Summer or Winter?
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Posted:Oct 9, 2012 7:13 pm
Last Updated:Oct 23, 2012 10:16 pm 86040 Views
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A man comes home and tells his girlfriend that he just won the lottery.
She starts jumping up and down with excitement and soon the two of them are jumping up and down shouting "lottery, lottery, lottery, lottery...!"
He tells her "hurry up honey, pack your bags, you're goin' on a trip..."
Still chanting lottery, lottery, lottery, she runs into the bedroom, opens the closet door and starts throwing clothes on the bed. Suddenly she stops, runs back to the living room where her boyfriend has just opened a beer.. and she says "Do I pack for Winter or Summer?"
Without the slightest bit of hesitation he replies "What do I care? Just as long as you and your belongings are gone before nightfall"
(yes, this is a joke)
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Blocking my BETAs...
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Posted:Oct 8, 2012 3:53 pm
Last Updated:Oct 13, 2012 8:36 pm 85960 Views
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High blood pressure (hypertension) is a silent killer... so they say. Sometimes, it's symptoms are undetected. You could feel great and have hypertension. I know. Some days my pressure is very high and I have no idea until I check it.
BETA blockers are a type of hypertension medicine. Oh... you have hypertension? There are many factors that can cause high blood pressure. Heredity, lifestyle, diet, exercise, weight all have an effect on a persons blood pressure.
From experience, doctors will tell you the contributing factors, then prescribe medicine to lower blood pressure. Sometimes... more than one medicine is required.
There are a whole range of hypertension medicines available and... they don't all work the same. I know of 2 different families of hypertension medicines. BETA blockers and Calcium Channel Blockers. Sometimes lower doses of two different families is better than a large dose of one.
Supplemental medicines are often required to help with hypertension medicines. For example, some can regulate heart rate allowing the heart to slow down, some increase urination and that helps rid the body of sodium... Water retainage is also a factor in blood pressure.
On the weekends, especially If I'm working in the yard, I'll cut back on blood pressure medicine as the exercise and reduced stress lowers my pressure without medicine. That said... if I were a fitness instructor, I'd probably do away with hypertension medicine entirely.
Something to consider.
Thanks for reading my blog.
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Gimmicks: turning normal product into bigger profit...
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Posted:Oct 7, 2012 5:54 am
Last Updated:May 11, 2016 4:00 am 88654 Views
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Palmolive concentrated dish washing liquid (soap) has been on the market since I was a . Maybe you remember Madge, the manicurist who offered advice to her customers to soften their hands from roughness doing dishes.
"Mild? you're soaking in it" and the customer would (fearfully) pull her hand from the soaking dish while Madge tapped their hand offering assurance the product was good. What a marketing psychology!
Oh... the millions of women who fell for that tactic.
OK, a bottle of Palmolive is around $3 - $4 nowadays depending on the size, store or promotion going on because some offer 25% more product free. That's what it cost, that's what it sells for. You make lots of product, sell it for a price and the story ends.
Dial soap has a product with a foaming pump dispenser 7.5 ounce bottle for about the same price as a big bottle of Palmolive. A friend of mine tried it. When the Dial soap ran out, I filled it with Palmolive. But... it didn't work at first. Palmolive is concentrated. Dial foaming soap isn't. Ohhh.... this is not new to me. The kitchen soap pumps cannot work with concentrated liquid soap. You have to dilute the soap for them to work properly.
I've got this worked down to a science now... You only need 1 ounce of Palmolive soap and 6.5 ounces of tap water to fill the dial pump bottle and achieve the same kind of foaming soap. That's costing me roughly 20 cents per refill and 2 minutes of my time. I've got plenty of pump bottles now as my friend doesn't want to be bothered refilling pump bottles of soap. I have one in the lavatory and one in each vanity at work. The company I'm working for bought concentrated antibacterial hand soap that has a strong chemical scent. I dislike it and supply my own. My coworkers seem to like my soap more than what's supplied by management.
I've been doing this for 2 or 3 years now... is it worth it? Of course it is.
The thought goes through my head that Dial has a really good money making gimmick. I'm sure you have to factor in the cost of the pump bottle. Home Depot sells 20 ounce spray bottles for $1 so the cost cannot be so great that it's not money making.
I feel so guilty for exposing this scheme...
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Home alone pets...
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Posted:Oct 6, 2012 6:53 pm
Last Updated:Oct 7, 2012 11:33 am 92568 Views
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A few weeks ago, Yahoo did a link to the website of Ellen Degeneres. She had a story on people who went away (probably for the Labor Day weekend) only to find the family pet(s) tore up the house!
Funny, yet sad that your most trusted pet (I say that loosely) decides to throw a fit because you were gone.
你去一次旅行。 你的宠物在家。 单独。 宠物(通常是一条狗) 忿怒并且嚼皮家俱。
This happened to me in the 80's when my wife & I had gone out to a party after work. When we returned home (a few hours later), our two young dogs had dragged all the leather shoes into the middle of the living room floor and were in the processing of chewing them to bits. They knew they did wrong because of the 'leopard crawl' when I called their names. You little bastard also came out of my mouth... how appropriate.
