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I'll Be Saving $3,800.00 Dollars This Year By Doing These Things

I'm going to make this shortand sweet tonight.Do you really need,what some people call aLiberal Pundit,telling you how to save money?No,but I am going to do it anyways.None of these little tricks I am doing are going to make you rich,but if you have the time,why not save money where you can. 1st My Coke RewardsUnder each Two Liter Bottle Cap and in every Twelve or Twenty-Four Pack Twelve Ounce Can's Box there is a code. You sign up to their website, save as many points as you can by entering these codes, and you'll be able to turn them in for prizes. I have gotten headphones for my daughter, an outside speaker for a cell phone, $30.00 in e-gift cards for Walmart for free, and $20.00 in e-gift cards for Target. They have a lot more selection then what I am Posting here. 2nd Bing RewardsBy signing up with the Bing Search engine, they also have reward points where you can cash them in for prices. I personally save up enough points so I can get 12 months free of Xbox Live for my son. I haven't paid the $50.00 a year free for Xbox Live a couple of years now.
3rd Walmart Savings CatcherYou download a mobile app to your Android or iPhone, take a picture of your receipt from the purchases you made at Walmart, and the app compares prices from local stores to see if you got the lowest price in town. I've been using it for about three weeks now and have received about $19.00 back in savings. You are aloud to receive $600.00 a year.
4th I don't have a link here to show you what I mean, so I'll explain it. There are no more loyalties between customer and a business. If you notice, I'll use cell phone companies as an example, these companies are always offering great deals to new customers, knowing that most people, after they have signed up, will not leave their services for at least 5 years. (This is based on information I was given when I worked for a certain service company.) And if they can sign you in on a two year agreement over and over, it is more like tens years. Because you will get caught up in their routine of upgrading. I know people who change cell phone companies every two years to get the best deal around. And now that you can keep the same phone number from company to company, there is no reason not to do this. I just went from paying over $800.00 for my Cable Service, Home Phone, Internet, 3 Cell Phones, and 2 Tablets to paying, with Tax, $497.00 for Satellite TV with the Sunday Ticket, Home Phone, Internet, 4 Cell Phones, 2 Tablets and a Security Monitoring System.And that price is set forTwo Years!I'll take saving$300 A Monthover loyalty to any company making millions that will not give back to there long time customers.
This is,I Know I Am Not Getting Rich By These Techniques,But If My Calculations Are Correct,I'll Be Saving $3,800.00 Dollars This Year By Doing Them,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
- Oprah Winfrey -
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Dropping Out Had Nothing To Do With Homework

Texas Teacher Creates No Homework Policy — and Parents Are Loving It! by Diana Bruk for Good Housekeeping on MSN.com "On August 16th, Samantha Gallagher of Fort Worth, Texas, shared a note that her daughter, Brooke, brought home from her teacher, Mrs. Brandy Young. The note announced that Mrs. Young would no longer be formally assigning homework, and that the only homework that students would have would consist of whatever they did not finish during class. The response on Reddit has been encouraging, with many users saying they wished this had been the policy back in their day. I have this vivid memory of being in kindergarten and the teacher passing out a homework assignment that was something like practicing writing a letter of the alphabet in upper and lower case inside dotted lines, one user wrote. I just started doing it when it got put on my table in front of me, and then the teacher took it and gave me a new one and said Class, can you guys tell him what kind of work this is supposed to be? and then like half the class in unison goes "HOMEWORK!" So lame."
I agree hundred percent with thisTeacher.When I went to school,I never brought a book homeor homework home up until I graduated fromHigh School.MySenioryear inHigh School,I only had a half a day of school because I had so many credits already accumulated.And I was accepted intoFour Different Colleges.That is why I always tell people who think they are so smart,"I dropped out of more colleges then you'll ever attend!"
This is,Dropping Out Had Nothing To Do With Homework,It Had Everything To Do With Hemp,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
- Kurt Vonnegut -
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And The Child They Love

