High Blood PressureI have no idea why anyone would even think of asking me about high blood pressure or Hypertension. I'm not a physician or anything resembling a medicine man (no pun intended). I'm just someone amongst MANY who are Hypertensive. I was lucky, so to speak, because I was diagnosed when I was young and I was put on a Beta Blocker which controls my blood pressure, and has controlled it for over 30 years (same meds). Sometimes the doc will put me on my Tenormin with a diuretic (T... Read Full Story

I recently hit a new low - the good kind though! I hit the 256 pound mark and it felt like it wouldn't happen for a long while. I felt like I hit a plateau going downwards and I was beginning to get a bit frustrated. You know the type of frustration I mean? It's when you feel that you've done everything you can and your no further ahead than you were doing nothing, so maybe doing nothing is better. I fought off this type of thinking because when I was stuck in the 270's and couldn't break thr... Read Full Story

Life can wield strange twists of fate, manifest-destiny if you like, that we simply take for granted. How a person can be in a war, or two, and go through combat then come home untouched by blade or bullet only to be taken out by a disease. Talk about a really sick joke by Mother Nature. In many cases we, as a planetary whole, are to blame for many(most) of our ills. We were given innoculation's as children only to find out that since we really didn't have that particular ailment as a child w... Read Full Story

It's that time of year again and time to start thinking about what to get my wife for her birthday. She's been hinting at going to Universal Studios to go on the Simpson's Ride and the Mummy Ride(I like that one too). I know it's what she wants because tickets aren't cheap anymore and they always want you to buy more than you'll ever need for passes. I probably won't be back that way till next year so why do I need multi-day, multi-park passes? I don't even like water parks so there goes the... Read Full Story

I used to think that only old actors/actresses passed away and young ones lived forever. What kid's never thought of that? It was normal to believe in immortality. With some of the recent celebrity passings it's a whole new ball-game. We all thought Farrah would beat her cancer because she was all into her treatments and wouldn't take no for an answer, nature thought otherwise. Michael Jackson was only 50. There was a time where 50 was considered advanced age, now your just getting started on... Read Full Story

White Rabbit! The Brits will know what I mean. :) Read Full Story

One of my other blogs has been getting a lot of attention regarding some posts I've made regarding weight loss products and other types of supplements. I have to be very careful as to what types of supplements I take because I take a Beta Blocker for my blood pressure and things like Ginseng and Flax could potentially cause my meds to not work. That would be counter productive for my greater health issues. You take meds to lower your blood pressure because(in part) of weight issues, then you ... Read Full Story

I've been thinking long and hard about my blogs lately and came to a decision. I have been steadily removing ALL visual advertising from all my sites because I think it makes the site look like shit. That's right - ka-ka, crap, dung, etc! The funniest thing about all this is that I've already removed the ads from my other 3 sites and this is the last one getting cleaned up. Now, the surprising part is that my other sites all now have page rank and this one doesn't anymore, it used to before t... Read Full Story

For the past 2-3 years my wife has been using a metal folding chair at her laptop. I thought nothing of it and she never said anything. She had a system problem and I needed to sit down and correct it before it got worse. It was a chunk of malware that loaded while she was surfing in the disguise of a harmless banner ad. I'm getting away from the subject but you probably know how long this could take to correct when you can't get into your spyware utilities because the screen is constantly re... Read Full Story

If your one of the many Americans that have steady employment and a few dollars in the back this is your time to blossom. The majority of people in this country are employed, and will remain employed, well into the great financial turn-around. The news services foretell collapse but what is being reported effects a small minority of the workforce. I'm not saying 'so what' to them, it is a bad situation for these people and hopefully they will start to see daylight very soon and obtain new emp... Read Full Story