I had to Share It

I liked a little train at Sears and it was on sale before Christmas but I decided not to at that point but then the sales started and it went up from 24.95 to 39.95 and again I thought that that would be a bit much.

But then I visited the Sears website and guess what they have the same product on sale for 19.95.

So I went back to the store trying to get it for the online price but NO they would not pricematch there OWN website.

If I want this train then I have to order it through Catalog shopping or there website and the let them ship it to the store (where they have at least 12 in stock) to me would be just insane to waste so many resources that for me I decided not to order it from Sears.

And people I would advice you Never to buy something in the Sears stores because you have big changes that they will charge you 100% extra like they try with the little train.

If I really want this train then I decided to order it at the manufacturer who sells and ships it for less and then it just comes from Hong Kong.

OK I know you get sick of it so do I.

But I thought I would make a list to to help you not get sick

So what can you do to protect yourself and other of getting the flue.

• Stay home when you are sick! by going out YOU are personally responsible of spreading H1N1
• Shop less. I know it sounds harsh but by going out less makes it less likely that you pick up the virus.
• Touch less. The H1N1 can survive on surfaces for up to 30 minutes so watch it when you touch the escalator hand rail or the most popular items in stores.
• OK washing you hands helps of course
• Touching nose and mouth less helps to because that is where the virus will enter your body.
• Help your immune system by getting your vitamins maybe a couple more this time of year will help you.
• Don’t share things like water bottles and plates and stuff because you don’t know if you friend carries the virus
• These are the most important once BUT don’t forget if YOU are sick STAY HOME!!

Then the last funny thing I heard on the news yesterday. Apparently the companies making the flu shots demanded not being liable and that to me means even more that I will NOT get the vacine.

And finally don’t panic it is just the flu so if you get sick take it as you do any other flu.

OK here in Calgary the H1N1 vaccination is in full swing for the last two days now and lines are crazzy long with waiting times of 4 hours or more.

Maybe I don’t get it but what is all the fuss about. People it is the flu, I got it so for me deffinitly no shot but now you get all those people saying that you are selfish if you do not get the H1N1 shot. I would say screw them I think it is a health risk on it’s own just standing in line for 4 hours with people who are afraid of getting the flu and you never know what all those people carry with them. maybe just another strain of a different flu????

I would urge people to grow up and behave like a smart person. Take you precausions and when you start to feel sick then stay home and sicken out.

But on the other hand I also don’t believe in all those medicines they have for when you are sick.

For now I would say that I was on a holiday in New York in September and there at that point already 800.000 people had the H1N1 virus and still you didn’t see hand sanitizer stations like you see everywhere in Calgary. OK people talked about it and took it as it came. But non of those 800.000 people got vacinated and don’t have to any more. So if you already got the flu in the last months BIG changes you had H1N1 and that means that you are imune for it now so getting the shot with all the extra risks in it does not make any sense.

Today on my way home I took the back alley to my place and then you see thing you really don’t want to see. Why do people have the urge to dump there old furniture just somewhere in an alley way?

If you go to the trouble of loading it in you car then the effort of driving a little bit further to the land fill can’t be that much more.

And yes maybe you have to pay 10 bucks to dump your gabage (under 250kg) but now you risk getting a huge fine for dumping your crap where it doesn’t belong.

I would be so a shamed to just dump your trash in some once back yard, OK most times it is a company where they dump it but still that doesn’t change a thing does it. This filth just does not belong there and the longer it stays there the worse it gets with animals going through it and then the rain or like today the snow makes it wet and then the sun will warm it up so that it starts to rot and smell.

Come on people we all live in this city, why do we have to make a mess out of it. STOP it!!!!

And you know if your furniture is still good and sometimes it looks still great you can bring it to a place like Value Village they will be happy with it and some of them even come pick it up at you home so you don’t have to worry about it at all.

And finally if you really can’t afford the 10 dollars for the landfill why can’t you take the effort to dump it in a garbage bin because in 9 out of 10 cases I seen there is a garbage bin big enough to hold the stuff they dump within 10 meters. Come on people lets make this city a bit cleaner PLEASE!

We all by now know how annoying those calls that try to sell you something.

But you can have some fun with them to. Have a look at this little video and maybe it gives you some idea’s

Let me tell you what I like to do. When I get called by a telemarketing company I put there nr in my phone so next time they call I know it is THEM. And then I just like to pickup and say “I AM NOT INTERESTED IN YOU S..T” and that normally keeps them kinda surprised (to say the least).

