Cheryl Beckham

With the weather just being so wacky this winter, the past couple of days have been in the high 70′s, there are plenty of people taking advantage of the nice weather to get a good amount of outside projects done that normally don’t get done until spring. And if they aren’t busying doing outside work they are busy having outside fun. Heck my neighbor is just itching to start getting his swimming pool cleaned up and ready for water fun in the sun.

He was looking at swimming pool liners back last summer and but actually purchased a new pool cover so he is excited at the prospect of enjoying all that having a swimming pool in your back yard has to offer. His close friends, family and neighbors are looking forward to it as well, I can tell you that.

I have a feeling that we are going to pay dearly for having such a mild winter by having an extremely hot summer, so having a neighbor with a pool might possibly be one of the ways to help beat the heat that we are in store for real soon here.

Talk about a rush! The paintball war games I participated in last week are so cool! They’ve changed quite a bit over the years since the first time I ever played. We were never that organized nor did we have the advantage today’s gamers have when it comes to paintball equipment. I found this fabulous paintball guns and accessories site and if you’ve ever wanted to try your luck at paintball then this is the perfect place to get your gear for the game!

I’ve decided to go with a complete new outfit myself, and since they offer what I think is the best in paintball guns, as well as other needed name brand paintball related gear, I’ve chosen one of several packages they have to offer, called the tippmann x7 package. It’s a great sniper version package that offers what I’m looking for in a paintball outfit. The best thing of all, besides that they’re the better prices, is that they offer totally FREE shipping! Now you just can’t beat that.

For some reason I have gotten into watching MTV’s hit series Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. I don’t know why it interests me so much but it seems to catch my attention when I’m channel surfing and I find it on. I feel so bad for these young kids that have found themselves in an adult situation and for the most part they are not handling well what-so-ever. And most of all my hearts go out to these babies that were born to babies.

One of my favorite shows to watch on TV is “How It’s Made” which comes on the Science Channel almost every day. No matter what it is that they are showing us, I learn something interesting, fascinating and/or entertaining, which I can’t say about any other show that my current satellite provider offers us.

There’s a grocery store in Europe that makes our little ’self-checkout’ lines look obsolete already.  In Germany, there’s a grocery store that you take your cell phone, scan the items with it that you put in your shopping cart and then when you get to the check out, your cell phone will display a bar code for everything you scanned total, the check out person scans that and you pay and out you go.

So it looks like we’re not only looking at advances in grocery shopping but also in cell phones.  At the check out, once you scan the payment bar code, you can pay by cash, credit card, debit card or fingerprint (after you have signed up for fingerprint shopping).  And the politicians wonder why we are falling behind the rest of the world where technology is concerned.