Tony Brewer

This morning I decided to clean out my old emails from my inbox.  What a time consuming chore that is!  Some old emails I just immediately delete and wonder why I didn’t just delete them before, but some I know I had saved for a reason so I pour through them and read them again and then either delete them or move them to another folder.  I find myself surprised at how many old emails I have that I never read in the first place!  And I saw that my email filter had moved over 3,000 messages straight into the spam folder!  Well I don’t have time to review them all, so after glancing at the”from” names on the first two hundred I decided to just delete them all and hope that no “important” emails accidentally went into my spam folder!  Well, it’s good to clean that out.  I guess a good New Year’s resolution would be to keep it cleaned out and not let it get so full in the first place.

Most of the toys that I played with as kid were action figures.  I loved the Power Rangers, the Ghost Busters, and of course GI Joe.  But I also really enjoyed playing with Brio trains.  When I was a kid, the first computer games were coming out and those were fun, too! My parents bought me an Etch-a-sketch but I think they played with it more than I did!  I got tired of that one pretty quickly!

And of course, I loved musical toys, the toy pianos were great! Not as great, however, as the toy pianos of today’s toy companies, like the one from Smart Builders!  That is one cool little piano for a kid to play with!

Over the years, I think that most toys have gotten more expensive, but poorer quality.  The amount of lead in the paint on so many toys from China is scary!  I do like the electronic games and toys, though, especially the magnetic ones like the toys from MagNext.  I think building things with their magnetic catches would be a lot more fun than the old fashioned tinker toys!  And their magnetic Mantis race cars look totally awesome to play with!  In fact, I’m thinking I should pick up a few of them to keep here at our place to entertain kids when they come over for a visit!

I was really surprised earlier today when some friends dropped by for a short visit and brought some fruit cake with them.  They swore up and down that it was “good” and made locally.  Well, I have never had a fruit cake that I liked so it was with great trepidation that I put on the kettle and served up some tea and coffee and sat down with my friends to share some fruit cake with them.  To my surprise, it was pretty good.  I actually ate two pieces of it!  So I have to say that fruit cake has gotten a bad rap over the years; some of it is pretty good!

With all of the difficulties that the big mortgage companies have been having, and the bank troubles and poor economy on top of that, the housing market has not had an easy time of it.  Prospective home buyers are often unsure whether they will be able to get a mortgage on the house that they would like to buy.  That’s where the Colorado Mortgage link from the clicksmart.com comes in to help those prospective home buyers in Colorado.  The mortgage company(ies) that you find on that link are ready and able to help the people who have found their dream home in Colorado to get the money they need to buy that house.