Archive for the ‘Entertainment and Fun’ Category

Insurance Down Under

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

I really love how the Internet can give you a glance into other countries all over the world. Google has a few great translating sites that come in handy, but it can be time consuming and frustrating at times, so I try and stick to countries that I can understand the language better. Australia has always fascinating to me, I’d love to be able to go there at some point in my life time.

Today I had a bit of time to cruise the “net” and found an insurance company in Australia that I took the time to read a bit about. They offer affordable life insurance for their customers, along with accident and illness insurance, income protection insurance as well as cheap funeral insurance which is something that I wasn’t even aware of it’s existence, but it makes sense, anything to make life (and death) easier to deal with, right!

When the time comes that I get to take a trip to the “Land Down Under” you can be sure that the Internet will come into play for the majority of my needs in order to make it the best trip ever!

The A-Team movie

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

We went to see the A-Team movie tonight. I was looking forward to the movie from the moment I saw the first teaser/trailer a few weeks ago when we went to see Iron Man 2. I’ve always loved to watch the television series of the A-Team, and I was curious to see how well the movie would portray the team. It was full of violence and gun fire and explosions – stuff I normally don’t enjoy watching. But knowing that it was the A-Team pulling off a crazy stunt that was eventually doing a good deed. I had heard from a few people that the movie wasn’t very good, but I enjoyed it and would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the A-Team television show.  It makes me want to watch more A-Team reruns!

Tosh.0

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Thanks to my bud Stuart Simon for the post.

Once I was able to figure out my satellite tv installation, I have been watching this great show called Tosh.0. I have started recording all of the upcoming episodes that will play in the future for sure. I absolutely love how he takes clips of videos from the internet and pokes fun at them. You have to admit that one of the best things about the internet is the fact that so many people choose to put funny videos of themselves that show the folly of mankind quite accurately. Lots of the clips that people have posted that he pokes fun at are funny not by intention. I have been watching the reruns that have ran this week as well, and I really love this show. He even had Dave attel and other stand up comics do special bits for the show too. i have always loved the stand up of Daniel Tosh, even though he really reminds me of Hillary Swank.

I don’t have the time to sit and go through all of the epic fail videos that are abound all over the internet, but Tosh.O gets them all for me and condenses them into a single, 30 minute show. he will never run out of videos to make fun of, so this show should go on forever.

Castle

Thursday, May 27th, 2010

Posting by Linda Olivarez

Monday nights have never been the same for me since the initial broadcast of Castle. A time spot that has proven successful for me while watching Direct tv satellite.

The show stars Canadian born actor Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic, both seasoned veterans in short-lived TV shows. After a few years in the soap opera circuit, and other failed TV series, Fillion landed the role of Rick Castle, a writer helping the local police department solve crimes. The sexual tension between Stana Katic and Nathan Fillion, alongside the action and drama make the writing for this TV series stand out among similar network shows.

As a marketing tool to promote the show, the producers decided to release the fictional book written by Rick Castle called ‘Heat Wave’ in September ‘09. The book has since proved successful due to the TV series, and another book is soon to be released titled ‘Naked Heat’.

The show has recently been renewed for another season due to an average rating of 5 million weekly viewers and the show exhibits no signs of a future cancellation.

Can’t Forget the Cable

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

 

Guest post written by Belinda Thomas

About 3 months ago my husband and I finally made the big move to our first home. Well, our first purchased home. Until then we had been living in rental homes since we were married 4 years ago. We finally found the perfect house at a great price and they accepted our offer, so we canceled the cable providers, phone providers and electricity- and here we are at our new place. Truthfully we’re still getting everything set up even after 3 months but there has been a lot to do! And believe me, there are plenty of things that have been forgotten along the way.

For example, when it was time to hook up all the utilities I totally overlooked the cable providers. I had the power hooked up about 3 days before we actually moved in and I decided to go with unlimited cell phone use and a magic jack for the phone service (my husband doesn’t really care since he rarely uses the phone anyway). But I totally overlooked his favorite part which is Direct TV Service. He refuses to use dish because he says it won’t offer good enough reception during storms (whatever!).

Anyway I checked out the local cable providers and it was easy enough to get it all set up. In fact, I was able to do it right over the phone. I guess the hardest part was deciding on a package to pay for- there is quite a bit of television to choose from compared to when I was a kid. So even though we went the first week without cable and my husband spent most of that time pretty grumpy, it looks like we are on track now.