Bar hopping

Guest post written by Dave Billington

Living frugally is something that I’ve almost perfected to an art. It first started in college and then after graduation I continued living that way to save up some money for a new car, which I’m on the verge of buying before the end of the year. But that doesn’t mean that I sacrifice having a good time, I’ve just found ways to bar hop with friends depending on bar specials.

One of my main strategies is to go out to bars during the middle of the week, when it’s easier and cheaper to get a drink because it’s less crowded. There’s one pub not far from my house that I found through wildblue satellite internet has all you can drink beer on Thursday nights from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. when you pay a $5 cover at the door. That’s the best I’ve found so far and I have a feeling that will probably be the best I’ll ever find.

My friends and I will research new bar specials on wildblue internet in Spokane and e-mail each other links to some promising things.

Once I buy my new car, I could probably afford to be less frugal but I think I’m too stuck in my ways to quit while I’m ahead.

Planning my sister’s baby shower

Guest post written by Nadeen Wale

My sister probably got pregnant at the worst time ever, for me at least. I was scheduled to move three months before her due date and as her only sibling – and best friend – I felt it was my duty to host her baby show. But I realized that would be a problem if I were in Michigan and she at home in Wisconsin.

I started planning pretty early as a result. Luckily for me, my sister and her husband decided that they didn’t want to know if I would have a new niece of nephew ahead of time. So I was able to do a lot of shopping for a gender-neutral shower through my blue internet Wisconsin before I left town.

After I moved, I was got satellite internet Michigan and continued planning the shower. I even designed some really cute e-invites for the shower, but made sure to send paper invites to some older relatives that don’t really use the blue internet that much.

I flew back to Wisconsin for the weekend of the shower and it all went really smoothly thanks to long and frequent e-mails between my mom and I. My sister still hasn’t had her baby yet and now we’re just playing the waiting game!

Wedding registry

Guest post written by Kayla Winters

Planning my wedding thousands of miles away from my family hasn’t been easy. Normally on things like this, my mom would grab the reins and take total control. But I can’t exactly ask her to fly 12 hours just to meet florists.

I hired out a wedding planner to handle most of the stuff like that but a huge problem that came up pretty quickly was the matter of my cross-continental wedding registry. So I did what was easiest and decided to Get Wild Blue so I could assemble my registry online and make sure that none of my gifts got left out, like a salad spinner that I would use maybe once a year.

So I registered online at a few stores and put in the stuff to ship to our house here in the States. I didn’t want my guests, especially my international guests, to worry about travelling with a wedding gift. It ended up working out pretty well because almost all of the stuff arrived at our apartment right before the wedding and during our honeymoon.

Now I just need to write thank you notes and figure out what I actually will use.

College and Family

Thanks to my friend Janet Dalton for this blog post

I am getting ready to go away to college again. I know it is a little early to be thinking about it, but I like to be prepared. Ironically, I do not like long goodbyes but at the same time I like to prepare for those same goodbyes as far in advance as possible. One thing I do not like about going away to college is that I miss my family, but having hughes net in oregon makes it a little more tolerable. I like being able to use Skype to talk to people, but I wish that more people had it. Fortunately my family has satellite internet in maine so we are able to Skykpe often. This year probably will not be as bad for me as it was last year. Being a sophomore in college comes with social responsibilities and one of those is to not cry like a baby for the first month I am there. Doing that is also not good for my studies, since I can not see my books through the tears. I know, I need to suck it up but I promise I plan to do better this year than I did last year. For one thing, I know what to expect and I am also rooming with the same girl I had as a roommate last year.

Photography Student Can Use Internet

Thanks to guest blogger Daniel Parsley for writing the post.

I am a student of photography and the hughsnetinternet really helps me out. One of the best websites I have come across as a photographer is Flickr. Flickr is an online photo sharing website and the best thing about it is that it gives me an outlet for my creativity. I can go on a photo shoot of my own and take thousands of pictures and Flickr gives me a place to share some of my best photos and to get feedback from other photographers about my photographs. Flickr sort of gives me a place to be able to share my creativitywith other photographers outside of the classroom. It is like doing homework and studying outside of class so that I can get better and really narrow it down when it comes to showing one completed and finished photograph for my class critique. It is really easy for me to upload my pictures to Flickr using the satellite internet. I just connect my camera to my computer using a cord or I stick the memory card into the computer and within minutes my entire photo session has been uploaded onto my computer. The Satellite Internet Broadbandmakes it possible for that entire album to be uploaded onto the internet in just a short period of time. I think Flickr is a great photo sharing website that every photographer should utilize.