This is Not It….

You know that song about working on the railroad? Well, I actually do that for a living. I am not an engineer who drives the trains. I am the guy who does the heavy lifting fixing the miles and miles of track. I use big and small machines and have to do everything from manually dig to even welding rails. There is a tremendous amount of lifting, bending and stooping. I would not be able to keep my job if it were not for my chiropractor in Sacramento that I go to at least a couple of times per month. When I really aggravate my back, I go a couple or three times per week.

The relief I get beats any pill or muscle rub. Sometimes I go it is just for extreme muscle fatigue. Other times it is nerve pain from a subluxation of a vertebra. When the pain shoots down my leg into my foot, I know it is sciatica pain. An adjustment fixes that right up. Continue reading My Railroad Job Does a Job on My Back

Whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but when you live in Vegas, it’s not like you have much of a choice. I’ve lived in Las Vegas since the day I was born. Lots of my friend decided to move after graduating college, but I chose to stay. They wanted me to go to California and New York, but I loved my home city too much to leave. Since I was an adult, I wanted to have my own apartment, rather than continue to live with my parents. I looked for Craigslist Las Vegas apartments, hoping I would find a good listing.

One of the apartment listings was a real attention grabber. The pictures of the apartment looked flashy, but in a good way. Being in Vegas, I should be used to seeing flashy things, but I hadn’t seen it embodied in an apartment complex. Continue reading I Don’t Mind Staying in Vegas

At the moment I am actually living in the same place that I am working, in truth you could probably live your entire life within the boundaries of this property. It is not anything like any of the places that I have ever worked at, there is an enormous casino and a resort. Obviously they have a hotel and they have an enormous kitchen where I am in charge of a number of other people, we cook for hordes of people every morning. Tomorrow I am going to look at an apartment for rent in Las Vegas. Actually one of the other chefs wants me to look at it. The guy who used to have my job also used to share the apartment with him. It is not a really bad place when you look at the web page, it is a really sweet looking pool and they have one of the things that I really like. A big work out facility that they describe as a state of the art facility. Continue reading I Still Have to Get Some Stuff Done

I was driving down the road a few weeks ago when some young guy ran a stop sign and plowed right into me. I was going slow, but he was speeding. I spent a night in the hospital for observation, and they told me when I was released that I should follow up with my primary care physician. They also suggested that I see a chiropractor in Redding CA because accident victims sometimes do not feel the brunt of their injuries until days or even weeks after the accident has happened.

I was already hurting, so that was not something I wanted to hear. I thought that I was already going through the worst of it, so I decided to take their advice right away and contact a local chiropractor. Continue reading Why I Have Regular Chiropractic Appointments

Last week I made an appointment to take a tour of the local apartment community. They’ve been on my radar for several months now, but I’m just now getting around to focusing on my move and finding my next home. I’m really excited to take a closer look at the community and visit site features that only residents can access. The person I scheduled a tour with sounded very nice on the phone, and made me feel very welcomed, even before setting foot on the property. I’ll make sure that I wear my walking shoes, because I plan on taking in every square inch of the facilities.

One of the things that I want to focus on when I’m there is the clubhouse. Continue reading Scheduling an Appointment for an Apartment Tour

Looking for a new place has never been fun for me. There are some people out there who enjoy taking their time and finding just the right place to live, even if it takes them weeks or even months. I just don’t have that kind of patience. When I had to move closer to Atlanta, I decided to go online and find an apartment that way. I had never done that before, but I figured it would be a quick and efficient way to find what I want. It definitely proved to be both those things when I found www.padonharvard.com.

This is the website for a new apartment complex that is right on the outskirts of Atlanta, and it is actually in the perfect location for me since my job is on the outskirts of Atlanta as well. I thought that I would end up getting an apartment in the city and commuting, but this makes my travel time so much easier. Continue reading So Much I Like About the Pad

It took me quite awhile to get this job and I am pretty much already looking for a new one. I am not working for the government, but the government is pretty much paying the freight in the end of it all. The new budget may well change all of that. In fact things would be going great for me if it were not for the uncertainty about the job. I am living with my girlfriend for free at the moment, she has one of these lovely luxury apartments in Towson MD. Of course I had no idea when I started to date her while I was a senior at VCU, but she and her family are really rich. They have some sort of thing in the stock market, a brokerage of some sort. It is pretty lucrative from the way I hear it, but of course she is not really involved. She works in the State Department.

