Growing up with a father who was very much a financial officer who taught himself every scheme and tactic to make smart investments was an interesting experience. My father was often thought of as the ‘Rainman” of finances. I always thought that was kind of silly since he was naturally talented with mathematics with investing coming later in life. He claimed that he was able to see the patterns of things but I dismissed it as some kind of nonsense, who could see a pattern in that mess? It wasn’t long until he became a ssas specialist, working closely with those who were seeking a greater degree of flexibility with their investments. Personally, I have never been able to understand what that man knew. Continue reading →

I have two teenage children, and I am often away for business meetings, and I leave them alone in the house most of the time. Recently, I have become pretty concerned about what they might be doing when I am not at home, and I want to try to monitor their actions to some extent. I am hoping to look into cctv kits for installing a closed circuit television system in your house, as that seems to be the best way to figure out if anything bad is happening when I am away. I would be very upset if they were abusing my trust in them, and I would have to make arrangements for them to stay under the supervision of someone that I trusted during future business trips.

I do not want that to happen, so hopefully, after installing a camera in the house, I won’t actually find any evidence of wrongdoing. I really hope that will be the case, and I have actually prayed for it. Continue reading →

Couple of Remarkable o Photos

1. Pike o’ Stickle from Loft Crag
   
   
   Image by Earthwatcher
   A day on the Langdale Pikes – Photo 7

   The graceful cone and dome of Pike o’ Stickle (2323 ft) overlooks the valley of Mickleden far below with the high fells heading towards the Scafell group in the distance. Scafell Pike itself, nearly free of cloud, just peeks through to the left of Esk Pike (see notes).

   Taken in very windy conditions from the summit of Loft Crag.

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2. Lake O’Hara Panorama
   
   
   Image by Feffef
   taken from All Soul Prospect’s view point.

   As a last picture from Lake O’Hara (at least for now) here comes a "small" overview of the valley. Thanks for all your comments, I hope you all had a good time looking at the pictures of this special place. I certainly did when going back there through those pictures.

   If you are ever around Yoho, you really should try to visit Lake O’Hara, even if it is a bit of a hassle to get into. You either need to get a reservation for the bus well in advance, or hike in and hope to be lucky enough to find a vacant camp site. (Otherwise you’ll only have a couple of hours to spend until the last bus leaves ).

   But the area around the lake is truly magnificent and worth every bit of the effort. If you have a whole day there, do the alpine circuit. I put notes in the panorama above that show where some of the photos were taken, most of them along that trail. Even after having seen many other spectacular places the weeks before, some spots on that day hike just left me speechless.

I am going to be looking for a new television provider in the near future. I have exhausted my patience with my previous provider, and I really think that I have decided to switch more due to their poor customer service, as opposed to the service that they were providing me with. I think that I am going to switch to satellite, because I have always been curious as to what it was like to have satellite television. As such, I am looking for texas satellite tv deals and packages that are available for great prices.

I do not want to spend a whole lot of money on a television package. I am not sure what the cut off point would be, but I definitely do not want to spend more than maybe 75 dollars per month, and I would like to spend less than that, if it is feasible. At the same time, I do want to have a rather large selection of channels to watch. I hope that I can figure out a way to get a lot of channels for my Satellite television, but not have to spend all that much money in order to do so.

As such, I am going to have to spend my fair share of time looking at different deals and comparing them, so that I can figure out the one that will work best for me. I hope to make a decision pretty soon, as I have already gone so far as to cancel my previous television service, and at the moment, I do not have any television in my house, which is a weird feeling. I can’t remember the last time I did not have access to television, but it was probably more than 5 years ago, at the least.