I am not lying to you when I say I have bought a new filter for my shop-vac.  That’s right, I have a shop-vac with a new filter and I am ready to use it.  I am ready to make that filter wish it was never born.  It will be like so many washed up Hollywood starlettes wishing that it had stopped sniffing in the powder that I am about to rub off of my walls in an attempt to make them look nice.  The walls will be drywalls, but the shop-vac is a wet-dry shop-vac so I could in theory saturate the walls with water and the vacuum would still work!  Of course a house with saturated walls is not a house, its a home for Sponge Bob Squarepants.  Given the past owner’s penchant for hacks, shortcuts and setting up electrical situations that are sure to start a fire, I think I’ll keep the walls dry.

I’m trying to wrap up the wall work so that when my in-laws come next week for Christmas festivities we all enjoy time together and not working to wrap up the wall work.  In some countries this is unheard of, but mostly because they have not knocked the non-existent wall out from between their non-existent two rooms.  With that in mind, be like congress and stimulate someone’s economy like Cash for Clunkers, only because there are folks in need of chickens we’ll call it Cash for Cluckers.  Take some time to look around the World Vision site and buy a goat, some chickens, sheep, or even help fund a well.  I’d much rather have water be able to get into their lives through a well and have the problem of needing a wet-dry vac.

Speaking of which, does Dyson make a sand sucker?  Because I’m thinking in some of the places I’ve seen pictures of they need that.  Wait, they don’t have electricity… ZAP!!

Our friends Mike & Louanne were in an accident 10 years ago today that could have been life ending or much more severely life altering.  They put up a blog post about it which you can read here.  The Lord has used Mike & Louanne in our lives over and over and reading this make me thankful all the more for our friendship. They have been instrumental in our well being emotionally, spiritually, and through my work with Mike at Alt-N, financially.  Go read this and be inspired and take a few moments to meditate on what really matters in life and how God may very well be trying to teach you something in the less than fun moments in life.

This is how you do website design: http://deanoakley.com.  When you scroll your mouse wheel the page scrolls left to right for you: it is visually appealing, very creative, and has just the right touch.

I like photography.  I’m no brilliant photographer such as some of my friends, but I like it.  Theres a podcast out there for the more geeky photographers out there: http://www.twipphoto.com.  Check it out, because its quite good and information is always nice to have.  I learned about HDR photography there as well, which I have to explore more.

This week I’ve started a Credit Rate Reduction Rally.  This is a movement to get people to consider calling their credit card companies and asking for/demanding a lower interest rate on their old credit cards.  A lot of consumers don’t realize that they can get lower interest rates and this is a way to build awareness.  I’d love to hear any stories that you’ve got about trying to get lower interest rates, or in some cases, what rates you were able to get and what techniques you used to get them.  Some people have to fight for lower rates and others just get them for being on time with payments.

Do please check it out, and if you use Digg.com, please ‘digg’ the link above.  Oh, and I’d love to have you blog this, or tell a friend about their opportunity.  I’ll be writing an article a day this week on the benefits of lowering your credit card interest rate.  Here’s the first article.