I just bought a new car. Actually no I didn’t, but if this car was available in the United States, I would for sure purchase it. Not only as a way to save money, but as a way to get back at the gas companies who are really screwing over America. Mike was talking about changing some driving habits, so I wanted to talk about how I would try to improve mine.

The car is a little bit ugly, and kinda weird looking, but I would take it so that I could save money.

This is the same company who, a few months back, came out with a car that costs only $2,500.00 new (but it’s not available in the US or Canada. A non polluting vehicle that eliminates the reason to buy gasoline from off shore companies.
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This will be very brief, but I am a Seattle Mariners fan.  One of my favorite all-time Mariners was Ken Griffey Jr. and will always be my favorite baseball player, even though he no longer plays for the Mariners.

Today, Griffey Jr., just hit his 600th home run.  He is only the 6th player to reach this milestone, and 2 of them have admitted to or are accused of being on Steroids.  Those two players are Barry Bonds, and Sammy Sosa.  I just wanted to give a shout-out to Griffey, for reaching this marker, without being on “The Juice”.

My wife just wrote a little blog about Hell’s Kitchen, which happens to be my new favorite show now that American Idol is over.

Hell’s Kitchen is a US Television phenomenon as renowned chef Gordon Ramsay puts aspiring chefs through a very rigorous culinary boot-camp.

World-renowned chef GORDON RAMSAY is back for a fourth course of the sizzling unscripted series HELL’S KITCHEN. Wannabe restaurateurs slice and dice their way through each episode, vying for Ramsay’s attention in hopes of winning a life-changing culinary prize.

The “steaks” are higher than ever — the winner of the competition will earn a coveted senior chef position at Ramsay’s new restaurant, Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood, which is scheduled to open in summer 2008. 

The kitchen gets hotter each week as Ramsay puts on the pressure, demanding absolute perfection. Frazzled chefs try to slice and dice their way to the top, as they vie for Chef Ramsay’s approval. The competition is more intense than ever. With more contestants and more dinner services, Gordon’s sharp-tongue and flared-temper is sure to cause some major meltdowns in the kitchen.

Season Three of HELL’S KITCHEN, in which Rock Harper won the coveted title of Head Chef of a new fine Italian restaurant at the Green Valley Ranch Resort and Spa in Las Vegas, outpaced the previous season in ratings. 

- Fox.com

I meant to blog about this sooner, but just kept putting it off. After browsing Mike’s blog, I decided to finally put mine up. I am a big fan of Mitt Romney, and I am a little bit upset that he pulled out of the race for the Republican Party nomination.

Recently, I was hoping that I would find Romney as a Vice Presidential candidate for Sen. John McCain. Unfortunatley, I found out that he has decided not to join McCain’s team. Hopefully, we will see him on the Presidential ballet in 2012.

I have never really gotten into politics.  However, since I started blogging and especially since I started reading Mike’s Blogs, then I have started to get into politics more than I previously have been.  Thanks Mike, it has been fun and I hope to continue.

I spent the last couple of days, and all night tonight trying to figure this out, and finally figured it out.  So, I figured that this deserves a blog posting about it.

Let me mention a couple things first to kinda set up the rest of the story.  My Internet service is through Clearwire, which is wireless Internet.  It works off of towers similar to cellphone towers.  Sometime ago, I rearranged my apartment, and moved my router and modem to the other side of the house by the window, because they added a tower to this area.  With clearwire, you are supposed to get the best signal by a window; however, this did not used to be the case.  Before they added the tower, I got the best signal across the room.

To make a long story short, I had moved my metal filing cabinets over to the window.  I have used them as a stand for some parts to my network.  I am using a Netgear Router, a Belkin Network USB Hub, and a Western Digital My Book World Edition (w/ a network interface).  All the sudden, my wireless router kept dropping signal.  Well, I figured out that if you have the router near large metal surfaces, that it can degrade the wireless signal.  To solve this problem, I switched my little bookcase with the filing cabinets, and I have had no problems since.

For those of you who do not know, I love movies.  This summer is once again an exciting summer for the movie industry.  We have had, and will have several movies on the big screen this summer. Then there are some of my favorities coming out towards the end of the year.

1. Iron Man May 2
2. Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian May 16
3. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull May 22
4. You Don’t Mess with the Zohan June 6
5. Kung Fu Panda June 6
6. The Incredible Hulk June 13
7. The Happening June 13
8. Hancock July 4 
9. The Dark Night July 18
10. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Nov 21

The next time you hear a politician use the word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending your tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases. 

1. A billion seconds ago it was 1959. 
2. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive. 
3. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age. 
4. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet. 
5. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it. 

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