When you have kids, they all grow up differently. I had one daughter, my first, who I had to wrap my arms around to keep her from running away or squirming when she got her shots as a child. Then my fourth daughter, she would sit there and stare as the nurse put the needle into her arm. Never flinching. So when I came back from my vacation from Texas recently, I thought nothing of it when my grandson took out his mason jar of new spiders he had captured. He isn't afraid of any spider, but he also won't squish them when his aunts ask him to, because they are too scared to do so themselves. Driving, I pretended I saw what he was showing me with a quick glance over my shoulder since he was sitting in his booster seat in the back. After that, I forgot all about it. It wasn't until a couple of weeks ago, that I found out exactly what he has. I know he feeds his spiders dead ants. He will kill those, but I never realized how many spiders he was feeding. The nightmare happened when we had a forced entry by an escaped criminal one night. He grab my grandson at knife point and told me if the police came to the door, I had better find away to get rid of them, or he'll die! It just so happens, a few days before the community mailbox sitting in front of our house was broken into. I called the police about the incident and a Sheriff came to my door for a statement. We got along fine, shook hands when he departed, and I never expected to see him again. He was the officer who came to my door asking if I had heard or seen anything suspicious relating to an escaped convict. We got along so well before that when I said I hadn't, he took my word for it and went on to the next house. That is when I heard a scream. Not from my grandson, it was from the intruder. The hand he held the knife with? It was covered with about fifty spiders. Another fifty or so were crawling all over his body. He screamed again and pleaded for me to call back the officer, so I did. I found out later that this guy would never have children in his lifetime because of all the poison released in his body. That he is lucky to still be alive. And that the hand which held the knife to my grandson throat, he lost that arm from the elbow on down. The police have no way of explaining what happened. A local college professor claimed he knew the answer. The felon had probably hidden in some nearby bushes and when he had entered my home unlawfully, the spiders were finally taking action against him for invading those bushes. But I know the truth. My grandson now has five of those glass habitats for insects and I let him collect as many ants and other bugs as he can, as feeders. I don't need a handgun in my house to worry about break-ins. I have over one-hundred brown recluse spiders living in my home and the child they love.



This is,If You Do Not Believe Me,Piss Off My Grandson Someday,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“They made for his noise far quicker than he had expected. They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever like being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course, is insulting to anybody.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, -
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The Space Elevator

Not intentionally staying on the same theme as yesterday,but this is such great news if you are aBrainiac,Geek,Nerd,or somewhat of aBrainiac,Geek,orNerd.NASA, those wonderful people who useRocket Propulsionto pollute our atmosphere by sending inefficient rockets up intoSpace,has decided to"Provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research. Beginning with research funded in 2016, all NASA-funded authors and co-authors (both civil servant and non-civil servant) will be required to deposit copies of their peer-reviewed scientific publications and associated data into NASA’s publication repository called NASA PubSpace.  This EXCLUDES patents, publications that contain material governed by personal privacy, export control, proprietary restrictions, or national security law or regulations. NASA PubSpace is part of PubMed Central (PMC) which is managed by the NIH. You can now search NASA related articles archived in PMC at NASA PubSpace. PubSpace will be fully functional Fall of 2016."
Maybe now I will be able to understand why Konstantin Tsiolkovsky'sSpace Elevator,first published in 1895and made famous byArthur C. Clarke'sbook "The Fountains of Paradise"is not a priority with them?  If everything that I haveheard,read,or seen ondocumentaries,are true,given that the newNano-Technologiesare correct in strength estimatesand durability,we could have a pollutant free ride to theHeavenswithin twenty to twenty-five years!Wait,that was theTower of Babel.OK,we could have a pollutant free ride into Space!It would also open up the opportunity for the averageJoe and Josephineto go intoSpace. Because nobody can afford to send the publicand aBillion DollarsinRocket PropulsionintoSpaceeach year,forever!
 This is,It Is The Only Way In My Lifetime That I Would Have A Chance Of Making It Into Outer Space So I Am All For The Space Elevator,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.”
- Sam Levenson - This is my story and I am sticking to it! Like what you are reading,or do not like what you see.Set up my Blog as your Homepage,or sign up as a Follower,or leave a Comment,and I will answer you in a Post. Thanks for reading. This message is for Elon Musk.What are you thinking?Space Elevator!Stop with the rockets already!