That is actually a good job if you want to eat for free. Continue reading I Have Moved in with My Girlfriend

We ended up traveling in our Class C RV down south last year. We bought it used and had a trusted mechanic look it over and get it ready for the road. We went as far south as we could go, then we headed back north as Spring approached. We do consulting and web development work, so it was easy to keep moving and earn money. We spent more time in Georgia than anywhere else. We both liked Lake Lanier, but then found ourselves looking at an apartment in Marietta GA to be home base. We knew that we would either have to sign a new year’s lease for our apartment back home when we got back, or we would have to move out. There was nothing holding us to the region where my wife and I grew up, so we decided to get a place to come home to that was somewhere with a climate that was more our speed. Continue reading Finding the Best Southern Place to Live

My cousin Vince is the one who found this place for me. It about half a dozen blocks from where he lives and he was looking at buying it for a flipping project, but he was not sure that he could get the finances. He is already working on this place. Of course he knows what he is doing and he gave me a list of the things that I need to do. One of the first things is to get an exterminator in NYC to come in and find out what he needs to do. The place has some bugs and maybe some rodents, but that is something that you have to hire someone else to do. Continue reading Just Started Work on the New House

When I saw the price of a house in Queens, I knew I had to go and see it in person. The asking price was so much lower than what a house in the neighborhood demands, and I wanted to see why. Even if the house was in bad shape, the property value alone would be worth buying it. However, when I looked at the house, the only thing I could see wrong was that it needed a new roof. I have a company that I use for roof repairs and roof replacement in Queens since I tend to buy a lot of houses and flip them, so I already knew what the cost would be, or at least the general area.

I didn’t even go into a bidding war, because I knew that someone else was going to come and snap it up quickly. I offered the asking price, and we closed on it not too much later. I then contacted the roofing company that I use to come and give me a quote on what it would cost. Continue reading The Roof Needed to Be Replaced

When a chiropractor in Cumming GA examined my elbow and stated I had what looked like golfer’s elbow, I couldn’t make sense of what they were saying. Golfer’s elbow? What is that? I had heard of tennis elbow, but not anything to do with golfing. Injuring yourself while golfing, however, is quite possible. It is very easy to hurt your back or shoulder if you have a poor form while swinging. Look at Tiger Woods and his serious physical injuries. Hurting yourself playing the sport is a real thing and quite alarming. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to play again.

The chiropractor told me the term is basically the same as tennis elbow in that it involves an injury caused by repetitive movements that put a lot of stress on the joint and the muscle. Age plays into as well, although anyone can get it due to playing a lot. Considering I am sixty and play golf several times a week, it’s no surprise I ended up with this injury. The big question was whether I would have to give up the game for good. I just couldn’t imagine not playing for the rest of my life.

Fortunately, that wouldn’t happen. According to the chiropractor, undergoing several sessions of stretching and pulling would do a lot to heal the condition. They were adamant that I hang up the clubs for several weeks, though, in order to make sure I didn’t aggravate the injury further. After undergoing the first treatment session, I think I am going to be ok. I felt a lot better and much of the pain subsided very quickly. I am cautiously optimistic further treatment will find me back out on the links in no time. I certainly hope so. In the meantime I’m spending my time picking out a new set of clubs!

My husband works in construction, and he has told me about the amount of waste that he has seen on different job sites that he visits. He has especially seen this with copper, because the price of scrap copper can make it quite worthwhile to collect as much scrap as possible to sell it to a scrap metal dealer. He asked his boss if it would be okay to start taking the scrap copper metal home with him after a job was done, and his boss had no problem with that. If he did not take it, then the owner of the property would just end up throwing it out or making money on it.

His boss did not think it was worth it to sell the scrap metal to a dealer because he thought that it would probably break him even. Continue reading Scrap Copper Can Really Add Up

Did you know that chiropractors can go to school for more hours than what an MD does? They also are likely to be more highly trained in reading imaging results from things such as xrays, and are likely to spend three or four times the amount of time learning diagnostics. The MD has more hours in pathology, psychiatry, and learning to prescribe medications. A chiropractor does not prescribe medicines. I went to a chiropractor in Campbell CA that was recommended by my DO. That is a Doctor of Osteopathy.

A DO is an MD that has received more training. They know more of how the body is connected as a unit. For example, my DO explained how the pain in my scapula was associated with the digestive issues I was having. Continue reading When Seeing the Chiropractor is More Than Just for Backaches

I needed appliance repair in Sacramento immediately. My stokve broke and Thanksgiving was the very next day. I had 18 family members who had already arrived for the big meal that I was preparing. It was too late in the day to find an appliance store open so that I could buy a new one. I had made some things in advance, but I had a fridge full of foods that I had not yet prepared. The thought of all the food going to waste and needing to order a dozen pizzas for our holiday meal was not appealing.

