Books:I need feedback from my 'followers' to know what type of books interest them. Comic books, Historical Fiction, ??. Please comment at the end of this blog. I lean toward mystery and utilize audio books in the car. Let me know what you think.
New Church in Town:Visit 'The Springs' where church is going back to the basics of worship, community, and service. Sunday's at 10:30am at the Sand Springs 9th grade center.
Pink Piggy:Texting while driving- Really, what it comes down to is, if you think people shouldn't be able to drive drunk, consider
that this is twice as dangerous as that and that kind of ends the debate. According to National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration data, three-fourths of auto crashes, involve a driver distracted within the three seconds before an accident. As an experiment, editor Eddie Alterman drove a car rigged with a red light to alert him when to brake. Alterman, driving the car at 70 mph, was tested sober, when legally drunk (.08 blood alcohol), when reading an
e-mail and when texting. These were the results:
Unimpaired: .54 seconds to brake, 13 feet reaction distance.
Legally drunk: Add four feet; 17 feet reaction distance.
Reading an e-mail: 129 feet. •
Sending a text: 319 feet. •
A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study found that the risks of texting generally apply to all drivers but that when big-rig truck drivers texted while driving, their collision risk was 23 times greater than when not texting. •
Article by Julie DelcourMore Free Stuff! and Saving IdeasJust Between Friends (jbfsale.com)- Local organized consignment garage sale. Buy name brand used clothing,
toys, furniture at low cost. Owasso 9/30- 10/3rd at Owasso First Assembly of God Church 96th St. N. & Hwy 169.
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$5.00 OFF haircut or $10.00 OFF color from Jessica at the Hairloom located at 51st/Memorial call 850-6700 and say you saw this add in the Pink Piggy!
When moving it pays to check out movers with the BBB. They provide a list of moving companies and their complaints. One company had 1 complaint another 11 within the same time period, it pays to check them out.
Discount sites:
www.techbargains.com and
www.billshrink.comMystery Shopping: Go to Shopperjobs.com! and get a job to go into a restaurant and order your food all the while
studying the service, food and anything else that was noticeable. Then go home and type up a quick report. You will be reimbursed for your meal and a little extra too. All in all, it is a great way to get a free dinner!
Things to do this Fall
Tulsa State Fair Oct. 1st-11th.
• 10/1 Ford Family Fun Night admission $1 with coupon from your local ford dealer.
• 10/5 and 10/7 Save $5 off the ride wristband by picking up a coupon at Mazzio’s
• 10/6 Two for the price of one gate admission
• 10/8 Gate & Rodeo admission only $15
• 10/8 $3 off gate admission when you present coupon from Thurs 10/8
World Spot.
• 10/11 $5 off ride wristband with Sunday Funday coupon found in
Urban Tulsa’s 10/8th issue.
• Get details at www.tulsastatefair.com
Donate
It is United Way time again, it is time to think about helping out others, even a very small amount given every 2-
weeks goes a long way to support services used by those in need.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congos fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husbands part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability.
