Jim Frimmer, Realtor and CDPE, Mission Valley, CA DRE #01458572

For San Diego County residents who like to watch their sports at the sports bars, here's some that I have visited or have heard good things about:

1. Chula Vista - La Bella Café & Games - 289 G Street, 619-426-8820
2. El Cajon - On The Border - 103 Fletcher Parkway, 619-441-0200
3. Encinitas - Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar - 294 North El Camino Real, 760-753-6300
4. Escondido - On The Border - 298 East Via Rancho Parkway,
   760-233-9777
5. La Mesa - Johnny B's - 8393 La Mesa Boulevard, 619-464-2465
6. La Mesa - Jolt'n Joe's Sports Grill - 8076 La Mesa Boulevard,
   619-466-2591
7. San Diego Banker's Hill - NuNu's - 3537 5th Avenue, 619-295-2878
8. San Diego East Village - The Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery - 10th Avenue at K Street, 619-814-5458
9. San Diego Gaslamp Quarter - Jolt'n Joe's Sports Grill - 4th Avenue at J Street, 619-230-1968
10. San Diego Gaslamp Quarter - Nicky Rottens Bar & Burger Joint - 560 5th Avenue, 619-702-8068
11. San Diego Harbor - Redfield's Sports Bar - Market at Harbor, 619-232-1234
12. San Diego Mira Mesa - On The Border - 10789 Westview Parkway, 858-530-1130
13. San Diego Mission Valley - On The Border - 1770 Camino de la Reina, 619-209-3700
14. San Diego Point Loma - Kristy's MVP Sports Bar - 3225 Midway Drive, 619-222-0388
15. San Marcos - 55 Yardline - 1020 San Marcos Boulevard, 760-744-1960
16. Spring Valley - California Comfort Restaurant and Sports Bar - 8910 Troy Street, 619-337-0670

Hope your team wins. Unless they are playing my team, of course -- LOL. You can often find me at #2. Maybe I'll see you there.

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1. Wow! Nice underwear
2. Your digital camera can do so much more than just take pictures
3. Are you a food label reader?
4. Excessive furnishings and storage create fire hazards
5. Holding an open house with fleas
6. Home safety for children: Why let them be injured or killed?
7. If you needed to hide from someone, could you do it in today's world?
8. Make every Friday "Backup Friday"
9. Please help me identify this type of architecture. Craftsman? Victorian? Modern?
10. Private, gated, fenced, coded subdivisions
11. 10 ways to get rich, courtesy of Warren Buffett
12. Tuesday laugh session with the "treadmill kitty cats"
13. What's in a name?

As the Christmas season starts coming to a close, make sure that you recycle those Christmas trees. Many cities will accept Christmas trees with curbside green waste recycling but some might require that you cut it up into smaller pieces so that it fits in the green waste recycling containers.

In all cases, the trees should be free of anything that can't be recycled, such as ornaments, light strings, and tree stands. Flocked trees generally cannot be recycled but will be picked up with regular curbside trash pickup. You do need to cut the flocked tree into four-foot sections and put into the regular trash containers.

If you can't wait for a regular curbside pickup day, you can drop them off at various drop-off locations.

1. Carmel Valley -- 3777 Townsgate Drive -- lower parking lot at the Carmel Valley Recreation Center
2. Encanto -- Woodman Street at Cielo Drive
3. Golden Hill -- 2600 Golf Course Drive at the Golden Hill Recreation Center
4. La Jolla -- Loring Street at Soledad Mountain Road -- Kate Sessions Memorial Park
5. Logan Heights -- 2902 Marce Avenue at the Memorial Recreation Center
6. Miramar -- State Route 52 at Convoy Street -- north to the Miramar Landfill
7. Mission Bay -- Pacific Highway at Sea World Drive
8. Nestor -- Montgomery Waller Community Park -- upper and lower parking lots at west side
9. Oak Park -- 6350 College Grove Drive -- Gloria's Mesa parking lot at Chollas Lake
10. Ocean Beach -- 2525 Bacon Street at Robb Athletic Field Recreation Center
11. Otay Mesa -- Montgomery Waller Community Park -- upper and lower parking lots at west side
12. Rancho Bernardo -- 18448 West Bernardo Drive at the Rancho Bernardo Recreation Center
13. Rancho Penasquitos -- 12350 Black Mountain Road at the Canyon side Recreation Center
14. San Diego State University -- Parking Lot D off of Alvarado Road
15. Scripps Ranch -- 11454 Blue Cypress Drive at the Scripps Ranch Recreation Center
16. Tierrasanta -- 11010 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard at the De Portola Middle School
17. University City -- 3585 Governor Drive at the Swanson Pool

