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If you get tired of those ads that pop up on your computer screen while surfing, you can get rid of them for good. Just look for a good popup blocker and you won’t have to see those ads anymore. You can find a lot of them online and if you search around, you can get one that will make your surfing experience online much more enjoyable. They are easy to download in most cases and once you download them and reboot your computer, you won’t see anymore of those annoying pop up ads. Don’t worry if you have 1 or 2 websites that you need to see that pop up on, because you can easily turn off your pop up blocker and then turn it back on again, to start getting protection. So if your computer doesn’t have a pop up blocker installed on it already, be sure to go out and find one today!

If you work the graveyard shift, you might be more prone to get cancer. It was a theory at one time and is now gaining accpetance and many feel that it can be directly linked to cancer. The late shift is the hours for 20 percent of the working population in the modern countries. This new information could affect millions and millions of people that working in the dark hours of day and sleeping the light hours of day. If you have a 3rd shift job right now, you might want to investigate further into this for your self.

In recent years, these studies have found that women that work the late shift are more likely to get breast cancer. Also the tests points to the same thing in animals too. Animals that seem to stay awake in the night hours grow tumours more and they die quicker as opposed to the animals that are awake in the daylight hours. The American Cancer Society said it would most likely add shift work to its list of “known and probable carcinogens” when the IARC makes its reclassification.

They are still more tests that need to be run to prove this information further, but the evidence coming out right now, does support that the 3rd shift jobs cause cancer. I have worked several 3rd shift jobs in my life. I really enjoy being up at night and sleeping during the day. When you get your body use to these conditions, I think its harder to go back to the normal way of sleeping, than it was to train your body to stay up all night. I think this latest news will get a lot of workers asking if 1st shift is available.

I’m glad to see basketball season here and particularly the college guys. I love college basketball. My favorite two teams are the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the Georgia Bulldogs. Your not suppose to be a fan of both of these teams, but I am. I just like rooting for my hometown teams and I have to root for them both. I think the Yellow Jackets will do better than the Bulldogs, but both programs are getting in good recruits and I would expect them both to be making the NCAA Tournament soon.  If you can have two teams in the field of 64, it makes March Madness so much better.

The college basketball tourney is set up better than any other tournament or playoff setting in any other sport. Even the pros don’t have anything on the NCAA guys when it comes to basketball. They do such a good job in placing teams from many different areas of the country and letting them battle it out on a neutral court. It’s really fair the way college basketball is done and no one is left complaining at the end of the year. Every team has the chance to show what they got and that’s not the case in college football. So the football in college really needs to look at the basketball tournament and try to come up with something better, than what they have now.

I had a great time during Thanksgiving this year. The best part was once again the food! I always like eating the turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce and all the other great things that you eat on Thanksgiving. I think I am still stuffed because I did eat so much. It might be time to lose some weight or at least trying to work off some of those excess calories I added on Thanksgiving. I’m not big on exercising and eating less, so maybe I could just get a diet patch and take the easy way out. I might just wait for Christmas to get here, because I will be over eating again that day too! So maybe this talk about taking off a few pounds will wait until Santa Claus has stopped by or I might just wait for the New Year and make it my New Year’s resolution. I wonder if anybody has ever made a New Year’s resolution about trying to lose more weight?

It looks like I will be losing this week’s game and we have 1 game left before the playoffs start. I am hanging on to a playoff spot for now, but I have to win in the final week to make it in. I will be facing the 2nd worse team in the league. That team would have beat me by 100 points if I played them this past week. So my guys have to play better and I hope I can find the right combination to make it in the playoffs.

My Projected Lineup For the Final Week

QB Peyton Manning

WR Joey Galloway

WR Greg Jennings

WR Chris Henry

RB DeShaun Foster

RB Maurice Jones-Drew

TE Alge Crumpler

WR/TE Devin Hester

WR/RB Adrian Peterson (Chicago Bears)

K Shayne Graham

DEF Tampa Bay

INDIVIDUAL DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: James Harrison, Jermaine Phillips, Bob Sanders, Chris Harris, Demeco Ryans and Patrick Willis.

