February 5, 2012

Job creation

Filed under: Business,Family — Copa @ 3:34 pm

My wife has decided to create her own website in an attempt to assist her in recruiting new sales agents to join her team. She has been trying to think of great ways to help people who are looking for jobs in Warrenton or jobs in Culpeper find her. She is reluctant to place an ad in the newspaper, but she may end up doing that down the road. So far she has been printing flyers and spreading them around town, taking them to places that she knows has bulletin boards and tacking them up. She also went to the local homeless shelter and gave them a lot of flyers to put on their bulletin boards as well.

Yesterday she went into the local Blockbusters video store that is closing and gave them some flyers. She even pulled off of the road when she saw someone dressed in costume holding up a sign that was advertising a tax preparation company and gave him a flyer!

I told her to give me a bunch of flyers and I’d help to distribute them too.

February 1, 2012

California Criminal Lawyers

Getting arrested is never a good time, but at least these days we have a lot of options to help with issues like this. Back in the day trying to find a good california criminal lawyer could be a time consuming task if you didn’t all ready have one on retainer or know one from friends or family. The best you could hope for was looking through the good old paper version of the Yellow Pages and the most that could offer was a name, address, phone number and a short ad, if they actually had one. Not a whole lot of good information could be gained from that.

Today you can Google “criminal defense attorney los angeles” and found numerous options to check out on the World Wide Web. Any attorney worth their while, in my opinion, will have a website with a lot of pertinent information for you to check out. It’s like a super duper sized Yellow Pages of the 21st century and you gotta love all that the Internet brings to us these days. When you are in a sticky situation, such as being accused of a crime, the more you know, the better off you will be.

January 22, 2012

Trying To Lose Weight

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.

Silly little pug

Filed under: Business,Family,General Living,Home Improvement,Pets,Shopping — Copa @ 4:47 pm

Last Friday the pest control serviceman came over to the house to check on all of the bug and rodent sticky traps, and to service the house. We set up a contract with his company that they will come out several times a year to do that. We had not been having a lot of trouble with bugs and rodents upstairs, but my sister-in-law, who lives in the downstairs apartment has been telling us that there are a lot of spiders down there, so we went ahead and signed up with the pest control company.

Well, wouldn’t you know, this morning she comes upstairs, carrying her little pug puppy, who had his front right paw firmly stuck inside one of the sticky glue mouse traps. My wife woke me up from my nap to help them hold the puppy still while my wife poured some corn oil into a bowl and the put the puppy’s paw into the oil. She massaged the paw for a couple of minutes, and before you knew what was happening that sticky trap came right off! So the puppy was none the worse for wear, and all is well with the world.

New tires for my truck

Filed under: Business,Cars/Motorcycles/Trucks,General Living,Shopping — Copa @ 4:21 pm

Funny how time flies!  I need new tires for my truck!  I’ve been looking around from Wal-Mart to Firestone to Costco to Sam’s to PepBoys, they all have good tires.  But as I shopped, I found one thing in common; they all sell Bridgestone Tires.  I’ve wanted to try Bridgestone Tires for a long time; I’ve always liked the rubber consistency.  They were quiet on the road but had a good all-year round grip, including from ice and snow to rain to mud.  Another thing I found out was that when you buy four Bridgetone tires they have a promotion where they give you a n American Express card worth $150 to spend as a bonus for buying four new tires; you just have to send in a copy of the receipt and they will send you the card in the mail to spend as you wish.  Well, that drops the price of the tires down below the price of any other tire, so that is why I will buy these tires.