Fresh Air Fund

Awhile back I posted a message about the Fresh Air Fund - Half Marathon.  I am happy to announce that they have raised $80,000 this summer with their NYC half marathon.

I think that's wonderful that they were able to raise that much money to help pay for summer camp for the children.

Hey if you want to check out all the pictures you can find them online:

www.facebook.com/freshairfund
www.twitter.com/FreshAirFund
www.freshair.org/the-fresh-air-fund.aspx

Amazon Wireless

Amazon has added a new service to their website called Amazon Wireless.  This is kind of neat because you can choose your wireless company, which by the way they only have 2 so far which are AT&T and Verizon Wireless, then choose a phone then choose whether you want a new individual account or if you are already part of an existing individual account or family account.

Most of the phones are only a penny and so you basically get a free phone but when you click that you already have an existing account the price may go up to about $50-$75 or more depending on the phone.  I found that certain phones you still get for just a penny with an already existing plan.

I think that's great that they will give you a free phone if you are upgrading your cell phone but not your plan because it just makes it easier to get a new phone.  I'm sure people don't want to upgrade because they just can't afford to so this makes it easier.

I didn't see any iPhones listed but I did see Blackberry Curve and Blackberry Bold.  They also have some other well known companies like Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony to name a few.

Now here is my question and I hope someone will find this via google blog search so they can answer.  I have a pre-paid cell phone with T-Mobile.  Of course they don't offer T-Mobile yet but it says coming soon.  But when they do get T-Mobile I wonder if I can buy a new phone for my pre-paid plan with GPS and Mp3 capability.  I wonder if it would work.  I don't need internet, I just want to be able to have the GPS and Mp3 along with being able to call people.

I currently have a Nokia 3390 cell phone pre-paid plan with T-Mobile that I've had since 2002.  The reason I got a pre-paid plan is for 2 reasons.  #1 being that a friend of ours in Hollywood was always driving to Malibu to visit her mom (this was 1997-1999, she passed away in 2000) and she couldn't get reception and she was having nothing but problems but to be fair she knows that she didn't have reception due to the mountains that she was driving through but she blamed it on the cell phone company anyway.  She insisted on getting out of her contract to go with another company and she had to pay big bucks to get out of it which was dumb because she had the same issue with another company lol.  So it's for this very reason that Chip forbade me, yes, I said forbade, from getting a contract.

Reason number 2 is that I have a little to no credit score since I never really established credit in my late teens.  No credit cards means bad credit score which means the cell phone companies will only give me a cell phone with the highest paid plan which makes absolutely no sense to me.  They should offer me their cheapest plan so they know they get their money every month.  Also, I'm on disability so I can't really afford a monthly plan fee.  All I really can afford is the pre-paid because I only pay for minutes when I need them and I don't use it that much to warrant buying a lot of minutes.

Chip has taken over the phone though because he needs a phone at work so when he's driving if he needs to make a call to AAA for a tow or whatever then he has a phone.  Also if he has to call 911 then he has a phone.  He usually uses it to call me at the house on his way home.  But he's always asking me to go to map quest and tell him the directions that he writes down and I think it would be much easier if he had a GPS on the phone.

Sorry I rambled on but you have to know the full story of why I'm asking lol.  Thanks for your response in advance.

Bright House Cable Upgrade

A week ago I got in the mail a letter from our cable company "Bright House Cable" saying they are going to be making some changes to the system and to keep an eye out or something.  I don't have it anymore and I don't remember what it said.

Yesterday a 1-800 number called and I let the machine pick it up and it was Bright House calling.  It was a recording and I let the machine record it but before it hung up I picked up the phone to hear the rest of the message.  It said that it was going to be upgrading 1 of our cable boxes.  It didn't say which one, just that 1 of our boxes is going to get the upgrade and the other one will get it in a few weeks.

It was the one in the living room and I am so glad that it was that one and not the one in my bedroom because Chip would never let me live that down lol.  I have an HD box in my room even though I don't have an HD tv set.  The cable company gave me the wrong one but I insisted that I'm going to be upgrading my tv anyway (which was a lie) so let me keep it lol.  I said that because some of the HD channels are eastern time zone and I like being able to see the shows 3 hours earlier so that I can watch my network shows when they come on at 8 and 9pm.

One of the reasons why I couldn't watch Ghost Hunters many years ago was because the new episode always came on at the same time as one of my shows at 9pm but I didn't know then that they repeat it at 11 lol.  Duh!  But that's ok, I like to watch the new episode at 6pm even though I don't have any other Wednesday night shows.  I get to watch the new episodes 4 times, 6pm and 8pm on SyFyHD and 9pm and 11pm on regular SyFy lol.

So I still have to wait a week to 3 weeks for my upgrade.  I was just looking at it and it's not all that different.  Ok yes it's really different but it's not better.  It's just eye candy is all.  I will record on my dvd recorder what it looks like normal then when I get the upgrade record it with the upgrade and put it on YouTube lol.

Clothing for Adults

Why aren't onesies available for adults?  How come they are only for babies?  I don't see a practical use for this other than to keep the plumbers crack hidden and for all the men who wear their pants down to their knees, it will hide their undies.

What about footie pajamas?  I stopped wearing those when I was probably 4, I don't recall, maybe older I don't know but I think it would be cool to have a pair of those to keep my tooties warm at night in the winter.  They have built in shoes so when you go outside you don't have to put your shoes on lol.  In the back yard of course.

See, these are the messed up thoughts that I have lol.

My Blog Stats

I just thought that this was interesting and people might wonder.  Maybe not but I wanted to share.

• My top day was May 13th 2009.  That's when I had the most visitors, page views, spider crawls etc.


• OS: 48.3% of my visitors are in Win XP in first place.  17.3% are all Linux users in 2nd place and 8.5% are on Mac in 3rd place.  Windows Vista is in 4th place with 7.1%.  I wasn't going to add 4th but being Vista I thought it was funny.


• Browser: 42.2% are using IE 6 in 1st place. 23.1 with IE 7 in 2nd place and Firefox 3 in 3rd place with 11.3%


• Search Engines: Google is the number 1 search engine that people come here from with 65.1 in 1st place, Google Images 32.6% in 2nd place and Google Blog Search in 3rd place with 0.9%.


• The top 2 search terms are KFC Dollar menu and Girl with star tattoo's.


• The top 2 countries are actually both US with .net at #1 with 33% and .com with 27.2 in 2nd place.


• The top spider is Google with 80.2%

There are other stats but they are about IP's and I don't think anybody wants that info given out lol.

Edit: Since I posted this I added these news and entertainment videos for revenue and my visitors, pageviews and spider crawls have more than doubled.  Just thought I'd update this with this new information.

The Arrogance

I've learned something today.  I was looking at what posts people look at in my blog and so I went to look at a few of those posts to see what I wrote and I realize that I have been really arrogant with my own blog.  I call other people arrogant but in the same breath I am being arrogant.

I don't know what else to say except I will keep looking and maybe change some of them so I don't seem so arrogant, if not deleting and changing words then perhaps adding an edit or update.

What I really do like is for people to call me on my arrogance.  Please, that's what the comments are for.  Comment so that I will look back and change things and apologize.