Before I logged off another email popped up on my screen.  It was from another job application for driving a bus for another county.  I was requested to call them asap.  I took the hint and called.  They wanted me to come down there immediately to file the paperwork and get everything situated for start of class coming up in in a couple of weeks.

No rest for the weary!  I got ready and flew on down to take care of the paperwork.   Wow!  The paperwork to go through to be a bus driver is awful but I guess where children are concerned, it pays to be cautious about who they are hiring to transport them.

The paperwork ended up almost complete.  They found an error between my social security card and my current drivers license that would need to be corrected before I could enter class down there.  On my driver license its states I am a JR.  On my social security card it states I am not, but it is signed with the JR in my signature.

I hope the fifty miles I drove to get that corrected will be worth it.  The office in Culpeper confiscated my old card and I should expect the corrected social security card in the mail within two weeks.   Now, to the world, I am not my father.

I’m a member and regularly visit dozens of sites that specialize in travelers’ reviews but I rely mostly on TripAdvisor. Its system is super simple, but quite effective and there are so many users on there that I can also look up other reviews that users have written so I can trust their reviews based on what they thought of other sites and destinations I’ve gone to.

I regularly write reviews myself of attractions that I think are really outstanding or absolutely horrible. I also like to include video clips of trips to give the other users better ideas of what they’re getting into and the reason I reviewed something a certain way. I recently decided to Get Wild Blue so I could upload these easier and watch others’ videos too that dial-up wasn’t loading or playing at a decent speed.

Since then I’ve gone on a few weekend trips with friends that I’ve reviewed a few destinations for but I try not to get too crazy. Writing those reviews are pretty time-consuming.

I was reading a webhostinghub review about how easy it is to create a small business website and thought that maybe that is one way I can help my cousin from afar – I could help her with her website.  I’ll offer to set it up for free and help her out that way.  I’m sure that will be a relief for her.  Now she can focus on her fund raising and picking out a location for her business and all of the other hundreds of decisions that need to be made when you plan something that big and great!

I can remember taking it one year to Gettysburg during a spring break.  It was unseasonably cold there, and even though we had the heater cranked up as high as it would go, we were still freezing!  Then there was a Christmas break down to the some islands off of the coast of the Carolinas.  I can’t remember at the top of my head what the name of the islands were; I just remember how my parents had the smallest artificial Christmas tree I’ve ever seen perched on top of the dining table!

My parents modified the trailer so that one of us actually slept in the bathtub, one of us on top of the dresser in the bedroom, one of us on a cot in the kitchen, and two of us on the sofa-bed, while my parents slept in the double sized bed in the bedroom!  Looking back, I think my parents were crazy, but I have to give them credit for trying!

It’s about a guy coming out of the bathroom, telling his wife that they are out of toilet paper. In an instance, you see a toilet paper roll fly up, barely striking the guy at the side of his head while it is flying by. The funny part about this is that as the roll is flying by, it shaves off a section of his hair because of how rough it supposedly is.

In the next scene, he comes out again, asking for another roll. Just to have it puff up into a million fluff balls because it’s too soft this time. Of course, the third time he dares to ask for another roll, hiding by the door, he is tossed the right toilet paper, which the commercial is for and everyone is happy. I just love the first part of the commercial, where he has a strip of hair missing after the paper roll zooming by.

I’m glad I have cable tv, where I can just record my favorite shows, and commercials to my DVR to watch over and over again.

I’ve noticed over the past few months that Mom’s vision seems to be getting worse, she is wearing stained clothes that she didn’t pretreat because she didn’t see the stain, either before OR after washing it.  So off we went to the eye doctor.  The doctor said that Mom has a large cataract in her right eye, and a lot of small ones in her left eye.  And her prescription has changed since last year, so the eye doctor wrote her a new prescription.  He suggested that she go to frame selection part of his office and pick out a new pair of glasses.  I asked him to please put on the prescription the pupillary distance between her eyes so that we could buy the glasses from Zenni Optical – a website that sells inexpensive glasses.  I don’t begrudge this guy the right to earn a living, but Mom is on a tight budget and can’t afford to pay the high prices he charges for glasses!

Living out in the country, on a private dirt road, with only a few neighbors in close proximity, you would think a neighborhood watch would be useless. Instead, it is probably the single most useful tool to preventing any of our homes from being broken into or other crimes form taking place. Choosing to live outside of a gated community type of setting allows freedom, but also comes at a cost. With no private security in place, and the State Police over 30 minutes away, neighbors need to band together to keep the area safe for the families that live here.

Taking turns with the neighbors, we patrol the area every few hours, and have come across some very interesting situations that were reported to the police. We don’t follow a set schedule, and you may find two or more of the families out at the same time, but there is almost always someone watching out.

There are a few “party houses” in our area that draw large crowds on weekends. Because of this, we’ve installed motion detector lighting around the entire house and garage, and a home alarm system, to warn us if anyone is trying to get in the door. I feel safer knowing that if something happens, the door alarm system is there as another layer of protection.