Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Food, Friends/Family, Life, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
My cousin Linda has decided to start up a new business as a Personal Chef in Warrenton VA. For the past couple of years she has been telling me that if she was looking for a new job in her area that she would become a Personal Chef. She thinks that there is a pretty good market for that Personal Chefs in her area. She recently found herself on the wrong end of a pink slip and decided it was time to put her money where her mouth was. So she has taken the plunge and is starting to advertise her new business around town.
Along with the traditional newspaper ads, she has joined a business networking group and has placed an ad with the Warrenton Business Directory website. She says that she has met a really wonderful woman named Yvonne who runs the Warrenton Favorites website.
This website is a great source for people who are looking for Warrenton businesses. In addition to business listings the website has Warrenton, Virginia restaurant coupons and general business Warrenton Virginia coupons. I think it is nice to know that there are local web-based business directories that focus on small companies. I hope that both the website and Linda’s business prosper!
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by Jerry under Business, Entertainment and Fun, Friends/Family, Home and garden, Life, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
Do you use a satellite service like Direct TV, or a cable television service for your television service at home? There sure seems to be a lot of heavy competition in that area! There are so many different Direct TV Packages and Direct TV Deals that it is hard to resist the pull of ordering Direct TV Service! Especially if you are a sports fan!
There are so many sports channels on satellite television that it would be easy to watch sports twenty four hours a day! Almost all of my neighbors and relatives have satellite service. Apparently we live in an area that doesn’t have cable, so antenna and satellite are the only two options available right now. But even many of the people that I work with have the option to have either and they still opt for the satellite – they say that they have a lower rate and that they are very happy with the service.
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by Jerry under Health, Life.
Don’t you just hate it when a bruise pops up on your body and you can’t remember what you bumped into, and when you bumped into it? I have a bruise on my right arm – right where a nurse would give me a shot. And it feels like a got a shot in the arm there. And I can feel a lump! But I haven’t had a shot in that arm in many many years! I don’t know if I should just shrug it off or call the doctor! The bump is the part that worries me a little bit; I’ve never really noticed a bruise to have a lump in it! Hmm…. well, come to think of it there have been “bumps on my head” or should I say “knots” when I was a kid and hit my head on something. I guess if it doesn’t get better in a few days I’ll give the doctor a call.
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Jerry under Business, Education and Personal Growth, Friends/Family, Life, Technology and gadgets.
I’ve been asked to speak at a local school that is having their “career day” in a couple of months about finding your own niche. I have to say that I have mixed emotions about doing that, so I’ve told them that I’d think about it. After all, it’s not like I’m one of those famous celebrity speakers or motivational speakers that get on the circuit of speaking engagements and get paid big bucks for their speeches! I’m not even really comfortable speaking in front of large audiences!
So I’m going to be doing some research on getting some good speaking tips to help me figure out what to say and do. My wife says she’ll help me by being my audience while I rehearse my speech. She told me to write my speech down, and to rehearse it on our video camera and then play it back to see how I’m coming across. I think that will help a lot! Isn’t technology wonderful!
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Jerry under Home and garden, Life.
I’ve been seeing a lot of strange looking bugs lately that I’ve never seen before. My wife told me that they are called stinkbugs! I’ve never heard of stinkbugs, and told her that she was nuts. But wouldn’t you know it, she went online and went to google’s images and typed in stinkbugs and the pictures that came up sure were stinkbugs! Well, it seems that these critters won’t damage our house, but will damage plants. And if you squish one it will stink so bad that you’ll wish you hadn’t! And apparently the stink lingers. I don’t know how long it lingers, but I guess I’m not willing to squish one and find out for myself.
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Jerry under Friends/Family, Life, Shopping.
Sometimes I’m really glad to be a man. Men’s fashions just don’t seem to change as often as women’s fashions change! I’m always flabbergasted when my wife opens the door to her closet, which is jam packed with clothes and hear her wailing “I’ve got nothing to wear!”
When I increduosly ask her “how can that be?” she will start to pull clothes out from the closet, explaining that because she has gained weight that she now needs a women’s sizes instead of misses sizes. Of course I have no idea what the difference is between women’s sizes and misses sizes, so I just stare at her blankly. Or maybe I stare at her with the “deer in the headlight” look of fear that she is going to be buying new clothes!
We are supposed to be hosting several holiday parties this winter, and she is already talking about trying to find the perfect holiday outfit to wear that will be comfortable and practical, yet pretty. I’m not sure there is such a thing!
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Jerry under Life, News, Opinion.
I have been very saddened by the troubles that seem to be plaguing the students of Virginia Tech! The latest trouble is a missing young lady who appears to have been abducted. When the news first hit and the police were saying that she did not have her identification or cell phone I just assumed that meant that they found her purse somewhere – like lying in a parking lot. Turns out this morning that I was right. I hope that the parking lot had security cameras that recorded what happened and that leads to her safe return to her parent. What a terrible nightmare! How can parents even let their kids out of their sight anymore? It’s a scary world out there!
Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Jerry under Business, Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, Food, Life, Shopping, Technology and gadgets.
Can you remember life before the Internet? (BI) What an extraordinary change to our lives the Internet has become! I can remember that far back (yeah, I’m showing my age!) and I can remember that our family depended heavily on the local yellowpages to find all of the businesses that we needed; from local plumbers and banks to local restaurants and barber shops!
With the advent of the Internet, and the rapid acceptance and dependence of the Internet, I find it so much easier to use the Internet to do a local search for any business than going back to the old paper version! And yes, we DO have the old paper version in the cupboard by the telephone, but I gravitate towards using the Internet first. I really like how once I find the listing that i need I can often get directions to the place if I need them! The paper version doesn’t do that at all!
Posted on October 18th, 2009 by Jerry under Computers and/or Internet, Life, Technology and gadgets.
So last night I got another telemarketing phone call, which reminded me that I needed to check and see if the “do not call” registration of my phone had expired. So I went to the national registry of do not call (yeah, I googled it) and saw that if the consumer registered their phone number after a certain date, that the registration never expires. Well, I’m sure that I had registered before that date, so I went ahead and registered my phone number again. I’m not sure how long it will take before the calls stop coming, but I sure will be glad when they stop!
Posted on October 11th, 2009 by Jerry under Entertainment and Fun, Friends/Family, Life.
My nephew Mark think’s he’s a real Pick Up Artist. When we get together at restaurants on family occassions, he’s always practising his Pick Up Lines on any attractive young woman he might happen to run into. It doesn’t matter if the Pickup Lines are used on the waitress, or the cashier, or a cute young lady at the salad bar. It’s really rather funny to see this young Pickup Artist honing his skills. My wife just rolls her eyes and shakes her head when she sees him “checking out” the women.
I have to wonder what goes on in the heads of the women who are the objects of his attention! I wonder if they are flattered by his attention, or if they think he’s a blow-hard! So far I haven’t seen anyone laugh in his face, or slap him, so I guess he hasn’t “crossed the line” yet and deeply offended anyone. But I wish that Mark wouldn’t later brag about how he’s such a player just because he was flirting with the women he’d run into!