The Alternative Broadcasting Online News Station

There are things in life that though there’s an easy way out, you have to go through the long, hard process in order to understand the underlying lesson beneath the experience. They say it’s not how many chances you get in a lifetime that quite counts but what you take away from every experience and how much each impacted the way you want to improve your one life for the better.

Turning one’S wounds into wisdom and making lemonades out of lemons are things that not all people are able to do, although all take their fair share of problems and bad times. Yet the ones who take it upon themselves to swim against the tide and donthe positive cap of perspective, they are the people who gets double in life. They get to experience, and they get to learn. They take away with them pearls that all the others who breeze through life do not find and just goes through the process of experiencing and the crying (or the laughing) and forget about the rest of the details until the same occurrence happen again.

We all get the same share of the 24 hours a day. Some use it to the fullest, some squander it away. Some take so much from a little if any, some didn’t know it’s gotten over.

If life has not giving you too many chances to achieve and get to do a lot of things,or if there are people in situations that block your way and hinder you to thrive and be the kind that only you see in dreams or in TV, then aspire only to be the person that others may say later in your funeral…

“He’s lived a life full,he’s one of the richest I know.” Be one of those who was let in on a secret on life’s true sense, and heeded it:

That life is a one-time thing.

It still is beautiful, regardless.

Live it well. Today.

Ford tomorrow is never promised.

September 09, 2004 excerpt from my personal diary

About the Author: WILLIAM B. RAMOS Is the hunk-a-burnin’-love that needs a lot of lovin’.His words are penned from his very many experiences of losses and squandering and regretful times. it is his intent that people who read in his articles and learn from his blunders and mistakes and tried to do their life better than what he had gone through.

Source: www.isnare.com

One of the newer self-defense products on the market is the stunning ring. It is stunning in the true meaning of the word.

This beautiful ring comes with pepper spray. Since it looks like a piece of fine jewelry, a potential attacker won’t even suspect he is about to receive an effective shot of pepper spray.

The ring is crafted in silver and gold plating with a black onyx stone. Joggers, walkers, and workers are protected against violence with the stunning ring which has replaceable pepper spray canisters. It is especially suited for women as protection against rape, violence or some other crisis.

The stunning ring can be worn on either hand, preferably on the first or second finger. The thumb must be accessible to operate the safety latch and to depress the trigger. You simply point the top of the ring at the face of an attacker, depress the trigger and hold it for 2-3 seconds to release the pepper spray.

As with most pepper sprays, the effects are inflammation of mucous membranes, temporary visual impairment, difficulty breathing, sensations of burning to the eyes, throat and nose, and nausea. These symptoms last about 45 minutes, but there is no permanent injury.

Ring sizes are from 6-14. You can also order separate refills of pepper spray. The stunning ring gives you that extra edge for personal protection and security.

You can find out more about the stunning ring and other self-defense products at www.safetyenforcer.com

About the Author

Rick is a retired educator, having spent 35 years in the Midland, Tx. public schools as teacher, counselor, dean of students and director of an in-school suspension center. He also has been a broadcaster, sportscaster, employment counselor, retail salesman for a tobacco shop, wholesale distributor for a beef jerky company, and now owner of a website promoting self-defense products.

Chamonix France is a prestigious place with the impressive Monte Bianco and jagged glaciers. We love to go telemarking or even eating out. I invariably fly from Tullahoma and stay at a Chamonix luxury chalet during my break.

My family and I used to visited Alexis Inn & Suites Opryland-Nashville Airport however it sometimes didn’t live up to its its advert: Located just 1.8 miles from the airport, the all non-smoking Alexis Inn & Suites Opryland-Nashville Airport hotel offers comfortable accommodations at an affordable price. Offering daily FREE deluxe continental breakfast, 24 hour lobby popcorn, coffee and tea, FREE wireless Hi-Speed internet. Listen to great music at Grand Ole Opry and do bargain shopping at Opry Mills, just 3 miles away. Included in the room cost FREE deluxe continental breakfast, FREE wireless Hi-Speed internet, popcorn, coffee and tea in the lobby, free airport shuttle operating from 7AM to 9PM CST, wake-up calls, and parking. Standard room amenities include air-conditioning, an alarm clock radio, cable TV, coffeemaker, dataports, hairdryer, iron, ironing board, microwave, mini-refrigerator and telephone with FREE local calls.

