Honor Your Veteran

By Valerie | May 25, 2009

HonorYourVeteran.com If you’d like to honor someone who has served in the armed forces, visit this site! You can post a little about them, when and where they served. Sections of the memorial wall are divided by war, and there’s a section for peacetime service as well. For security reasons, don’t post anything about active…

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Property Tax Appraisals

By Valerie | April 28, 2009

I’d been “eagerly” awaiting my annual property tax assessment to make sure the city wasn’t overvaluing our house since the market is in a slump. If one intends to contest the amount, it has to be done by May 1st. Having not received it in the mail yet, though I got a “bill” for the…

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Spring Fever

By Valerie | February 17, 2009 |

Since we still have a month of cold weather, I’m itching to do some decorating — my master bedroom is in need of an overhaul: linens, paint, curtains, carpet, the whole ball of wax. I’ve actually been looking for linens that I LOVE for a couple of years. The problem is, I want spring colors…

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Humbled at Arlington

By Valerie | February 9, 2009

I was in the DC metro area over the weekend and had the opportunity to visit Arlington National Cemetery (it’s actually located in Ft. Meyer, Virginia, not the city of Arlington). I’ve been there before, but once again I was humbled to see the over 200 acres of graves and monuments. More than 300,000 people…

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Love my new-and-improved Tivo

By Valerie | December 31, 2008

I just finished a hard drive upgrade of my trusty Series 2 Tivo. I purchased InstantCake software from dvrupgrade.com for $19.99. It formatted the new high-capacity hard drive and installed the Tivo software on it lickety split. Took me longer to get the old windows PC out of the attic and set it up than…

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No “L” gift ideas

By Valerie | November 26, 2008

I added some fun designs to my zazzle panel. The “No L” idea was Mike’s a few years ago. I had a great time wearing a button with it to work and watching people as they thought about it then finally figured it out. make custom gifts at Zazzle

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To Scan or Not to Scan

By Valerie | September 24, 2008 |

I’m thinking about getting this scanner. Sure wish I could find someone that actually owns one. What do I need it for? Scanning photos for video montages. Now, I wouldn’t put an antique photo through a feeder, but just about any other one is fair game. I’d just like to see how it works before…

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Chip-In!

By Valerie | September 9, 2008

I stumbled upon this new site/service when I was visiting the homepage of a WordPress Plugin author: Chip In. I can see this particular site, which works in conjunction with PayPal as being very useful for a lot of client sites. In particular for charitable organizations. Yes, I know you can already take donations via…

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