A few days ago my son informed me that he was going to be seeking a degree in Information Technology online.  This is because he already has a job, but he is interested in advancing his career and earning more money to help support his family as they now are a one wage-earner family.  This is a good idea for anyone in the same situation who wants to advance, but thinking that this method of learning is less difficult than a college that you attend in person would be a mistake.  Western Governors University offers this kind of education and earning a bachelors degree online there would enable you to further your education without having to give up your employment.  Any online university can offer various degrees, but Western Governors University is dedicated to assisting people in their drive for more education.  Working towards a degree online also can save time and money.  Having to drive to a college and back is time that could be used instead for attending to learning.  You also won’t have to pay for a babysitter.  I agree with my son that this is an excellent method of learning and have utilized this method for myself.  This is very doable and well worth the effort.

Why is it that everywhere you visit on the Internet seems to have all kinds of ads?  Is it because they just want to bore us, or could it be that these ads are so numerous because that is what surveys have shown people to be most interested in?  If that is the case, then Sales Job Search ads could be right up your alley.  I used it and found it to be easy to understand; just follow the clicks to find your job interest, state and hometown.  I don’t know how they provide all of this information but it is definitely going to be useful for those seeking employment.

Sometimes I need help being able to go to sleep.  It isn’t that I can’t go to sleep, I can do that if I want to sit up all night until my body gets tired.  My mind is tired long before that.  So I use
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Dodge, Chrysler and Jeep owners who need parts for their vehicles, or who just want to spice them up, should consider a web site called Mopar Liquidators.  They sell Mopar performance parts at great prices, and as anyone in the parts industry can attest, parts are not inexpensive.  But price isn’t always the consideration, availability of parts is.  For many parts you can’t just walk into an auto parts store and purchase it, these must be ordered.  Look for it at Mopar first, order online and get your part in no time flat.  But best of all, just get it.

I’ve never flown in a commercial aircraft.  My ears give me problems.  Years ago we drove up to Colorado from Florida and in New Mexico I thought I was going to die from pain.  One ear did not pop.  A few years after that I was told that the eardrum of that ear was inverted.  So I have been afraid to get on an airplane.  I recently started thinking about an airplane trip and have been trying to get an appointment with an ENT.  Not too hard of course, they never returned my call and I haven’t tried again.  Anyway, yesterday I read on CNN that a Delta Airlines sub-company plane overshot it’s destination by one hundred and sixty miles.  Apparently the two pilots were too busy having a physical fight to pay attention to where the airplane was going.  Then the article talks about another airplane whose pilots fell asleep, overshot their destination and were awakened when the flight controller radioed and woke them up.  And yet again, it talked about another pilot who landed his commercial airplane not on the runway, which is where they land, but on the strip where all of the planes take off.  Now I’m wondering, should I bother to go ahead and get my ears fixed, or am I just lucky they have kept me from flying all of these years?

My carpet cleaner has been with me for about three months.  In other words, it’s still new.  But twice now I have had a problem with it and have not only gone to the Hoover website looking for answers, but as with most people, I also googled.  My machine is a Hoover SteamVac Carpet Cleaner, model  FH50020.  The first problem occurred between water changes.  When I put the new cleaner tank on and started it up, I found that I had no suction.  Therefore I went to the Hoover site because who knew where I’d put the manual (such as it is).  Their ideas on what would cause no suction was good but they only showed one reason.  It wasn’t mine.  I kept reading and reading, and did find some interesting information which I kept until problem #2, but I figured out the problem on my own.  The dirty water tank has this little piece that comes up out of it.  I don’t know why that is even there.  But mine was in backwards.  Therefore I had no suction.  They could have put that in the list of how come’s though.

Just a few minutes ago I was using the machine and had just changed the water and started it back up only to see streaks of wetness on the carpet.  I thought it was shadows to start with so I kept trying different areas and verified that my cleaning liquid wasn’t coming out right.  This is where the interesting information I had read last time came in handy.  There is a little white rubber hose that you can see when you take off your dirty water tank.  That goes up under the plastic to the “spout” coming from the cleaning liquid.  Mine came off.  I know that does not sound so bad but the thing is that this plastic piece is not screwed on but tabbed on and it really doesn’t lend itself well to being disturbed.  I used a small screwdriver and popped out three areas of plastic tabbing so I could look up there with a flashlight.  I put the tube back on via feel only and then the machine worked again.

These machines have so few parts that most of us can fix our own.  But Hoover puts these parts in inaccessible places.  Had the tube been placed differently it might not have come off at all.  Plus, that tube is not secured to the “spout” in any way, so it can and will fall off again.  I think Hoover is like Maytag; it isn’t that their items don’t break down, but that the public gets so pissed off by substandard manufacturing that they just give up.  This carpet cleaner of mine didn’t cost me that much, just over $100 (it doesn’t have the special attachments),  but I expect it to do it’s job and if it doesn’t, then my money has just been tossed out the window.

Yesterday I was checking out at Wal-mart when my cashier started talking about our weather.  It’s just suddenly turned cold here, right after a lot of rain, and the skies resemble those that you’d see on a snow day.  Seemed like half the town was at Wal-mart buyingi up items.  I realized that these people were getting ready for one of the worst winters they have had here for quite some time.  My family has lived here since October 2007 and can’t really say that we’ve had that much snow, although we have had some very low temperatures.  Anyway, my cashier is telling me that when the williwigs are black, it means a very cold winter.  I don’t even know what a williwig is or if she said williworm.  She said it was a caterpillar though.  She couldn’t tell me though, what the little black bugs with hard shells are which are crawling through my apartment.  Oh well.

I’m really impressed with a site that offers Fair Trade items for sale.  These items are made by very low income people in other countries.  They receive half of the price when a piece is ordered and then the other half upon completion of the order.  A company called Ten Thousand Villages, which is a founding member of the IFAT – the World Fair Trade Organization, a global network of more than 350 fair trade organizations in 70 countries. runs this site and offers unique gifts for her and many other items.  These people are selling their handiwork for their living and these sales will help them support their family.  Their products are really pretty and very professional appearing.

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Here is a little bit of information for you regarding Dental Dental Premier Plus, a dental insurance of course.  This coverage is part of our medical insurance, which means we don’t have the option of not paying for it or choosing another (well who ever does anyway?).  Recently I had some dental surgery done and a full mouth x-ray was done.  When I received my EOB (Explanation of Benefits), Delta Dental had refused to pay for this x-ray.  I called them to find out why and they said my policy only covers one of this kind of x-ray every FIVE years.  Many dentists want to do these at your first visit with them.  Not only that, but I was also informed that Delta Dental would NOT cover replacement of my upper denture because I had not gotten those teeth removed while being covered by their company.  Uh, this sounds like a con to me.  But fortunately, I guess, they have condescended to pay 50% of the cost for a bottom denture, since I just had those teeth removed and was under their coverage.  Now, wouldn’t it look kind of funny to have a bottom denture but no top?  No more odd than it looks now, while I am waiting to go to the dentist to have a bottom denture made, and don’t have one of those.  And did you know that Medicaid won’t cover dentures, tooth replacements, bridges, crowns and other such needs?  Of course this varies from state to state.  Strange since that is a Federal program, but the Feds allow each state to do their own interpretations of that service.  I can’t help but wonder if the state is pocketing the difference.  After all, right now we pay taxes three times where we live.  We pay city tax, state tax and government tax.  We are being taxed to death.  Our cell phone bill alone has about $50 in taxes every month.  But I diverse.  Be sure to read between the lines carefully when you are thinking about a dental insurance.  It’s when you don’t read the fine print that you end up being screwed.