Posted By nikki on August 7, 2008
A couple of my girl friends have invited me to go with them to the beach this weekend. They have rented a cottage with three bedrooms, and want me to come along and use the third bedroom. I accepted the invitation, and today I was looking through my “beach wear” and discovered that my bathing suit is too big! I knew I had lost some weight, but I didn’t realize I had lost THAT much that my bathing suit wouldn’t fit! So I have to go shopping tomorrow for a new bathing suit! I hope I can find one - now that the “Back to School” shopping is going on, it might be too late to find a new suit! Maybe on the clearance racks…..
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Posted By nikki on August 1, 2008
I have found it very interesting over the past several weeks to see how the political spins have been going on over the past couple of weeks. I had hoped that the focus of the campaign was going to be over the issues, such as the economy, the war, etc., but lately the McCain ads have been focusing on trying to put a negative spin on everything Obama has been saying or doing. I’ve learned that you can put a negative spin or positive spin on everything in life - if you look for the bad, you will find it. If you look for the good, you will find THAT.
Several times over the past few weeks I have been watching television news stories where they do a segment that they refer to “fact checking” where they take statements that the different candidates make and then do some fact checking and report on what statements are true, and which are false. I have found it very interesting that the fact checking has repeatedly indicated that the McCain statements have been false, and the Obama statements have been true. I find it disturbing that so many of the McCain strategies have been going in the direction of negativity. I wish they would cut it out.
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Posted By nikki on July 26, 2008
I’ve been reading some articles here and there about how some college textbooks are available online for free downloads, but every time I try to find the free downloads I can’t find them. I’ve been looking for them because I want to be able to tell my friends and relatives where they can get these books. College textbooks have always been a curse to me - in order to take the college course you have to buy the textbook. There are very few places that you can buy the textbook, and you end up paying anywhere from $50 on up for the book. Sometimes you can buy it used, but often you have to pay for it new.
At the end of the semester, if you are lucky you can sell it back to the bookstore, but at a small fraction of the original price. At least half of the time, however, I have found that they WON’T buy it back because the professor has decided to use a different textbook the next semester, so I am stuck with a book I will never use again. I don’t want to throw it away, so I have a bookcase full of used college textbooks that I can’t sell, or give away, (even the public libraries don’t want them) and will never use again.
Maybe I should go onto Freecycle and offer them up to people who like to do Altered Book crafting! You know, at least SOMEONE would get some use out of them!
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Posted By nikki on July 20, 2008
I was reading on the time.com website that a clinical trial for the government’s most advanced HIV vaccine candidate has been scrapped. The vaccine was to be a two-shot injection and was supposed to work by activating the body’s cell-based immune responses to HIV.
The trial has been scrapped largely because the previous trial of an HIV vaccine failed to prevent HIV, and in fact increased the incidence of HIV in the volunteers that participated in the trial.
The authorities that scrapped the trial have indicated that the new trial needs a little bit more research and information and needs to be scaled down to include fewer people.
I’m glad to know that people are working on a vaccine; I hope that they can come up with one soon. HIV and AID is a serious threat to global health.
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Posted By nikki on July 14, 2008
This past weekend a friend of mine was traveling from DC to Philadelphia, and decided to take the Amtrak train. I agreed to take her to the train station, and pick her up again. She had never taken the train to Philadelphia and didn’t know what to expect. So on Friday I drove with her to the local Metro Station, and parked the car. Then I rode with her to Union Station and waited with her until they boarded the train. I was pleasantly surprised that there were no security checkpoints like at airports where they refused to let anyone past the security unless they had a ticket. I could go right up to the boarding gate and wait with her until the train was ready to board! The train was right on time, too! I think that taking the train seemed a lot easier than flying is!
Today I went to pick her up, again taking Metro to Union Station. The train arrived about fifteen minutes late, but I was allowed to go right to the arrival gate and wait there. How much easier than going to the airport and trying to find her at the baggage conveyers! When she arrived, I asked her how her train experience was, if she found it better than flying and she said it absolutely was MUCH better than flying! It was fast, it was easy, and it was cheaper than flying. So the next time I travel, I think I’ll check out the train myself!
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