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I knew this was coming…

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

I was feeling like crap for the last couple of weeks but last night and this morning have sent me on an emotional roller coaster to the level of complete annoyance. Before I went to sleep last night I noticed I was having a little bit of chest pain, I naturally assumed it’s because I’ve been smoking more lately based on whatever is going on with me psychologically that I just can’t figure out. When I woke up this morning, however, the pain was much worse than it was the night before and after straining to get out of bed for a good half hour, I went into the office and had Sean walk Bella for me. There was no way in hell I’d be going outside today, no way in hell. The humidity is coming through the walls and my only relief from it is sitting in the air conditioning, but this is causing some problems as well. It’s now very dry in here and I’m almost predicting a nose bleed coming along in the near future.

I was doing a lot of coughing today and based on what came up, green mucus mixed with a bit of blood, I now believe I have bronchitis and while I should probably be at the hospital, all they can really do for me is give me an antibiotic and tell me to take it easy. Well, I have antibiotics and I AM taking it easy so there’s really nothing more that I can do. It’s been a rather emotional day for me as well, though. I don’t know why but I’ve been a walking basket case, little things have triggered me into a breakdown. I started my period today also, sure that has something to do with it, either way I’m not a happy camper right now.

Bella is snoring her little face off, if I do actually happen to have bronchitis the last thing I need is for her to be in here with me, but I am unsure of whether or not dogs can get what humans have. Sean’s been keeping me company for most of the day, even though he fell asleep for a little while, but he tried. I want to assume that he’ll be sick soon too. It’s just looking to be a pretty bad week for me.

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Destum Partners

Sunday, July 8th, 2007

Important Note: When being asked to review a website, paid or not, I treat it as though I’ve just come across the site on Google and then give my opinion from there. Price tags do not, by any means, sway my opinion on a sponsored entry. This is something I would like for the sponsor to keep in mind. Through me, you will receive my 100% honest opinion on your product and I remind you that this is what you’ve asked for.

This review is based on the company, Destum Partners.

Destum Partners provide consulting and advisory services to companies within the life science industry. They work with a variety of companies ranging from start-up biotech companies to even multinational corporations. Their goal is to work exclusively with companies that they perceive to have a profound impact on improving the quality of life for humanity. They initially work with companies by providing analytical services followed by the execution of their analytical results through licensing, divestitures and acquisitions. Destum Partners is a fully integrated consulting firm, working with companies from strategy inception to execution.

If you’re in the field of life science or running a life science project, you’d more than likely need to go through a consulting company like Destum Partners. They have over 15 years of experience in this field and have various methods of collecting data from both primary and secondary resources so that you can get the most reliable information available to you. They can also provide you with historical information on products, sales and other related reports. They can provide more research for you upon your request, naturally. Destum Partners has Oncology experts from the United Stats offering efficient and reliable solutions for acquisition of real time data.

Doing some surfing around their website I found it rather easy to come across all of their company and services information. For someone whom is not in the life science field, however, their site is a bit hard to understand. I never did well in science, however, and since I don’t have anything to do with science at this point in my life, information like this doesn’t really help me. Based on what I’ve seen though, they do depend a lot on quality control. I believe this company is here to do nothing more than benefit those using the products that they’re researching. They’ve provided market analysis for clients from pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biopharmaceutical and even animal health based companies. They have a rather strong database of information to help you with every aspect of your research and could more than likely be a complete benefit for your life science project.

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What’s for dinner?

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

I’m having trouble figuring out what I’d like for dinner tonight. I don’t feel like barbecuing and we don’t have any chop meat in the house either to even make burgers. The chicken is frozen as well so based on that alone I think it’s going to be a take-out night.

I’m in the mood for tacos, Sean doesn’t like tacos and while he said he could just go somewhere else for himself, it’s annoying taking two trips. I’m in the mood for a quesadilla because I had one at Friendly’s the other night but I’m not a big fan of the ones that they make at Taco Bell and I know nothing of the two Spanish restaurants in the area to give me any idea of how they rank amongst the locals. You have to remember that I came from Long Island, there was Spanish style cooking on every other corner.

There’s a place down here called Moe’s, Karen has told me on a few occasions that she hears they’re pretty good, I think I’m actually going to take the chance and try them out. Their menu looks pretty good, I just hope it tastes the same

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Botox is hard to hide.

