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BlackBerry 7100i and BlackBerry 8350i

  I was looking on eBay and I see that you can buy a BlackBerry 7100i or BlackBerry 8350i and use it with BoostMobile.  You have to have a BoostMobile sim card to put in the phones.  Not everything works and I did not study it in detail but you may end up with just the phone working and not the other features.
  Of course I am sure BoostMobile does not approve of it.
  I might one day get a BlackBerry 7100i because you can get one for $35.00 on eBay.  The 8350i is over $250.00 and it would not be worth it.
 

  I just heard on TV that you can get the regular flu shots now.  But the Swine flu shots are not ready yet.  They expect to have it out about October 15th.

Going backward

  I just sent off my new fancy cell phone to the guy that paid for it on eBay.  I am back using my old Motorola i776 phone and using BoostMobile pay as  you go.
  You know…it is not a bad phone…It sure is not fancy and you know I love hi-tech toys but it gets the job done.  The ringers are very loud and with my hearing problems I need it.  The pay as you go is going to be good.. Because I was paying $66.00 a  month for that other service and for me that is a lot of money.  I just never use my cell phone so pay as you go will be great for me.
  Of course my family makes fun of me for buying cell phones and losing money and ending up with new cell phone numbers…I never mention the thousands my son has lost on stocks.  Smile
 
  I can not wait to get the new monitor but I want to wait a few days until I get some more money in my bank account.  I was going to get another HP 19 inch monitor just like the one I have now but now I can get a HP 21.5 inch monitor.  It has a resolution of 1920x1080 and I can not wait to have that to use to post stuff here on ShowMeBlog.  
  It is also HD so I  will get later a Hauppauge 1200 WinTV so I can watch TV on my new monitor.  I will not do it often but I want to see what it looks like in HD.  I will do a video for YouTube on the Hauppauge device.
  You may have noticed that I have not been doing videos for YouTube.  I do not like the new way they have YouTube set up and one of the other reasons is that people do not want to see a fat bald old man on YouTube.  If I was a hot young chick I would do YouTube videos and no matter what the subject matter I would get tons of viewers.  It is just the way the Internet works.

  Tomorrow is September 1st and for the first time I have over $100.00 in commissions from Google.  So it will be interesting to see if they give me the full amount or if the adjust the amount…Remember the email from them?  I will not get the money until the last day of September.  What would be great would be if I started to get money from them each month but it does not look like it is going to happen…It looks like it is going to take at least two months or even three to reach the magic $100.00 commission level.

 

What is Kiva?

  I am a big fan of micro-lending and of Kiva and so it is time I give a little plug for them again.

“Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entrepreneur on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, and what effect it has on the people and institutions lending it, borrowing it, and managing it along the way. To do this, we are using the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one connections that were previously prohibitively expensive. Child sponsorship has always been a high overhead business. Kiva creates a similar interpersonal connection at much lower costs due to the instant, inexpensive nature of internet delivery. The individuals featured on our website are real people who need a loan and are waiting for socially-minded individuals like you to lend them money”

  My Kiva page is:  http://www.kiva.org/lender/hnbbs
  You can see some of the people that I have made loans to at that page.  Think about joining and loaning via Kiva. 

Samsung Finesse

  I just sold my Samsung Finesse cell phone on eBay.  I listed it for $200.00 and it sold in less than one minute.  Items I list on eBay always sell just seconds after I list them.  I always make it a good deal and toss in extras.
  Yes this is the phone that I paid $300.00 for about two months ago.
  Now I got to see how I get all my personal data out of the phone before I ship it.  When I sell an item on eBay I ship the same day or the next day.  Today is Sunday so I will send it out tomorrow.

  I plan to get a HP 22159M 21.5 inch HD LCD monitor with the money from the cell phone.
 

Been drinking Coke and killing Hitler

  I been feeling rotten for the last couple of day.  For the last three days I been drinking Coke again.  I just woke up and I feel sick.  I got to stop drinking the Coke.  
  Coke is the only thing I drank for most of my life… I would never drink water.  The last few months I gave up Coke.  The last few days..I got Coke with the idea I would only have a glass of coke with a meal.  That did not work out.  I just can not be buying Coke.
 
  Last night I dreamed that I was Adolf Hitler’s body guard.  It was like we were all Americans.  I was the only security person.  There was no German spoken…But in my dream Hitler was a real ass and treated the few people around him bad…Well in my dream…Hitler hit me and I shot him.  Then I woke up.
  As far as I can remember this is my first dream about Hitler and the first dream I can remember about killing a person.  My dreams are mostly about me working as a security officer and having to get someplace and not finding my way or getting delayed…I wish I had sex dreams.  I have had a few but not very many.
  When I was in high school…My dreams were that I needed to fall in formation with my M1 and I would be moving so slow or I could get my M1 out of the rack for some reason.  I went to an all male Catholic military academy.  We all had our own M1 and were in uniform all the time.  So I had four years of that dream.  Thank God I do not have that dream.

More reporters attacked

  The other day it was an old woman with a hoe attacking camera men in her yard and at her front door.  Today it is a man leaving the court room.
  What to these events have in common?  A large number of Americans say great they love it and the news media deserves it.
 

