Alicia Daniel

My younger cousin sent me an email, inviting me to “meet her online” in Spicy Town. Spicy Town is a fictitious town in an online video game produced by the company that sells Slim Jim spicy snacks. So I went to the online game site to meet my cousin there. I had to create an avatar to use to play the game. It was kind of fun, creating the avatar. The avatar was called my “spicy side.” Setting up my “spicy side” was quick, easy, and amusing. I had to take a picture of myself and upload it to their site, then their program helped center my facial features around their pre-drawn outline of facial features, then they make a funny little creature with horns and funky hair, and then they turned me loose into the video game.

During the game I was supposed to go around collecting Slim Jim’s that I found lying around on the ground. I only found three, but I only played for a few minutes, trying to find my cousin. There were other people’s avatars in the game walking around too. Some seemed to be fighting with each other (I don’t know why, maybe one insulted the other, those spicy sides are unpredictable and uncontrollable!) some were just walking around ranting and raving. The game has chat functions and buddy lists, but I didn’t stay on it long enough to check those out, had to many other things that were demanding my attention at that time.

If you want to play the game yourself, go to spicyside.com!

It was with mixed emotions that I read the article on the local newspaper’s web-site, that the Vietnamese Pot Bellied pig that has been running loose since early March has been captured.  I had been hoping that the pig would be captured soon because I was afraid someone would kill him and eat him, so I was glad that he has been caught and is now safe and sound.  And I thought it was funny that the bait used to catch him was french fries.  Seems to me you could catch a lot of things using french fries as bait!

What did upset me was reading that the police captured him by baiting him with fries and then using a taser to stun the little guy!  In the long run, however, the guy is caught and is safe, and that is the important thing!

With there being so many illegal aliens in our country now, a lot of business owners are beginning to do a Social Security Number Trace through ssnlocator.com to make sure that the number they are supplied with is actually the persons that gave it to them. I think it’s a great tool and can not only help employers but can protect you too from having someone else use your Social Security number.

You know, it might even help employers keep from getting in trouble by hiring illegal aliens. Something needs to be done and this is just one more tool to help.

I have a sister that is an astronomer. She loves nothing more than to spend hours looking at the stars. She loves the Catadioptric Telescopes because of the quality of them. I don’t know that much about things like that so I had to do a little research to find out which one to buy her for her birthday. I found all kinds of information and all kinds of telescopes at opticsplanet.net.

The good thing is that she has now gotten into bird watching too. She is an outdoor girl anyway and by accident, she was playing with her old telescope one day and found an eagles next across the water from her house. There was even a couple babies in the nest too. She was absolutely thrilled and that’s what got her into bird watching too. The eagles return every year too.

If I happen to get a telescope for my sister that isn’t exactly what she wants, she can return it. The shipping is free if the order is over $29.95 so you save money there. The site is extremely helpful if you’re not up on telescopes or even binoculars too. I think I have the right one ordered but if not, I don’t have to worry about being able to return it for what she does want.

I used to love to visit my grandparents house when I was a child. They had the most beautiful old grandfather clock I had ever seen. I loved to hear it chime. In fact, as a child, I would run into the sitting room where the grandfather clock was when it would start chiming just so I could hear it better. I loved that clock. My parents now have it and it will be mine when they are gone which I hope will be many years from now.

I decided I needed a grandfather clock since I do love the chimes, so I started checking out 1-800-4clocks.com for grandfather clocks. I had no idea how many different styles of clocks I would find. There are wall clocks that will chime, mantel clocks, and just about any type of clock you can imagine. Still I wanted a grandfather clock.

Now I just had to find a style that fit my style. My choice was a triple chime Howard Miller Stewart grandfather clock. I even found a blog about my style of grandfather clock. It was pretty neat reading someone elses opinion about the clock style I like too. I guess that style is a pretty popular style. But if you’re looking for any kind of clock, you’ll probably find one you like here.