End of july

I won 4 sweepstakes in July, 16 romance novels, one diet book, two packs of gum, and a chef hat. July was a good month because 4 sweepstakes win is a lot for me in a month. The most sweepstakes wins I have had in a month are 8, that was in may 2008

Today I entered my daily and monthly sweepstakes. I entered all the one entries that ended on July 31 yesterday. The were a ton of one entries ending yesterday. The end of the month is a lot of hard work because of all the sweepstakes ending, but I enjoy it because that means there are a lot of chances to win some cool prizes.

I cant wait to see what I win next month. I hope I win something big or a lot of Small prizes would be good. I want to beat 8 wins in a month. I started sweeping last September so it has almost been a year since I started and what a great year is has been.

college football

My favorite college football team is Notre Dame. I started watching the Fighting Irish around 1992 or so. That was back when Jerome Bettis, Reggie Brooks, and Rick Mirer played for the team. I can't believe that was 16 years ago wow, such a long time ago.

I don't know why I started watching Notre Dame football. I do know I have enjoyed Notre Dame football ever since that time. It became something to do on a Saturday that I enjoyed. Sports were something I was obsessed with back then. I would say sports were one of my two hobby's. The other hobby playing video games.

I liked reading sports illustrated, I also read the sports section of the local paper, I listened to sports talk radio, I watched sports on television. Looking back now if I could do that time over again I would concentrate on school more, but I can't change what I did then.

Game Giveaway of the Day

One of my favorite websites is game giveaway of the day. I learned about it from about.com freebies. It offers video games from certain game publishers free for 24 hours. I have to download and install the games in that 24 hour period. When I first heard of the site it offered free games every day, but now they only offer games on the weekend.

I've download quite a few games from the site. I see a game I like and I download it even thought I know I will not have time to play it. Now my computer has a bunch of games installed on it. I have only played most of the games a little bit. I loose control because I need free video games. I love free games.

chef hat

I won this hat from the What Taste Buds Crave sweepstakes. The sweepstakes was giving away 5 chefs hats every day. I didn't need a chef hat, but I wanted a win so I entered the sweepstakes every day.

And this month this chef hat came in the mail completely out of the blue. I had no idea I won anything. I don't think I will wear it that much, but what an awesome prize. The hat is so nice and I might ruin it by wearing the hat. I love those surprises in the mail.

Haskell programming language

Haskell is another programming language I have tried only a little bit. I cant remember where I learned about haskell, but after I saw the name I thought I wonder if I can find out more about that programming language. I went to a search engine and typed in haskell.

I clicked on the link to the haskell.org website and wanted to try haskell so I download a compiler and maybe tried a small amount of code, but not much. I have not tried to learn haskell or used the compiler since I first download the compiler.

I probably have tried haskell a few more times since I got the compiler I am not sure. I am not sure I want to learn haskell. I can only learn so many programming languages. It would be wonderful to learn every language, but I cant.

Gentee programming language

Another programming language I have tried is Gentee. I cant remember where I learned about Gentee. I think it might have been in the dictionary of programming languages. I downloaded and installed the compiler and probably tried a few lines of code and have not used Gentee since.

I have spent a few minutes looking at the website and I think I might try learning Gentee. I think it would be interesting to see what can be done with Gentee. Some more reasons I think I might like to try Gentee are its free and a small download. I cant resist anything free. Of course I want to learn every programming language I have ever seen.

Chess

I think today I will write about chess. I got a book about chess from wikibooks featured section. I wanted to read it, but never got around to reading the book until recently. I suppose I should say why I want to learn chess first.

The challenge of learning chess is the reason I want to learn chess. I would have never thought that I could learn chess. It has always seemed like something that would be hard to learn. Something I would need a degree to be able to play.

I recently started to read the book and I can say now chess does not look as hard as I thought. It may take awhile, but I believe I will learn how to play. Some day I hope to get good at chess it looks fun.

computer books on the web

Two of my favorite websites are freeComputerBooks and freeTechBooks. I found the websites at about.com websearch. I love that the websites are full of free computer books that are online. I think books can be downloaded also.

There are so many books on a bunch of different subjects it is hard to know where to start. That is a big problem I have deciding what I want to learn. I need to focus, focus, focus. I love the free books.

Manybooks.net

Today I want to talk about a cool website I found on sweepstakes advantage in the freebies section. Manybooks.net is a site that has free books to download in many formats. I like the free part the best. I was amazed at how many books there are to download.

I got excited and download a few books. I don't know if I will have enough time to read all the books I download . It was fun to download the books. As I browsed the site looking at all the books I thought I could stay in the house and read books all day long now for free.

I suppose I could put the books on a laptop or PDA and go outside too. I don't know if I would like that as much. I like using my computer in the dark. Maybe I can concentrate better when it's dark. I don't know why I like using my computer in the dark better than when its light outside.

Desktop publishing

One thing I have wanted to learn, but have not is desktop publishing. I download scribus a free desktop publishing program I heard about from komando.com. Scribus looks good although I have never used the program.

I don't know much about desktop publishing, but some day I want to learn. The things I want to make most are cards and posters. I'm not sure what else I would like to create, but if I learn about desktop publishing I am sure I will find other things to create also.

A win I can chew

hooray for me. I have another sweepstakes win this month. I just received two packs of gum from Wrigley's red hot race day sweepstakes. They came in the mail I had no idea I had won. I like receiving surprises in the mail.

I remember entering this sweepstakes it took a couple of minutes to load on my computer, but I entered it anyway because it had some cool prizes. I will have fun chewing this sweepstakes win

Game Maker

A few years ago I looked through a little booklet a junior college put out for summer classes for the community and saw that they had a course on making a video game with game maker. I thought that was cool, but I did not want to do the class.

I had never heard of game maker before so I went to a search engine and found game maker and was surprised to find is was free with some features disabled, but it was not to expensive if I wanted the full version.

Once I figured out my computer had the system requirements I downloaded game maker. I think I only looked at the program once not for very long though. I have never tried to make a game with game maker.

After finding game maker a short while later I also found blender and because I could also make games with blender I decided to learn how to use that program instead. Fast forward a couple of years later and I have not learned how to make a game in either program. Well I have made a small game in blender, but I had hoped to make a bunch of games by now.

I had completely forgotten about game maker. Only recently did I remeber I had it on my computer. It looks like it might be fun to use. I hope I will learn how to make at least one game with game maker.

Past win warner Bro. mouse pad

Finishing last years wins is a warner bros. mousepad. I was supprised to have won this because there was an error when I played the instant win game and it said try again. I tried to play the game again, but my internet connection is slow and I couldn't do it so I decided to stop playing that instant win.

The next day there was an email saying I had won a mouse pad and I was very supprised. It was a great feeling to win because I had been in a dry spell and had not had a win in I think a couple of weeks.

Past win rotation station

One of my past wins was a rotation station. When I first looked at the contest site I did not know what a rotation station was. Rotation station sounded like some kind of cooking device, something that turns and cooks chicken at the same time. I found out it had nothing to do with cooking. I think you use it to work on in line skates.

Well anyway it was a surprise to win the sweepstakes because I had not been entering it for very long. I received an email saying that it would arrive in a couple of days and a of couple days to a week later it arrived.