big deal for me considering I’ve never owned one before. Sure, I’ve used cars when I’ve needed to but I never really sat down and thought “Ok, time for my own”. I’ve decided upon a Chevy and if I could truly afford one of the new Malibu’s then I’d be set. Unfortunately I doubt I’m going to have $25,000 to get the one I truly want…more»

As I mentioned in a previous entry, I’m having trouble with my reseller account. While I do run my own servers I prefer to have my personal accounts under a different account. Why? With the folder-sizes of just acidgloss.net alone I’d be taking away valuable resources from paying customers. I’m using about a gigabyte of space and about 40 gigabytes of bandwidth every month on just this domain alone. After that you have to factor in I’m using a little more than half of that on my other domains like krissy.nu. My side-projects don’t get as many hits but when…more»

Sean and I are really hoping that I can find a job where I’m bringing in about $30,000 a year (minimum) so we can work towards getting out of here. Unfortunately for Delaware that’s a bit on the high-end, but that doesn’t mean it’s not something to look forward to. We’ve been looking into a few different property types as well, just to figure out where we’re going to need to budget our money, and how much we’re going to need to budget for. A big thing about everything down here is the lack of appliances in the apartments and…more»