I have to wonder how many Americans are going to be able to afford to buy new homes in the near future? I know that there are spots around the country where the recession is hurting folks more than others, and I’m sure there are bargains to be had here and there. I’ve been surprised to see how many people are still able to afford custom-built homes. If I had my ‘druthers, I’d want a custom built home too! The Schumacher Homes Louisiana branch of the Schumacher Homes company is a locally run company that designs and builds affordable, quality custom homes for their customers. I’d love to retire in Louisiana and have a custom built house there!
For some strange reason I caught the tail end of the Dr. Phil show today. I just happened to be sitting down at the table for a snack of nachos and turned on the television, and there he was. He was interviewing a woman who was boo-hooing about how her wedding day was a nightmare. She is, herself, an event planner and felt that she could plan her own perfect wedding in less than 24 hours, but it was a shambles and she can’t get over it. Well, all I can say is that she should have known that it takes more than 24 hours to plan and pull off the perfect wedding! Good grief woman, get over it! You’re married, and that’s what counts.
I was surprised to learn about a website called abacus24-7.com; it’s primary target market is the cutomers that need accessories for electronic devices that they have purchased somewhere else. In other words, they don’t sell Dell printers, but they do sell Dell ink. They sell the OEM and the remanufactured ink cartridges for many printers. I’ve never bought a remanufactured ink cartridge for my own printer. In fact I didn’t know that they even MADE remanufactured ink cartridges for my printer!
My own printer is a Lexmark X6170. I usually buy my printer ink at the local big box discount departments store, which I will not name in this post, but most of us have one of these within a half hour’s drive. It only sells the name brand ink for my printer, and every time I run out of ink I cringe about how much money it costs to buy new ink cartridges! But their price has always been lower than the local office supply stores, so I’ve bought it. I haven’t bought ink cartridges over the Internet before because the shipping charges have been astronomical! But this particular website charges a flat fee of only $4.99 within the United States; order over $99 are shipped by standard mail free! This abacus24-7.com site’s price for the remanufactured ink for my printer is a huge bargain! So I think that I am going to order my next cartridges for my printer from them – I’ll be saving money and it will be more convenient too! I just have to remember to order the ink when my printer warns me that I’m running low, and not wait until the last minute!
Sometimes a death bed confession is a good thing. Sometimes it can go awry! It’s a good thing because it can help people get closure when they have been victimized. And it is supposedly a good thing to clear the conscience. I think that too many people rely on death bed confessions as their ticket to heaven, though, hoping that a full confession for forgiveness will clear the slate with the powers that be. This gives them “permission” to keep their sins a secret until the last minute, which I think is a bad thing! Anyway, the whole reason for this post is an article on the bbc.com website that I read about a man in Oklahoma who had a stroke and thought he was on his death bed so he called the police to the hospital and confessed to a 32 year old murder. Well, the man survived, and now he will be tried for murder. I guess his plot to avoid the consequences of killing someone didn’t quite go as planned!