I signed up on Naturist HQ when I first learned it existed and I really enjoyed the layout the website had to offer, plus they even had an android app for it.

Here is the e -mail I received.

Hello everyone.

We regret to inform you all that we are going to have to shut the network down.

As many of you are aware, there is not much activity and the sites running costs are over £500 a month so unfortunately, we are going to have to shut the doors.

We really appreciate those of you who joined our family and hope that one day we will cross paths.

We hope you all stay safe and live the way nature intended.

A massive thanks to Harry and Cheryl for their amazing admin work to keep the site clean and safe for its members.

All the best

Naturist HQ

I always find it saddening when websites like this decide to close their doors.

Since Coronavirus has spread most people are hording:

• Toilet paper
• Soap
• Cleaning products
• Hand Sanitizer
• Masks
• Food

Since Coronavirus has spread many nations & companies are:

• shutting down stores
• closing schools
• closing jobs or pushing working from home
• canceling sporting events
• canceling concerts, festivals, parades, etc
• offering free remote tools to work from home

Essentially the entire world is “shutdown” until further notice.

I urge everybody to take precautions but remain calm during this Coronavirus pandemic since freaking out will only cause added stress and chaos in an already crazy world.

Follow the steps at the CDC Website to take steps to protect yourself.

While the Coronavirus pandemic may be a very serious threat to the well being of people, I believe it’s also a great way for the government to control people in each nation & confine us all to our homes or take away other freedoms.

The Earn It Act

For example while the Coronavirus pandemic is going on congress is trying to pass “The EARN IT Act” which will do away with encryption and give the government the backdoor they have long wanted into your data. Read about it here.

If you haven’t yet please subscribe to my blog to keep on up my posts!

I hope everybody continues to follow my blog in 2020 and maybe I’ll gain more subscribers as time goes on.

Please keep leaving those wonderful comments, it helps me know that people actually read this thing.

I want to ask my readers to write in the comments what they are thankful for in their own life.

I’m Thankful for

• My health.
• My family, & the few friends I have.
• My house, personal belongings.
• My job as a system administrator.
• I’m also thankful for anybody reading this blog.

My Thanksgiving Plans

Plan to spend Thanksgiving with my gf’s family on Thursday (11/28) and then that evening we will be going Black Friday shopping other than that we don’t have any major plans.

Saturday we will be having a 2nd Thanksgiving at my house as well as a birthday party for our youngest foster child.

There is no way in hell that any company would sell an excavator for $179.00 as they would go bankrupt over this pricing model.

Stay vigilant my friends.

Be careful. Douchebags are running rampant in every sports bar, college town, and white suburban neighborhood. Avoid them at all costs. Or rabbit punch them in the neck. If you feel any burgeoning desire to become a douchebag, however, merely follow these 5 steps:

1. LOOK THE PART

If you are going to be a douche, you need to be identified right away. Wear trendy brand name shirts like Tap Out, Affliction, or Ed Hardy. Actually just never wear collared shirts; professionalism and looking clean is for nerds. Also never trim your facial hair and have a cheap haircut, preferably in a style that resembles a troll-doll or anything else that hasn’t been fashionable for over ten years. Massive amounts of hair gel is optional.

For extra points, wear a snapback hat. Don’t brush your teeth too often either. Don’t forget to get a tribal tattoo sleeve down AT LEAST down one arm, that way people can clearly identify you as not only having never travelled, but following trends without blinking, either.

2. ACT THE PART

Looks are half the battle. In order to be a douche, you have to be an alpha male. Constantly make fun of your friends and be vengeful if they retort. Go to the gym and tan as often as you can or do the opposite by doing nothing but eating, getting high, and playing video games. Remove common courtesies from your actions; remove please and thank you from your vocabulary and replace it with the abbreviation “bro”. Walk down a corridor in the middle so no-one will be able to get past and then complain when people bump into you. Just be a complete dick to everyone you meet. Start a lot of fights.

3. TREAT WOMEN LIKE OBJECTS

Why drive when you can make your girlfriend do it for you? Hell, you don’t even have to be in the car, just make her run errands for you. Abuse her verbally and sometimes physically to remind her of her place. Never forget how funny making a sandwich jokes are. If she makes a request or disagrees with you, ask her if she’s on her period.

Scoff when she mentions feminism. Cheat on her. Show your friends and the internet her nude pictures. Make her cook for you. Never pay for anything. Have at least five girlfriends at the same time. Sleep with taken/married women. Treat every woman that you interact with as if they were a piece of meat—nothing more than cattle.

