Jerry Loggins

My friend Rick had a durom cup hip replacement done a few years ago.  He had been having knee and hip problems for a few years, and his doctor suggested that one of the zimmer durom cup types would be a good choice for his  hip replacement procedure.

It has only been recently that Rick became aware that there have been some serious issues on zimmer durom cup raised in the medical and legal field.  Apparently some of these cups have failed in a fairly high percentage of patients.  Rick was telling me that he has scheduled an appointment with his doctor to check on his own device and see if it is still working correctly.   He is concerned that if it is showing unusual signs of wear that he may need to hire a law firm to help him with a lawsuit to collect damages and pay for a replacement.

Comments (0)

My niece Tiffany took ill last Friday, with a fever of 103.9. Lisa took her to her doctor, who ran the swine flu test. It came back negative, but the doctor said that he thought it was swine flu anyway. He said to just take her home and quarantine her; he was not going to give her any medication for it at all! It was only after Lisa demanded a prescription for Tamiflu that the doctor wrote her a script for it. There is plenty of Tamiflu on hand in the pharmacies, I don’t understand why the doctor didn’t want to write the script! I’m not too impressed by that at all!

Comments (0)

Joe likes to take Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations every February with his wife Margie.  They like to take advantage of the various Myrtle Beach Golf Packages and go for three weeks.  February is a good time to leave this area and Golf Myrtle Beach - it is the coldest month of the year up here, so they can enjoy the nice warm weather of Myrtle Beach and laugh at us poor folks stuck up here in the cold!

I understand that there are so many Myrtle Beach Golf courses that you could stay there a month and never play the same course twice!  That could certainly be a challenge – playing so many different courses in such a short period of time!  You certainly wouldn’t get bored with the course!  I can see why so many people would find that attractive!

Comments (0)

My wife discovered that her paycheck was short about $130 this week. What an aggravation! She only gets paid every other week, and she has to wait until tomorrow to contact the payroll department to try to get it sorted out, and then she will have to wait two weeks to get her money! This holiday season is not the time to find your paycheck has been shorted! We were counting on that money to help pay a bill that is due before her next paycheck! What a pain in the neck!

Comments (0)

There are not very many people that I know who are not interested in saving money.  Well, all right, there is my mother-in-law who doesn’t want to use coupons and get discounts, but I can’t say that she is very budget-minded.  Might be one reason she is always complaining about how poor she is!

One way people can save money is by taking the time to check out the different Car Insurance policies and rates between companies.  You would be amazed by how much difference there can be between Auto Insurance companies!  The only caveat though, is “buyer beware” – make sure that your Cheap Car Insurance policy will really cover everything you need and not leave you vulnerable to higher expenses if your car is involved in an accident!

Comments (0)

I was not very happy last night when I went out to the garage to make sure that it was all locked up for the night and discovered that the big door was wide open. It seems that every time I go out there I find the big door wide open! So I went ahead and closed it (it is electric and it only required a touch on the keypad beside the door.) When the door started to close I saw a skunk scurry out from underneath my truck! Yikes!

You better believe I opened the door again and dashed back in the house as quick as could be! I sure am hoping that the skunk vacates the garage and doesn’t decide that this is a good hibernation spot! I don’t want to have to be dealing with trying to convince the skunk to leave!  And I don’t want to have to deal with the dogs finding the skunk and getting sprayed!

Comments (0)

Have you noticed that more and more businesses are placing televisions at strategic places?  I certainly know that there have been a lot of times that I’ve had to wait for some reason, such as in a hospital’s emergency room, a doctor’s office, or even in line at a store and been bored out of my mind!  That is where Commercial Direct TV saves the day!

Instead of fuming about how much of my time is being wasted, I find myself watching the Direct TV Business programming on the television set that is there.  I’ve even noticed that there is Direct TV for Business programming on television sets in several of the fast food restaurants playground areas!  I think that it is a very smart move on the business’s part to provide this kind of distraction for the customers.  The customers are much less likely to become irritated at the amount of time they are waiting if they have something like Directv Business to passively entertain them.

Comments (0)

I’ve noticed that whenever we have company that nobody but me seems to know how to turn off the lights and televisions! I will frequently walk from one room in the house down the hallway and walk past empty rooms that have all the lights on and televisions turned on. I go inside the room and turn off everything. I’ll notice that everyone in the house is busy in another room and does not appear to have any intention of returning to the rooms any time soon! I think I’m going to have to have a little chat with everyone in the house!

Comments (0)

I used to try to plant a garden of vegetables.  I tried that for a couple of years. I tilled about a quarter acre of land out behind the house and planted peas, corn, snap beans, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and broccoli.  I had visions of enjoying fresh produce at the table and saving a lot of money.

Well, it seemed that the neighborhood rabbits, deer, and raccoons, as well as the turtles and slugs really enjoyed my efforts.  We managed to harvest only about 5% of what I planted!  So I eventually gave up, realizing that I was better off just buying my produce! 

But the gardening bug had bit me, so I turned my attention to flower gardening.  But I decided to use my head and invest a lot of my efforts into container gardening.  I reasoned that it may be easier to use containers than to till and weed the ground.  So I use a lot of Planters in my garden plans.  I like to use Garden Planters because I can move the tender plants indoors if the weather becomes too cold for them to survive.  And it makes invasive plants easier to control!  I also like to plan where to place each Decorative Planter  to make the garden more visually interesting.

Comments (0)

I can remember learning in college that prices of things were largely due to supply and demand, and competition. In this crazy economy, prices just are not making a lot of sense. For example, when there are a lot of people flying places the prices go up because the demand is high. So the airlines, for example, raise their prices during holiday travel time because the demand is high.

And yet, I heard on the news this week that the airlines are struggling because demand is lower because fewer people are flying. And because of that they are raising their prices again. That just does not make a whole lot of sense to me. If people are not flying because it is too expensive, then raising the prices is not going to fix that problem, is it?

Comments (0)