This birthday wish is going out to a very special guy. He is smart, talented and full of an engaging personality. He always impresses me with his business sense and understanding of human nature.
But even more, he is a very generous man, always willing to lend a helping hand to people who need a little boost.
Happy Birthday, Steve!
When we lost our electricity in a storm last week I was glad that I have little flashlights scattered around the house. I had bought a bunch of them at Wal Mart around Christmas and used them as stocking stuffers and little fun gifts for kids, and the ones not given away as gifts found a home here. I put one by the bed, one in the bathroom, one in the kitchen, one downstairs by the laundry equipment and then one in each car.
The problem with all these flashlights is keeping enough batteries on hand. Thankfully, they all use the same size of battery, the small ones called Double A. So I bought a huge multi pack of AA batteries at Sams Club for about $15, and I keep those in the hall closet. Once in a while, perhaps two or three times a year, I will travel through the house and click on each flashlight to make sure they work, and if they need replacement batteries I have them right in the closet to take care of it!
There has been a lot of noise about claiming your name on popular site like Facebook and even getting your own name as a domain name can be tough to do if you have a common name. My name has always been a combination of middle of the road but not difficult. I can never find my first name on one of the popular kids names toys, like the little license plates for your bikes or the personalized pencils. Some people mispronounce and misspell my first name, but it is hard to mess up the last name, Sands.
Today I am claiming my blog on the Technorati web site by entering this code: 37pbckrfwg. I’m not sure what this will do for me, but my geek friends have told me that I should claim it now before someone else does, so here I go!
At the Sam’s Club today, I picked up a multi pack of Bic Stic pens. They were really inexpensive at Sam’s and buying them there while shopping for groceries saved me a special trip to the office supply store.
The stic pens are the really cheap ones with ballpoint ink and removable caps. They come in three different ink colors: black, blue and red. I almost never use a blue pen and have absolutely no use for a pen with red ink. I was glad that the multi pack did not force me to buy assorted colors. I wanted black ink and all three boxes of pens had the black ink.
This is my all time favorite song. I heard it over 16 years ago and it still moves me to tears every time. I wish there was a video for it, but this photo of a red rose comes close to what it means to me – even better is the album cover art. Beautiful.