"I wish I could, but I don't have time". "Sorry, but I have too much to do". "Maybe I can fit it in next week". Monday turns into Thursday and Thursday turns into the following month. I feel like a dog chasing its tail. It's time to stop and smell the beef jerky treat.

It's time to enjoy the reason we moved to Southern california - the weather. For my husband and me living in the East had become one of those four-letter words - snow. Now I'm addicted to sunshine.

If it rains, I try to remember what my grandmother used to say, "If there wasn't rain, what would umbrella makers do?" Well, Grandmother, they could become Southern california weather forecasters.

You don't need formal training. All you need is good hair and a charming smile. The smile is very useful when they explain why their weather predictions weren't accurate.

forecasting weather in Southern california isn't any harder than forecasting nighttime. Instead of having a degree in meteorology, weather forecasters should have windows in their offices.

The average Southern Californians don't have a barometer, humidity readings and satellite pictures to predict rain. We know that there's a good chance it will rain if we've just washed our car. We also know that there's a good chance it won't rain if we carry our umbrellas all day.

If weather forecasters predict partly cloudy skies, I know more about them than I do about the upcoming weather. They're pessimists. If they were optimists, they'd predict partly sunny skies.

In the musical, "man from La Mancha", Don Quixote sings, "Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong - I've got to be me". If you change the word whether to weather, you've got the perfect theme song for all weather forecasters.

Unfortunately, these people need our sympathy more than they need a theme song. If their weather reports get lower rating than their competition does, they're weather beaten.

Family and friends living in the Midwest, as well as the East, give Southern california weather low ratings because we don't have seasons. I can weather the storm of their jealousy - especially November through March.

After all, it's been scientifically proven that weather affects our moods. For me sunshine makes me feel happy, rain makes me feel depressed and fog makes me feel lonely. However, when we lived in New jersey, snow made me feel like - moving.

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There are a lot of guides out there that claim to help you fix the xbox 360 3 Red Lights problem "in under an hour". Given the fact that we all must take what we see and hear on the internet with a grain of salt, is it really possible for a person to pop open their xbox 360 and fix this problem themselves? I mean, how many of you would "pop open" your television set and fix it yourself? Exactly.

However, where there is doubt, there is hope. The fact of the matter is, an xbox 360 is just a computer with easily interchangeable components, like your desktop computer. I used to build computers from scratch using the same parts that IBM, Dell and all the other manufacturers out there were using. The hardware is usually the easy part. It's the software that can give you a headache.

Fortunately, the xbox 360 3 Red Lights problem is a hardware problem and if you don't mind opening up your xbox (and if you're out of warranty, there's no reason not to), you can fairly easily fix this very common problem. This is good news because Microsoft's policy on repairing out-of-warranty XBoxes is to charge $140.

That's a lot of money, particularly when you consider that most people paid somewhere around $350 - $400 to buy their xbox 360 in the first place.

only about 6% of xbox 360's that experience the 3 red lights problem can't be fixed. At the core of this problem is a CPU cooling issue. The xbox 360 has a tremendous amount of computing power. That's translates into a lot of heat generated. The XBox 360 design did not allow for sufficient heat transfer from the CPU to out outside and therefore CPU's started getting burned out. So the fix is to improve the cooling of the XBox 360. But it need to be done in a certain way.

The key is to pick up a step-by-step guide that tells you exactly how to do it. There are some excellent guides available out there. There's even websites solely devoted to this specific problem. (Ahh, I love the internet). I found one website that seems to do a very credible review of 4 "XBox 3 Red Lights" do-it-yourself fix-it guides. It seems to me, that these guides must be the real deal, because they've been available for a while now and the market would have said no to them if they were just blowing smoke. In any case, the guides range in price from around $25 to $30 bucks and some even include videos. So given that microsoft and other outside companies want upwards of $140 to fix the "Red Ring of Death", these guides seem to be a very sensible alternative. Probably worth at least checking out the reviews.

Irons

Golfers with slower swings should take the following into consideration when choosing their irons. first of all, you should probably have a 6 or 7 iron as your longest iron club. Only carry a 5 or even a 6 iron if you can hit it confidently and consistently. Most people with slow swings cannot accomplish this. Higher number fairway woods and hybrids will replace the long irons. Another consideration is a wide sole that is rounded to prevent from digging more into the ground and slowing the club face even more. For the same reason dont choose a large iron head design. By all means, do use irons with a deep back cavity and perimeter weighting.

Hybrids

You should use hybrid clubs to replace at least your long irons. The Nancy Lopez ladies golf club line offers sets with hybrids up to the 7 iron in some cases, and even some sets with hybrids completely replacing all the irons except the pitching and sand wedges. Which hybrids you choose will depend on which fairway woods you carry. You will need to determine how far your ball will fly with your highest numbered fairway wood and then choose your lowest numbered hybrid to fly 10-15 yards less than that. The Nancy Lopez site will give you a good idea about what club choices are appropriate for your swing and ability level.

Wedges

Your pitching wedge (PW) should have at least 4 degrees more loft than your 9 iron. The sand wedge (SW) should have at least 56 degrees of loft or even more. There is probably no need for a gap wedge (GW) unless you have a substantial difference in how far you hit the PW compared to the SW. For people with slower swing seeds, this difference is not normally enough to justify another club. A lob wedge (LW) can also be a good addition to your set. For both the SW and the LW, there is no need for golfers with slower swings to have a large bounce angle, since there will not be enough force in the swing to dig too far into the sand or ground in any case.

Conclusion

If you are a serious golfer and can afford it, the best solution for a great set of ladies golf clubs is to find a certified custom fitter and club maker. The standard, off-the-shelf sets of ladies golf clubs sold in most shops will only fit a small percentage of the population. It is essentially a one size fits all proposition. Another good alternative is the Nancy Lopez ladies golf club product lines. You should at least look at their web site to see how they approach fitting your clubs and choosing the right ladies golf clubs to put in your bag. Knowing your swing speeds and what the length of your clubs should be is fundamental in this process. Be aware that most people, both men and women, use clubs that are too long, and they do not use enough loft on the driver.

Walt Ballenberger is a life-long golfer and founder of http://www.hybridgolfclubs.org, a resource site for golfers. For a Free Report entitled How to Find the Sweet Spot on Your golf Clubs in 10 Minutes visit http://www.hybridgolfclubs.org