Did you remember to set your clocks back an hour this morning? Wife set all the clocks back last night before we went to bed. And the computer was automatic. Why can’t microwave ovens be the same way? Or the clock in our vehicles?

Also, have you checked your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide alarms? It is good to check the batteries twice a year, and the best time to do so is when we change our clocks. Easier to remember and do.

Tuesday is coming up fast! Are you going to vote? If not, why not? Regardless of who you think is good or bad, you should still vote. One of the freedoms our forefathers fought and died for was the right to elect our own leaders. We voted by mail some time back, so we did our civic duty just as we do every election, whether it is a local election or a national election.

Those of you on Social Security will see a nice increase in your monthly checks starting January, 2009. The cost of living increase has been set at 5.98%. Myself, I always thought that an increase every year is super, but should be a set amount more than enough to cover increases in the cost of living. We are not on social security, doubt if we will ever get social security as the government still will not eliminate the windfall provision of those who get a government pension. EG: there is an offset penalty in social security versus government pension. So though we paid into social security, we will see very little of that as we are on a government pension.

Quick recap on the college football games yesterday:

Iowa Hawkeyes lost by a field goal against Illinois.
Oklahoma Sooners trounced Nebraska 62-28. Should help them move up from number 4.
And a super exciting game between Texas Tech and Texas! It was a nailbiter to the last second of the game. But Texas Tech did it and won by a score of 39-33! Knocks Texas out of number one position and when the polls come out later today, Texas Tech has a good chance of being the new number one.

Today we will be watching some good pro football.

My rant on advertising and those webmasters who love only page rank! I offer free advertising on several sites and it is funny the number of webmasters who pm me on forums or email me and say they would like to advertise but this site or that site does not have page rank. Geesh, it is free advertising! Same with my directories, those that are new and have no page rank? Some webmasters will not advertise even if it is free and for sure, some get bent out of shape that I actually have a fee for featured links on a directory with no page rank. I opened up a new bid directory this past week and got blasted on one forum because it is new and has no page rank. Oh well, their loss. Same with selling advertising on some of my sites and blogs. Too many webmasters obsess about page rank and will not spend the money to advertise on sites and blogs with no page rank. To these webmasters, it is not traffic that counts, but page rank!

Which leads me to another rant! Those webmasters who take a page ranked domain and make it a new directory. Then proclaim to the world that their new directory is page ranked! At least until the next page rank update. Or the slimy webmasters who redirect page ranked domains to their directory or site and then proceed to sell ads and listings based on what is really faked page rank. The whole concept of buying and selling links based on page rank and not traffic is bizarre.

Mushrooms! Lots of pictures of many types of mushrooms on this site.

FungiPhoto.com Mushroom Photo Catalog

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