Company Affair

Nothing makes me happier than fixing up my truck. I got great a truck wheel for it and a new paint job. She is a glossy red now. I’m planning on showing her off at the drive-in theater this weekend but I’m expecting a lot of competition from other car enthusiasts.

I expect to see a new chrome wheel on my friend’s car. One came off and he couldn’t find it. He’ll be showing off his new custom rim and I think he got new upholstery too. And I heard he got his windows tinted. Sounds like he wants to enter a car show.

I was playing around on the web the other day when I ran across a Next Day Blinds video. I fell in love with the interior decorating that was shown. I love blinds and window treatments more than most people do. I guess that is because keeping the cool air inside during the hot summer months is such a priority.

I decided to get new window blinds for my kitchen after that. I got honeycomb blinds that are off-white. They do a great job of keeping the sun out and keeping it cool. They also look very sharp. I was so inspired by this that I am now going to do my entire house.

I want bamboo interior window blinds for my bedroom. I have an Asian bedspread and the bamboo will accent it perfectly.

It just amazes me to think that browsing around led to all of this. I wonder what I’ll do if I run across an interior rug commercial…

Our office finally emerged out of the dark ages to embrace the new Office 2007, and with it we all had to switch our e-mail from Thunderbird to Outlook .  Now, I have to admit, I thought the process would be a nightmare. All those e-mails and addresses would be lost or take hours to transfer. Surprisingly, the switch happened really quickly with the Address Magic Enterprise program they used.

The whole process got me thinking about how ISPs and E-Mail providers treat our e-mail messages and address books like they belong to them and not us. If we decide to drop their service or switch providers, they spite us by deleting the data we’ve stored with them over time.

My father stayed with AOL over the years, just because he didn’t want to lose his contacts or e-mails. It was painful enough for me to lose all my messages when I left years ago, but I was so fed up I rashly quit the service without thinking about the data that would be lost. So, I can’t say I didn’t understand the ol’ man’s sentiments or hesitation to leave. 

But after looking into the software that’s available now through Connected Software, it was very useful in convincing Dad to finally leave AOL . The whole process really seemed like a miracle, because the program was easy enough for him to understand on his own and I didn’t have to do much of anything (always a plus).

I’m all for freedom. Being able to easily transfer e-mail from one client to another does for e-mail what SIM cards did for cell phones; it gives us more freedom to choose the services we want.

Traveling the world is what I have been dreaming about for years. I have looked forward to retirement for that very reason and here I am, retired and ready to travel. I have to decide where I want to go and now I just need to see if my husband wants to go to those places also.

I have been looking over several Australia maps lately. I’ve never been to the Land Down Under so it seems like the perfect place to travel in. I want to go to Sydney and I want to travel in the desert there. I hope my hubby wants to go too.

I have been looking over some maps of Russia also. I know that I could spend the rest of my life there and still not see everything. However, I’ve always wanted to see the Kremlin in person. I’ve seen many pictures of it and it looks breathtaking in those so I bet it’s even more astonishing in person.

But I’m thinking that my husband will just want to travel around Florida. He loves Florida and he’s been trying to get me to retire there for several years. His map of Florida has Orlando and Miami Beach circled. I think he wants to at least be snowbirds there. I would consider that if he agrees to travel the world with me.

I guess retirement surprises most people and we’re lucky enough to be able to decide what we want to do with ours. A few more compromises won’t hurt…

Many look at those with careers in golf and wonder if they might be able to do the same thing. After all, it is well known that individuals who hold jobs that pertain to their interests are not only happier but also more financially stable. The idea of enjoying one’s job and pay is more than intriguing for those stuck in dead end jobs that seem to go nowhere. In the golf industry, one can start out teaching golf in a school setting and move on to a top-notch golf resort in a tropical paradise. With golf being as popular as it is, creating the career of one’s dreams is rather easy compared to other professions.

For those looking to do a u turn in their career, golf schools can offer the best place to start. Many of these venues offer small classes and retain a good student to teacher ratio. This means an individual will have less chance of falling behind on classroom material. Plus, accredited courses can mean financial aid for students that qualify. This can be good news since financial aspects are well known to put a damper on starting a new career.

A new study that was sponsored by NIDA, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, found that even unconscious images of drugs can trigger cravings in some individuals. This might turn out to be a groundbreaking discovery for drug rehab facility.

Patients that were addicted to drugs, such as cocaine, were shown an image of cocaine or the like for 33 milliseconds. This time is not long enough for the patients to be aware that they saw an image. And their Limbic systems became stimulated. This is the reward system that helps you to feel pleasure. The same people that had the most activity also had a strong response when they saw images that they were conscious of.

What does this mean for drug rehabilitation? It means that if they are aware that images that a person does not even know he or she sees triggers cravings, they can help prepare the addict better for life outside of treatment.

Drug abuse rehabilitation needs to be able to have the greatest amount of knowledge about addiction so they can help prepare their patients.