We spent a pleasant evening drinking his beer, talking about his book and rehashing the good old days until 1:30 that morning. It was reall good seeing my old friend and am so  tickled that he took the time to come over to hand deliver his book that I can’t wait to start reading.

You see the family has been wanting to check into some travel books  and online sites that will assist with planning a family get a way during the long holiday breaks that most of us get to enjoy. The kids in the family have really been looking forward to spending time with relatives that they don’t get to see very often. They have all been pushing to go some where that they can enjoy all of the numerous winter sports that are available these days. The big one is snowmobiling and snow boarding, which has become so popular the people much younger than me, I can tell you that.

The older folks in the family are all about going somewhere nice and warm to get as far away as they can from the harsh winter weather that we always experience during those winter months. As they say “you can’t please everyone” but if no one can afford this family event it doesn’t look like any of us will be going anywhere any time soon, sigh….

I’ve been meaning to look for a good Cosmetic Dentist, but to be honest I keep putting it off. I have never been a fan of any type of dentist, even a Cosmetic Dentist which I’m sure is why I keep putting it off. I also would like to start looking and comparing cell phone providers. My current contract is going to end in a couple of months and I am totally ready to switch to another one. I’m so tired of all the dropped calls and the weak signals that seem to happen at the worse opportunity, even though all of the commercial for my current provider are all about how wonderful and strong their signals are all over. I wonder if they have ever heard of false advertising.

So, as long as I have power I will weather the storm just fine, if not, well we will see what it brings when it happens.

• a place that offers little of substance, instead focusing on making people feel good about themselves.

It’s a good thing that I didn’t make a promise of using each word of the day at least once a day like so many people do with their “words of the day” I do believe that I would be stumped on this one.

This word really reminds me of Tom-Foolery, remember that one?  I looked it up and was surprised to  find it to be all one word - Tomfooleries: mischiefous tricks, very similar to “shenanigans”. Live and learn!

My good friend Skip, I just recently found out, has always wanted to be a 3rd grade teacher, not 2nd grade or 4th grade, it has to be 3rd grade, for reasons that he is keeping to himself at this point. And now that his kids are grown and out of the house and he and his wife split up, he is all about what HE wants and what He needs, and I think He is crazy! No not really, well maybe just a tad, it’s just that I never knew that he had always wanted to be a teacher. I know he is good with kids, but teaching them every day, day in and day out, week after week, month after month, ugh it makes my head hurt just thinking about be stuck in a classroom with 20 or 30 loud, wild and crazy 8, 9 and 10 year old kids! He really must be committed to this dream in order to be seriously talking about and checking out the online degree programs in education with The University of Phoenix which is a very well known school that offers accredited online and campus programs in education as well as numerous other programs as well.

I’m assuming that he has the money all ready saved up to take these courses, if not there is ample assistance for today’s students to aid in the cost involved in obtaining these degrees. But I’ll send him a few links that I have come up with, like the one http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ which will take him to a Free Application For Federal Student Aid, ’tis the least I can do for the guy at this point.