Jim Mathers

Boy have I found a site that is absolutely great for blogers.  It’s full of beautiful blog pictures that are free for you to use anytime you want in your blogs.  Nothing makes a blog more interesting than a beautiful picture to go with whatever you are bloging about.  All you have to do is create an account and they will send you an email with a password so you can start browsing through all the pictures.  I’m pretty sure you could find just about any type of picture you might want.

You don’t have to resize it like we sometimes have to do in order to make it fit in the blog correctly.  You don’t even have to do anything special at all because they’re already set up so that they will go straight to your blog and look great.  I hate it when you try to put a picture in your blog and it comes out fuzzy or has a bunch of lines in it that make it look distorted.

If you’re writing about how beautiful the autumn leaves are, it makes it even better to add a picture that reflects those beautiful leaves to help them to see what you’re talking about.  What do you think?

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You have heard the saying ‘The only difference between men and boys is the size and price of their toys’ I bet.  Well it’s true I have to admit.  I do love my toys.  I also like to go fast so I’m looking into buying an audi turbo for my car.

I couldn’t decide if I wanted a turbocharger or a supercharger and wasn’t really sure of the difference.  Well I found out from their site the main difference is in the power supply.  This site even helps you decide what you really need for you car.  They explain the advantages and disadvantages of both the turbocharger and supercharger.  I think I’ll go with the supercharger.

If you’re looking for more power, check into these guys.  They have everything you need to make your car run better and run faster too.

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I don’t know if the rest of you felt the gas crunch after Hurricane Ike hit Texas but we sure did.  There wasn’t very much gas available in our area until just recently.  It was really getting hard to find a gas station with any gas at all.  Then some of the gas stations that did have gas were charging up to $4.45 a gallon for regular gas, not premium.  Premium was almost $5 a gallon.  That was totally uncalled for if you ask me.  Our governor is looking into price gouging at a lot of gas stations.  It’s a shame people see someone else’s misery as a way to make some extra money but it happens all the time and not only with gas.  At least now it’s easing up and the prices are starting to fall back again.

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Well they opened the new bridge on I 35W in Minneapolis Minnesota today.  It was built to replace the bridge that collapsed last year and killed 13 people.  It’s hard to imagine that something like that could have happened but it did.  One good thing came out of it, it made our federal and state authorities start checking all the other older bridges to try and keep something like that from happening again.  Hopefully it won’t.

A fire engine and ambulance were first across on each side.  In each direction, a line of State Highway Patrol cars was followed by a formation of Department of Transportation construction trucks.  A cluster of awaiting vehicles went honking across for a few minutes, then traffic returned to the more typical of that time of day.  The September 18 opening was well ahead of the scheduled December 24 goal, earning the contractor, Flatiron-Manson, up to $19.6 million in performance bonuses.  Not too bad huh?  Wish I could get a bonus like that for completing a job early but all I get is a ‘good job’ and a pat on the back.  Guess I can’t complain because I don’t have to work as hard as those guys did.

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Did you know that helicopters crash 90 times more frequently than do airplanes?  I didn’t know that.  I never really had any desire to ride in one but now I don’t for sure.  There’s a helicopter accident lawyerthat will take care of you and or your family if something like that should happen, heaven forbid.  Some of the reasons for the crashes are bad weather, pilot error, engine failure and more.  They are great for getting hurt people out of remote places or getting someone quickly to the hospital but if your loved one has been hurt or killed in a helicopter crash, be sure you contact someone that specializes in these types of tragedies.

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