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Over the past few weeks I got the chance to talk with some friends and family that I have not heard from for a while. It was great catching up with them on how things were going, but I noticed that a good number of them were talking about the same thing, work. A few complained about promotions and raises, your typical work dilemmas, and some mentioned about their offices being relocated.

I asked my good friend what was the matter with the office-relocating situation and he responded saying all sorts of great things about this office relocation group called Fast-teks. He said they made everything quick and easy with the hardware shipping and installation. If I ever find myself with the same problem, I’ll know where to get help.

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Over the last weekend I was rummaging through my selection of computer games. Most of them were really old so I didn’t bother with them, but one game caught my eye. I took a closer look and on the CD was written “Chex Quest”. I remembered playing this game about 7 years ago and figured that I would give it a shot. I popped it into the computer and started playing.

The entire game turned out to be a complete spin-off of the successful DOOM game. I looked on the Internet about Chex Quest and learned that it originally was included with specially marked Chex cereal boxes as part of a marketing gimmick. It turned out to be quite fun and I am sure that it is on the Internet somewhere to be downloaded.

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Last summer our church’s youth group took a trip to Wyoming for a backpacking trek. Since we live in the suburbs near Minneapolis, you can imagine what a long car ride we endured. Thankfully, we arrived in Wyoming safely and had a great week up in the mountains. Nobody got any injuries at all.

However, on the ride back home after our adventure, the van’s windshield was struck by a stone, leaving a small crack. We paid no heed to it and just kept driving to the church. Once we arrived back to the church, and all of the youth were brought home, we addressed the situation. Since it was such a small crack, we didn’t bother getting a repair, but if we ever do get it repaired I know a St. Paul auto glass shop called Rapid Glass. I have heard that Rapid Glass has very affordable prices and a great location, they also finish repairs in a couple of days!

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My mother has acquired and used lots of candles. She lets them burn until the wick has burned away, but most of the time, there is still much wax stuck to the sides of the glass containers. So, yesterday, we scraped all of the unused wax into a large glass jar. We then put the jar in boiling water and let the wax melt until it was all liquid.

We then cut off a piece of string that would be used as a wick and started dipping it into the jar of liquid wax. We would dip the string into the wax, then take it out for five seconds, dip it again, and repeat the process for about 30 minutes until we had a candle! You would think that it would become boring after the first five minutes, but it was quite fascinating. After were finished with the first candle we started another. We made three candles by dipping them.

With the Christmas season being over it looks as if I will be taking down the christmas lights. I heard from some of my neighbors that they purchased LED rope lights this year. They told me all about the benefits of LED lights, like how they consume very little energy and that the LED lights can last for more than 50,000 hours - that’s 5.5 years for 24 hours a day! They also generate very little heat, causing them to be much safer.

LED rope lights can be used for all sorts of decorating, whether it’s seasonal or full-time - step lighting, handrails, patios, dorm rooms, Christmas parties, you name it. Light ropes don’t get tangled like strings of bulbs and the lower energy costs will even make Scrooges smile. That’s because these LED lights burn about .5 to 1.0 watts per foot compared to 6 or 7 watts from incandescents. You can have bright decorations and still be safe and responsible.

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