Tony Brewer

The issue of finding the perfect web hosting can be time consuming. With so many options out there, I wouldn’t know where to start, so I’m grateful for my kid brother, who is the family computer whiz, and all of his knowledge and experience. He knows just about everything there is to know about computers and all that the Internet has to offer us these days. If I have any questions I know that I can turn to him and he will gladly take the time to explain or come over and take a look at things. Whether it’s a question about managed hosting or colocation or even dedicated servers, he’s got it all under control.

It used to be that each family really needed a doctor, a lawyer, a plumber and a handy man to be able to get by. These days we need to include a computer whiz in order to get by. Thanks little bro!

It is back to school for many of today’s students this week. We will be seeing the big yellow school buses on all the neighborhood roads each weekday morning and afternoon once again. Going back to school in August just doesn’t seem right. We never started school until the day after Labor Day for heaven’s sake. I hear that some schools started on August 2nd, isn’t that just crazy!

My favorite nephew will be graduating high school (at least we hope he will) this year and with the help of some college grants he just might be able to attend at least a half way decent university. Having the Internet certainly makes the task of college scholarships a much easier one to tackle, wish we had had the Internet back in my educational days. With websites such as schoolscholarships.org available even finding good quality minority scholarships shouldn’t be such a challenge.

I can’t believe that my nephew will be out on his own as soon as next summer. He is a good kid and will most likely go far given half a chance. Guess we will see how his senior year goes. I wish him luck!

I keep getting harassed from all sides about me not showing any interest in signing up with Face Book or My Space, but I’m sticking to my guns and refraining from taking part with a huge social networking opportunity. As far as Twittering goes, you don’t want to go there!

Just got an email from my youngest brother informing me that I will need to go by his place a few times over the weekend to feed, water and let his dogs out, get the mail, that kind of stuff, because he and his wife are off to Myrtle Beach South Carolina. He just got a bug up his butt, went online to www.48hourteetimes.com, which he had read some where online about how they offer 48 hour tee times in the Myrtle Beach area and he booked a long 4 day weekend.

He and his wife used to play a lot of golf before he was involved in that awful car accident and totally messed up his back. It has been a slow road for him to get to where he is today four years later. He still needs some surgery done in the near future, but he is doing his therapy, following doctor’s orders, exercising and has lost a good amount of weight, which is good for his diabetes along with his bad back. Anyway he is starting to play golf again this past year and apparently found a sweat deal on some tee times on the Internet and he is off and running.

Hope the weather is good for their trip. Bad weather can ruin the best planned vacations, but it wouldn’t be the first time they played a game of golf in the rain. As long as it doesn’t involve lightening and the wind doesn’t kick up a nice shower can be a pleasant experience on the golf course.

One of the things that Teri and I love about autumn is the opportunity to shop for sexy Halloween costumes for Teri to wear to costume parties. We try to go to several costume parties a year. Obviously Halloween is a great time to buy lots of different types of costumes!

Some of the parties we go to are for adults only, and they often have costume contests, so sometimes we go as a coordinating couple. Naturally my costumes are a little bit on the conservative side, compared to the sexy cop costume or sexy pirate costume
that Teri likes to wear, but I enjoy letting the men envy the fact that Teri is coming home with me after the party!

I also like to go all out in decorating the house for Halloween.  We have a casket with a plastic skeleton in it that the lid opens and closes that we put in the front yard, and a lot of fake cobwebs.  We hang orange holiday lights around the windows, and put cornstalks around the mailbox.  I used to carve a lot of jack-o-lanterns by hand, but too many of them got smashed in the past few years for me to want to take the trouble to do that again.  So we’ve started using plastic ones that are already carved.  I nail them to a bench that I put beside the front door.  Those babies aren’t going anywhere!

We have a motion detector hooked up to a light and the sound of a barking dog near the house and the cars so if someone comes to the house after “lights out” (with bad intentions with soap bars or bathroom tissues) the light comes on and the barking dog scares the little varmints away!  We always give out good candy, but sometimes the older kids go out later just to raise a little cain!