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Amazon Prime, Free for 1 Month

Amazon is running a promotion on their Prime service, giving you one month for free. We’ve been prime members for the last three years or so and we love the service. It damn near pays for itself come holiday season… After the first month, it’s $79 a year for free two-day shipping on many items and $3.99 next-day service.

Here’s what they have to say about it:

What is Amazon Prime?

Amazon Prime is a popular Amazon.com program that gives its members unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of eligible items. All new members are offered a free trial, allowing them to experience the convenience of shopping with Amazon Prime benefits for an entire month at no charge.

Amazon Prime members enjoy the following benefits:

Fast Delivery

  • Unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping on millions of items
  • Upgrades to One-Day (Overnight) Shipping for just $3.99 per item

Simple Shopping

  • No minimum purchase required
  • Members-only 1-Click buttons on product pages
  • No need to think about shipping charges

Convenient Sharing

  • Members can share benefits with up to four family members living in the same household

Free Trial

  • Amazon Prime new subscribers are invited to try Amazon Prime free, for one month.

After the Free Trial period, customers will be automatically charged the $79 annual fee unless they choose not to upgrade to regular annual memberships at or before the end of the trial period.

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Tomatoes are almost here

Brandywines

The tomatoes in our EarthBox are coming along nicely, though the plant has grown to exceed all expectation. It’s upper branches are not entangling the basketball net, about seven feet off the ground. It’s drinking about 2 liters of water a day (!!!) and though we had some problems with blossom end rot, a quick application of some lime seems to have fixed that up. I definitely want to try growing more in the EarthBox… Sheri put some basil in and said was just amazingly large. As a kid, I got to pick a few seeds to plant in our family garden and I always went for the tallest, biggest, fattest variety of whatever I could find: giant sunflowers, huge watermelon and pumpkin, tall corn. It rarely ended up being as large as the seed package claimed it could be, but I was all about growing the biggest thing I could. The EarthBox definitely delivers on growing stuff big and increasing yeilds.

Jalepenos

Our jalepeno plant is also doing pretty well in its standard container. It doesn’t drink quite a much water, but it looks like we’ll be making homemade salsa pretty soon…

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The new measure of distance @ Always in Motion

Jeff came up with new measurement for distance, Effective Cry Hours. If you have kids, you’ll understand.

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Motorcycle For Sale

My bike is for sale if anyone is interested. See the page on Craigslist for more details.

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Brian Williams’ on The Daily Show

Brian Williams’ interview on the Daily Show last Thursday. He just returned from Iran and this is great to watch.