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I have often mentioned one of my favorite meals to friends and I eat it a lot post workout. Just the other  day on twitter a friend asked me for the recipe. I thought I might get around to that someday, but I recently ate it AGAIN and though I would take pics as I cooked it and make a blog post out of it.

Before you get started read this several times. I have had some get confused and omit the Italian dressing, and even boil the tuna from the start. First of all the Italian dressing is the most important part to the flavor, second I only add the tuna at the end and let it sit in the water for about 1 minute to get it all warm.

I call it Tuna Deluxe. Its Tuna with Pasta, throw some peas of some sort in there for the fiber, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART add Italian Dressing and lots of pepper with a dash of salt. Some all the tuna and pasta meal the prison meal cause they say its what a lot of inmates eat in the “joint” to get huge. If it works for them hopefully it will work for me, and its delicious to boot! I would pay for what this meal I am about to teach you to create.

Thank me later. (or now)

Ok you will need the following:

• A pot to boil water in, mine is a 1 1/2 quart or maybe its 2.
• 2 cans of chunk light tuna in water, drained
• 2 1/2 cup of uncooked wide egg noodles
• 1/2 can of chickpeas or any peas for that matter. I like chickpeas, but purple hull peas or crowder peas work well too.
• 3/4 cup Italian Dressing
• Salt and lots of Pepper

Ok here is all our ingredients we will be using. Listen to me real quick. This may sound disgusting and even look disgusting but trust me, if you like pasta, you like tuna, you like Italian dressing…you will like this.

Ok boil your water, add the pasta, and yes I know it seems like a lot, but HEY we gotta feed those muscles!
When cooking noodles you can add a few tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil to keep it from boiling over.
Cook it for about 7 minutes or until tender but not gummy. We want out pasta to have a little bit of strength to it. Its know as Al Dente.
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When the Internet first started, there were virtually no blogs, there were just websites.
These websites probably took a long time to put together, and they took a lot to update as well. The Internet was a lot more complicated then and only people with extensive tech knowledge could publish. All anyone else could do was just read the content.

A little over ten years later, and now basically anyone who can type can have their own website. Websites have gotten a lot simpler to create, and update too.

Nowadays a newer type of website has evolved likes blogs. What is a blog you ask? A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. They are often called weblogs, more commonly known as blogs as I mentioned earlier. They are what you get when you cross a traditional website with a message forum.

Blogs have made it even easier to have an online presence. All you have to do is sign up for a host, (free or paid) pick a template, and just write down your beliefs, thoughts, knowledge, experiences, etc. and post.

Traditional websites have gotten easier to handle, but nowhere near as simple as a blog. The quickest person would probably take a couple of hours to setup a website, because you have to add pages and content before your website is even ready. A blog on the other hand, just one post and you are good to go.

Online hosting is another factor to consider whether you are going to have a blog or a website. While there are free hosts for both of them, like blogspot.com, wordpress.com or livejournal.com, and many others,  you have more control on the ones you pay for. I use Godaddy.com shared hosting for my blogs and use Wordpress as a backend platform in which to develop them. WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.

With platforms to blog on like Wordpress, you can use what is known as “plug-ins” to increase its functionality. I use two that work really well called postie and subscribe2. Postie allows me to write my blog posts in an email and email it to and address that I set up. Postie checks every 5 minutes, and if something is in the mailbox that I sent the post too, it parses it and posts it as an article on my blog. Along with this, if you have subscribed to my blog, subsribe2 will email you and notify you of the new blog post. I also use tweet this to automatically tweet my new blog posts to twitter.

Blogs are great if you have a certain niche and can zero it in on that niche. You could easily profit from your blogging with affiliates as well. I will have to touch base on that one later on this month, but for now how about you get yourself a blog and start blogging!

For a long time now I have wanted a bench in my carport near the entrance to my utility room. I was shopping at the Stein Mart store in Jackson, MS when I first saw one just like what I had in mind. It was near the exit and it was a tiny church pew. This was perfect for what I wanted only it wasn’t for sale.

I knew then all I needed to do was find an old church pew and I could cut it to the length I wanted and it would be perfect for my needs.

I drove all over the country looking for old churches that were rotting and falling down, in hopes I would find one with pews inside. I never found a church.

I asked all my friends on facebook and twitter and got some responses but nothing really panned out. I also saw some on craiglist but were too expensive and too far for it be justifiable.

I had almost giving up, then a co-worker that works with my wife knew of one at a friends house, and we struck up a deal. I got it for $40.

It was a nice older bench, about 8 feet in length. I looked it over and thought…hrmmm I could cut this in half and have two benches.

So with that in mind I went to the hardware store and got two 10 foot 2×10’s. Next I measured the length of the bench, found the center,  popped a string line in the middle and cut it in half.

After it was cut in half, I used the 2×10’s to copy each end exactly. Now I had two benches. A little dark stain applied and wallah, two nice benches.

See pics.

This has been verified by the FBI (their link is also included below).

Please pass this on to everyone in your email address book. It is spreading fast so be prepared should you get this call.

Most of us take those summonses for jury duty seriously, but enough people skip out on their civic duty,that a new and ominous kind of fraud has surfaced. The caller claims to be a jury coordinator. If you protest that you never received a summons for jury duty, the scammer asks you for your Social Security number and date of birth so he or she can verify the information and cancel the arrest warrant.

Give out any of this information and bingo; your identity was just stolen. The fraud has been reported so far in 11 states, including Oklahoma , Illinois , and Colorado.

This (swindle) is particularly insidious because they use intimidation over the phone to try to bully people into giving information by pretending they are with the court system. The FBI and the federal court system have issued nationwide alerts on their web sites, warning consumers about the fraud.

Check it out here: http://www.fbi.gov/page2/june06/jury_scams060206.htm

And here: http://www.snopes.com/crime/fraud/juryduty.asp

I was on my way to work today and I usually leave the house 15 minutes before I have to be at work. This is to allow for the idiots and slow pokes on the road and sometimes it is just not enough.
That was the case today. I left the house at 7:44am and got to work at 8:05 due to slow old people on the stupid cell phone.

What is with these prehistoric morons driving 20mph while on the cellphone and can not merge onto the interstate at all!

I mean this guy I was following this morning was trying to merge onto the interstate and he  ended up stopping at the end of the on ramp with me and several others behind him.

This is how accidents happen people!

I mean who could this guy have been talking too? He was so old, surely all his friends were dead right?

This is one of my biggest pet peeves.

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