Send Free SMS messages

I came across this really cool item at another blog I read. I have to say that I was so impressed, I plagiarized his entry. The service is called TeleFlip. It allows anyone to send free SMS messages to any capable mobile number in North America via email, without knowing the carrier of the mobile.

the usage is very and even railroaders can use it. You just simply send an email it the format (xxx) xxx-xxxx@teleflip.com. You can have the number in any format actually, with spaces or no spaces, or just the 10 digits. The service receives the message and sends it to the appropriate carrier. Charges may apply from the carrier for the recipient and may be subject carrier restrictions.

You can use this service in many different ways. Send group messages, send timed messages, forward important emails, etc...

Check it out at www.teleflip.com and let me know how it works!

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Scams and Hoaxes

I am continuously bombarded by people who send me forwarded e-mails ranging from the practical and bizarre. About 99.6% of these messages are hoaxes or scams. Some of the people who send me this items are Doctors, Executives, Military Officers, business owners, and for the most part, are the smartest people I have met in my life. The only thing, they are way too trusting.

The malicious miscreants that will send you an e-mail proposing that you sign and forward a petition to help a child with cancer are in my book, as low as a pedophile. These types of animals get their kicks by preying on a normal persons good nature and feeling that they can do something to help someone they have no connection with. They should be prosecuted and put in jail with a sign that they are predators of the innocent.

Well, to stop this from happening to you or to help you from forwarding on this type of abuse, I have put in a link to one of the better sites for finding out the scams from the truth.

Instead of rambling on about how this works or that functions, just click on the link and go there. Either now, or the next time you get an e-mail telling you that if you reply, Bill Gates will give you a thousand dollars.

Just be careful. That, and if you send me one of these hoaxes or Scams, I will promptly scold you for being gullible.

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Put the parts together, NOW!

OK, I try and put parts away together. Yes, I am not always able to do so or can do it but I try.

Well, since the parts were not put away together, the rice cooker no longer can work. Everything is there (after I searched for 50 minutes), but the cord. So, now we have a nice chunk of plastic and metal on the counter which does nothing but get in the way.

I leave it right in the way of everything. I even move things to put it right up front because I want everyone to remember that the cord is still missing. I have even brought it off the shelf where it used to be stored, just for spite. I really would like some steamed rice now, but not without a cord.

One thing that should be noted. This stupid cord is like no other we have in the house. It is one of those "One of a kind" cords that only work in this stupid machine. I mean, come on people. Can't you make a cord that works universally? We have the normal amount of devices everyone else has. And most or not all have one of two types of cords. This is the only one which doesn't match. I found a picture online while googling it so you can see what I mean. I feel like I should break into a Sesame Street song about, "which one, is not like the others!" or something like that.

OK, the rant is over. I guess I will break out a pot and put it on the stove.

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Out goes the dish drainer

I had to trash the dish drainer. This is an ongoing problem which had to go.

You know what I am talking about. The drainer gets filled up and never gets emptied. Now, this might be a problem for many people. But for this family, it is a problem that will just not go away.

I have to put the thing away, then it stays clear for about 3 weeks (until someone realizes that it is not there and they need to use it).

Now, the clean dishes will not pile up like the "Tower of Babel". The dishwasher(s) will have to dry and put away those pesky clean dishes.

My recommendation to everyone, it to throw out the dish drainer and buy more dish towels!

I will get some more once they go on sale after Christmas. Until then, I will have to listen to the complaints of the wife that I threw away her dish (clutter) drainer.

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Removing links for job searches.

I have removed the links for all the job searches which I had listed. I am making a new blog for my calling at church which is the "Ward Employment Specialist".

This will make it easier to post quick links for new positions I have either discovered while searching, or for links which people have sent me or told me about.

I am going to try to use obfuscation for my links so there will be no direct stealing or the like.

We will have to see how it goes.

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There I said it!

I hate being away from my family for this stupid job.