After consulting the phone book and calling 15 different appliance repair businesses, I finally found a company that answered when I called. the man who picked up the phone sounded very tired. In the background, I could hear a lot of people talking. I thought maybe he was at a restaurant at first. I told him why I was calling. he then told me that he understood, he had been watching his wife running around the house trying to get ready for their own Thanksgiving meal. He said that he had 10 family members who had come in just for the occasion. He was willing to help me.

It turned out that the man that I spoke to to that night was someone that I went to college with. It was great to see him and get caught up while he worked on getting my stove running again. My old friend was the owner of the appliance company that I called, and he was doing really well for himself. The fact that he showed up the night before a major holiday spoke volumes about what a good company he runs. I will be sure to use his service the very next time I need someone again.

Over the last few year the apartment complex where we were living at had declined. The management just was not keeping things up, and we had a few neighbors that we actually did not care for. My wife and I started looking for new apartments in Sandy Utah a few months before our lease was up. We wanted to move into a brand new apartment in a new area. We wanted something close to the Summit Academy High School. We found Beacon Hill Apartments, and were impressed by the floor plans that were available. We were able to afford a four-bedroom apartment with three bathrooms!

As soon as we signed the lease, we could not wait to pack up and move out of our old place. However, we took our time and did it right. Continue reading We Finally Have an Apartment Where We Have a Guestroom and Guest Bath

I have operated this small business for two years now, and it is finally starting to grow. Well that is not exactly the right way to put it, because it is more than just starting to grow. It is growing pretty quickly at the moment, and I was forced to hire some employees for the first time. I had ran it by myself from the onset until 3 days ago. Now I need to see if I can look up a paystub maker on the internet that I will be able to use to generate accurate and official paystubs for the employees when it is time for them to get their first checks.

I am kind of nervous about being an employer, because it is a leap into something that I do not know much about. Luckily, one of my best friends has owned a small business with about 10 employees for years and I am going to lean heavily on him for advice. He might even get sick of me, for all the advice I am going to ask him. Continue reading Online Tool for Making Paystubs

My wife and I have always liked apartment living. In all of our years together we have never owned a home. I have relatives who tell me horror stories of living in apartments where they had nothing but trouble. My brother says he would not live in a place where you could not hammer a nail to hang a picture. Well, I live in a place where someone will hang them for me. So what’s the big deal? Anyway, we moved a year or so ago to new apartments in Cordova. We wanted to have a place with privacy gates and remote control access. Plus, we wanted a swimming pool. The new apartment has that and so much more.

They have a really nice clubhouse, garages and a fitness center. We go there at least three times per week to work out. It is so much better than having to drive to a gym. Continue reading We Have Lived in Apartments Since We Were Married Years Ago and Like It

I am not a picky person when it comes to most things. However, when it comes to where I will live, I want certain things that I am just not willing to compromise on. I am the type of person who is completely happy living in an apartment, but I have certain standards for the ones I will live in. When I decided to move, I did an online search for an apartment for rent in Cordova TN so I could narrow down the list easier. I knew that I would be able to find out the features and details of the different complexes right from their website.

The main thing I needed was a management team that takes their responsibilities seriously. Continue reading I Am Picky when It Comes to Apartments

If you have a pet canary, you should know that you can teach it all kinds of things. Birds are really smart. However, they really need to bond with you and trust you completely. This takes a huge amount of patience. Birds will snuggle you and want to be close to you if you are patient with them and take care of them. Canaries can even be taught to mimic a few words. They are not as good at it as parrots, but they are pretty amazing little learners. If they are quiet, you can teach your canary to sing by playing canary song CDs over and over again. They will hear the wild songs and start to sing.

Birds are wonderful at learning new things. A crow can recognize a person who threatens them. They do not forget. I have heard that an adult macaw is about the same as a two-year old child. Continue reading Teaching a Canary How to Sing Songs

When we moved here we had a couple of window air conditioners. One was in the bedroom, and the other one was in the living room. We worked hard to be able to buy this old house. We have been renovating it ever since. We bought it soon after we were married. We have two children and central air now. The kids are 12 and 15, and the AC started blowing warm air during a hot week in July. We called a local company that does air conditioner repair in NYC to come out and take a look at the system. The company that installed it was no longer in business.

We never did anything to the system since we had it installed other than to keep the fall leaves from gathering around the unit with the fan on the outside of the house out back. Continue reading Low Refrigerant and Dirty Coils Had Our AC Blowing Warm Air