1. Bonsall -- 5256 South Mission Road in the northwest parking lot at River Village -- through January 9
2. Carlsbad -- 2997 Glasgow Drive at Calavera Park
3. Carlsbad -- 6600 Hidden Valley Road at Poinsettia Park
4. Carlsbad -- 3420 Camino de los Coches at Stagecoach Park
5. Carlsbad -- 1275 Carlsbad Village Drive at Fire Station No. 1
6. Carlsbad -- 5960 El Camino Real at Palomar Transfer Station
7. Chula Vista -- 1700 Maxwell Road at the Otay Landfill
8. Coronado -- Glorietta Bay Boat Launching Ramp parking lot on Strand Way
9. Coronado -- 30 Caribe Cay Boulevard North at the Coronado Cays Yacht Club parking lot
10. Crest -- 925 O'Conner Street in El Cajon
11. El Cajon -- 925 O'Conner Street
12. Escondido -- 3333 Bear Valley Parkway at Kit Carson Park -- south entrance, first parking lot on right
13. Escondido -- 2401 North Broadway at Jesmond Dene Park
14. Fallbrook -- 5256 South Mission Road at River Village
15. Fallbrook -- 550 West Aviation Road at Fallbrook Refuse Service
16. Imperial Beach -- 495 10t Street, at Imperial Beach Public Works yard
17. Imperial Beach -- 847 Encina Avenue at Imperial Beach Boys & Girls Club
18. Imperial Beach -- 425 Imperial Beach Boulevard at Imperial Beach Sports Park
19. Jamul -- 925 O'Conner Street in El Cajon
20. Lakeside -- 925 O'Conner Street in El Cajon
21. La Mesa -- 8184 Commercial Street at the EDCO Station
22. Lemon Grove -- Olive Street at Central Avenue in the fenced lot across from Civic Center Park
23. National City -- 2005 East 4th Street at U Street -- El Toyon Park
24. Ramona -- Ramona High School
25. Ramona -- 1401 Hanson Lane
26. Ramona -- The Village Shopping Center
27. San Marcos -- 111 Richmar Avenue at San Marcos Senior Center
28. Santee -- 925 O'Conner Street in El Cajon
29. Solana Beach -- 305 S. Sierra Avenue
30. Solana Beach -- 715 Valley Avenue at La Colonia Community Center
31. Spring Valley -- 925 O'Conner Street in El Cajon
32. Valley Center -- 28246 Lilac Road at the Community Center
33. Vista -- Guajome Street at Mercantile Street -- dirt lot

1. Use a credit card rather than a debit card because the credit card provides more fraud protection than does a debit card.
2. Make sure you are at the site you want to be at before entering identifying information. For example, if you want to be at abcshopping.com, then the URL of the site you're at should be something like http://www.abcshopping.com. If the URL looks strange, like http://www.eac.t4457a3ee.abcshopping.com, you're probably at a phishing site, a site that is just waiting to steal your identifying information. If you have any doubt, start again by typing in the URL of the site you want to be at.
3. Beware of email attachments, especially if they are unexpected or from people you don't know. All sorts of free stuff and coupons come this way, many of them fraudulent.
4. Don't click on links in your emails unless you know who the email is from. I never click on links. What I do is hold my mouse over the link, right click on it, and then copy the link. Then I paste the link into my browser's address bar. If I don't recognize the company or anything about the link, then I don't go there. Fraudulent PayPal and bank links comes this way.
5. Upgrade your computer operating system to Windows XP, Vista, or Mac OS X. As crooks learn to take advantage of technology, our operating systems learn how to snuff them out. The latest often is the safest.
6. Install or upgrade your anti-spyware and anti-virus utilities. I set mine to automatic detection and then I also scan my computer each Friday during Backup Friday.
7. Don't use the same password for your many protected sites. I have all my User ID's and passwords stored in a protected file in a protected directory on my computer, so when I want to go to a specific site, I simply open the file, click on my the link in my file, and the User ID and password are right there by the link.
8. If you get an offer via email that looks or sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Hitting the delete key without even reading the email is probably best.

Be sure to scroll down for titles and quick links to some of my other blog entries.

Inspired by nature? Join the Inspired By Nature Group.

Classical music lover? Join the Classical Music Group.

Want to share a good book? Join the Active Rain Book Club.

Some of Jim's blog entries

1. Wow! Nice underwear
2. Your digital camera can do so much more than just take pictures
3. Holding an open house with fleas
4. Make every Friday "Backup Friday"
5. If you needed to hide from someone, could you do it in today's world?
6. Loose lips don't always sink ships. Sometimes they just make you smile.
7. How much sleep do you get each day?
8. 10 ways to get rich, courtesy of Warren Buffett
9. Home safety for children: Why let them be injured or killed?
10. Is it okay to climb a tree on someone else's property?
11. 22 ways to earn thousands of dollars
12. And the greatest of these is LOVE
13. Are you a food label reader?
14. Experienced vs. Newbie. Yes, there is a debate and, yes, it does continue.
15. Excessive furnishings and storage create fire hazards
16. Please help me identify this type of architecture. Craftsman? Victorian? Modern?
17. Private, gated, fenced, coded subdivisions
18. What's in a name?
19. Did you put that on the disclosure form? "I didn't think I needed to."
20. Are you prepared for an emergency?
21. Tuesday laugh session with the "treadmill kitty cats"