Jerry Loggins » Business

New job, new benefits

Jerry — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:57:12 +0000

Our son J has started a new job and was telling us about the benefits of his new job. He called last night to ask us for our social security numbers because he was listing us as beneficiaries on the new life insurance policy he was buying. He said that one of the benefits of his new job was great term life insurance rates so he was going to take advantage of that. We are really pleased that he thought of us that way!

Easy & Fun Girl Games

Jerry — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:20:56 +0000

My eleven year old niece spends a good amount of time on the lap top that Santa Claus brought to her last Christmas. She is a good kid and she certainly deserved getting a nice computer of her own. Lap tops aren’t cheap and times are tight so she must be doing something right in order to have lap top that is top notch and makes mine look like a K-Mart model – LOL!

Anyway she keeps busy after school and on the weekends playing “girl games” online. They have come a long way with the selection of girl games that are available these days. There was a major outcry for more girl games about 10 years ago and they have tried to fill the void to accommodate the female population that likes to play games with all of today’s technology and gadgets.

I think Ms Pac Man was actually the first video game that was aimed at the more feminine crowd. We have come a long way since the 80’s haven’t we. If I had all the money that I spent on those games that were in all of the popular bars and taverns, I’d have a nice check book balance.

Yet Another Anniversary Coming Up

Jerry — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:05:25 +0000

The wife and I are going to be celebrating yet another wedding anniversary come the end of August. Man these years are just passing away like crazy, time flies when you are having fun! It is always a challenge trying to find the perfect gift for my wife each year. I mean first there is her birthday, then there is Christmas and then along comes the anniversary, not to mention Valentine’s Day!

I believe that this year I will be looking online to find her favorite Cologne. Good thing she still has a little left in the bottle on her dresser for me to get the name off of the darn thing. I can never remember what it is called, even after 30 years of being with the woman! The Internet will make finding one of her favorite Fragrances a much easier task to take on. It was a real pain in the rear in the years before the Internet when I used to have to bounce around from store to store in order to find it each time. A man like me just doesn’t feel comfortable in the Perfume department, ya know what I’m saying?

Anyway I do believe that a nice dinner and a nice gift will make it an evening to remember, at least until the next one rolls around in only 12 months.

North Carolina

Jerry — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:19:27 +0000

Seems as if a lot of our friends and relatives have been moving down to North Carolina over the past few years. They seem to think that Wilmington NC real estate is a good investment, and they are enjoying the milder winters and the “genteel” lifestyle that “The South” has to offer.

One of my cousins has been studying up to get her realtors license because she thinks that she can actually make a living selling Wilmington NC real estate. Right now I would have a really hard time believing that anyone can make a living as a realtor!

I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever been to North Carolina other than to simply drive through on my way to Florida! I can’t really say that it looked much different than Virginia to me, but who am I to say?

Bad customer service

Jerry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:16:32 +0000

Last night my wife decided to bring pizza home for dinner on her way home from work. She called the Pizza Hut that she drives past twenty minutes before she left work. She ordered her pizza (only one, mind you) and was told it would be ready in twenty minutes. She got there thirty minutes later, and paid the $11 tab. After she paid the tab, she was told that they were short handed that night and running “a little behind.” She waited over a half hour before her pizza was ready. If she had known that they had not even started her pizza before she showed up she would have cancelled the order and gone to McDonald’s! Not impressed at all! Next time she wants pizza, she’ll be asking if the pizza is ready before she pays for it!

Crime Inc

Jerry — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:02:11 +0000

I just finished watching a television show called Crime Inc. This episode was about the subject of counterfeiting. I found the subject very interesting, and the content quite scary. I can’t imagine buying a knock-off purse and then finding out later that the purse had unsafe levels of lead in it! Good grief!

And counterfeit drugs? People are actually naive enough to buy prescriptions online, thinking that they are getting the real thing? That can be so dangerous! The show had a small segment about a man and his wife that went for botox treatments and got counterfeit botox injections and almost died! Yikes! And now they are visually scarred for life! Scary stuff!

