http://www.cmsrockstar.com The CMS Rock Star Blog Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:33:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have enjoyed a couple weeks of preseason football games. Now I am ready for the real season to begin. I have been reading up on all the injuries and team gossip. I think this will be a very interesting year for many teams. http://www.cmsrockstar.com/ready-for-football/ There are more and more commercials on TB with celebrities talking about various products and services. I think that some of them are lacking in integrity. Do all these celebrities really take the medicines they are bragging about? Do they really own and use the ovens and blenders and other ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/celebrity-endorsements/ My aunt called our house today.  She lives in Tennesee.  She was telling us that they've had so much rain this month that they have not been able to get outside and rake up the leaves in their yard. This really bothers her. she likes to have a nice looking yard and the leaves ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/winter-yard-work/ If you have a big family, I suspect you know all too well the stress of hosting a big family gathering. Whether it is a sit down dinner for everyone or a buffet or a pot luck, getting ready to feed a large crowd takes a lot of planning and ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/happy-holidays/ Best wishes to you and your family for a wonderful day of feasting and thankfulness. Maybe a parade inthe morning and some football in the afternoon would be nice, too. Or get up extremely early and go deer hunting. Whichever way you choose to take advantage of the holiday, I ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/happy-thanksgiving/ Tomorrow we are making our annual leaf-peeping trip up to Bar Harbor.  This is the perfect time to go there; we take the US 1 scenic route along the coast, and we take our sweet time.  We stop along the way and have a meal at one of the many ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/bar-harbor/ Today my Dad asked me to go with him to Home Depot to help him bring some sheets of plywood home.  I thought this was going to be a quick trip into town and back again, so I said yes.  Much to my chagrin, the trip was not just to ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/went-to-home-depot-today/ One of my biggest concerns for our American Society is how so many of the citizens cannot afford decent medical care.  I know so many people who have no coverage at all, and don't qualify for Medicare or Medicaid so they go without any kind of medical care at all ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/health-insurance-is-a-huge-issue/ Silver jewellry is becoming "in vogue" again in the world of fashion.  I'm so glad that it has, because I adore silver jewellry!  Years ago I had my "colors done" and the "expert" said I was a "winter" which means that I should wear silver jewellry, not gold!  I was ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/i-love-silver-jewellry/ My friend works at "X" Mart and she says that the people there are very mean. http://www.cmsrockstar.com/x-mart-is-a-bad-place-to-work/ My folks were telling me that when they were younger, if they wanted to buy tickets to a sports event, or to a music concert, they had to physically go to the box office of the sports arena, or to the theatre where the concert was going to be held, ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/buying-the-ashes-tickets-online/ One of the largest problems we face as Americans today is the lack of medical care for the needy.  Too many people lack health insurance, and too many people go without the medical care that they need because of that!  Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (the country's premier health ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/health-insurance/ I have been hearing about how no one really is happy about the terms of the big bailout plan that is going to save the big financial companies of the United States.  I'm not happy that it is going to cost the taxpayers so much money, but I am happy ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/the-big-bailout/ Cliffside Malibu is an exclusive rehabilitation center for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts in Malibu California. As an Alcohol Rehab Center and Drug Abuse Rehab center, their programs include Alcohol Rehab and Drug Detox, along with drug rehab.  They also treat eating disorders and depression.  In addition to state of ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/substance-abuse-rehabilitation-in-malibu/ I was reading on the Yahoo news website that a new Mersenne prime number has been discovered by UCLA mathematicians last month. It has 13 million digits! They discovered the number by using a network of seventy five different computers running Windows XP. (Take THAT Vista!) (I don't like Vista!) The discovery ... http://www.cmsrockstar.com/13-million-digit-prime-number/