Jak's Ramblings - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Furniture growinghttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/649472The walls are closing in. Recently, my spouse and I painted the guest bedroom. I did most of the work and she did all the bossing. She also picked out the colors. It was a two level paint job. Five feet up was a dark. Light color on top. The room use to need one lamp to brighten it, now it takes..."Green"http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/649185Green is in. Since the democrats are in office, the new slogans for environmentalist is just "green". I am not too sure that this isn't a corporate way of making money. Of course, I could be wrong. Corporations would never strive to gain financially (greed) using America's intolerance for hurting...Bullhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/648745I am a couch potato. I sit in front of a 46" flat screen TV with my laptop on my lap. (where else) I also have my newspaper handy but mostly I read the comics and the editorials. I read sports section during football season. My wife's dogs it in front of the TV and pass gas occassionally. They do...Hearing Impairmenthttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/647723I am writing under duress. I am having to force it. I always thought if I had free time off, I would write. Well, I have a lot of free time and all of a sudden, I do not want to do it. I retired and am receiving disability pension and Social Security. I have a hearing impairment which does not...No More Hints. Please?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/633705Thank you for the hints on what to do with my spare time. Especially the one about taking up painting. My wife loved it and thought now would be a good time to paint the bedrooms. Thanks for that. I don't think that is the kind of painting you had in mind. But I'm game. I joined Facebook. Wow,...Forgettinghttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/632785Its been a while since I have sat here and wrote. No excuse, just laziness. Actually inactivity has bored me into watching TV and doing honey do stuff. I am happy about my Saints giving the NFL a new leader. We took a week off and went to Disney World in Florida. Interesting place to visit. I now...PRO FOOTBALLhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/627674Its finally here. The time of year when the trees shed their leaves and the grass grows slower. Daylight is shorter. Sunups are later. Dogs start to put on their winter coat. Women slowly transpose their summer garments for long sleeves. In Cajun country we start the Gumbo going. Squirrel season...Everyone loves to diet?http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/626193Dieting sucks. I have been doing a diet for 30 years. I know, you are thinking "Seefood" diet? In reality, I have always been a weight watcher. I watch it go up mostly. I have kept myself fit and exercised at least an hour a day. Some strenuous stuff, some not so much. TV remotes have slowed down...The Twitterhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/625494I was just looking over all the topics in our Blogit website. I did not see blog writers blackout anywhere. I suppose that was anĀ editors oversite. Surely heĀ had brain forts occassionly. Or He just knew that the bloggers would never ever have nothing to write about. Oh, wait a minute, he invented...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Jak_rambling.com/624626What is Facebook? My kids and my friends all pushed me to join Facebbok. I received their emails saying they were on it and would I join? I am in my sixties. What can a website help me with. Oh, it makes you available to your old classmates. Maybe I do not want to be seen. I have changed. I have...