Julie Callaway » Technology and Gadgets

Holiday bonus

Julie — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:23:32 +0000

I got a great surprise this afternoon. As I was leaving the office for the holiday weekend, my boss handed me an envelope. I did not open it until I got to my car; expecting $50 or maybe even $100. As I opened the envelope, I almost fell over with surprise!!

He had given me a $500 bonus for Christmas!! I was not even expecting a bonus, since I have only worked for him for a year. But man, this was a great Christmas gift. I have been needing a new television set in my living room for about 1 1/2 years now, mine went out, and I could not afford to fix it or buy a new one. So, this is buying me a new television set!!! They have some great sales going on right now. Thank you Mr. Elliott for the wonderful gift.

When will the “chicken littles” get over it?

Julie — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:01 +0000

Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you. For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men? Good grief! Get over it already! If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?

This is probably old news to you

Julie — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:58:32 +0000

My sister sent me a link to a story on a news site that she likes to read about a story of some Danish college students who were kicked off of Facebook because they had documented with photographs (posted on the web) themselves cooking and eating a cat. They claimed that they were doing this to protest the way that people eat animals in general, and that their cat was a feral cat killed by a farmer who was trying to control the number of cats on his land, but their efforts created such a huge outrage that they ended up getting kicked off of Facebook.

I know that there are some cultures that eat cats (and dogs) routinely, but those are two animals that I cannot imagine myself eating on purpose. If I could arrange my life so that I was a vegetarian I would do so, but my life is a little too complicated for that right now.

Pigeons for dope smuggling?

Julie — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:04:14 +0000

I was reading an article on ananova.com a story that prisoners in a Bosnian jail were using pigeons to smuggle heroin into jail. It seems that one of the rehabilitation programs in the jail involves raising pigeons, and someone in the program took it a little bit further than intended. The “guilty” pigeon has been put behind birdy bars. I’m surprised that the folks in charge of security didn’t see something like this as a possiblity of happening as a result of raising pigeons!

Goodbye and Hello

Julie — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:02:21 +0000

Right before I was ready to leave work, my friend Joann called on my cell phone and I decided to answer it even though i was technically still “on the clock.” I had finished up my shift and was heading for the break room to clock out, so I took a chance that my manager wouldn’t have a fit about me using my cell phone. They can be real jerks sometimes, but this time I just decided to take that chance and if they fussed then I would beg forgiveness. If they want to give me a hard time about something this trivial, then I will start looking for another job. I’m sick of all the BS anyway. I work hard for them and sometimes go way above and beyond the “call of duty” so you would think they would appreciate that and cut me a little slack on the minor things. Geesh!

FaceBook

Julie — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:44:32 +0000

I, like so many others in this wonderful world of ours, LOVE to play the applications on Face Book. I have two farms in Farmville, a homestead in Frontierville, a city in Cityville, an Island in Treasure Island… the list goes on and on and on.

Like most Face Book users, I use the applications for entertainment and to kill time when I happen to have some extra time on my hands. I go to my Frontier for relaxation, harvest a few crops, try to complete a few missions and then move on to Farmville. I have an English farm and an American farm. I grow and harvest crops on both farms, build new buildings, raise animals and (new to Farmville), complete missions. Farmville is celebrating its 1 year anniversary this week. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Farmville!!!

Some people say (such as Betty White when she hosted SNL), that Face Book is a big waste of time. And true, it is. But, if you have time to waste, the I can’t think of a better way to do it. It’s fun, it’s relaxing and you get to communicate with people you haven’t heard from in years, not to mention all the new “friends” I have made.

Completely unprepared

Julie — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:19:50 +0000

Today I went to a Red-Hatter party where we all met at Patty’s house to learn how to sell things on Ebay. Patty’s been selling things on Ebay for several years and she invited us all to come over and she would help us set up our seller accounts and list something for sale.

When we got to her place, she was completely unprepared. It seems that her comuter is over ten years old, and kept shutting down in the middle of what we were doing. She didn’t have a camera ready to take photos of the items, she didn’t have a list of the flat rate USPS box dimensions and prices, and she didn’t have a tape measure or postage scale.

And to top it off I think she was a little bit inebriated. What a shame!

PLEASE Tell ME This is Fake!

Julie — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:52:26 +0000

I know people who can do really funny things with Photoshop. I really hope this is not a real sign. PLEASE tell me that someone used Photoshop to create this as a joke.

Andy Griffith

Julie — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:02:16 +0000

Was cruising the television last night trying to find something interesting to watch. You would think that with all the channels that I have that there would be plenty to pick from. Not happening here folks. I did end up watching a few episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, which was pretty cool.

Cell Phone Issues

Julie — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:56:17 +0000

I can’t wait for the end up June to arrive. I will then be totally done with my two year commitment with my current cell phone provider. I’m so tired of their B.S. and have wanted to sign up with another provider for such a long while now.

The Internet will certainly come in handy in finding which provider will have all the things that I need. A chore like this one could take some time and time is money, neither which I have much of these days.