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TSA - Consistently Inconsistent

TSA - Consistently Inconsistent

In my travels there is one thing about airport security that is consistent…  that one thing is that it is inconsistent.  Sure, there are a few things that have BECOME consistent… you now have to take your shoes off at virtually every airport and you get two chances to pass through the metal detector [...]

A Story to Tell

A Story to Tell

Do you have a story to tell?  Do you want to get it published? Maybe Self Publishing is the answer!
Many years ago my mother wrote a children’s book.  I just loved this book.  It was a take on “Row Row Row Your Boat” and was a journey that the child was taking down the [...]

Guam - Hafa Adai...

Guam - Hafa Adai…

Hafa Adia (Pronounced: Half A Day, Means: Hello, Language: Chamorro) from Guam!  My recent business trip took me to the island of Guam.  It wouldn’t have been that bad if getting there were just a bit more convenient.  Our flights took us from Spokane, to Seattle to Japan’s Narita airport and then finally Guam.   All total [...]

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

As I get older, items related to individual health are always of interest to me.  Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Irregular Heartbeat are among those things.   Did you know the average survival rate for Sudden Cardiac Arrest is only 6-7% and that 2/3 of Unexpected Cardiac Arrests occur without prior indication of any heart disease.   [...]

Shameless Self Promotion - A Link for a Link

Shameless Self Promotion - A Link for a Link

I recently read an article about blog and website promotion where the author was offering tips for bloggers to help increase their traffic.  One of the simplest of suggestions was to simply ask readers to link to you and you do the same for them.  So the purpose of this post is to layout the [...]

Interest Rates and Your Equity

With the recent reductions in the prime interest rates NOW may be the time for you to consider refinancing you home to get out of a variable interest rate loan or a loan with a large balloon. Perhaps you’d like to do some debt consolidation, or a remodel…you could get a Home Equity Loan or [...]

How to Stop Telemarketers and Maybe Make a Few Bucks

How to Stop Telemarketers and Maybe Make a Few Bucks

It’s the same old story… You just sit down for dinner or you settle in to watch your favorite program on television and the phone rings.  It’s one of those pesky telemarketing firms wanting to sell you the latest and greatest things since sliced bread, or the carpet cleaning company offering you some great deal [...]

American Idol and Voting...

American Idol and Voting…

For the past couple of seasons of American Idol I have resorted to an automatic, “intelligent” dialing program to place my votes for me.  The interesting thing about DialIdol is that it “measures the busy signals” to figure out which of the idols are getting the votes.  If it makes a determination that your choice(s) [...]

Send Your Children Out Begging for Funds...

Send Your Children Out Begging for Funds…

I never could quite grasp the concept of sending our children out to pawn candy bars, wrapping paper, tea, etc… just so they could earn money for the latest and greatest “program” at school.   I must say I am a sucker and I will usually pry out of my wallet the $3 dollars they are [...]

Blog Host Change - Apology and Retraction...

Blog Host Change - Apology and Retraction…

In the past month I have had two full weekends that the blog has been inaccessible due to problems at my webhost - Flexihostings.   I was left no alternative, after another full day today where they could not resolve the problem, but to change webhosts.
This evening I moved the entire blog, all images, databases, etc… [...]