For several weeks now my hubby and I have been discussing buying a new digital camera.  The one we’ve been using is falling apart - literally.  The door that holds the batteries in place has broken and we have to tape it shut.  And we lost the cord that attaches it to the computer to download the pictures, so now we have to use a memory card to insert into the camera, remove it and put it in the computer and then download the pictures from the memory card. 

That’s not that big a deal except that it is stored in the camera right beside the batteries, so when I want to get pictures off of the camera I have to untape it and then tape it up again.  It is only a 5 megapixel camera, which was top of the line when we bought it, but times have changed and we’d like a better one that doesn’t need to be taped together!  I don’t know if maybe the newer ones are easier on batteries, I sure hope so!  The camera we have now is only good for about a dozen pictures and then needs new batteries, which is a huge pain in the neck!

Anyway, we are going to be looking at a website to compare digital cameras to see which one is the best digital camera for our needs before we go out and buy one.  We know that we want a small one to make it easy to take with us when we go places, but we don’t know yet if we want a compact digital camera or an ultra compact digital camera.  I’d like to get the one that has the most megapixels and the most zoom, but it appears that the price of those are more money than we want to pay, so we have to decide which feature is most important to us.

Posted: July 5th, 2008 under Blogs, Business, Computers / Software, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Finances/Money, Internet, Life, Online, Shopping, Technology.
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Hotel reservations are easily obtained using the Internet nowadays.  Gone are the days when one had to find a travel agent to help you find the best deals on everything, or join a travel club in order to get their guidebook full of their reviewer’s rated hotels.  One of the best websites I’ve found for making easy hotel reservations for just about any popular tourist spot such as London, Paris, or even Washington DC is the Easytobook website.  

When you go onto the website, you are given many different options of which country you are interested in traveling to.  Once you pick the country, then you are given the options of which city.  Once you’ve made that choice it shows you a large variety of hotels, their descriptions, reviews, and prices.  The site also lists nearby airports, hospitals, shopping centers, amusement parks, museums and other attractions to help you plan your trip.

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Blogs, Business, Computers / Software, Entertainment/Fun, Internet, Online, Shopping, Technology, Travel.
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My hubby enjoys playing video games when he gets the chance.  We have a PS 3, and a Wii that he uses most of the time.  He especially enjoys playing the games with his friends and relatives when they come over.  He wants to buy some more Wii games and some PS3 games to have on hand when he has friends over.

Today he told me that he found a website called Gamestoreusa that sells video games cheaper than he has been able to find anywhere else, and that he is going to be ordering a few games from them.  He wants to order the Wii Mario Party 8 game for when we have a party; he says that’s a great party game.  He also wants to order the Beowulf game for the PS3.  He’s not sure what else he’ll be ordering, but I’m sure he’ll find several games to buy!

Posted: July 1st, 2008 under Blogs, Business, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Internet, Life, Shopping, Technology.
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Well, this weekend was an overcast, damp, rainy weekend.  We had thought about going to camp, but it just is not very much fun when the weather is bad, so we decided to stay home instead.  So it was a rather lazy weekend, but we did go to the State Museum on Saturday.  We were thinking about going to the movies on Sunday, but my hubby developed a migraine headache so we ended up staying home and just spending a quiet day with the shades drawn and the noise level as low as we could keep it.

So while my hubby was recovering from his migraine I popped some microwave popcorn and watched The Princess Bride tape that I got as a gift years ago.  That is one of my favorite movies, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it!

Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Blogs, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Health, Life, Travel.
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My younger cousin sent me an email, inviting me to “meet her online” in Spicy Town. Spicy Town is a fictitious town in an online video game produced by the company that sells Slim Jim spicy snacks. So I went to the online game site to meet my cousin there. I had to create an avatar to use to play the game. It was kind of fun, creating the avatar. The avatar was called my “spicy side.” Setting up my “spicy side” was quick, easy, and amusing. I had to take a picture of myself and upload it to their site, then their program helped center my facial features around their pre-drawn outline of facial features, then they make a funny little creature with horns and funky hair, and then they turned me loose into the video game.

During the game I was supposed to go around collecting Slim Jims that I found lying around on the ground. I only found three, but I only played for a few minutes, trying to find my cousin. There were other people’s avatars in the game walking around too. Some seemed to be fighting with each other (I don’t know why, maybe one insulted the other, those spicy sides are unpredictable and uncontrollable!) some were just walking around ranting and raving. The game has chat functions and buddy lists and chat functions, but I didn’t stay on it long enough to check those out; the baby started fussing and I had to get off the computer and take care of lunch time!

If you want to play the game yourself, go to www.spicyside.com!

(This post brought to you by the architects of Spicy Town.)

Posted: June 26th, 2008 under Blogs, Business, Computers / Software, Entertainment/Fun, Family, Friends, Internet, Life, Online, Technology.
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