Saturday, July 7th, 2007

Sean and I went to dinner tonight at Cracker Barrel and enjoyed a nice, some-what quiet, dinner after waiting in line for about 15 minutes or so to be seated. Up until about 4:30 this afternoon we didn’t actually realize that it was Friday so instead of driving over, we wound up just walking up knowing that we would more than likely not be able to find a spot anywhere in the entire lot that probably permits about 100 cars to park. It’s shares a parking lot with one of the hotels up the street as well, this was also packed thanks to the vast amount of vacationers that are currently in the area.

Our waiter was a pretty nice guy, more than likely from France considering that’s the only place that I could really place his accent from. He’d very obviously had some kind of plastic surgery because he had literally no lines in his face and I think botox was the factor there, lord knows it’s easy to find a plastic surgeon down here. He still had the little bit of swelling, I gave him a bit of an extra tip just so he could financially cover whatever he had injected into his face.

PPPKaren is considering botox, and has been for a while now. Recently her sister went in to get botox and the guy she went to wound up messing her up pretty bad, she looked like someone had beaten the crap out of her and for some reason, that no one understands, she’s decided to go back to the same doctor in order to have him fix it. Karen said it best when she threw her hands up in the air and said “Why go back to the same person who messed you up the first time?”. I have to say I completely agree with her but her sister is known for being stubborn which is probably why we all love her. I assume she was in some ritzy office like the one shown above. I know she went to a doctor in New York and they all over-price the simplest procedures just to make a quick buck on an unsuspecting victom. I’d honestly rather head out to Rodeo Drive or something where you know it’s going to be done right because there is a reputation to uphold, you know?

Would you ever consider botox? What do you think of not being able to show any real facial expressions for a few days after the fact?

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Relaunch of AGn Designs, went well…

Friday, July 6th, 2007

I’ve relaunched acidgloss.net as a blog to go with my portfolio. I’ve been doing technology and business based product reviews for so long that I kind of wanted to place them somewhere else for a change. I’d been posting on acidgloss.net since January but I never quite got around to working the blog into the rest of the site until recently.

I was up at 10am this morning, not sure why but I felt something kind of pulling me out of bed and maybe it will benefit me. If I can get myself to sleep at midnight, instead of 4 or 5am then I’ll be able to get back on the schedule that I desire to work on. I don’t like working at night anymore, it’s summer – I’m supposed to be outside enjoying life when the sun goes down, not spending countless hours on designing for clients. So my schedule, as of right now, is back to 10am-6pm. I just wonder how long I’ll be able to stick to it!

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WordPress Plugin for Paid Blogging

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Sean created a new plug-in that will more than likely help out many people looking to make the most out of paid posting, or just blogging in general. Most paid posting requires you to meet a minimum number of words before you can submit your post. Up until recently, however, the only Word Count hack available with WP 2.0+ only showed you the post count in the administration panel after you hit ‘submit’ or saved the draft and then went back to edit it later. This doesn’t help paid bloggers who have to work quickly, especially on PayPerPost, where offers are taken as quickly as they’re uploaded.

So he created a plug-in that’s WP 2.2 compliant called Leprakhauns Word Count which adds this real-time word count to your Write Post page in WordPress. It counts the true words in the entry, not the a href link attributes that can confuse most programs. You type your entry and hit “Calculate Words” and it doesn’t reload the page, it just shows up in the designated text area next to the button. I was using his original JavaScript one up until a few moments ago, now I’ve got the official plug-in itself tapped into there. I altered it a little bit for my own personal usage but that’s because I use a different administration panel theme for WordPress than the default that many people use.

Either way, if you’re an active paid poster and always having some trouble getting your numbers correct when submitting your post, this plug-in would more than likely be good for you.

Note: This hack will only work with WordPress 2.2. I’ve noticed when going back to edit a post that the calculate option doesn’t work but that could just be based on my own installation. Please report any problems with the script to Sean about that one.

Note #2: UPDATE! The hack has been fixed and should now work properly with all 2.2 installations. Entries may be a few words off depending on the fact if you’ve got hyphenated words in your entry. So right now figure I’m typing-up about ten words. Since the hyphen is between two words, it’s only listing it as 9. The script, at this moment, counts spaces between words. After that, however, it’s extremely accurate.

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IPITV Magazine

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I came across a new company today called IPITV which is a full-service publishing company that specializes in creating new ideas and different approaches to forming partnerships with travel tour operators and today’s business product solutions. It’s currently partnered with more than 100 clients worldwide. They’re in Pompano Beach, Florida and recognized as one of the most successful publishing companies in South Florida.

I attempted to do a little bit more reading into them and couldn’t come up with much else but I was able to find out that, from the beginning, their mission has been to deliver the highest quality programming to their viewers, sponsors and networks. It’s unique style of programming demands cutting edge content for today’s sophisticated viewer. They capture the latest trends and provide access to the constantly changing world we live in with a fresh new look.