Smokin’

Jerry — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:16:56 +0000

My uncle Jeff is finally retiring from his job at the bank next month. Aunt Margie is planning a big retirement party for him. I know how much he loves cao cigars, so I’m planning on ordering him a few from a website that I found that sells them. And I think that I’ll give him a gift card from the website so he can buy more down the road, too. After all of the aggravation that he’s been through working for that bank, he deserves a good cigar!

Starting up

Jerry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:09:30 +0000

I met Stan for lunch today at Claire’s and were talking about how his new business is shaping up. He was telling me how amazing it is that there are so many decisions that have to be made – and the small details, such as where to put the new cash register and epson receipt printer without having to run a lot of new cable. Starting a business can be a real challenge!

Cutting costs

Jerry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:47:34 +0000

My wife’s sister was upset today when she got her insurance bill in the mail. She thought she had cheap insurance on her cars until she sold her house and lost the package discount. I told her that I’ll help her to shop around and try to get a better deal. I think that it won’t take very long to find her a better deal.

Dress codes

Jerry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:45:42 +0000

My wife came home from work tonight, quite annoyed with her boss. Apparently today he decided to tell her that he felt that she was not dressing appropriately for work. That was based on the observation that she was wearing knee length cargo shorts, whereas the other women at work were wearing capri pants. My wife thinks that capri shorts look stupid, and I agree. They DO look stupid! But the dress code DOES say no shorts allowed, and apparatenly capris are not technically shorts. So, what’s a lady to do? I guess she’ll be buying some capris!

Thank you Discover Card

Jerry — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:44:36 +0000

Last week I received an email notice from Discover that I was nearing my pre-set spending limit. I was quite surprised because I had just paid off the card and had not used it since I paid it off! So I went online and looked at my recent activity. There were a lot of fraudulent charges on my account – some to Microsoft X-Box and some to Apple Ipod! I immediately called Discover and reported the unauthorized charges. They immediately closed my account and sent me a new card. The new card arrived in less than a week. I have to admit that it was a hassle notifying the different companies that bill my monthly charges to that account, but all in all it was a fairly painless process. Thankfully I’m not responsible for those fraudulent charges so I’m happy about that. Isn’t it nice when a credit card company does somethng good?!

Worth the expense

Jerry — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:36:22 +0000

When my kids first got their driver’s licenses, my wife immediately bought for them a membership in our roadside assistance club. We feel that it is a good idea to do that because the membership covers the driver no matter what vehicle the driver is using – even if the vehicle does not belong to the driver! We’ve had the need to have a jump start or a tow often enough to pay for the membership, so it is worth the expense.

Feathering the nest

Jerry — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:18:21 +0000

I can remember the day my wife came home from one of her business classes and told me that she had just learned that only the wealthiest 2% of Americans owned any stock at all. Can you imagine that 98% of us Americans don’t own any stock, and that owning stock (or not) is one of the measures of wealth (or lack thereof) in the social services offices as ways to determine if you are poor enough to receive food stamps?

It was right about that same time that my wife decided to take a closer look at Online Trading. Up until that point she had purchased a couple of IRA Accounts and was Stock Trading with a broker that had been a friend of her ex-husband’s. She decided that it was time to take advantage of the financial benefits of instant trading and low cost trading fees. She was pretty tired of having to chase down her brick and mortar broker to buy or sell stock.

Jim’s a clutz

Jerry — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:51:52 +0000

Jim is a guy who has to keep up with the Jones’s at all times. I can remember when he first bought his laptop computer. He plugged it in and let the cord drape across the room so that when his dog walked past the table, it pulled the laptop off the table. Yes, the laptop was totalled. No, he had not bought insurance on it. So when Jim told me that he wanted to buy an ipad, I told him that he’d best be paying for ipad insurance!

How is that going to help anything?

Jerry — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:19:05 +0000

I was just reading an article on the cnnmoney.com website that a lot of companies are refusing to hire people who are unemployed! (Click here to read the article.) I have to say that this kind of news is very alarming! People are still being laid off because companies are downsizing, not because the employee did anything wrong! If this is true, then I would strongly encourage people to take on a 2nd job, so if anything happens to their “real job” and they have to look for a new job, they don’t have to say on their application that they are unemployed! What a mess!