It is good news that the price of gasoline has gone down a little bit, certainly not enough to make much of a difference for most folks though. This economy is draining the population more and more and the need for cash is making it necessary for more people to apply for all types of credit to help make it through the year. I can imagine that this Christmas will not be the best season for retail companies.

A Personal Loan can be applied for right on line these days, the Internet makes the whole process faster, easier and very safe.  Payday Loans are becoming a way of life for a lot of folks and a good web-site to go to for good service for this type of Payday Loan is completeloansource.com your one stop place for every type of loan that you could need, the wife and I used their service last year and it looks like we may require their assistance once again come the holiday season.

School begins here in our town on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008, that is well over a month away and already the TV is full of commercials advertising their “Back to School” merchandise. All of our kids have in hands, their lengthy school supply list and the wife is planning on taking them to Wal-Mart this week-end to get all that they need, in order to get the best buys for their money. You just can’t beat Wal-Mart’s prices for their school supplies, but the kids are not crazy about buying their Fall wardrobe from there, they are begging their mother to take them to the huge Mall that is 2 hours away from here so that they will have their own “unique” wardrobes in order to start the school year in style.

This particular Mall that they want to drive all that way to has tons of stores that are no where to be find around these here parts, and most people do their “Back to School” clothes shopping here locally at this tiny poor excuse of a Mall, so no one will be wearing what they will be sporting! At least that is the plan. 

A friend of mine called today to ask if I’ve been having any problems with a computer program about virus infections. Well seeing as I’ve been offline for awhile due to my being so busy of late with the business end of things, I went ahead and logged on to my account, or should I say, tried to log on. It appears that the antivirus protection program going by the name of ANTIVIRUS XP 2008, has embedded itself into my computer as well. I have as yet been unable to either access the program itself or to erase it from my hard drive. Brings me to believe that the program itself may be a virus or some kind of password stealer that may have been injected into an e-mail or perhaps as an attachment on some site I may have visited. There is no record of my having downloaded anything in over a month or two, so I’m at wits end to figure it out at this point. I’m going to cal one of those geek squads to see if they can get to the bottom of it. I may have to can the whole hard drive at this point and start all over again. I do too much online to have to put up with such nonsense as this.

I was reading an article on the Internet about how a two-thousand year old seed has been sprouted and is now growing quite steadily.  So far it has been growing for twenty six months and is now an amazing four feet tall.  It is the seed of a Judean date tree which is now extinct. 

It seems that according to this article, several seeds of this type were discovered some forty years ago and have been stored until just recently, when a group of scientists decided to try to germinate it.  I’m still not quite sure why they only tried one!  Anyway, what is good and important about this is that they think (and hope) that the tree will have some medicinal uses.  I’m all for that!