Sit back young one and I shall tell you a tale. It is a tale of trust, loyalty, greed, romance and betrayal. And it is a true story, who’s conclusion occurred mere minutes ago. As I am the protagonist in this story, let me insure that you are aware of a few key characteristics regarding [...]

Yesterday I wrote about tax warfare. The comments got off track a bit, mainly regarding voting for Barr over McCain (by two people who both wanted Obama to lose). But it mostly came down to realism versus idealism. I’m no expert. I’m only 29 years old, but I can tell you I’m far more realistic [...]

In my first post (can you remember where you were?) I talked about how I was a laggard, and that since I was now blogging, it must be dead. I may have jumped the gun. But now I’m sure the bubble has burst… My college entrepreneur professor (who gave me an A- (counts as 3.67 [...]

I rarely do testimonials, but I absolutely have to. For about a month now I’ve been dealing with annoying popups on my home computer. I tried many software programs in search of a solution when I finally found a forum discussing the various spyware removal tools. One in particular received excellent praise from all, so [...]

As a basketball player, I’ve experienced a lot of bad ref calls. Yesterday set an all time new record for me. I was hacked while taking the ball up for a shot under the basket. No call, and here is the result: Broken hand. Since its a spiral break I will need surgery. Early estimate [...]

Since drunk Landon on NYE had the courage to send these goals to family and friends, I guess I’ll post them here as well: I really am going to try to do all of these in 09….no matter how lofty they may seem to a now sober Landon:  Learn to snowboard. I bought myself a [...]

Most people do not know this, and I’m sure most children are not taught this in school. As taken from freedomkeys and the Liberator online archive, here is the real story of Thanksgiving: ” Did you know that the first Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative? William Bradford [...]

The hand I was dealt in life How I’ve been able to play it so far The help and support I’ve received A year without injury Almost a whole year without illness All the opportunities I have, have had, and will have, missed or taken Friends Family The luxury of living in the best country [...]

Initial story how my external hard drive (with 5k picture) failed Selection of data recovery company Result of data recovery: FAIL After ECO failed, I tried Drive Savers. They too failed. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge So I lost 5k pictures and have almost no hope of recovery. The good news? I’m restarting my picture collection, one snap at [...]

My external hard drive failed and I lost about 5 years of pictures. After looking at several companies, I decided to go with the least expensive, ECO Data Recovery and after 2 weeks they called today to tell me they were unable to recovery my data. They’ll be charging me $175 for the effort. So [...]