4. LIVE IN THE MOMENT

Throw your trash anywhere but a garbage can, people get paid to clean up that shit – make ‘em work for it. Give a middle finger to the hippies and polar bears by driving a gas guzzling SUV and take up as many spaces as possible when you park. When you drink, be sure to binge drink and throw around racial slurs like they are going out of style, because political correctness has gone too far. Be a compulsive liar so you sound more interesting. Chain smoke and break other people’s stuff. Never apologize and to hell with consequences!

5. EVERYTHING ELSE

Laugh when people fail. Constantly remind people that you are ALWAYS right about everything. Think how can this situation help me? Hit friends unnecessarily, order the cheapest and girliest drink while out and start a fight with anyone who questions it. Get a boring job that gives you a few dollars to have an unfulfilled Saturday night out with your friends so you can spend Sunday showing off how drunk you were on social media. Get somebody pregnant, have a child that you raise badly. Repeat the cycle.

Regardless now that same sex marriage is legal in the United States maybe they will eventually start legalizing women’s rights to be topless anywhere a man can be topless. I mean this is legal in New York already and maybe some other areas. I feel women should be allowed to be topless anywhere a man can, because after all they are just breasts. Breasts are not sexual unless one makes them out to be sexual.

To get even further into people’s rights and what they should legalize I want to talk about legalizing people’s rights to wear or not wear clothes. I personally hate wearing clothing especially in the summer time because you get hot, sticky and they are just a burden at times. I wish it was normalized and legal to be able to go clothes free in public and not for sexual reasons either. I often enjoy to go clothes free and do often at home when I get some time from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. I’d go nude almost 100% of the time if it was legal simply because it allows my skin to breathe and I’m most comfortable without clothing.

Who knows though, maybe gays winning their case of same sex marriage will lead to bigger and better things for all of mankind.

Many of the systems I manage at work no longer work properly in the Chrome browser so I have to resort to using IE or Firefox to do my job. Issues like this is why I may eventually switch back to Firefox and move away from Chrome permanently.

Some of the system chrome no longer works properly with are:

• Dell DRAC (java security issue)
• McAfee EPO Server (acts flaky and doesn’t function properly in chrome)
• Exchange Admin Center (one of the windows needed to manage users never loads in chrome)
• SonicWall Analyzer (Error “Java Unsupported for this site”)
• Any website with a SHA-1 Certificates
• Also has issues with Self-Signed SSL Certificates
• LastPass Autofill on some websites

Some other issues I’ve also noticed in Chrome are:

• PDFS don’t automatically open in Chrome
• NPAPI Plugin issue
• DNS Timeout error messages

Looks like if Google continues on this path then I won’t be using Chrome at all anymore because it pretty much fails to function properly as a browser for anything I need to do in my day to day life.

Here is the exact words from US Cellular’s page:

You asked. We listened.

We’re making changes to improve your overall U.S. Cellular® experience.

As part of these changes, we are phasing out the Rewards program to be able to bring you even more of the products and services you want.

At U.S. Cellular, we’re constantly listening to customers like you on how to best enhance our customers’ experience. Over the past year, we carefully reviewed our different offerings through extensive customer feedback.

So when you recently told us what you wanted most from us, we did more than listen. We took action.

Based on our customers’ input, we are phasing out the U.S. Cellular Rewards program over the next several months. It’s important to note that there will be absolutely no change in the U.S. Cellular Rewards program until May 2015.

My Rant

Well I for one am a US Cellular customer and this is one change that I DID NOT want to happen because I rely on this program to upgrade my phone early so I can keep up to date with newer phones. Honestly, US Cellular’s reward program was the only reason I stuck around for the last few years otherwise I would of switched long time ago. Reason why I am pissed is because I will not be able to use my points one last time to upgrade my phone because my phone isn’t up for renewal until April 19 2016 and the points are worthless to me for anything else that they offer to use them for.

On the US Cellular page they brag about the following:

• National Coverage
• Best Overall Value
• Customer Service Excellence
• Lastest and Greatest Device Portfolio

At least three things on that list make me laugh because:

• US Cellular does not have the Best Overall Value. In fact they are as expensive if not more expensive than Verizon wireless since they started copying their business model.
• US Cellular DOES NOT have the Latest and Greatest Device Portfolio because they only mostly carry Samsung and Iphone. Both phones are normally consider junk in my opinion because there are better phones out there.
• National Coverage also made me laugh because a lot of the time I don’t even have a signal even in my local area.
• I can’t say much about their customer service because I don’t bother to contact them because they are normally unhelpful anyways.

Source: US Cellular

1. IT IS EASIER

When you don’t have to worry about sleeping in clothes, things start to get easier. You don’t have to buy pajamas, which can save you money. You have less clothes to wash and less clothes to put away. You may have to clean your bed sheets more often, but not nearly as often as you’d have to wash your pajamas when you run out.