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Teen Sticks Gun In Woman's Face During Sledding Trip

I read this on the Cincinnati site and immediately about two things:

• I really want to move away from Cincinnati. The problems in this city are escalating and getting more intense. I can only see these type of "Made for TV" events growing more and more common. Soon, it will not be safe anywhere in the area.
• I truly believe I would have no problem in either crushing him with my truck by running back and forth over his dead and broken body or by what destroying him by whatever means I had for killing him. I nearly did just that about 10 years ago when a drunk with a steel bar stumbed up to my pickup when my then 7 year old son Jon was in the back. I tried to run him over when he swung at me, he fell over and passed over. That takes the need out of running their dumbass over. I just waited for the cops on that one.

I imagine that there are way too many people who would read this and think I am a terrible person. I am not. I just think that evil people deserve what they get and they should die a terrible and painful death. Think kind of thinking comes from having myself and friends terrorized by evil people just like the one who did this.

Anyway, here is the report from Channel 5 in Cincinnati.

A woman who took her kids sledding got the scare of her life, and it wasn't from the slick roads, News 5's Courtis Fuller reported.

The mother, who preferred not to be identified, said a teen stuck a gun in her face as she stopped her car in Rapid Run Park on Friday.

"He said, 'Give me your wallet. I'm not kidding, or I'm going to shoot you,'" she said of the encounter. "He said, 'I'm going to kill you and them too.'"She said she looked down the barrel of the gun at the would-be mugger and decided she'd try to get away. When she revved the engine and blew her horn, she said the teen took off running.

The mother said she usually takes her children sledding in a different park, and probably won't return to Rapid Run any time soon. But she said she gave police a detail description of the teen, so she hopes that helps them find the culprit.

Police told News 5 that the same teen was likely responsible for another robbery in the park, and they're trying to track down clues as to his identity.

I am not concerned about this. If the kid did that to me, I can not say what I would do. I have a good idea. Like I said above, I have been in the situation before and automatically proceeded on a course of action without thinking about it.

Obviously he deserves what he gets, if he can stick a gun in a woman's face while she is in a park with her kids.

And just to complete the thought.... For all the people who either second guess my opinion or think this is inappropriate, screw you. Let it happen to you. I would put good money down that you would either be with me, or dead of a gunshot wound to the head or maybe even have a couple of dead kids.

Honesty is never pretty.

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College grade sharing

I had to post this, just because I can see this happening to my neighbors kid.

A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, and was very much in favor of the redistribution of wealth.

She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican, a feeling she openly expressed. Based on the lectures that she had participated in, and the occasional chat with a professor, she felt that her father had for years harbored an evil, selfish desire to keep what he thought should be his.

One day she was challenging her father on his opposition to higher taxes on the rich and the addition of more government welfare programs. The self-professed objectivity proclaimed by her professors had to be the truth and she indicated so to her father.

He responded by asking how she was doing in school. Taken aback, she answered rather haughtily that she had a 4.0 GPA, and let him know that it was tough to maintain, insisting that she was taking a very difficult course load and was constantly studying, which l! Left her no time to go out and party like other people she knew. She didn't even have time for a boyfriend, and didn't really have many college friends because she spent all her time studying.

Her father listened and then asked, "How is you friend Audrey doing?" She replied, "Audrey is barely getting by. All she takes are easy classes, she never studies, and she barely has a 2.0 GPA. She is so popular on campus, college for her is a blast. She's always invited to all the parties, and lots of times she doesn't even show up for classes because she's too hung over."

Her wise father asked his daughter, "Why don't you go to the Dean's office and ask him to deduct a 1.0 off your GPA and give it to your friend who only has a 2.0. That way you will both have a 3.0 GPA and certainly that would be a fair and equal distribution of GPA."

The daughter, visibly shocked by her father's suggestion, angrily fired back, "That wouldn't be fair! I have worked really hard for my grades! I've invested a lot of time, and a lot of hard work! Audrey has done next to nothing toward her degree! . She played while I worked my tail off!"

The father slowly smiled, winked and said gently, "Welcome to the Republican Party."

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Friends

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