Yesterday I went to the pharmacy to pick up some allergy medicine for my wife. The poor dear has been suffering from her spring allergies and had run out of her antihistamine. She likes one of the brands that you have to buy from behind the pharmacy counter. What a pain in the neck it is to have to go through all of that rigamarole to buy something that is supposed to be “over the counter” medicine with no prescription required!
But that is not the point of this post. While standing in line to be waited on, I heard a guy at the counter telling the pharmacist that he wanted to buy all of the Tamiflu in the pharmacy so he could sell it online and make a huge profit off of the fears of ”the people” catching the swine flu! Well, the pharmacist told him that he needs a prescription to buy Tamiflu, and he tried to argue with her. Of course he went home empty handed, but I was quite angered by his desire to try to hoard the medicine and make a fortune with it over the Internet! What a low-class kind of guy!
My neighbor tells me that he has been making some extra money by taking online surveys. I was really surprised and skeptical about that because in past years I tried that and all I ever got was lame attempts by the companies to get me to buy their products. They would offer me gift cards if I participated in a very long survey AND took some of their “special offers” which always led to me spending more money than the gift card was going to be worth!
But my neighbor assures me that there is an opinon site called MyOpinionNow that really does pay money for surveys. He says it is free to join, and there are no catches. I’ve been looking through the site and it does look promising. I think I’ll give it a try!
Getting involved in Online Trading is a good way to start creating a stock portfolio. There is no high sales pressure from a stock-broker who is trying to sell you something that his company is pressuring him to promote. A good Online Broker to check out is the firtrade.com website. Their prices for Stock Trading are very competitive. By becoming a customer, you can trade in Stocks, Options, Mutual Funds, ETFs and Fixed Incomes.
I like the idea of trading in Fixed Incomes; it seems like a pretty safe bet that the money will generate a return. One of the things that I really like about this particular website is that it has a Knowledge Center where you can look up what something means and not feel totally stupid! Have you ever been afraid to ask a person a question for fear of looking stupid? Well, this Knowledge Center eliminates that fear! It gives you everything you need to know about investing your money in the stock market!
The other day I was in a conference with several of my colleagues. It was a pretty important conference. In the middle of the conference, one of the women’s cell phone started to ring. Much to my amazement she took the call without even leaving the room! I though pretty much everyone knew that cell phone etiquette mandates that in situations like this if you take the call, you leave the room. But no, she proceeded to have a very loud and heated discussion with whoever it was that was calling in front of everyone right there!
I was amazed that when she finished the call she just returned to the meeting as if nothing happened. Everyone was glaring at her, and it didn’t faze her at all! What nerve!
There is a new social networking site my sister has been telling me about that she has joined. This network is not about getting a date, it is about sharing information and opinions about things that you like/dislike. Basically like product reviews from your peers.
She was interested in it because she has been thinking about buying a new puppy, and wasn’t really sure what kind to get. A friend of hers told her about the networking site and suggested that she join it and see if there were any comments on it about different types of dogs, so she could get a better idea of what kind might be a good dog to get for her family.
So she went to the pet networking site and found that there were a lot of different pets reviewed there. She did notice that it seemed as if the same person was writing the same review for a lot of the different pets; that made her wonder exactly why that was the case. She said that the wording was almost identical. So she didn’t quite trust those reviews as much as the others that sounded unique.
General life, Health, Rants | Dean | 
April 30, 2009 7:25 am | 
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