Monthly Archives: September 2007

It would be nice if I can own by own business and be my own boss some day.  DB wants to and he is working towards that direction.  If only I can leave my current job and be my own boss and also have health insurance covered at the same time, would be perfect.  An easy way to be your own boss is to own my own vending machine business.  A company call multivend is a leading manufacturer of vending machines in America. 

Vending machines can be set up in offices, office buildings, schools, colleges or shopping malls.   What is nice about this is you practically get 80% profit from this business.  There are so many types of vending machines to operate from: pop, energy drinks, water, snacks, or some vending machines have the ability to sell calling cards, too.  Working on the vending machines, you can set your own time when you want to set your run to collect your profit and restock.  And when you are done, you can come home and enjoy the rest of your time.

Oh yes, I want to go to Orlando, visit the Disney World, Universal Studios Sea World, or the Discovery Cove.  I know SD and her BF are dreaming of going to Orlando, too.  Nadine and Mark are still coaxing DB and I to make a trip to Orlando with them.  It would be nice if we are are able to go as a group because Orlando.com offers group hotel bookings at affordable prices.   It has an extensive choice of hotels, car rentals and flights.  I know DB is not a fan of Disney, well, SD and I told him he has to think about it as we will be going as a family!  How about that, a family vacation.  Moreover, with Orlando.com, it has a wide range of travel arrangements and entertainment if he is not into Disney.  I am sure there are travel guides on hand to show us the wonderful oceanfronts with amenities like restaurants, broadwalks, or maybe places where he and BF can go fishing.  Oppss, and I forgot to buy a Powerball ticket today

Being addicted to drugs whether it is legal or illegal is a disease.  When I was attending the Alanon meetings 3 years ago, I found out about many people can be addicted to narcotics.  I was so naive on this subject matter.  Breaking a drug addiction is difficult, but not impossible.  Families of drug addicts need to give these individuals support and should consider checking them into drug rehabilitation centers.  The objective of the Rehab centers is to put the patients in a detoxification therapy as quickly and safely as possible. In addition, they also help the patients to figure out the problem as to why they are addicted to narcotics.

My company has a compensation group to deal with the entire corporation’s compensation.  I think the corporation will not audit the strategic business units by the OFCCP (Office of the Federal Contract Compliance Programs) that often if we have use Halogen eCompensation’s pay for performance.  This product is a web-base solution that will make things easier and restructure the compensation for the organization.  It is easy to use with tools to assign merit-base compensation, bonus pay, stock options, to name a few.  Now, this is what I call efficiency!

DB’s friend, Nadine passed her mortgage broker license test couple of months ago.  Both DB and I are happy for her because she can now officially be a mortgage broker.  We are so proud of her especially from her background of a Russian immigrant and had not spoken a word of English before she came to Minnesota, now, she speaks fluent English with a touch of Russian accent. 

Her mentor at the mortgage firm she works part-time told her about Martin Worldwide’s mortgage lists.  The mortgage lists consist of  ConsumerPlus where she a database will be provided for her.  She can aim for genuine homeowners, or choose her customers’ demographics using this database.  Besides ConsumerPlus, it also includes Equity Borrowers, Mortgage Orginator TargetBase, Perfect Preferred Prospects, Public Record Information File, and Median Standing Buyers in the mortgage lists.

We still want a flat screen for our bedroom to replace the CRT TV, the bulk ugly looking thing.  DB wanted to buy a TV for our exercise room but I told him to replace our bedroom TV with a hitachi HDTV first instead of buying one for the exercise room.  

Electronic stores are advertising tons of flat screen HDTVs day after day.  Why do people want to buy plasma HDTVs?  This is due to plasma TVs are now becoming an in-thing for every household.    People buy flat screen TVs because these TVs are more advance, use modern and better technology to build them.  The picture is crystal clear and no wonder we wonder it so bad!

Krillion.com is a website for consumers to look up a TV online and compare the prices with other stores, all done in the comfort of your own home.  Krillion also has the store locations of the TV the consumer desires.  The consumer checks the product information online, do their research, and locate where the nearest store they could purchase their TV or appliances saving the consumers their precious time.