In laymen terms, they’re another TV production company out there with a mission to change the world. I wish them luck because, people these days are a bit too stubborn to step outside of their boxes.

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The Thursday Threesome – Week #1

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I’ve never done this meme before so I figured I’d give it a shot, it’s called The Thursday Threesome and each week a series of three words are worked into a then series of questions, this weeks questions include:

:: At Long Last ::

Onesome: At– the head of the line for the iPhones, were you? No? What do you think of all the hoopla. …and the continuing hype? Just curious… I think the phone itself is kind of useless, honestly. I have my iPod and I have a cellphone with internet capabilities, what’s the point in an all in one that’s all digital and can easily be broken? At least if the screen is dinged up on my cellphone, I know I can still make a phone call in an emergency. Since the iPhone is all digital it really causes more problems than it should have. I heard it shuts down quite a bit. And even Sean says the phone is good in theory – it just wasn’t really created properly to meet with the typical demand of avid cellphone users.

Twosome: Long– roads to forever… Do you have a favorite road/trail/path you like to travel just for the scenery? Living in Delaware all you see is farms, by the time you actually hit civilization – you’re already asleep from boredom.

Threesome: Last– year did you think you’d be doing what you ended up doing for the holiday yesterday? …or did plans change a bit? I don’t have any plans for 4th of July, I never really have. Fireworks are great and all but when you’ve seen them for the last 22 years, you get sick of them.

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I think it’s time for a new car

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

For the past couple of years, Sean has been having some trouble with the radiator in his car. I think he’s replaced it about three times at this point and while I’d originally thought it was based on a malfunctioning thermostat, I later found out that the thermostat was new. I want to assume that the new one was faulty but either way more than enough money has been spent to get something fixed or replaced than there really should be. He currently has a Chevy Beretta which is basically what the Cavalier was based off of, so since it’s over 10 years old, naturally there are going to be some problems here and there.

What I found out through some random online information to be directed to a new resource, radiator.com, there are also a lot of problems with Integra radiators as well. There’s something about the new models of older cars that bring random faulty issues here and there. It’s not just the radiator though, it’s also cooling components as well.

Either way I think it’s time for him to start looking into a new car, I know Karen agrees as well. If something is 12 years old and causing nothing but problems, more than likely it’s time to move on, you know?

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That’s My Answer! – Week #1

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

This meme is rather new to me, I figured I’d give it a shot though. This one is called That’s My Answer!

The question of the day: You’ve been given the task of putting together a box set of the ‘funniest movies of all time’, what movies will you choose?

A question like this is really hard for me to answer because I watch so many comedies. I’d say my top picks would be something like:

The Birdcage
Revenge of the Nerds
Sister Act
Ghostbusters
Dumb and Dumber
Roxanne
When Harry Met Sally
Police Academy Series
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Meet the Parents
Best in Show
Clerks
Legally Blonde
Wayne’s World
The Jerk
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Naked Gun Series
Ace Ventura
Animal House
Caddyshack.

Okay, so the list wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be and I know for a fact that they would never release a set of movies this large but it would be pretty damn cool if they actually did!

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Anniversary … fast approaching

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Our anniversary is fast approaching and I’m itching to find out what exactly Sean has in store for me. I know we’re going to dinner and he, being as convincing as he is, managed to get what his gift was out of me. I’ve bought him a 19″ wide screen LCD monitor because the one he’s using now, my old one, is on the fritz – we think. We’re unsure if it’s his adapters, graphics cards or even just the monitor in general. However, the color quality is so screwed up that everything on the screen is literally too blurry for words so either way he’s getting a new one and that’s that.

This doesn’t help me out though, I really want to know what he’s got in store for me. I’m kind of wondering if a surprise flower delivery is going to show up. Maybe something special will be happening at dinner, I honestly don’t know, either way I’m itching to find out what it is. He won’t tell me anything and right now he’s trying to hide his credit card from my sight while he’s surfing around online, I have no way of figuring out what he’s doing over there either. I’m just a very nosy person, heh.

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3x Thursday: Week #1

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Time for the weekly installment of 3x Thursday.

1. As an adult, do you feel the same about holiday’s off from work versus the way you felt when you got them off for school? How so/how not? Everyone loves a day off but when you get older it can really just be annoying to even deal with the holidays. When you were younger you didn’t have to worry about pulling in some extra overtime just so you could get that check in time to buy all of the last minute gifts. Now, that’s what most in the working class tend to do, they go overboard and pay for it later. I seriously believe Christmas was what manufactured the world of credit cards.

