One of the reasons why I moved here was to try to distance myself and my family from the growing crime problems in large urban areas. I just don’t feel safe in the “big city!”
So, I was upset to read in the local paper of a Connecticut man in a local city for possession of 98 bags of heroin!
Very disturbing indeed!
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Life, News.
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I was just talking with a neighbor who just returned from a trip to Saudi Arabia. He was telling me how different that country is from ours! He was telling me that his teen-aged daughter went for a morning jog, wearing her “normal” jogging outfit and that she almost caused a riot because of her outfit!
He said that a lot of people that he met are not able to gain Internet access because of severe restrictions on the Internet in the Middle East. He said that a lot of countries make it hard or impossible to gain Internet access. I never realized that!
He said that a lot of the ones that DO have Internet access use a VPN service that provides them with Anonymous Surfing. VPN Service is a virtual private network that guarantees you complete anonymity when you are on the Internet. He became friends with a man who had VPN Saudi Arabia and he showed him how it works. He said it was a very important service, and he was glad that people have a service like this to use.
I’m glad too!
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Computers / Software, Friends, Internet, Issues, Life, News, Online, Technology.
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One of the things that upset me deeply when I moved to this state is how unfriendly the “natives” are to the “transplants.” I have tried very hard to make friends here, and the vast majority of people who were born and raised here tend to give the “cold shoulder” to anyone who was NOT born and raised here. They call us “flatlanders” and will go out of their way to let us know that we are not welcome. They have even let me know that my children that are born here will not be accepted, and will be considered “children of the devil.” Only my children’s children (assuming that they are all born here) will be accepted into the fold.
I’m not used to having so much hostility directed at me for no apparent reason. It makes me wish I’d never moved here. Thank goodness for the Internet, so I can keep in touch with folks that ARE friendly.
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Friends, Life.
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As I was telling you, when I was quite a bit younger, my parents bought a small Avion travel trailer.
I remember that we travelled up and down the East Coast. One spring, during spring school break, we went to Gettysburg PA, where it was so cold we just about froze our noses off! I remember that even though we turned the heat up as high as it would go, the wind was blowing so hard that we wore our winter coats and we were still too cold. We cut that visit short!
One Christmas vacation we went to Jekyll Island, which I can’t remember if it is off the coast of the Carolinas, or off of Georgia, but that was very nice and warm. We had a teeny tiny Christmas tree that was set up for a few hours Christmas morning on the dining room table. I don’t remember opening any gifts, though!
I remember once my parents took us to DisneyWorld in Florida, but we didn’t all sleep in the trailer that time. My grandmother lived nearby, and we kids got to sleep in her house! I liked that MUCH BETTER!
I wouldn’t mind having a motor home myself, now that I’m an adult, but I don’t think I’d drag five kids along with me! I’d be absolutely sure to buy Camping Insurance before we pulled out of the driveway though!
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Home and Garden, Life, Travel.
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When I was a little girl, my parents bought an Avion travel trailer. Now they call them motor homes, or to be more politically correct, Recreational Vehicles! (RV for short!) The Avion trailer that they bought was a “one bedroom” model. It had a double bed in a room that was closed off by a sliding vinyl curtain. The dining room table converted to another double bed. My parents had five kids, and they took all of us in that little thing on their camping adventures. My parents slept in the double bed in the bedroom. My older sister and I shared the bed that was converted out of the table, my younger sister slept on a little cot beside us, in the aisle that went through the tiny kitchen. My younger brother slept in a makeshift crib on top of the bedroom dresser, and my baby brother slept on a mattress that was custom made to fit inside the bathtub!
I think my parents were insane!
Posted: April 15th, 2008 under Life, Travel.
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