27th March 2007
Do you remember the old movie where the two boys hack into a government computer and it asks them if they would like to play a game? Back when I first saw it I was amazed at how much computers could do, now it seems so outdated that it makes the movie voi...
27th March 2007
There is an old expression that goes "Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you". Now that expression seems kind of cute, but the truth of the matter is that sometimes there are bear like organizations that take advantage of individuals ...
27th March 2007
One of the most popular things that people do online is game playing. There are dozens of websites that offer these little flash games for people to play. They can play either against each other or against an online opponent, and that makes them even more...
20th March 2007
It was just over a year ago when my wife surprised me with a trip to Lake Tahoe. She was watching TV one evening and the music group The Eagles was holding a concert on TV. She took a few minutes to look up where they would be playing and she noticed that...
20th March 2007
Sometimes the best things that we can do are right in our own backyard and we never take advantage of them. I know that when I was younger my family and I would travel 200 miles to get away from it all, the funny thing was that a lot of the people that li...
20th March 2007
So you are going on a hike in the mountains and you are wondering what to bring. A lot of that depends on how long you will be staying out and the time of year as well as the local terrain but some of the answers are really the same no matter where it is ...
09th March 2007
If you are into history and you love learning about the Civil War then you need to take a trip through Gettysburg. I had the privilege of growing up in the area and was able to spend many weekends in the Gettysburg National Park, driving around and lookin...
22nd February 2007
It is rare to visit a place that has mountains, ocean, warm weather and cool weather all within a short driving distance of each other. California is one of those places.
When most people think of California, they think of the beach and swimming or ca...
22nd February 2007
We all want to take a vacation, a little getaway from it all. Unfortunately our bank account doesn't always show that it is a good idea or time constraints don't allow us to get too far away. About five years ago, I found myself in this situation. Afte...
15th February 2007
The cost of medical treatment has really risen over the past several decades. The days when the doctor would come out to your house in order to see how you are doing are long gone, and now it seems to be such a business that there really isn't any treatme...
15th February 2007
Do you remember when you were a child all the games that you used to play? I'm talking about being a child before the Internet came around and before home video games occupied most of the time in a child's life. These games are good old fashion games that...
29th January 2007
When you are applying for colleges, one of the most important things that you can do is to do well on your college entrance exams. Average and below average scores can cause colleges to reject you without even looking at other factors such as your GPA. ...
29th January 2007
When traveling with family, we have found that the best places to stay are in homes or condos instead of hotels. There is more room to spread out, we have a kitchen and dining room and we always try to stay places with a screened in porch as well. Anybo...
27th January 2007
When most of us think about going to the beach, the thought is that you head to the ocean during the warmest months of the year. The thought of cooling in the water during the scorching heat of August attracts many families to the Gulf Coast. We used to...
26th January 2007
We love to take mini, spur of the moment vacations. We are famous to our friends and family to take a vacation day at the last minute and go away for a long weekend. Sometimes we don't even know where we are going or what we are going to do, we just kno...