The Space Between My Ears, The Final Frontier

"Great American Total Solar Eclipse," Just 1 Year Away! by Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist on MSN.com
"Aug. 21, 2017, is a red-letter day for eclipse enthusiasts. On that date, the sun will be partially eclipsed over an immense area that includes all of North America, the northern third of South America, much of the eastern Pacific Ocean (including the Hawaiian Islands), virtually all of the north Atlantic Ocean and a slice of western Europe. For much of the United States, at least 80 percent of the sun's diameter will be eclipsed by the passing new moon. Some eclipse chasers have billed it as the Great American Total Solar Eclipse. Because the moon's shadow will be moving at a tremendous speed, totality will not last very long in any one place. The duration of the total phase is always longest along the center of the shadow's path; as one moves away from the center, the duration of totality time decreases, becoming zero along the path's edges. [Solar Eclipses: An Observer's Guide (Infographic)]"
I personally was looking forward to thisEclipsesince a really good friend of mine,Jeffery Keyesand I planned a vacation around the event almost four years ago.Sadly,he won't be making the trip since he passed away a few years ago,but I am still planning on going in his honor.
"Building Star Trek" Documentary Shows Efforts to Save Original Enterprise Model by Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor"A new Smithsonian Channel special gives Trekkies an unprecedented view of the efforts to save the USS Enterprise from certain death. The documentary shows museum officials fighting against decades of damages to fix the 11-foot (3.4 meters) "Star Trek" ship model, used in filming the original series, before putting the ship on display. In between exclusive clips at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the documentary — called "Building Star Trek" — also shows the construction of a new "Star Trek" exhibit at the EMP Museum in Seattle, featuring props used in the original series. The special airs Sept. 4, just four days before the 50-year anniversary of the first broadcast of "Star Trek." Besides showcasing awesome props, the show has inspired nearly two generations of scientific innovation, the documentary reveals. The 2-hour special also profiles a new generation of engineers and scientists who are making 'Star Trek's' visionary technology real, pushing the boundaries of physics with inventions first conceived on the iconic series: warp drives, medical tricorders, cloaking devices and tractor beams, Smithsonian representatives said in a statement."
Being aTrekkiemyself,any new insights into the originalTV Showwill be very entertaining.I hope I have alerted otherTrekkiesto the upcoming show.
I just thought of something interesting.I often call myself aWhoviansince I am a bigDoctor Whofan.I also call myself aTrekkiesince I am a bigStar Trekfan. What doStar Warsfans call themselves?Warrians?
This is,The Space Between My Ears,The Final Frontier,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?”
“What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together.
“There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.”
She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.”
“Blasphemy and lies,” I said.”
- Jim Butcher, -
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Have A Laugh On Me

Recently,
I went into one of those discount massage parlors.It turned out to be self serve!
Then I met this hooker on a street corner.She told me she had a headache!If it wasn't for the guy who just pick-pocketed me,I'd have no sex life at all!I blame it all on my upbringing when I was a child.When I took my first step,
my Dad tripped me!When I was born,
the doctor slapped my Mom!Then,
I think I was still a virgin at the age of thirty-three,I was making love to this girl I was dating
and she started crying.I asked,
"Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?"She said,
"No, I hate myself now!"One night I thought I was going to get really lucky.I had these two girls in my car
and they both scream at the same time,
"Stop here!"Right next to the International House of Pancakes was a Motel 6.We went inside,
and I had to pay for two
"Rooty Tooty Fresh N Fruity"
meals!Then I started dating this girl who was half-black.She dumped me because she said I was prejudiced.In a sweet moment,
I called her half-white! When I got married,
I asked my wife if I could give her a Goodnight kiss on her cheek.She bent over!Still,
I believe,
in this World,
every person has a soul mate.And if I ever find mine,
my wife will kill her!I did meet a famous Politician once.I met the Surgeon General,
and he offered me a cigarette!People say I look a lot younger than I really am.That's because I act so immature!

