With three dogs, two kids (soon to be three) and a wife that tosses and turns most of the night its almost impossible for me to get a solid nights sleep at home (unless I crash on the couch in the basement). The mattress we used to have, I could feel every toss, bump, move and bounce that amy made on her side of the bed while we were sleeping. If she didn’t sleep, I didn’t sleep. Not any more.

Two years ago, we broke down and invested in a sleep number bed (I’m around a 60 - 65) and it was one of the best investments we’ve made. If I need a little firmer mattress one night and a soft pillowly mattress the next, its easy peasy. I just hit the buttons on the remote for my side of the bed and I’m in sleep heaven. Plus, I cannot feel amy as she tosses and turns all night. Which is nice, the only way I know she isn’t sleeping is when I hear the tv click on and see the glow of the LCD through my eyelids.

Yea, I still have the dogs and kids to contend with when it comes to getting a good nights sleep, but at least I’m comfy when I’m trying to catch 40 winks.

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We’ve moved! Well, we did about two years ago. Some friends of ours are in the process (well they’re unpacking now…) and we’ve all agreed that its a giant pain in the ass. Moving that is. We both did it different ways, Amy and I hired a crew to help move the heavy stuff and the other stuff we moved ourselves. Our friends packed everything in to a POD (movable storage) and moved it like that. The POD company dropped it off at their new house and they were able to unpack it as they wanted. Either way, we couldn’t have done it with out the help of movers.

Home Bulletin was a valuable resource for both of us in finding the help we needed. Using the site we were able to track down reputable sources in our area to make it as painless as possible. Anything we needed including full service moving companies, car shipping, self storage and international moving they were able to help us find. Turned out to be the best thing ever.

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Linuxtracker.org is pleased to announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Beta - Desktop CD i386 on the linuxtracker bittorrent network. For faster downloads, more accurate statistics and to see all of the available torrents, please visit http://linuxtracker.org. The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software that the open source and free software communities have to offer. This is the Ubuntu 7.10 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features. Note: This is still a beta release.

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While it isn’t a complete breakthrough in blogging (some among us have been posting to our blogs via emails, sms’ or a good old wap phone for a while now) there is a site that has taken it to a new level. Trumors.com has taken the art of sms marketing to a new level allowing readers to post and read via sms from their phones. Its a pretty cool concept, now your readers can be in contact with your blog where ever they are, all the time. Breakthroughs in mobile marketing like this can do almost no harm to sites looking to gain traffic as long as your users *HAVE* to opt in to such a program. You couldn’t just collect cell numbers and start sending out random messages. Thats not cool. What is cool is the ability to update your blog or website at a moments notice by simply typing a few things in to your phone and hitting send.

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Last week I wrote about mike huckabee, a candidate for the Republican Presidential Nominee. Today, it looks like someone else might be throwing his hat in the ring. Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is running a series of events this weekend in Atlanta called American Solutions. Its a series of workshops designed to come up with a new path for america, developed by its citizens. I think he has other motives though.

There’s been talk for a while about Gingrich running for President. I think he’d be a good candidate for the job. I met him when he was speaker of the house. I like his politics and his ideas, and I believe he would support the Fair Tax. Not to mention he has experience. If he was going to announce his candidacy, tonight at 7pm when he talks to the group at American Solutions would be the perfect time.

A coworker has said that while he agrees with Newt on several issues, there are some he doesn’t and he’s not sure if Newt could get enough of the vote. I don’t know if he could or not, but I think that if he does announce, he’ll help bring a lot of stuff to the race that others are shying away from and it might help change the landscape of the 08 presidential race. I’ll have to keep an eye on him and see exactly where he stands.

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Baseball, Football and Hockey are all in season right now (one is coming to and end, one has started and the other is getting close). Its a sports fan’s dream. My nephews are in heaven right now with all the sports going on (its not enough they play soccer, they also follow almost all the major sports as well) and one of them (kyle) could tell you all the major stats for baseball up to this point. Maybe I need to introduce them to sports trivia.

TriviaFix is a sports trivia site where the content is user generated (making it very cool and very varried). Users can form their own teams, have their own contests, submit their own content and win prizes on a monthly basis and its all rather easy. They have categories for four of the major sports (soccer is not included yet) and you earn points not only for answering, but for submitting questions as well. Its a cool setup. Registering on the site was a snap, and while I’m not the stats or trivia guru my nephews are, I’m going to have to try my hand at some of the baseball trivia.

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Thirteen Places to Visit in Georgia! In no particular order… Stone Mountain the Southern Museum in Kennesaw Marietta History Museum Atlanta Botanical Gardens Callaway Gardens Fernbank Museum The high museum of Art CNN Center/Centennial Olympic Park GA Aquarium/World of Coke Tybee Island Okeefanokee Swamp Kennesaw Mountain Amicalola Falls Links to other Thursday Thirteens are in the comments! (leave your link in comments, I’m a dofollower!)

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