However in Chamonix Haute Savoie the catered chalet is always good. Moreover eating out in our favorite French restaurant, Chicago-Days Inn Gold Coast Hotel, eating Louisiana Praline Bars is a delight. Chamonix Mont Blanc is a big enough place to insure that there is lots for the holiday maker to do. Amongst other things it includes a sports and swimming complex and a plethora of night-clubs, Chamonix offers a mix of snowboarding, French charm and sightseeing which few French ski resorts can beat.

A Medieval STORY FOR VALENTINE’S DAY©
Bonne and Charles

The general word on the Internet is the first Valentine card was sent in 1415. It’s not accurate and it’s not true. The particular Valentine was written in mid-February of 1416; it was on vellum, not card stock; it’s not the first Valentine card; and no one knows if it was sent.

Charles, Duke of Orleans, who was in London, England, wrote the Valentine that all of the Internet declares, and that fact is true. He had a wife, Bonne, who was in Paris, France or somewhere in France. If it was sent to her, it traveled a far distance on foot and on horseback and on ship. Pagan Valentine’s Day had been celebrated in Western Europe for centuries, and romantic, oftimes coded erotic, messages, had been exchanged for about 100 years by then between educated men and women who ran in the same crowd and lived in close proximity. So much for general information on the Internet…More specific information was found on special websites dealing with Medieval times.

Here’s what I found:
It is possible that Charles was lonesome for Bonne, while he was in London. He had just been captured (on October 25, 1415 specifically) by the English on French soil and was being held prisoner in London or in the London countryside. Charles was one of the lucky ones. Just about every other French aristocrat was killed in the Battle of Agincourt during the 100 Year War between the English and the French for land in France dowered to Eleanor of Aquitaine (former Queen of France) when she married Henry II, the English King. Charles and Bonne hadn’t been married long, about 5 years by 1415. He had been soldiering a lot during those five years, so they didn’t see much of each other. A 100 Year War preoccupies a lot of generations of men folk.

There are three curious things, though, about these two you should know: (1) It was an arranged marriage whose purpose was to avoid further bloodshed between their families; (2) Bonne was 11 when she was engaged to Charles, who was 16; and (3) his father-in-law, Bonne’s father, had assassinated Charles’ father, Louis.

Maybe they loved each other; maybe not. I don’t even know if they ever lived together as man and wife, for she was only 11 when they married, 16 at the time he wrote the verse. In any event, Charles penned a poem on Valentine’s Day in 1416 and it has been retained for almost 600 years.

You may not know that a Duke is a Prince, and noble, highborn prisoners were prized when captured in battle. They were ‘cash cows,’ held for ransom by the opposition, until their families could raise and pay the money for their release. At that time, although most men folk fought for the French King, France wasn’t exactly a country, then, and the King didn’t assume any responsibility for ransoming his patriotic nobles or aristocrats. (No one cared much for non-nobles or non-aristocrats, except their families. But, they were never captured and held for ransom. More often than not, they were killed. They’re the enormous body counts in battles of old, the serfs and servants.) This ransom was up to the noble or aristocratic prisoner’s family, if they wanted their relative back home. (And they did want their men folk back.) His ransom in today’s money could be as much as $500,000 ($US). The actual amount in Medieval English crowns was 150,000 crowns. This sounds like an enormous sum. What with the French loosing the war, their King’s reoccurring madness, Joan of Arc’s triumph, then ignominy, a subsequent economic depression, the Black Plague, and Charles’ family having to pay his upkeep all those years, (plus lots of other things) it took his family 25 years to get the money and treaty agreement together to turn him over.

Bonne died while Charles was held prisoner in England, and they had no children. (She falls from the written record because she did not produce progeny, and no one knows exactly when she died or where she was when she died. Actually, no one is exactly sure where she was living and with whom while she was married to her incarcerated husband, Charles. It’s probable she was transferred to Charles’ family estate at the time of the betrothal and raised by Charles’ family until the wedding, remaining there until she died. There’s one more tidbit about poor Bonne, and that is this: Bonne may not have been her name. It’s really an adjective in Old French, and merely means “good girl.”)
A manuscript of the poem is in the British Library. I don’t know if it’s the original. It’s named by the scribe, Harley, in the archive, and scribes’ copies were often rewritten and rewritten and passed around for years and years amongst wealthy families. If it is the original, it was not unusual for scribes to assist in Valentines, for they made a living writing fancy script and making pretty pictures. (Apparently, Charles’ family sent him enough money to pay the scribe, so he didn’t live too badly while he was held prisoner.) How the manuscript got to the British Library after 600 years was by bequest, but I was unable to check out the provenance. The BL was willing to describe the manuscript: There’s a Cupid image and a 3-part verse. The verse is in Old French, not English. There is no version of the poem on the Internet.