OPPONENT’S PROJECTED LINEUP

QB Kurt Warner

WR Kevin Curtis

WR D.J. Hackett

WR Roddy White

RB Fred Taylor

RB Maurice Morris

TE Dallas Clark

WR/TE Justin Gage

WR/RB Justin Fargas

K Stephen Gostkowski

DEF Green Bay

INDIVIDUAL DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: Kirk Morrison, Brian Urlacher, Nate Clements, Champ Bailey, Thomas Howard and Julian Peterson

Believe it or not my biggest fear is the kicker. The New England Patriots have been playing so well lately and their field goal kicker scares me in this week’s match up. Hopefully the Patriots will have a bad week and I can count on the two Justins to have bad games as well. I will need for my running backs to show up in Week 13. Adrian Peterson has been added to my roster and he will join up with Maurice Jones-Drew and DeShaun Foster for me to have some type of running game. Chris Henry has been a pleasant surprise and I hope he can continue to put up points for me to.

I will be sure to up-date you on my fantasy football season and see if I can make it to the playoffs this year. Fingers Crossed!

People use blog to stay connected to families, friends, and the world. The marketplace has seen the power of this relationship and started to capitalize on this with a new form of marketing. Using blogs as a community vehicle for new products, services, or campaigns has gained traction over the last year or so and now the market is really expanding.bloggerwave is one such company that has just launched that enables bloggers and advertisers to connect. Bloggers get paid a certain amount to write about an advertisers product or service and this helps the advertisers to market and brand their products. This form of advertising is a great way to create brand awareness especially if this is a new product. Many companies have seen the power of the blog and are now trying to harness that power as a new marketing tool.

I know a lot of people might have fears right now in the stock market, but rest assure this is a good time for investors. The market is sluggish, but this is the time to be investing. Retailers are about to get a jolt from shoppers that will rush to all the malls on Friday (after Thanksgiving) and this should be the start of a steady stream of shopping that will go on for the next month. Many think shoppers will spend less this holiday season due to the high cost of gas. I must admit that the gas prices have caught me off guard and I didn’t see this one coming. I think the oil trend is only going to get worse. We might not see it slip too much and just watch it go even higher as Spring Break rolls around.

I know things seem gloomy and the market is unstable right now, but I still feel like this is a great buying opportunity for investors. It might take 12 months to see the benefits of investing now, but the prices will go back up again. If you’re under the age of 50 and you see something worth investing in, then by all means go for it! I can’t believe all the great deals that are out there right now and you can pick just about any sector to strike it rich right now. I do like the pharmacy stocks like a Wal Greens, Eckerds, or Rite Aid to add a little extra cash in right now. See if you can find one of the pharmacy retailers to invest in and try to put your money there until the Christmas season has passed. I would be looking for all the clothing and electronic retailers at the first of the year and see if I could find any bargains there. For now my best advice is to keep investing and buying up these cheaps stocks and try adding a pharmacy retail stock to your portfolio if you don’t have one already.

There are so many great ways that you can fix up your home and yard these days. Some take a lot of time and effort while other things can be really simple and quick to do. One of the simple things you can do is adding an address plaque to your yard. Artificial Rocks Factory is a place that the address plaques are made from and they can come to you with a preprinted message like “welcome” or you can personalize it with your last name or address on it. These address rocks can instantly touch up any yard and make your home stand out in the neighborhood.

Artificial Rocks Factory wants you to know that any orders placed by November 29th, will be in time for the holidays. These would make great gifts for the holiday season and you can even have them personalize, to show that you put effort into this year’s gift. These fake rocks can still reach your home by Christmas if you’re willing to take a preprinted message and your order is in by December 13th. I think adding that personalize message on the fake rock is what makes it a great gift, so try to get your orders in by November 29th.

We all get mail, packages, and probably even pizza delivered to our homes from time to time. It can be hard to find where you live at, if you don’t have an address marker that clearly shows your address on it. These artificial rocks (that look real) are a great way to let people know where you are at. There is no way that you’re ever going to miss a package or get your pizza cold, because the delivery person couldn’t find your home. One of these beautiful address markers will be a sure way to show everyone where your house is at. Go see if you can find one that will look nice in your yard!

Thanksgiving is going to be here in a few days and it will be time to break out the Christmas decorations. I think most people wait until the Thanksgiving Day festivities are over to put up their Christmas Trees, but I know some people that have theirs up already. We have put up our tree before Thanksgiving in the past, but I think we are going to wait until the weekend after Thanksgiving to put ours up this year. I have many memories of putting up the tree and watching the Heisman Trophy presentation too. So I think it would be safe to say that we have put up our Christmas Tree more times on Saturady, than any other day of the week. What day of the week do you put your Christmas Tree up? Do you do it before, on, or after Thanksgiving?

