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!

Pre Algebra is no longer a subject confined to middle and high schools.  Now it is taught as early as fourth grade!  I was really surprised to learn that my nephew Jason was learning about algebra equations in school. The kid is only ten years old!

I can remember learning how to divide and multiply in fourth grade when I was in school, but I certainly don’t remember going any more sophisticated than that! Sometimes I think that kids are being driven too hard and are not being given the time they need to actually BE kids. Having said that, I know that there are other societies where kids are forced to do manual labor in factories and fields, so maybe learning more advanced math in school isn’t such a terrible thing after all!  After all, many of the job opportunities of the future are going to be strongly rooted in one’s ability to solve problems.

My sister-in-law has been giving me some attitude lately concerning my address sign which is older than dirt at this point. She saw a show on TV which was referring to our emergency personnel having difficulty finding the right place to respond to when called for assistance. I’m sure that at night it would be even more of a challenge.

So she is urging me to get off of my butt and go online and start looking at the variety of address plaques and numbers. She sent me the link to justaddressplaques.com the other day and I’ve spent a bit of time looking around the place and seeing what is out there that might tickle my fancy. I never realized how many varieties there are these days, but I shouldn’t be surprised I imagine. Variety is the spice of life. LOL

It makes sense to get a decent address plaque. My biggest concern is that the pizza delivery person find my place in a timely fashion because I like my pizza still nice and hot!

We just might have a decent weather weekend coming up. It has been a couple of months since we have been able to do anything outside and enjoy it due to the extreme weather that we have been blessed with this summer. So if it really is nice out I’m thinking that hitting a few of the better outside flea markets that are on the outskirts of town. It is good exercise, I always run into people that I know and I know several of the regular vendors that set up at these places so it is a good social experience, besides possibly finding a treasure that I can’t live without and fit in the car!

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!