I was able to find a description by A.E.B. Coldiron, who says it’s an appeal to Cupid with Charles as a servant of Cupid (Lust imagery, I think.) but no one is named and there is no heading. Charles says he admires this person (Bonne?) and despairs of seeing her again. He is frustrated (which is what all noble men were required to express in Chivalric code), but Coldiron doesn’t say what he’s frustrated about. He promises to be faithful and praises her beauty, virtue, and honor. He may describe intimate moments they’ve shared, a custom in Valentines, but I suspect not. She was simply too young to have been expected to cohabit with her groom and when she was old enough to cohabit, he was away fighting battles, then captured.

A non-academic source has published the following verse on a website, http://www.homespunpeddler.com and has attributed this verse to Charles in a collection called “Romantic Valentines.” It doesn’t read anything like Coldiron’s description, so I doubt if it’s the one he wrote to Bonne. I offer it to you, so you know what a translated from Medieval French into modern English 15th century Valentine would read like.

“Wilt thou be mine? dear Love, reply
– Sweetly consent or else deny.
Whisper softly, none shall know,
Wilt thou be mine, Love?
– aye or no?
Spite of Fortune,
we may be Happy by one word from thee.
Life flies swiftly —
ere it go Wilt thou be mine, Love?
– aye or no?”

Frankly, the above verse is not that terrific, is it? I would call it doggerel. Maybe something is lost in the translation. If not, I think he could have done better. He had a lot of time on his hands.

I’d like to believe that Charles and Bonne did love each other, but don’t know for certain. (The glimmer of hope I entertain that Charles loved Bonne is an anecdote about him reading a love poem he composed to her at their wedding ceremony. Some scholars believe he was showing off his poem prowess, but some scholars are without a scrap of romance in their souls.) Things were different six hundred years ago: love and marriage didn’t intersect amongst nobility and aristocrats. Children were pawns and shuffled around to do smart things for their families. Duty to family superceded love and children dutifully married other children. Romance was in the chivalrous code, hence, unrequited. Sexual congress was for procreation, a duty, and family lineage promulgation was its purpose. Lust was with wrenches, when they could be found. If Bonne and Charles loved each other, it’s a sad story of 2 children from good families. If they didn’t love each other, it’s a jailhouse reverie of a young man who burns. I don’t want to leave you on either note. So, I’ll go for this: go get some vellum (stretched goat skin), pen a personal message of your feelings to your love, make it pretty and fancy all over, and hand it to your love. Maybe your message will be memorialized until 2605, when someone like me comes around to figure what happened then.

About the Author

Publisher of The Perspicacious Woman OnLine, a bi-monthly fashion ezine, in its 9th year of publication, Barbara has been a ‘bug’ on history for years. Her history articles appear occassionaly in the fashion ezine where they are well received by the subscribers. She can be reached at editor@daisyshop.com. The fashion ezine can be read at http://daisyshop.com/newsletter.asp.

A platform bed is a bed that has no box spring. It is characterized by its low profile; many people swear that they sleep better on a bed that is low to the ground. And with only enough mattress padding to soften your sleep, but not so much that your spine sags, platform bed mattresses can be the most comfortable, healthiest way to sleep.

Platform bed frames come in a very wide variety of sizes and styles. They can be separated into two basic materials categories: wood and metal. A wood platform bed frame can be made of cherry, teak, rosewood, mahogany, maple, dark walnut, pecan, honey oak and more. They can be made of lesser woods as well, but still just as sturdy, and stained or veneered to look like any other kind of wood.

When shopping for a wood platform bed frame, you will run into terms like “natural,” “cappuccino,” “black,” and others. This means they are made of strong particleboard or wood, and painted or otherwise cosmetically altered to look different. All of these choices can be beautiful, depending on your taste, and on the existing décor of the room it will stay in.

Metal platform bed frames are made of tubular or sheet steel. They lack the need for repainting, re-staining, or other types of maintenance. They also lack the earthy feel of wood.

Platform bed frames can have headboards and footboards, or they can just be the platform itself, for the ultimate in simplicity, which is what most people like about platform beds in the first place. But there’s nothing wrong with a lovely touch here and there, such as a canopy for hanging veils, curtains, or decorations. You might choose to leave your canopy uncovered, just to admire the sheer craftsmanship of it.
About the Author

Platform Beds Info provides detailed information about contemporary, Japanese, discount, and wood platform beds and platform storage beds, as well as platform bed frames and plans. Platform Beds Info is the sister site of Futons Web.

