I get a LOT of free samples because that's one of my online "hobbies". Many of the freebies are subscriptions to various magazines; I get, on average, at least one magazine a day. Granted, many of the magazines that are complimentary are not mainstream magazines, but they're free and it's something to read, two of my favorite things.
A few of the magazine subscriptions are fairly well-known ones, though, and even if I don't do much more than glance through them, I make sure they go to someone who will appreciate the reading material. For example, I get several parenting-type magazines along with some geared to children's activities. I give those to a young lady at a local business and she enjoys reading them when business is slow. I also take many to the people who own a laundry here in town and they put them out for the folks who are waiting on their clothes to get done. Sometimes I take them to the hospital where they'll be distributed through the waiting rooms.
I've also taken magazines down to the Good Samaritan (a charity organization sponsored by several local churches), but I have to "censor" what I take there. Just the other day I had a box full of magazines I had already read, plus quite a few of the type I don't read. I drove to Good Sam's, but when I picked up the box, the magazine on top was a "Cosmo" and there were several sexual references on the cover. (How to please your man in bed!, like that) I took that one out of the box, but the next magazine was a Robb Report; I enjoy the magazine, but it's really targeted at the ultra-rich. (On the cover of this particular issue was a Rolls Royce)It didn't seem right taking something like this to a charity, so I took that one out, too. There were a few more magazines like those two, so they went to the laundromat instead.
Back to "I Need a Date".
Not for sure why I get them, but I also get several agriculture-type magazines. I can recall signing up for one, but not the others. One of the bad things about free stuff is the spam it also brings. I have a special GMail acct. for signing up for freebies and have the mail fwd. to my main email address. With some rules, that usually filters out most of the newsletters. Some manage to get though and earlier today I got an email from Nutrient Management:
They want me to attend the Summer Manure Expo but I'd really hate to go alone. Who knows, it might be interesting and besides all that, it'd be the perfect metaphor for my love life.
February 8, 2010
I Need a Date
February 7, 2010
I Failed the Idiot Test
Or maybe I passed
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Edit: To tell you how much of an idiot I am, I originally titled this post "I Failed he Idiot Test".
The Church in the Wildwood-Tennessee Ernie Ford
I like the Charley Pride version, too, but it wasn't available f/ embedding.
Happy Sunday to All!
February 6, 2010
Déjà vu All Over Again
Issued by The National Weather Service
Amarillo, TX
3:46 pm CST, Sat., Feb. 6, 2010
... WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON...
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALL OF THE TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA PANHANDLES.
* TIMING: FREEZING DRIZZLE CAN BE EXPECTED SUNDAY MORNING WHICH SHOULD TRANSITION TO A MIXTURE OF LIGHT RAIN... LIGHT FREEZING RAIN... SLEET OR SNOW BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE PRECIPITATION IS THEN EXPECTED TO CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW SUNDAY NIGHT. THE SNOW SHOULD END BY MONDAY EVENING.
* SNOW ACCUMULATIONS: 3 TO 5 INCHES POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE... WITH AROUND 5 TO 7 INCHES EXPECTED ACROSS THE OKLAHOMA AND THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLES. AT THIS TIME... THE TRACK OF THIS WINTER SYSTEM WILL PLACE THE HEAVIEST SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ACROSS THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE... AND THE NORTHEAST TEXAS PANHANDLE.
* OTHER IMPACTS: LIGHT FREEZING RAIN... FREEZING DRIZZLE OR SLEET MAY OCCUR PRIOR TO THE SNOW DEVELOPING SUNDAY NIGHT. ANY ICE ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN LIGHT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A WINTER STORM WATCH MEANS THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW... SLEET... OR ICE ACCUMULATIONS THAT MAY IMPACT TRAVEL. CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS.
Radar ain't showin' nuthin'. Looking off to the west, there's some weather just past the mountains in N. Mexico, some precip comin' up from the gulf that's now south of Dallas, maybe those two systems are gonna meet right here. Hope not, they've said this same thing four times in the last month, but they were right twice.
I've got some problems with my Weather Channel Firefox add-on; it keeps popping up the "tool tip" warning even when my mouse isn't hovering over the icons. I might have to check out another weather add-on, but other than this latest glitch, I've really enjoyed having it. It must be something to do with the latest Firefox update - I've had quite a number of updates since then.
Sussed out the Firefox "bug". It was a setting I had enabled, to give me weather updates every ten minutes. Duh. Yep, they kept popping up, every ten minutes, just like I had it set. Double Duh.
See the "Idiot" post above.