2. IT CAN MAKE YOU FEEL HAPPIER AND MORE FREE.

Just imagine the feeling of laying in bed naked. You’re free of your pants and underwear. Women, you’re not wearing a constrictive bra. It’s just you sandwiched between two cool sheets. The feeling just makes you want to smile and it makes you feel more free. Everyone can use that kind of good feeling every now and then, and it may even help you be happier as a person.

3. SKIN-ON-SKIN CONTACT IS BEST.

If you’re married, or living with your significant other, sleeping naked gives a greater chance of skin-on-skin contact, especially when it comes to cuddling. This kind of contact can also lead to a more active sex life. All of this releases copious amounts of oxytocin, which is the neurotransmitter that helps you feel those good feelings about your significant other.

4. IT COULD LEAD TO BETTER SLEEP.

Let’s revisit the scenario I described above. There are no drawstrings or clothes getting tangled in sheets. You don’t have to worry about shirts getting twisted. All of these distractions go away when you sleep naked and it may help you get better, deeper sleep. You don’t need science to tell you that better, deeper sleep only helps you be healthier.

5. HELPS YOUR SKIN.

For once your body gets to breathe. Your private parts, armpits, and feet are generally restricted all day and are often covered by multiple layers, even in the summer time. Give those parts a chance to air out and breathe. This can lower the risk of skin diseases, like athlete’s foot, that result from wet, restricted skin.

6. HELPS YOU REGULATE YOUR CORTISOL.

Cortisol is a very strange chemical in the body but it can do a lot of damage. When you sleep naked, it helps keep your body temperature at the optimal ranges so your body can better create cortisol. If you sleep overheated your cortisol levels tend to stay high, even after you wake up. This can lead to increased anxiety, cravings for bad food, weight gain, and more terrible things. Sleep naked so you can keep your body temperature down and sleep well so your body can properly produce and regulate cortisol.

7. BALANCES YOUR MELATONIN AND GROWTH HORMONE.

Continuing along that same vein, keeping your sleeping environment below 70 degrees (F) every night can help your body regulate its melatonin and growth hormone levels. These chemicals help the body do things like prevent aging and are essential to good health. When you sleep in clothes, your body heats up and prevents effective use of these hormones. In other words, sleeping with clothes on makes you grow old faster.

8. IT CAN KEEP YOUR SEX ORGANS HAPPIER.

For men, the cooler sleeping conditions allows your testes to remain at a cooler temperature. This helps keep your sperm healthy and your reproductive systems functioning as normal. For women, the cooler and more airy sleeping conditions can actually help prevent yeast infections. Yeast grows better in warm, moist conditions. When it’s cooler and dryer, the growth of yeast is prevented.

9. SLEEPING IN THE SUMMER IS MORE BEARABLE.

Summertime is a tricky time to get good sleep. If you don’t have air conditioning, then you may find your bedroom a bit stuffy at night. Shedding those bedtime clothes can help the bedroom feel more comfortable. You may even be able to turn the A/C off on those cooler nights, which can save you a few bucks on your electricity bill. Don’t wake up drenched in sweat again because your thermostat is downstairs and the hot air expands up to your bedroom where the thermostat can’t read the warm temperatures.

10. PAJAMAS ARE OVERRATED ANYWAYS.

How much, on average, do you spend on a single set of pyjamas? £20-£40? More? And how often you wash them? Now think to yourself ‘imagine how much money/time I could save by not wearing PJs?’

Revolutionary, huh? We thought so too.

11. DRIFT INTO A DEEPER SLEEP.

Did you know that certain types of insomnia are associated with the faulty regulation of body temperature? The Los Angeles Sleep Study Institute reports that this not only affects your sleep cycle, but also inhibits you from drifting into a deep sleep.

Sleeping naked helps to regulate body temperature (so you don’t overheat — there’s nothing worse than waking up a sweaty mess) meaning you’ll be sleeping like a log in no time.

12. YOU’LL FEEL LIBERATED

Lying there on your bed, wearing nothing but air, feeling free. What could be better?

13. BOOST SELF ESTEEM

If you have body confidence issues then sleeping naked might just help you learn to love yourself. Start to become accustomed to how you look by sleeping without bed clothes each evening. Over time, you should become used to how your body looks without clothes, and hey, you might even learn to love how good you look. Just give it a try!

14. DON’T BE A SLOTH

Another perk of sleeping naked is that once you’re awake, you’re more inclined to get dressed for the day ahead rather than slobbing around in your PJs. Goodbye sloth, hello human being. Yay!