This is,
Wishing Everyone Has A Good Laugh This Sunday,
Jim Hauenstein,

And,


 “Reality continues to ruin my life.” - Bill Watterson -

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Some of you will have noticed this is a reprint of "Just Joking Around." A June 15th, 2015 Post I wrote. I think it is one of my funniest Post I have written so I feel it does need repeating. Thank you for reading.

N = R* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L

While lying on my couch,sucking in pure oxygen from my"Invacare Platinum XL Oxygen Concentrator," (No Smoking Please) from the wonderful people atApria Healthcare,I started thinking about the"Drake Equation."   The Drake Equation,written I believe in 1961,is a probability equation to arrive at an estimated number of activeand communicativeExtraterrestrial Civilizationsin theMilky Way Galaxy. Back in the early 1960's the group thatDr. Frank Drakewas working with estimated that there could be as many as50,000 Planetsin theMilky Waythat hadIntelligent Communicative Extraterrestrial Life.That was still in the early days ofRadio Astronomyand a long beforeSETI.In even in those early days,50,000 Planetsseemed like a lot of possiblePlanetsforIntelligent Life.What came to my mind was,every story has aBeginning,Middle,and anEnd.The Drake Equationtakes only into account theMiddle Possibility.What ifHumansare the veryFirst Intelligent Lifein theMilky Way?Or,even worse,what if we are theLast Intelligent Life?That still bodes to the question"Are We Alone?"
This is,Does Not Mean That Other Galaxies Do Not Have Intelligent Life,Jim Hauenstein,
 And,
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C. Clarke -
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Me Going Back To Sleep

I said yesterday that I might not be up to writing everyday on my Blog yet.Well,I'm not.I do want to thankJeff Povlich August 19, 2016 at 4:54 AMGlad to hear you're still with us Jim.for his kind words.I was wondering if anyone was going to wish me wellor if they thought this was some kind of joke I was playing.It's no jokeand I don't feel up to writing tonight.So here is a picture of mySon,Grandson,and our chickenEggberta.See if you can tell who is who?
This is,Me Going Back To Sleep,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
- Robert A. Heinlein -
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This Is What I Truly Believe

Whoa!Let me say that again with the emphasis that is needed to express how I really feel. Whoa! I came as close as ever,to touching theRiver Styxas anytime in my life. Twenty years ago IFlatlinedand I have the medical records to prove it.This time,it wasn't so much as I was fighting the disease to stay alive,I kind of knew I would win that battle,this time it was when I was recuperating.I could feel myConsciousness,Life Force,orSoultrying to leave my body.MyHumanity.I use the wordHumanityhere as a way to define what I call myVesselforBeingin thisPlane of Existence.MyHumanityorHuman Vesselhad to reach outand hold myConsciousnessonto itselfor it would have floated along the river to anotherPlane of Existence.I call this river theRiver Styx.But,unlike theGreeks,I don't look as theRiver Styxas being a one way path toHades,but the path that leads us to the nextPlane.Some see aLight,I see aRiverthat you float along to the nextExistence. I knew I was going to beat the disease this time because I have all the machines at home to help me survive.I have thePure Oxygen Machinethat I can quickly adapt as myNebulizer.I have all theChemicalsneeded for aCOPD Afflicted Person.The reason I had a battle between mySouland myHumanityis the same reason you hear so often,"He died peacefully in his sleep."MyHuman Vesselhad to hold onto myLife Forceso it wouldn't slip away while myHumanitywas weary from the battle with my disease.OurSoulis happy living in thisPlane,but it is also anxious to go to the next.Yet,myHumanityknew that I haven't accomplish everything in thisExistencethat I want to.So it held on so I can accomplish those things.
This is,You May Not Believe As I Do,But This Is What I Truly Believe,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides."- Lao Tzu -
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I am still recuperating, so I do not know how much I will be writing the next couple of days. This is the best I have felt in ten days. Thanks for checking in to see if I have been writing. It lifts my Spirit when you do so. Thanks again.

