Having Fun for (almost) Free

Living within your means (*gasp*) does not mean a life without fun and excitement. I personally feel that instead of looking forward to a few big experiences of fun each year (e.g. vacations, holidays) we should build a little fun and relaxation into each day -- or at least each week.
Here are some ideas off of the top of my head on how I enjoy life for free or very low cost:

• Play guitar
• Read a book (from the library)
• Watch a movie (from the library, or Netflix is cheap)
• Talk to my friends on the phone (or use Skype)
• Have friends over for a BBQ or a drink
• Jog around the park or lake
• Go to the gym (only $10/month for me)
• Play a board or video game with my sons
• Go to the park with my kids and play catch
• Go to the bookstore and browse
• (but not if you can't help yourself from buying books!)
• Ride my bike
• Go geocaching
• Volunteer
• Facebook
• Play music
• [ * censored * ]

What do you do for (Free) fun?

99% of Failures

"99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses" -- George Washington Carver

Success

Success has made failures of many men.

-- Cindy Adams

Success is doing what you like and making a living at it

-- Greek proverb

If you get to be 35 and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

-- Dennis Miller

Work - Life Support Group

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that -- it's called Everybody!
And they meet at the bar.

-- Drew Carey

Fishing

Men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Albert Pike Quotes

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

-- Albert Pike

Socialism in the USA

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

-Winston Churchill

O.J. Irony

In case you didn't see this one coming...

"Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of killing his wife and her friend in Los Angeles, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing [and kidnapping] two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room."

Comment: If you lock up OJ, how will he hunt down his wife's killer(s)? ;-)

Astronaut's diary survives fall to Earth

First here is an excerpt:

"Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem. The diary belonged to Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut"

"A little over two months after the shuttle explosion, NASA searchers found 37 pages from Ramon's diary, wet and crumpled, in a field just outside the U.S. town of Palestine, Texas. The diary survived extreme heat in the explosion, extreme atmospheric cold, and then "was attacked by microorganisms and insects" in the field where it fell, said museum curator Yigal Zalmona."

Two Comments:
(1) Don't you think it is interesting that the Israeli astronaut's diary was found in Palestine, TX?
(2) If this diary survived, then why don't they use the same material to protect the space shuttle next time and maybe it will survive better!