How to spend money you don't have.

This week ends my spending. For a while at least. Since my tax rebate I have saved my money and then spent it all in the last month. Some are necessities, others not so much. I got my sister an iPod Mini (Gold) for her birthday on the 8th. I also got myself a iPod shuffle and it is great! If you like books on tape this ends all reasons not to use Audible where you can get 3 books for only 22 bucks. And a stick of gum sized player replaces the tons of cassettes or CDs previously needed. Only a few books are to large to have the whole book on the cheapest iPod Shuffle.
I've also dumped a bundle on compusa this year with the Hard Drive to backup my Laptop, a Palm PDA to keep notes, dates, and contacts on. I also went to get a cheap digital camera which turned out cheaply made. I in turn just got an SD card and ended up trying e(vil)bay one last time so I could get a cheap good camera . Compusa also got a $100 bucks from me because of SOE, which released Everquest 2 as a free trial. After playing EQ2 I'm not impressed, at least I got a good card.

The new card can have dual monitors. Its got me greedy enough to jump at a chance for a 19" LCD for less than $300. I got this great deal from buy.com which helped out on the tax which would have brought it over $300. They gave me $15 off with this coupon. What a deal.
But there is another snag. Now I have to turn in hundreds of $$ in rebates which had better come or I'm busted :P

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South Lake Tahoe

As often happens things get dropped in my lap when no-one has a clue. Our family rarely has time to vacation with everyone going to school or teaching. For spring break we all decided to get a cabin. In past years a friend, relative, acquaintance has provided the opportunity to get one at just the cleaning fee. This time we are on our own.

After much searching and with our usual last minute scramble we decided on a 5 bedroom cabin on sale. Most all of the cabins were in neighborhoods but being close to the snow and lake, and with parking for 5 cars it should work out perfect. (best part is no pets no smoking and a hot tub)

My many Emails

Well mozilla finally got it together and released a Thunderbird extention that allows for hotmail. jholdaway at hotmail.com is my email of choice, and Thunderbird is the best email browser ever and the best RSS/Blog reader too. Well it was allot more work than I thought and I ended up giving up. It would timeout after 30 or so emails and I had 2000+ emails in the account. So I emptied all my pre-2005 and it remained over 300 emails. As I said I ended up giving up. It was mostly the hotmail deal, If only they could get that working. But it was also the many email accounts I have. Here they are. jholdaway at hotmail.com jholdaway at gmail.com jholdaway at pcfocus.net jeffholdaway at comcast.net jh349 at csus.edu theholdawayfamily at hotmail.com holdawayfamily at comcast.net pcfocus at pcfocus.net jeff at pcfocus.net jholdaway at holdaway.net jholdaway at howtonfamily.com UPDATE: decided while im at it i should give my cellphone an email. To send me a message to my cellphone send it to jeff at holdaway.net As more and more people are finding out that emails change very often they are switching to hotmail. I did years ago. Our family email is now theholdawayfamily at hotmail.com. This is because it went from @comcast.net to @home.net to @attbi.com to @comcast.net, All due to merger after merger. Now we stick with hotmail.com 'cause it is likely to stay for years to come. P.S. an update on my new hard drive. I got it today, everything went smoothly. I sent Aunt Sandra a UPS label by email and check by billpay (BofA). UPS dropped a package Monday (what luck) so I got the drive today.

Just a bunch of links.

Everyday I check out all the major news stories. On all the major websites. No not MSNBC.com, no not CNN.com. I mean like slashdot.org or boingboing.net. Well today had too many great links to pass up. So im gonna list them right now. (Ready?) Help rat on people who sing Happy Birthday! Pranks on ZUG.com (check out The Credit Card Prank, The Credit Card Prank II, and Toll Booth Prank) I haven't looked at the rest but these were highly recomended and I found them hillarious! Also try out Angry Alien Productions. I really enjoyed alien bunnies.
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