I Need To Catch-Up, You See.

Since,at the end of every Post I write; "Like what you are reading, or do not like what you see. Set up my Blog as your Homepage, or sign up as a Follower, or leave a Comment, and I will answer you in a Post," I need to fulfill my promise by answering all theCommentsI have been getting lately,but have neglected to do so.I need toCatch-up,you see. Back on July 31stI wrote my usual,end of the monthPostwhere I tell everyone the;"The 5 Best Posts of the Month."The Post is called; There Is Electricity In The Air From All The Anticipation. "The Jeff"decided , since there wasn't anything written controversially that day,where he could make a wittyComment,he decided thatPotty Humorwas the way to go to fill up the time in his life.Jeff Povlich August 2, 2016 at 4:43 PM "I shall strive for number 1 because number 2 is disgusting. I love potty humor." 
Now onAugust 2nd,the Post I wrote was called;I Usually Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils.Where I talk about theAnnotator,who signs off as"Anonymous."He seems to be an angry kind of person,who looks at the negative side to everything.I also mentioned that mySisterhas signed up as one of myFollowers.Here is the onlyCommentleft that dayand I think it is self explanatory.Jeff Povlich August 3, 2016 at 12:47 PM"Vote Libertarian be the change you desire."
August 3rd.I Am Serious About Being Serious.My humorous attempt of me telling everyone howSeriousI am writing thisBlog. I even bring up the fact that I played inRock Bandsduring the 1980's.  And"The Jeff"had this to say about it.Jeff Povlich August 5, 2016 at 6:00 PM"You were never good enough for the Screaming Blue Messiahs. You have Adam Ant written all over you lol."I'm not even sure who the"Screaming Blue Messiahs"were?
You might have begun to see a pattern starting here.
August 5th.I wrote a Post called;One Thing To Say!I talk about my good friend"The Jeff"and how we have different opinions onPolitical Matters.He wrote;Jeff PovlichAugust 5, 2016 at 5:57 PM"My platform is "DO what you want just don't do it to me." I plan on resurecting "Da Crusher" as my VP. How'd you like me now."
This next Post is a perfect example of someoneCommentingon one of myPosts,but he doesn't have his facts straight.August 7th.Just Don't Take My Word For It.The person who signs off as"Anonymous"after each time he leaves aCommentsaid;Anonymous August 8, 2016 at 11:51 AM "What a moronic statement, we never listen to any other perspective, the media is liberal slanted and it IS the other perspective."He said this after I used"Rush Limbaugh"as an example,that if you only listen to his side of an issue,you will be getting only half the information needed to make up your own mind on that issue.You will only be getting a veryConservativepoint of view."Anonymous"either has never listened to the"Rush Limbaugh"radio program,or he has his blinders onand can only seeand hear what he believes is theGospel Truth.He tunes everything out from his thoughts,and only hears what he has already made up his mind to.
August 8th.I put up a Post,talking about how I can have blinders on too sometimes.During theDemocratic Convention,some people in attendance showed little class.After aSpeakerasked theCrowdfor a moment of silence for the fallenPolice OfficersfromDallas,they booed.I didn't talk about this issue.I stated how I thought theRepublican Conventionhad a real negative feel to itand that theDemocratic Conventionwas very upbeat.Since I mention my folly and take responsibility for it,this is what"The Jeff"had to say about it;Jeff Povlich August 9, 2016 at 3:53 AM"I tip my hat to you sir."

Well, there you have it.I am all caught up with my answers to theCommentsleft by readers on some of my Posts.

This is, Remembering What I Said Yesterday,Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”- Mark Twain - That is my story and I am sticking to it! Like what you are reading,or do not like what you see.Set up my Blog as your Homepage,or sign up as a Follower,or leave a Comment,and I will answer you in a Post. Thanks for reading.