I would say invent something like it your self and share it with us maybe if we all do something like it we will have FUN with them instead of getting annoyed

So GM decides to dump some of there dealers or actually they dump a lot of them.

Of course this is gone cost jobs and that is sad but on the other hand is it worth to be a dealership of a brand if you sell less then 35 cars a year?

Coming from a country where every town has 1 or maybe 2 dealerships for 1 brand it is still strange to me to see all the same kind of dealerships in once city. Often I even wonder why there are so many dealerships of one brand so close together. Who was thinking when those dealerships where handed out?

I personally believe that the time has come that some of those brands just need to go bankrupt for me it would be sad because i own a Jeep and what would happen with my warrenty but really there is no logic at all to keep those brands going.

Where they sleeping the last 10 years? To me they where, if you see how brands from outside North America evoled there cars and how the brands here just did nothing should mean that the only thing they can do is stop.

Maybe you noticed phone calls from (604)-687-0142 in lots of cases they call in the day when you are not home but when you then get them on the phone one time they try to bug you to get a subscription to the Calgary Herald newspaper.

It is anoying that if you signed up for not getting those unwanted phone calls the newspapers and the “good causes” are still able to call you. So what can you do to make it stop?

First you can write to the customer service department of the Calgary Herald at calgaryherald@reachcanada.com and then they will try to get you address and I did not give it to them why do they need my name and address to remove me from there marketing phonelist?

Then you can also contact the company that calls you RSP Customer Care Centres who do not really seem to care about customers! On their website they have the option to delist you phone nr and for me that did not get me of the phone list they use.

So i tried something else. I wrote and email to every email address i could find on there website.

Being :

dnc@rsvpcare.com
leslie@rsvpcare.com
james@rsvpcare.com
connie@rsvpcare.com

I don’t know if this helped but at least I bugged them a bit and if this isn’t enough to stop it then I will start calling them at there office nr 604.687.0615 and you could of course also try to call the nr they call you with 604.687.0142

Come on People let this shit stop do something back to them!

OK so Friday we had weather warning here in Calgary and the roads where like really bad with traffic going slow like really slow. But then there comes an ambulance with lights and sounds in the middle of delivering a patient to the hospital.

The Ambulance did not go that fast he was careful with all the snow and ice on the roads. But then there are lots of crazy drivers around him going so fast and all passing the ambulance. Guys what are you thinking it is bad outside why go so fast and bring us all in danger?

OK maybe you do not like the title of this post but still I am ranting and maybe after reading the rest of my story you agree with the title.

From very close I have a view on the medical research world that is ran at universities in Europe and Canada I can’t say much about any where else but I guess it is the same everywhere.

Please do not take this post personal maybe it does not apply to you.

Did you know that lots of your money that came from taxes of gifts to good causes ends up paying for professors personal holidays, iPods, and you name it what else. Till now after 5 years hanging around the research world I still need to meet the first person that did not misused the money given to them.

Maybe you also did not know that grant money given to students is often also done based on you wash my hand I wash yours. I know students that get money funded by gifts that pays there salery but they don’t even do research in that field. I guess it helps if you direct boss is one of the people who decides who gets the money.

Then there are the people that are abused all the time by pushing almost everything in their direction without being rewarded for it or even acknowledged. In one case a person worked on a review for like 1.5 years and send it to her supervisor who then left it hanging for 8 months and then asked the person to edit it and this without even reading it!

I could keep going with this post but maybe it is time to stop before I make it even worse. One piece of advice don’t give money for medical research it is a waste of your money first the good course keeps a BIG part for there administration cost to pay for fancy parties and meetings in very fancy hotels and then the small part that is left ends up like I stated above. If you want to do good with your money then do it yourself that is the only way you really know it gets something done!

Remember my first post of the money the MS Society send me?

So after sending me 5 cents and a bunch of address labels in September today the mailman again brought me an envelope full of address labels and 5 cents from the MS Society of Canada.

That means in two months they send me so many address labels that I now have enough for the next 10 years and again I got some changes. But why do they keep bugging me with the question about money?

To me if you can send me money and goodies then you do not have to beg for money. Use your money smarter that is what I would do.

And besides sending me all that stuff also is not very good for the enviroment. Now there is more plastic ending on the landfill because I can’t use all those goodies. And then there is the waste of paper.

I am pretty sure if they would not have send all those begging letters the world would have less MS because less pollution would be better for out health I am sure we do not have to get more prove of that!