Hawaiian T-shirts can be found in a wide variety of colors and styles. The popular design can be found in everything from $2 cotton to $100 silk. Some of the more expensive Hawaiian shirts, also considered to be the highest quality, are border Hawaiian shirts.

Border Hawaiian shirts are a luxury because so much fabric is wasted in making them. This well thought-out type of Hawaiian shirt has sleeves, sides, and hems that are identical. Pockets will usually match the shirt pattern perfectly. Some of the better border Hawaiian shirts have designs that never repeat themselves. Another unique trait of the border shirt is its length - they are generally much longer than other Hawaiian shirts in order to show off the fabric’s images. Because of the purpose of their length, border Hawaiian shirts are never meant to be tucked in.

Another
About the Author

Another popular type of lapel pin is one that signifies a person’s faith. Today there are many beautiful examples of lapel pins specifically designed for Christians. These pins may be given out by churches, community organizations or as religious gifts. Due to the popularity of Christian lapel pins you can find a large selection of stock lapel pins with Christian symbols such as crosses, angels, doves and fish.

Recently there has been a rise in popularity with Christian jewelry. News stories report on politicians and others wearing their Christian lapel pins with pride. Following on the heels of the popular “WWJD” (what would Jesus do?) jewelry trend amongst teens, there has been a trend for cherub lapel pins as well as fish, Celtic crosses and also Christian quotes and sayings.

A Christian lapel pin is a thoughtful, affordable gift for a first communion, baptism or confirmation. With so many to choose from it is easy to find a beautiful and suitable design. Custom Christian lapel pins can also be created for religious camps, special events and even weddings! As the popularity of lapel pins continues to grow, more religions and groups will find their organizations represented in specialized lapel pins.

Many churches on tight budgets find Christian lapel pins an affordable way to thank the many volunteers and community members who contribute to the work at the church. An example is the Mormon Church who gives all of their missionaries lapel pins which helps identify them and bonds them with their fellow missionaries. Many churches also provide lapel pins to their ushers and altar boys and girls. Christian lapel pins are wonderful gifts for religious get-togethers or gift exchanges. With so many options, a gracious and respectful lapel pin is easy to find. Many church suppliers carry a wide selection of stock Christian lapel pins.

About the Author

Lapel Pins Info provides detailed information on lapel pins including many lapel pin options such as custom, military, cloisonne, Christian, and patriotic lapel pins. Lapel Pins Info is the sister site of Lanyards Web.

Wine picnic baskets are just the ticket for two, four, or more people. When it’s just too nice to spend the day indoors, why not go for a hike in your garden, in the woods, along the beach, or up on a mountainside? The great outdoors beckon.

But you know you’re going to need something to keep you going. You may want food. In that case, a picnic basket is going to be all you’re going to need. You can buy one that has handles for carrying similar to a regular basket, or you can buy one that is in the form of a backpack, with shoulder straps. These picnic baskets are packed with all you need to have a fine dining experience on the grass or at a picnic table. They include plates, bowls, glassware, mugs, water thermoses, silverware, napkins, picnic blankets, cutting boards, cheese knives, and corkscrews! That way, you’ll never go hungry when you’re outside walking.

But what if you know you aren’t going to need that much food? What if you’re just taking a quick trip to the park for a few hours of lolling about, doing nothing? Are you taking a loved one or good friend with you? Maybe you’re going to need a little something to help you relax even more.

There are many types of wine picnic baskets out there. Wine picnic baskets are just big enough to keep a bottle of wine, two glasses, a corkscrew, and perhaps some space for cheese, a cheese knife, a cutting and display board, and a few extra things, which you can throw in yourself.

And if you are planning to stay out for a long time, or if there are more than just two people coming along, there are wine picnic baskets for four or more, with enough glasses for all.
About the Author

Picnic Baskets Info provides detailed information about decorative, wholesale, wicker, gourmet, and wine picnic baskets, as well as picnic gift baskets, picnic baskets for two, and more. Picnic Baskets Info is the sister site of Fruit Baskets Web.

Relate man’s predominating quests and you’ve got is a trend we title a sportsbook wagers web location. And what could be more original. Picture a group of fanatics cheering to support a preferred sports heroes, and constantly antes will be proclaimed right along with the uproar. Aiming to catch some of the exhilaration, spectators will typically seek to estimate who is the likeliest to prevail in the running tournament. All of this is set to turn into a sociable little tournament called sportsbook wagers web location.

