LOTSA STUFF OTHER THAN WEATHER HAS BEEN GOING ON

I know people who were a little like Nero, the Emperor who fiddled while Rome burned…and there were people who celebrated making it not to the finish line of the contest of the highest office of the nation but to the convention to decide, since he was the only one left, that perhaps he would do…at a cost to us tax payers of just eighteen million bucks! But wait, that amount is a twofer, not only the RNC, to be fair, so does the National Democratic Convention get that exact sum too for their party for the incumbent; is it me or does it just seem like everyone just wants to spend our money in a rather awful economy, an understatement, to prove that, what, so they know how to PARTY?
What are they trying to prove that they are both the candidates?
Jeepers, Misters of us little guys protecting our needs that you both claim to want to help according to your nightly commercials, what’s up?
And this is not the first year for this, why I posted the info on my Facebook page but apparently, NO ONE READ IT!
To this day I do believe that US News and World Report have a legit, reliable, and excellent reputation and that is where this information I have reprinted a portion of it below in quotes. But we have footed the bill on these things for years, it stated and perhaps most didn’t bother to read it, since they already knew it?

“Despite their diminished influence, political conventions inexplicably still receive taxpayer funding. While our military faces $55 billion in cuts each year, the Democratic and Republican parties accepted $18 million each to fund their 2012 conventions. Over $220 million of taxpayer money has been spent on party conventions since 1976.”

http://t.usnews.com/a2B26B

Something to think about, hmm?

Moving on…
I have made a purchase from a company called Tiger Direct, which sells online all technological stuff for lack of a more concise word, computers, TV’s etc… loss my train of thought, oops!
I know many of you have high tech phones that allows you to acquire a freebie app called Dragon Dictation or at a low cost… well, I have been keeping my eye on this item since I only have the use of one eye and my hands go numbies way too often, you get my drift and this system is hands free gadget and so, when I received the email from them, apparently we bought something from them a few years back… Any-who, they had this expensive, even in Sam’s Club, for over one hundred bucks but than went on sale and so we went to check it out and the case was empty they were stolen out of it and of course it was the last one, similar problem at Best Buys or none left, I might have gotten the two stores mixed up with their issues, but you get my drift… Well, when Tiger sent me the sale page from them with a sixty buck discount making it only thirty-nine ninety-nine, I thought that was great!
But wait there’s more; yep it had a forty dollar rebate too!
That would mean they owe me a penny, but no, I did have to pay for shipping, but really at $5.25 I couldn’t fill out the forms quick enough and so I did!
Today it arrived.
So far it looks great, but we have not installed it yet; it does even come with the ear phone and microphone speaker part too… The rebate we had to go back online for and print out and there are all different ways to get it sent to you, you have three choices and we opted for the usual a several week wait for the check way. It is a nice hunk a change but its not going change our lives that biggy so we can wait.
PS a few days ago we received another check from the insurance company Progressive, we had opted a while back to have that snapshot thing they advertise on TV, well it does prove to work well, and Hubby has lightened up his old cop heavy footed driving to a softer gentler stance, and for his careful excellent driving we now have a 30% discount on our already reasonable auto insurance policy!
Just thought I would mention two companies that we found to be A’OK!

On that somewhat informative sharing of what we have been really up to…allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!