  In both the events there is no question about it…The attacker was guilty of a crime.  The father attacking the reporters in a public court house…He is going to spend some time in jail If a jury will find him guilty.  You only need one person on the jury to say not guilty.
  In the case of the old woman with a hoe…Her grand daughter…was an underage (a minor) dancer at a bar.  The news media reported on the story and then send camera people to the house to interview and ask questions.  Keep in mind they are reporting on a minor on private property.  The old woman is still guilty and she could have hurt or killed someone with that hoe. 
  It is not going to happen…It would not be legal…Freedom of the press and freedom of speech and all that stuff… But we need a laws that the news media can not come on private property period.  They should have to be given permission.  If the news media points one of those large camera at you on the street, in public, and it is within your arm reach …That is if you can reach out and touch it …The news media should be guilty of a crime.
  Like I said it is not going to happen… The news media is like a pack of wild dogs.
  What I could see happening …Is we could sort of “punish” the media.  They love it when they can have cameras in the court room.  We could do away with cameras in the court rooms.  We would just be going back to the way it has been in the past.
  It would be good if we could not allow news media with cameras of any sort in the court house or in police stations. 
  One thing we could do and there has been some talk about it and that is not give or allow the media to use any 911 calls.  The only time they should be allow to use them is if the police need the call released to the public to get more help on a case.
  Right now the media is out of control and they are going to keep getting attacked.  I might even be doing it one day.  If something happens that they stick a camera in my face I will be attacking.

BoostMobile

  I am impressed with BoostMobile.  Back many months ago I paid for a cell phone from them.  I paid $100.00 for the cell phone but it was not the sort of new high tech toy that I like…It  is the Motorola i776. 
  I took the $50.00 a month everything plan.  I liked the plan because it was a flat $50.00 and no extras for taxes or any special fees added on to the price.
  I used the $100.00 phone one month and then decided I just had to have some neat looking phone and they do not have any.  So I switched the BoostMobile phone to the pay as you go and I had a balance of $2.99 on the phone.  I turned it off and put it in it’s box and put it away.
  I went to MetroPCS and spent $300.00 for a neat looking phone.  I signed up for their everything plan for $50.00 a month but they charge taxes and special fees so the monthly bill was $66.00 a month.
  Now keep in mind.. I never use my home phone…I never use a cell phone…I know it is sad…But I lead a pretty dull life.  The only phone call I get on my home phone is my ex-wife calling from Texas.  I never get a call on my cell phone.
  So after a couple of months of being signed up and paying MetroPCS for a phone that I never use…I am thinking…This is stupid…
  A couple of hours ago I went and got out of the closet the BoostMobile phone and put it on the charger.  Then I turned it on and it still works and it shows a balance of $2.99 after two or three months.
  I think I will “Re-Boost” it with $25.00 and just use that phone.  That amount of money might last me for six months or a year.  I would save $50.00 a month and that will feed me for a couple of weeks.  

Art or pornography

  CNN has a story a photographer that took some nude photos in public places.  An arrest took place and it is going to court.
  Interesting video.  It would be more interesting if they could show you the photos without the censorship so you could decide if it is art or porn.
  My feeling is that it is art.  I do not think they were attempting to give any one an boner. 
  I think that is sort of what it cums (smile) down to … are you trying to have sexual response from someone.
  I do not think trying to shock someone is the same thing.

BlueTooth

  I feel so smart now.  I wonder if the online IQ test that I took (IQ of 108) was wrong now.  Smile
  I found an old Bluetooth USB device laying around here.  I hooked it in the USB port on my computer.  Windows 7 found the drivers for me with out me doing anything and said they were installed. 
  I then looked around for something Bluetooth around here and found my Samsung Finesse cell phone.  So I decided to tie it in via Bluetooth and without directions or help from Russell I got it working.  I sent a file from the computer to the cell phone.  It worked.
  Wow…  I may have the sense to come in out of the rain and not to go out in the noon day sun…We know only mad dogs and English men go out in the noon day sun.  Smile

  I been working on a new blog site today.
  I have not got much done.

  I also was looking, online, at rental places in FL to rent.  In six months.. My son plans to buy a place of his own so Russ and I will find a place to rent.  I do not want to pay more than $600.00 a month but there is a big difference if I am willing to pay $700.00 a month.

Will have to wait on a new monitor

  I been looking at the Google AdSense site and I was wrong about when they  pay.  If I am reading the site correct my earnings at the end of this month will be finalized during the first seven days of September and they will pay me that money on the last day of September.
  I was going to use that money for a new monitor.  I will just have to make due with just one monitor for another month.

  I have a lot of sites set up.  I have three main blogs that I post to each day.  There is this one and it is hosted by TypePad.  Then I have one that runs on WordPress.  Then there is one that, right now, I am using Joomla! for. 
  Joomla! software is very powerful and you can do a great deal with it.  But I think you need to be a little smarter than the average bear.  It seems to me it takes a lot of work to learn it.  I am thinking today that I may do away with Joomla! and start over with WordPress for that site.
  WordPress is super easy…Even Jim Howard can understand how to use it.  It has got a lot of great features.  I have spent a lot of money on templates for Joomla! and I hate to waste that money.  Plus I paid for other software for the Jooma! site.  But right now I am thinking of trashing Joomla! and doing a new WordPress install.  That would keep me busy today.