We haven’t had many rainy days in the South this year, but its looking good for Thanksgiving. We should see plenty of the wet stuff on turkey day and it got me to thinking about what it use to be like on those rainy days.

There is nothing better than a day full of rain, when you can lie on the couch all day and watch movies. Grab a few snacks or get the popcorn machines going and munch on popcorn all day. I miss days like that and this drought pattern we are in now, makes those days more valuable than they use to be. I’m sure I will be pretty lazy on Thanksgiving Day this year. Rain is in the forecast and I will be pigging out on all the turkey and dressing I can eat. I probably will watch a movie or two that day, but football is the main thing to watch on Thanksgiving. It’s even more exciting when your team is playing on Thanksgiving Day and this year the Atlanta Falcons will be playing the Colts, so I look forward to that match up. My Falcons aren’t looking too good, but I’m sure with the sweet potato pie close by, I will have something to ease the pain with. So here’s hoping for a rainy Thanksgiving Day and I hope your day is as lazy as mine will be!

Our lives are getting easier with technology, but some may dispute that. We do have things that make our lives easier, but many times we have to learn about something new. Learning something new is not always a pleasant thing to do, but it does keep our minds sharp. Even the kid’s toys are much more sophisticated these days. They do all the texting on their phones and the video games are unreal, compared to the way Atari and Ping Pong brought us video games.

Most things you go out and buy now have a long instruction manual that will come with it. It’s important to read this and to hang on to it for future references. I use to take products out of a box and put them together with no problems. Now we have many more features with the products we buy and if not assembled properly, you might be missing out on one of these features. It might be more frustrating and seem complicated at first, but this new high tech era we are in now, is designed to make our lives easier. Just be sure to sit down and look over your instruction manuals on the next products you get, so you can be sure you’re doing everything right. You will find in the long run that technology is our friend and not our enemy!

The You Tube Sensation Alex has just started high school. You can see more of her high school story at Single Source Writing. Alex appears to be very happy and excited about all the opportunities that might exist in high school. She is only 15 years old, but is quickly making a name for her self over at You Tube. This Mexican teen has been posting videos of her singing talents at You Tube and has developed a loyal fan base. I have been following her progress at my other blog Single Source Writing. I thought it would be fun to watch a star in the making, as Alex makes her way to success.

I keep saying I need to get in shape, but I never do it. It would help if I had some home gym equipment that I could work out on. I think my legs and stomach need the most work on them right now. That gut of mine needs to come off. I guess some sit-ups would be a great way to start there. The legs are something I need the gym equipment for and it helps to work the arms too. I do have a few weights around the house, but I think I need more of a cardiovascular workout right now. My endurance is really low right now. I can do the least little thing and I am out of breath and tired. It’s also easy for me to do a little physical activity right now and be sore for 2 or 3 days from it. So my body is screaming at me to get in better shape. I hope I can just bare down soon and start some type of exercise program. It wouldn’t hurt things either if I changed up my diet a bit, so I would be eating things that were better for me. I think diet and exercise is the two best things you can do for your body. Those exercises are not fun while you’re doing them, but it makes you feel better in the long run.

I need to connect to a good heater and stay there today. I don’t care what the calendar said, but when I woke up this morning it was cold. It might still be Fall, but when its this cold outside, it feels like winter to me. We have a big shortage on water in my area of North Georgia. We did get some rain the other day that helped out slightly, but at least the cold weather will evaporate away less of the water we have now. We still need a lot of rain, but the cold temperatures will help things if they stick around. I have a feeling it will get back warm again before Thanksgiving. If the cold weather would have just got here a bit sooner, we would probably have the mountains in North Georgia covered in white instead of the wet stuff we got.

I think the only real estate lesson that I have learned over the years, is that I should have bought more of it. I believe we all have a story that we can recall a certain piece of land that cost so and so dollars and is now worth a lot more. It seems to be a cycle that never ends. Real estate just continues to go up all the time and the more stores and malls that get built around it, make it just that much more attractive to buyers. I wish I had started a real estate franchise or something like that, so I could have took advantage of all the growth over the past few years. While I sit here today and feel like I have missed out on something, it will probably hold true for tomorrow too. I think land is just going to continue to go up over the years, as our planet becomes more overcrowded. Now is a better time to take advantage of the real estate industry as opposed to tomorrow. Next week will be better than tomorrow and so on. So if you’re a little undecided on which direction you would like to make a career choice in, my vote would be for real estate. So many people have made huge bucks on the real estate market and I don’t expect that trend to slow down anytime soon.

