January 20th, 2010
Or rather, it didn’t. He’d gotten a truck rather than use one of those cross country moving companies, he’s a ‘do it yourself’ kind of guy.
The problem was the equipment was too old to go into the Chunnel, certain regulations over there affect traffic of rentals access as opposed to owned vehicles.
Here in the States I’ve never heard of such a matter. I know there’s certain limits such as fuel cylinders not permitted, but I had to laugh when he wasn’t informed by the rental agency.
I wonder if he had paid insurance as well.
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January 14th, 2010
A few weeks ago I was perusing such things as Tijuana Donkey Shows and other interesting facts you come across on Wikipedia, los cabos vacations packages not mentioned but glad I found it later.
I always thought these were actual ‘hmm hmming’ on stage, similiar to tales other veterans have told of naughty shows in the Orient such as a woman picking up things with no hands.
The more I researched, the more I realized it’d be safer to simply fly into a Metropolitan area, pay for a decent hotel, and give up the money rather than rely on going on ‘the cheap’.
I have talked to people that’ve lived for months off of coastlines and subsisting on fresh produce. Then again there weren’t as many pirates running around on the open seas that might come to land for fresh grown vittles for their stores.
Just sayin’. Be safe, no matter where be matey!
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January 14th, 2010
Months ago I participated in forward looking meetings regarding creation and establishment of a Drop In Center, something honestly not new and prior done in Jacksonville, Florida years ago.
My opinion is that it’s a duplication of core services already available that need to be expanded on and improved. People have their own agendas and tend to minimize others…especially when it’s a possible tool to fund accounts in a ‘Rob Peter To Pay Paul’ situation.
I’m waiting for someone to try and request fitness equipment for their employees as a perk, rather than direct them to seek opportunity at the local gym as many of their consumers of services in fact do.
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December 27th, 2009
Better sleep in my own bed!
Living in Florida, I don’t need heated mattress pads, flannel sheets worn soft through time do the trick at the moment, sleeping single in a double bed.
Some of the ways I get restful sleep include:
Wearing earplugs. There’s a Port Authority just across the river from my home, so the quiet ‘din’ gets a low bass effect from the machinery in it’s inner workings.
Making sure there’s no draft. Sometimes my window has a small crack open, not being ‘plane’, so I have to double check it before retiring to make sure I have no ‘cold spot’ on my backside facing it.
Not giving in to Fun Sway, or whatever it’s called! I hate the idea of having fallen for having my head aligned to a compass point. I’ve found NO benefit, likewise with placement of a bed regarding energy. The only benefit I can see is keeping clutter in a bedroom to a minimum. Period.
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December 23rd, 2009
He hadn’t been to this part of the facility before. As the grey doors slid apart, he caught the scent of disinfectant…something he hadn’t smelled in his sequestered life he amid the aroma of homeopathic oils.
To his right was a row of treadmills facing away from the wall, their occupants looking facelessly ahead while trodging on obediently. Frail wires attached to contacts adhering to their limbs and torso bobbed gracefully in time with their movements each.
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December 14th, 2009
Every once in a while I get requests to join this community or that community, in developing ‘in links’ from companies giving out their juice. Some are genuine directories of services, in hierarchical forms with logical flow charts that allow bloggers to be featured.
I got a request to consider http://onewaytextlink.com, and I haven’t had the chance of getting deeper than their first page.
I’m curious…what are some of the online communities others use in the new facing changes of Bing, Yahoo, and Google with upcoming mergers of front ends to back ends.
Not in a brokeback mountainous way either before you ask.
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December 14th, 2009
Last Thursday the Emergency Services & Homeless Coalition had it’s General Membership meeting. I had the chance of sitting down and speaking with Felecia, the Managing attorney at a local law firm…made it clear she was too young and too attractive to be a managing attorney at a firm.
Yeah, hate me…I can pull that kind of stuff off and still get women to smile at me.
It made me think back to the days when I was more of a risk taker, riding my KZ-400 state to state, not a care in the world for a motorcycle accident attorney. It’s the last thing you think of when that beautiful scenery’s whizzing by at 130 miles per hour.
Could be the last too if people aren’t careful.
Nuff said.
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December 14th, 2009
True words! We’ve been having continous rain that’s cause the shingles at the top of the roof to blow up, causing water to come in and fall on my ceiling in the living room. Before in the past it wasn’t bad…not, it looks like a big ‘pee’ spot about 3 feet across.
It wasn’t me, really.
Later today I’ll contact the landlord, there’s an issue anyways with water needing attention at the kitchen faucet. I’ve been tired of trucking dish pans to the commode.
It’s not that I’m ingrateful…I just want to get what I pay for.
Tee Hee!
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December 14th, 2009
Close to two years ago I had my remaining teeth pulled and replaced by dentures. It was a point it was ‘medicaid billable’, and I’d already been working on having the problematic ones removed for health reasons.
The problem now is ill fitting ones…typical from what I understand talking to others, however in some cases offices don’t originally use quality products. I’ve seen people with undersized and as well oversized teeth put in their mouth. They might ‘fit’ physically, but one friend of mine was fitted with teeth that made him look like Mr. Ed, the talking horse.
If I end up getting a windfall from taxes annually, I’ll be able to apply for dental discounts and ‘do it myself’, rather than rely on what’s available at my local dentist…if that’s what they call them.
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December 14th, 2009
Some of the ways when I ‘go after’ items I’m looking for, I’ll do a search by vendor, such as Samsung, especially when it comes to computer parts.
While companies ’sell’ items, they don’t necessarily use drill down logic trees consumers would think…are logical.
A good example is trying to find a specific model of video display, a flat screen LCD that I wanted to get a match so that my living room wouldn’t have multiple monitors made by multiple vendors.
If you’re not able to find something you ‘know’ should be at a vendors site, take a second and go to a competitor. See how or what the specific wording is used there to describe the product…then try using the same keywords at your original sought location.
Works for me.
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