Amy Currioman

While I was putting the boxes of items on the new storage shelves I tried to take a peek inside them to see what was in them.  I wanted to use a marker to write on the outside what was inside to make it easier to find later.  It really has been a mess down there!  I was pleased to find several boxes marked “Planters” and “Garden Statues.”  I’ve been wondering where my favorite Decorative Planter had gone to when we moved down here three years ago!

We’ve been putting off buying any new Outdoor Planters until we found our “stash” of planters, and now that we’ve come across it we can sort through them and clean them up and see if any are salvageable to use on the front porch or back deck next spring.  Now I’ll be anxious for spring to come again and it isn’t even winter yet!

We recently bought several of the 5 shelf plastic heavy duty storage shelving units to put in the basement to help to de-clutter it. Well, today I decided to march down there and start the de-clutter battle. I put together four of the units and started piling boxes and boxes and boxes on them! Although I would ultimately like to organize them, my mission for the moment is to clear up floor space as much as possible. It’s going to look pretty good when all is said and done!

In today’s technological world Online Trading seems to be a very popular way for the investor to be involved in Stock Trading.  I think that having an Online Broker would be a very convenient way to deal with investing!  There have been many times when I wanted to talk to my own stock broker and had to leave messages on his voice mail and wait for a return call – sometimes several days!

With doing stock trading online, you don’t have to wait for a return call – you place your order and “poof” it is done the same day!  And the fees for trading with an online trading firm are often much lower than the fees for a “regular” stock broker!  And nowadays you can get just as good advice about stocks online as you can with a “real” person.  In fact, sometimes the advice is even better because it is impartial and just relays the facts and figures.

I was taking a nap three days ago when my son came into my room and announced that my computer had been infected with the nasty malware program that calls itself “Security Tools.” What a pain in the neck that was! Fortunately I have a younger brother who lives nearby that makes his living doing IT support. So I called him and he told me that I could bring my CPU to his place and he’d fix it for me. He had to squeeze it in with his paying clients, and while he was at it he installed a bunch of new programs for me. I had to “make do” with my back-up computer in the spare bedroom while my “main computer” was at my brother’s. That was a pain in the neck, but I struggled along.

Thankfully I was able to pick up my CPU last night and bring it home. So now I’m back to almost normal, have to do a little bit of catchup bookkeeping! Whoever created that awful malware should be ashamed of themselves! I’d like to say some very strong things about/to that person, but that would ruin my “family rating” on this blog! All I CAN say is that they have created some very bad Karma, and it is well deserved bad Karma!

I’ve been thinking about expanding my ability to connect to the Internet.  I’d like to get a broadband service but am concerned that I might be in a dead zone.  Unfortunately I don’t know that much about broadband!  I have heard that there are dead zones for them, just like with regular cell phone service.  And I have been told that I need to pick the broadband service that serves the area(s) that I will be in the most.  The research that I’ve done so far seems to indicate that there is no one broadband service company that serves the areas that I frequent – I would have to sign up with several services.  Of course I’m not sure about that – I find it all very confusing!