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!
My wife had accepted a mystery shopping assignment to do a mystery shop at our local Jiffy Lube last weekend. She had her misgivings about doing it; the last time she had her oil changed there they had tried to convince her to buy a new battery and she didn’t need one. But she accepted the assignment because they DID pay for the entire oil change (which after all is around $40!) They advised her that she needed new windshield wipers, so I went ahead and replaced them yesterday for her. The wipers we bought were the Rain-X brand. Today my wife was driving the car in the rain and she tells me that for the very first time ever she was actually able to see through the windshield during the rain without a lot of streaking!
Our son J came home from college and asked us to make an appointment for him with his PCP. He’d been plagued by itchy and dry skin all winter on the palms of his hands and even the Gold Bond Ultimate moisturizing cream we gave him didn’t seem to help. So we set him up with an appointment and when he came home he told us that the doctor said he has eczema. She gave him a prescription for some kind of cream. I hope it works for him!
One of my favorite inventions for the computer is the thumb sized flash drive. I can remember when I bought my very first one, it cost about $25, and only had abou 128MB of storage space on it! I thought it was wonderful! (Actually I still think it is wonderful!) In more recent years, I found I could buy an 8GB one for less than what I had paid for my first 128MB one! I’m glad they are getting cheaper!
The news that grabbed my attention this week was the story about a German couple who placed an ad on E-Bay, offering their baby for sale! The couple now claims it was a “joke” but the baby has been placed in protective custody. The ad was only on “the air” for two hours before Ebay removed the ad, and no offers had been placed during those two hours. When Ebay removed the ad they assisted the police track down the couple. The ad claimed that the baby was being sold because it was “too loud.”
I have to say that this is another case where I think these people are NUTS! I’m glad that the baby was placed in protective custody and I hope the parents never get it back! And I hope that the parents are locked up for a very long time. This is a case when I think that the courts out to have the right to force sterilization on people, because in my own opinion people like this should never be allowed to have children again!