2. What about birthdays? Do you view them differently now as you get older? Why/why not? I don’t care too much about birthdays. For me it’s just adding another year and closing another chapter, honestly.

3. New releases: Remember how psyched you were when you heard that your favorite band was coming out with a new album on a certain date? Do you still feel that same kind of excitement now? Why/why not? I don’t listen to music the same way now as I did back then. There’s too much going on around me where music can only get in the way.

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Going through the morning rush…

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I received a strange email before in regards to the price of gold coins, silver coins, and even bronze for that matter. Spam can be a rather strange thing, but I get bored enough to google things on the topic if it seems even remotely interesting to me. I’ve come across monex.com, a site I’ve used in the past, and found that while gold is great and all, there is a HUGE market for buying silver these days. I came across this quick web release about silver:

There may never be a better time for buying silver bullion than right now. World demand for silver now exceeds annual production, and has every year since 1990. Above ground stockpiles of silver bullion are low, shrinking rapidly and approaching zero. Since the end of WWII, for example, the U.S. government – once the largest stockpiler of silver on the planet – has dumped billions and billions of ounces of silver bars onto the world market, effectively depressing silver prices. Today, that government silver hoard is gone . . . and now the U.S. government is a silver buyer. For these reasons, silver bars represent an outstanding investment opportunity.

Either way I think an investment in anything isn’t a bad idea, I think that’s why people spend so much time on the stock market. They want to get everything they can for their money and there really isn’t anything wrong with that. I’m still peeved that my father didn’t invest in Google or Yahoo when I told him about them, he chose to stick with AT&T and I guess that’s fine now considering the iPhone is out, who knows what’ll happen with that stock. However, I hear there’s a lot of issues with the phone so I can only feel sorry for everyone having those shiny new two year contracts.

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A pretty sucky day so far

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

I’m not sure if it’s the weather or not but I woke up feeling like complete crap today. My stomach is bothering me, my throat is a little scratchy and I’ve found that if I stand for too long I begin to get dizzy. The smell in the house doesn’t help very much either, multiple wee wee pads down and all of them filled up. Princess, yet again, missing one entirely so now that’s soaking into the rug. Since it’s too warm to open the windows the smell is just kind of lingering and it’s so potent to the point of making me nauseous on top of how bad I was originally feeling. I swear when Sean and I get out of here we’re going to just deal with hard because those naturally would require carpet for me.

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Chinese Medicine: Reishi

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I came across an article today about Reishi at LongevityHerbs.com. I think this would work along side my previous post about some Gotu Kola product that Sean is currently using. This one is a mushroom that is supposed to be one of the most widely-used herbal remedies in Traditional Chinese Medicine, leave it to the Chinese to use fungus to cure something, they come up with some of the funkiest remedies that actually work and no one else (well…outside of China) would think of using them. This is why they’re ahead of us, take a lesson Bush.

Reishi has anti-inflammatory properties which help it to positively effect ones respiratory system. It’s supposed to be great for allergies, bronchitis and reducing blood pressure issues in relation to hypertension. Now, I’m not a doctor, I’m not someone that follows medicine and I could care less about what’s in an aspirin, I just know it stops my head from hurting. Karen, however, if it’s written in some medical diary or could be found through Google – she can more than likely diagnose anything you throw her way.

A quick note that I found interesting on the products description:

Much attention is paid to reishi’s high concentration of polysaccharides, which are linked to aiding cancer remission; acting as hypoglycemic agents; and strengthening the immune system. Reishi also scavenges free radicals, which retard aging and promote general healthfulness on a systemic, cellular level. Finally, it is known to protect the liver and help instill calmness.

I would assume that anyone who is dealing with the above conditions (personally or family oriented) may find this “herb of good fortune” to be of some help to them.

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Loaded Questions: Week #1

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I’ve never done this particular meme before so when I came across it, I felt the need to write about it. This is a weekly Wednesday meme named Loaded Questions. The questions are broken down into four categories every week, the same categories continue weekly only the questions change.

Hypotheticals: If you could only work on one body part at the gym, what would it be? I think I would just work in general, honestly.

Anything Goes: Use one adjective to describe the game of baseball? Overrated.

No-Brainers: What would you like to know more about? Any and everything my brain can soak up!

Personals: What is the last movie that made your eyes tear up? I don’t really tear up at any movie but there are ones that make me feel all warm and tingly inside, no matter what the topic is, really. Hell, I did choak up a little bit the other night with Shrek just as Fiona and Shrek kissed and they lived happily ‘ugly’ after…heh.

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