Dr Copa

My son showed me this video from UTube that is so funny! He thought I’d like it because we are always teasing each other around the house about not hearing each other! He found it on the failblog.org website. That website is awesome – it shows lots of funny things that they call “Fail.” I thought it was worth sharing with you.

Last night I caught my wife looking on the Internet at some Hydrotherapy pools.  I asked her what she was doing.  She told me that Sally, a good friend of hers had recently bought a Swim spa.  Her friend has fibromyalgia and her doctor suggested that Aquatic therapy would be a good idea for her to get some relief from her condition.

Sally told her that she loved her pool, and that it helped her with her pain enormously.  My wife started to think about getting something like that for our house because we both suffer from arthritis from time to time.  My wife has been reasoning that as we get older our arthritis will probably worsen, and that a hydrotherapy pool would be a good way to slow down the progression of our arthritis.

I was just reading an article about what companies are probably not going to be laying off employees in the coming year. One of the articles mentioned was Colgate, with the reasoning being that even during a recession people are probably going to continue to buy toothpaste. That’s a very good point. And I am thinking that would be a really good reason to buy stock in a company like that (if I had any money to invest!)

Based on reading that particular article, now I’m thinking that companies like Kimberly Clarke, Proctor & Gamble would probably also be good safe bets. They make products like facial tissue, bathroom tissue, disposable diapers, paper towels. People are going to continue to buy products like that too!

Since my wife and I moved here only a couple of years ago, I find that a lot of people that I talk to ask me for advice about moving.  This sure is a nomadic area!  Seems like every time I turn around people are moving in or out!  I guess that has a lot to do with the political nature of the area. 

Anyway, people ask me for my advice and opinion about moving a lot.  So I tell them “Before you move, go through everything you own and throw away, give away, or sell everything that you don’t want to have to pack, haul, and unpack.”  Then I tell them to try to collect as many good packing boxes that they can find from local stores.  Book stores and liquor stores and grocery stores are all good places to get good boxes.

Then I tell them to take a hard look at their budget and decide whether they can afford to hire a moving company. I tell them to compare prices and services between different moving companies because their prices and services vary quite a bit between companies.  Then I tell them that if their budget does not allow for hiring a moving company, and they have access to a lot of volunteer labor, renting and using a one-way truck rental service might be the answer for them.

I was surprised to read in the Time.com website that underneath this red clay, in the Piedmont section of Virginia (which is where I live) sits a huge deposit of uranium. And, there is talk about mining it, to fuel nuclear reactors to generate electricity. I have a lot of concerns about that. From what I understand nuclear energy still is problematic because there is no good solution for where to put the nuclear waste. And mining uranium can put the environment, and our health at risk. Yeah, I have some concerns about that.