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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My hubby’s boss just called us and invited us to join him and his family for a weekend later this summer on Monhegan Island.  Good grief, I have been to Monhegan Island two times in my life, and that was two times too many!  The vast majority of the island has no electricty - I do NOT like that at all!  I NEED my electricity!  And there are no cars!  No, I take that back, I think there are two trucks to haul luggage from the ferry to the houses.  If all you want to do all day is walk around or bicycle around, or read, then that is the place for you.  Both times that I went over on the morning ferry I got seasick.  NO THANK YOU!  That is NOT the place for me!

Posted: July 4th, 2008 under Life, Technology, Travel.
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My cousin and I like to exchange emails where we send links to humorous news stories that we find as we are browsing the Internet.  We like to try to “one up” each other when we can.  Well, today my cousin sent me the link to a story from the BBC website about a woman who saw a cat stranded up a tree and tried to rescue it by climbing the tree herself.  Well, the branch she was standing on broke off, and she became stranded herself!  The fire department had to be called to come out and rescue her with their ladder truck.  After all was said and done, the cat got out of the tree without any help at all!

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Computers / Software, Family, Internet, Life, News.
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My mother sent me an email to tell me that her good friend Ms Jenn is having eyelid surgery tomorrow.  For the past fifteen years Ms. Jenn has complained that the skin above her eyes has been steadily falling further and further down over her eyes.  At first she was just complaining about it because she thought it made her look old and tired.  (Well, she IS old, but doesn’t want to LOOK old!)  Recently she went to have her vision checked and she was complaining to her eye doctor that her glasses just weren’t helping her to see as well as she thought she should be able to see.  He referred her to a Detroit eyelid surgery clinic called Accents.

He told her that he felt that what she probably needed to have done was called a Blepharoplasty procedure.  That’s an eyelid rejuvenation surgery that will lift her eyelids up and improve her vision and her appearance.  The procedure should be able to be completed in only about ninety minutes, and her recovery should be fairly short.  She was told that afterwards she would only need to apply ice to the area and take Tylenol for the pain.  I don’t know why Tylenol (that stuff doesn’t work for me) and not ibuprofen, but that is what they told her.  I hope she is happy with the results!

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Business, Friends, Health, Internet, Life, Shopping, Technology, Travel.
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I saw on the today show (I think it was yesterday) a story about how the price of gasoline continuing to rise is going to be causing the price of milk to jump to $6.00 a gallon in very short order! I hope that they are mistaken, milk is already more expensive than soda! It is hard enough to get kids to drink milk INSTEAD of soda because kids prefer the sweetened drinks. But if the price of milk continues to increase, I’m concerned that for economical reasons the parents will be encouraging the kids to be drinking sweetened drinks in place of milk, which could lead to health problems down the road such as obesity and diabetes.

As part of the news story they were showing some new milk cartons that they say will start to show up on the store shelves soon. I’ve already seen them at Costco; they are squarish and a little bit awkward to handle. The newscasters reported that the reason for the switch to the different jugs is because they can stack them tighter in the truck, which reduces the transportation costs. Well, I’m all about reducing costs!

Posted: July 2nd, 2008 under Business, Finances/Money, Food and Beverage, Health, Issues, Life, News, Parenting, Shopping.
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