I have been a delivery boy for both flowers and pizza. I’m not sure which one people like the most, because everyone is happy when they have flowers or pizza delivered to their house. I know delivering pizza, you’re taking it to a family that is expecting it; while people that get flowers, don’t always know they are getting them. I know you expect flowers for a funeral or wedding flowers, but people get surprised on their birthdays, holidays, or just from a secret admirer, when they receive flowers.

Most of the time people would look at you like you was lost, if you were bringing flowers to them. They would always be surprised and curious to see that it was their name on the card for the flowers I would be delivering them. I guess if flowers were to arrive for me today, I would be shocked too. I don’t feel like anyone would be sending me flowers and I guess that is the way most people do feel in general. Another good thing about flowers compared to pizza, is that no one ever complains about their flowers being late or cold.

Yesterday was my birthday and I got to play with my new Viking cue for the first time. It shot really great and I am happy that I chose the Viking pool stick that I have now. I did see other brands that were higher in price that I would prefer, but Viking makes a good quality pool stick. I am very happy with my choice and I think my next new pool stick, I will stay in the Viking family too.

I need to get a lot of practice in this winter, so I can start playing in pool tournaments next summer. I think I need a good 6 months of training on the tables, before I have that winning mentality it takes to win the pool tournaments. I use to play all the time, so I know how to play the game mentally, its the physical part of my game that I have to tweak now. Practice does make perfect and I will need lots of it, to come even close to being pefect with my pool game right now.

All the fancy pages and java screens that you have to open up these days online are almost impossible if you don’t have enough computer memory. Your computer runs so much better when you have plenty of extra memory. It’s almost like comparing dial up with a broadband internet service provider. If you didn’t have memory high on your list, when you bought your last computer, you probably notice that you need more now. You can purchase more memory for your computer and this can be cheaper than going out and buying a new computer. Just look up what memories are available for your computer and its very easy to install. You can find something like IBM memory and just add it to your existing computer. If you were lagging online lately, try adding that computer memory and see if that gives you a jolt!

Well my fantasy football team got spanked good this past Sunday. I am still holding on to a playoff spot in the 6th position, but my guys have to step up in these final weeks for me to have a chance to make a splash in the post season. James Harrison from the Pittsburgh Steelers had a great Monday Night game and made the score closer than what it really was. He put up a 24 point effort, but my team still needed about another 100 points for me to have a W this past week.

So I will be sending out my troops this Sunday in a must win game for me. If I don’t win this week, the playoffs might just be a dream for my fantasy team.

MY TEAM

QB Peyton Manning

WR Antwaan Randle El

WR Chris Henry

WR Marty Booker

RB Lamont Jordan

RB Maurice Jones Drew

TE Greg Olsen

WR/TE Greg Jennings

WR/RB DeShaun Foster

K Nate Kaeding

DEF Dallas

INDIVIDUAL DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: James Harrison, Stephen Cooper, Bob Sanders, Chris Harris, Patrick Willis, Mike Peterson

MY OPPONENT

QB Phillip Rivers

WR Ike Hilliard

WR Lance Moore

WR Steve Smith

RB Reggie Bush

RB Rudi Johnson

TE Chris Cooley

WR/TE Wes Welker

WR/RB Nate Burleson

K Kris Brown

DEF Kansas City

INDIVIDUAL DEFENSIVE PLAYERS: E.J. Henderson, Aaron Kampman, Sean Jones, Roy Williams, Kenyon Coleman, and Lofa Tatupu

This team has only managed to win 2 games this year, but they have some players on their team that are capable of putting up big numbers. I worry about Reggie Bush and Wes Welker having big games this Sunday. This is a must win game for me and is probably going to be my biggest game all year long.

My fingers are crossed!!!

You can’t forget the Caribbean Islands either, when you’re talking about some of the best beaches in the world. The Grand Cayman is a beautiful island that allows you to mix business with pleasure in one of the most desired places in the Caribbean Islands. You can also find great deals on your lodging; when you look for the cheap Grand Cayman Hotels for your vacation. Now is a great time to start planning that vacation for next summer and you don’t want to forget the beaches that are located just on the out skirts of the USA. Be sure to look for other great international hotel deals, when you figure out which place you plan to take the family on your next vacation.