Sure, it might easily look a craving, however, sportsbook betting is really purely fun and of tying up with your fellow sports devotees. You can risk a a piddling sum of filthy lucre and nonetheless enjoy an amazing time. Furthermore, here are a lot of basics to get started sportsbook betting.

To bet, we would advise you search for a sportsbook wagers web location, that’s to say a place which takes in sportsbook wagers web location. In the USA, you’ll find four states where to go for sportsbook betting in a legit manner, but if legality is no concern, you may attempt it practically anywhere provided that you determine a bookie and you happen to be of age. On the list of games you can choose to risk money on are professional including, in addition, college class basketball as well as football, pro hockey, pro hockey, including, in addition, dog and horse racing. Visitors can choose to risk money on the whole results of a competition, in what round one of the contesting parties will go under, and even whether a coin toss in a competition will come down heads or tails.

The betting outfit put their face in statistical mathematics to assist you discern which sports heroes you feel is the likeliest to prevail. First of all, there is the likelihood, which is a point lead assigned to the trailing side that is expected to fail by a defined number points. Of Course, this comprises the betting establishment’s method of enabling balanced bets for a Sportsbook. Thus, you have a choice of betting on a contestor that is expected to fail and and nonetheless profit from the wager provided that the side is beaten by a defined number of points.

You’ll find sundry classes of antes, the straight being the general favorite in sportsbook betting.

Why not just take a stab at it, and have lots of fun at one fell swoop. Only determine that you won’t get overpowered and drain your entire income on a bee… Because you will find yourself being sorry all your life…

Think you know money to place an online sports bet ? Prove it here and win big!

Have you ever heard of an FBI agent who wasn’t “special”? Or an attorney who wasn’t “at law”?

Have you ever met an optometrist who didn’t wear glasses? Do you think maybe the fact that most of them wear glasses has anything to do with advertising?

Until recently, I thought Jessica Simpson was a cartoon character!

Why would anyone want to run for the office of school board member? It seems to me that this would be something a person would be sentenced to after being convicted of a misdemeanor!

What do you call a member of OPEC? An Opecker?

It is okay to turn work into fun, but it’s not okay to turn fun into work!!

Unwritten rules are, by definition, unjust.

I think some of the most soothing sounds in the world are a cat or dog lapping water and the clanking of ceramic dishes. On the other hand, the sound of a crying child has to be the most annoying sound in the world. The sound of someone’s extremely hard shoes clomping across the floor is a close runner-up.

If the word “from” or the phrase “as little as” immediately precedes a dollar amount in an advertisement, it is wise to mentally substitute them with “more than”. Conversely, if the amount is preceded by the word “to” or the phrase “as much as”, you should mentally substitute them with “less than.”

When determining the value of a roll of paper towels, ignore the number of square feet and look at the number of individual paper towels in the roll. For toilet paper, do just the opposite, i.e., ignore the number of sheets and look at the total square feet.

When I was a kid, I thought Indonesia was the part of “Nesia” that had a roof over it!

Back in the 1990’s, a coworker was bragging one day about how a computer program he was writing utilized 21st century technology. I quickly pointed out to him that this was impossible. No matter how advanced any technology was that someone invented in the 1990’s, it could not have been 21st century technology. The simple fact that it was invented in the 20th century makes it, by definition, 20th century technology!

A tax credit is the sincerest form of a tax break!

Do vegetarians eat fruit in addition to vegetables? If so, why aren’t they called vegefruitarians?

To understand some people and organizations, you must master the art of interpolation. For example, if they say something will be done in a few weeks, you can presume that it will actually occur in a few months; or if someone tells you he/she will be somewhere in an hour, you can safely presume it will be two hours.

If “all is fair in love and war”, then there is no such thing as a war crime.

I thought video-on-demand (VOD) was going to bring us more entertainment options. Apparently, that’s not the case as most of the stuff available on VOD is exactly the same as the stuff playing on the cable channels. The only advantage it provides is that you get to see programs when you want. Funny thing, I thought that was what VCRs and TiVo were for.

It is usually a waste of time to try to impress another person. If someone is not impressed with you, they would not be likely to change their mind even if you discovered the cure for cancer. On the hand, if someone is already impressed with you, they will usually remain impressed no matter how many stupid things you do.

I’m getting so tired of those “awards” shows on TV. It seems like there’s one on every week and they just keep adding more of them all the time. I would watch one of them only if it were on pay-TV…..they’d have to pay me to watch it!

