Dr Copa

My kid sister has been giving me some grief lately concerning my current address sign that is older than dirt at this point. She’s been saying that she saw a show on TV which was discussing that our emergency personnel are really having a difficult time finding the right place to respond to – when they are called and needed for assistance – because of the issue of  a growing number of unreadable address signs. You can only imagine  that at night it would be even more of a challenge.

With this being said she is urging me to get off of it and start looking around online and look at the large variety of address plaques and numbers that are on today’s market. She sent me the link to justaddressplaques.com the other day and I’ve spent some time looking around and seeing what is out there that might just float my boat. I never realized how many varieties of house address plaques there are these days.

It only makes sense to get a quality and easy to read address plaque. There are times when I call one of the Chinese Restaurants or the local Domino’s Pizza to be delivered and I do like my food nice and hot. Better chance of getting it hot if they delivery person can read the address plaque.

You can’t go just anywhere when you’re looking for a good pair of Motorcycle Boots.  Especially when the bike you are riding happens to be a Harley.  Every man’s foot is different; some men prefer a police boot for comfort as opposed to a rough and tough cowboy boot.  There are many styles and many sizes; you need the right one to fit your foot.  Personally I’ve always enjoyed the engineer style boot.  Waxed, of course.  Now they come with a Harley emblem on the back of them.  When you’re riding with a group of people, almost anyone and everyone in the group will be sure to look to see what everyone else is wearing.

We really have lucked out this winter, only a few inches of snow as of yet and it is almost February for heaven’s sake. I can only hope that we don’t end up paying out the nose for this blessing by having some crazy winter storm come and make up for all the lost time. I’m getting anxious for spring and summer to get here, I’ve never been a big fan of cold weather and I have a lot plans for the yard that I’m getting ready for.

I’ve been checking out some online flowers and getting some really good ideas from various Gardening sites. It amazing how many varieties of plants, flowers, shrubs, tree and bushes there is out there for people’s landscaping concepts. I’ve never been the best at making choices, but I’m taking my time, showing my ideas around and getting good feedback so far. I’m really looking forward to getting outside and getting my hands dirty instead of freezing cold as they have for many months now.

I am interested in finding a good weight loss program.  It seems that every time I go to the doctor’s office they weigh me and I’ve gained weight.  I think that the insulin that the doctor put me on for my diabetes is responsible for some of the weight gain; I’ve tried hard to lose weight by eating less high calorie foods and eating more salads.

My wife told me to go to the Internet and look at the Weight Loss Diet Help website.  It reviews many of the commercial weight loss programs that are available to today’s consumer.  It lists and compares the features and costs of the different programs, and it provides links that lead you to offers of discount coupons and offers to many of the programs.  The diets I’ve already heard about are the South Beach Diet, Medifast, Nutrisystem and WeightWatchers.  They also talk about a couple of diets that I’ve never heard of before.

What I found even more interesting about the website was that it had several interesting articles about the subject – it had an article about healthy weight loss and an article about the benefits of gym workouts that I found most informative.

One thing that my wife and I like about the town we frequently shop in is that there is a Wal-Mart and a Home Depot right across the street from each other. So I can drop my wife off at Wal-Mart to do her shopping, drive over to Home Depot and do my shopping, and then pick her up when I’m done. That makes for really efficient use of our time, and car-pooling like that saves the wear and tear on our vehicles, and saves money on our fuel expenses. A little bit of planning ahead of time tells us whether to drive the pick-up or the sedan.

The only catch is that if we are going to take the truck we have to try to do the errands on a day when it is not going to rain, or bring some tarps along with us to cover up what we put in the back of the pick-up truck. Of course, if we are going to take the sedan, that is not as much of a worry, but then the storage space is a lot more limited. I prefer to drive the truck anyway, but my wife doesn’t like driving the truck at all. So there is always a little bit of a negotiation and compromise going on there too.

Since I’ve been building the garage/shop in the back yard, I find myself making frequent trips to Home Depot to pick up something that I need to finish that up. From the outside the place looks pretty well finished, but there is still a lot to do inside the building. For example, I want to set up electricity in there for several outlets and lights, so I need to run the wiring and install the receptacles. I’d like to put in a couple of ceiling fans, too. Probably should insulate the place so I can work there in relative comfort regardless of what the weather is doing. And I need to dig a trench from the house to the shop and lay some cable in a conduit pipe in the trench so we can run the electricity out there.

With so much work still to do out there, I’ve asked my wife to keep her eyes open for any online coupons or discounts at home depot that we can use to help bring the material costs down. I am well aware that we are already over budget on this project, and I want to minimize the extra expenditures as best as I can.