Dogs are like that!
I did a home office for a customer who owned a Standard Poodle. For some unknown reason, there were marks in the countertop that the customer claimed were defects in the workmanship. They refused to pay the final bill and we involved getting the contractor to negotiate for us. As the story goes, all the furniture was built-in and not practical to remove to repaint the top. So, we opted to paint (clear topcoat) with all the furniture in-place. We were putting up plastic and tape getting ready to do the work and someone let the poodle out from the back bedroom. The ran into the home office and was jumping from counter to counter looking out the windows to see if their owner was coming home.
We convinced the owner it was caused by their and not us. The contractor suggested they put a glass top on the countertop to protect it. They did and that was the end of that episode.
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No Offense...
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Posted:Oct 5, 2012 8:31 pm
Last Updated:Oct 9, 2012 4:11 am 94298 Views
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I try not to use that phrase. Why?
It's an excuse to insult someone... a one second warning you're going to drop a bomb on them.
"No offense Bob, but your unstable personality guarantees all your relationships to be short lived."
There are other ways to get your point across without being degrading, obnoxious or offensive and 'protect' yourself by saying "No Offense"
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Pending...
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Posted:Oct 4, 2012 6:30 am
Last Updated:Oct 28, 2012 7:44 am 96084 Views
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It appears the future of Asia Friendfinder is pending. With recent changes, one must pay to read messages, both old and sent. This (in my opinion) is a knife in the back to this website and will negatively affect membership. Hopefully, the management of Asia Friendfinder will reconsider and change back to the way it was.
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Debate...
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Posted:Oct 3, 2012 8:22 pm
Last Updated:Oct 6, 2012 11:46 am 96340 Views
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I don't want to debate the debate. This is not the time or the place for that.
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I bought a new lawn mower...
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Posted:Sep 30, 2012 9:56 am
Last Updated:Oct 1, 2012 9:41 am 99961 Views
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Two weeks ago , I blogged about shopping for a lawn mower. I was 'put-off' by the varied user reviews, mostly because they were strong opinion with little facts.
The model I bought also had mixed reviews... very strong opinions of comments by people who either loved it or hated it. Some for the same thing.
One review said it was inferior quality and the next review said it was high quality.... again, these are worthless words unless the reviewer can substantiate what they did or didn't like.
The store only had a floor model of the mower I wanted. Good for me, I got a 10% discount for taking the floor model. I brought the new mower home, took it out of my car, added oil, gasoline and it started right up. I cut most of my front lawn abd had to stop because it was getting dark. It cut easy, didn't bog down, the mulch setting worked perfectly. Although the wheel adjustment mechanism was plastic, changing height of the cut was easy.
My only complaint was the handle bar doesn't have any rubber grip... this is typical of models like this because the shutoff and propel safety run parallel with the handle. That's not an issue to condemn a product.
Today, I started on the back yard where the grass & weeds are 2 feet high in some spots. I pushed this mower hard... much harder than it was designed for and it managed to do the work.
I doubt I'll spend the time to write a review on the retailers website... maybe I should as I feel many of the other comments should be dismissed because of emotion and not fact.
(edited to correct a typo)
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Cellphones and driving...
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Posted:Sep 29, 2012 10:40 am
Last Updated:Oct 1, 2012 11:21 pm 101105 Views
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Some funny comments to my other blog. Maybe cellphones and driving deserves a blog of it's own. I notice people who are holding a cellphone to their head while driving tend to be preoccupied with their conversation and they drive as if it's a video game. They have no fear to tailgate and change lanes without signalling.
No joke, this is a serious problem.
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Fake Photos 假照片
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Posted:Sep 27, 2012 9:00 pm
Last Updated:Sep 30, 2012 3:00 pm 98161 Views
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Sometimes, I receive e-mail from very young women who attach photos of themselves. In the photos, I can see they are black or mixed race. I didn't come to an Asian dating site to meet black women... hahaha!
有时，我从附上他们自己的照片的非常年轻的妇女得到电子邮件。 在照片内，我能看见他们黑色或者被混合血。 我没来这里遇见黑人妇女。。。 呵呵呵。。。
Typically, their introductions are friendly... too friendly, as if they actually know me. Immediately, I suspect this person.
This week, I received such an e-mail. I used the Google photo search tool and found out the photos I received came from the website of a famous actress in Ghana, Africa. Yes, the photos were stolen.
这星期，我得到这样的一封电子邮件。 我使用google 工具搜寻这照片。 我发现照片在加纳，非洲来自一名著名的女演员。 是的，照片被从她的网站偷。
I reported this member. A day later, the profile was still active. I reported them again... and again the profile is active. It's been 4 times I reported this member for having stolen photos... but the profile hasn't been closed. This is not like AFF, because they are quick to close fake profiles. Why this one is active is a mystery to me.
我报告这名成员。 一天以后，外形仍然活跃。 我再次报告他们 ... 并且再次外形活跃。 4次我为偷照片报告这名成员 ... 但是外形没被关闭。 通常，AFF易于关闭伪造外形。 我不知道这错误的外形为什么活跃。
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