Those who are always waiting until “times are better” never accomplish anything significant.

There have only been a handful of good liars in the history of the world. Most liars will eventually get caught because they will let their guard down sooner or later and fail to cover all their tracks.

Why would anyone put money ahead of their health? However, there are many people who do exactly that. They apparently don’t realize that money and possessions become meaningless when and if you lose your health.

My major source of heartburn with the Earned Income Tax Credit is that allows some individuals to get more money refunded to them than was actually withheld in taxes from their paychecks. I agree that many of the working poor should not have to pay taxes, but the government should not be in the business of income redistribution. When someone receives more back from the IRS than they paid in, it is just welfare under a less stigmatized name. For those people, perhaps we should call it the “Unearned” Income Tax Credit.

The concept of “fighting words” only exists in the minds of those who are immature enough to allow words to hurt them.

If someone brags about you in front of others, it could be as hazardous as bragging about yourself. There’s always a chance that one of the listeners will become jealous and bring to light some unflattering things about you.

I get a little aggravated when I drive past a church building displaying the words “full gospel” on its marquee. It makes me think its members believe other churches just provide a “partial gospel.”

Many of us, including myself, often lose sight of the fact that money is merely a means to an end, not an end in itself.

I think the whole idea of convicting Martha Stewart and sending her to prison is totally ludicrous and unjust. Those federal prosecutors made a mountain out of a mole hill. I don’t see how what she did really hurt anyone. She was afraid of being prosecuted for a violation of some petty insider trading law. That’s understandable to me. No, it’s not moral or ethical, but why should it be illegal? There are so many more serious things people are doing now that need to be addressed instead. Why not go after some real criminals instead of harassing a woman for lying about something that almost anyone else in her situation would have lied about? The jails are already so overcrowded with dangerous people who really need to be there that they have to let some of them out way too early. So how much sense did it make to send Martha Stewart to prison? None. It was nothing more than a witch hunt. He who has never told a lie, cast the first stone at Martha Stewart!

The scary thing about the folks up in Canada is that they are now coding political correctness into law.

When you are asked to do something on the job, no matter how difficult, never say it is impossible. There will always be some young phenom who will come along and figure out a way to do it and make you look like a fool.

Why do most American women think cellulite is so awful?

Those who are constantly telling others to “not be afraid” or to “have more courage” aren’t being realistic. Many fears do not respond to logic or reason.

You can tell a lot about a person’s integrity by watching him or her at a grocery store. If he/she gets into the “12 items or less” line with more than 12 items and/or leaves his/her cart just anywhere in the parking lot without returning it to the cart-return, he/she sends out a very negative message about himself/herself. That message is: “I’m either too lazy or too indifferent to be bothered with doing things correctly.”

For those of you who are like me and not all that smart, the best way to act intelligently is to observe what the smart people and the dumb people around you are doing and act accordingly. We all know who the smart ones are and who the dumb ones are. If something is being done by most of the smart people and not being done by most of the dumb people, then by all means do it. Conversely, if something is being done by most of the dumb people and not being done by most of the smart people, then by all means don’t do it. It can’t get any simpler than that.

I don’t like to collect a lot of “things.” I’ve always held to the belief that the more you have, the more you have to worry about. There are only two possible reasons why I would even be remotely interested in being extremely wealthy. One would be the fact that I could afford to hire out all jobs that I either couldn’t do or didn’t want to do myself. Stuff like car repair and maintenance, home repair and maintenance, and home decorating would be in that category. The other would be that I could get almost unlimited “do-overs” when making decisions about major purchases. Most of us really have to sweat a major purchase like a home or a car. We know that if we make a mistake and buy something we are not happy with, we cannot easily turn around and sell it without taking a major financial hit. If I was extremely wealthy, on the other hand, I could easily discard a home or car that I was dissatisfied with or had grown tired of and get another one without really suffering financially.

Author’s Note: Like the title implies, this work is a collection of unrelated thoughts. As such, you may use any or all items from this work. If you use this work in its entirety or choose to use more than one item, you must include the title and the resource box as usual. However, if you decide to use just one item from this work, the title is not required and you may substitute the following for the resource box:

– Terry L. Mitchell, Hopewell, VA.

Also, please remove this note.

About the Author

Terry Mitchell is a software engineer, freelance writer, and trivia buff from Hopewell, VA. He operates a website - http://www.commenterry.com - on which he posts commentaries on various subjects such as politics, technology, religion, health and well-being, personal finance, and sports. His commentaries offer a unique point of view that is not often found in mainstream media.