Jeremy Herndon

My wife and her sister have been talking about starting a marketing business, helping local business people to improve their presences on the Internet. They’ve been tossing around a few ideas about what to call the business, and talking about how much money it will cost to start up the business. My wife came across a website that wrote about how start-up businesses run by women might be eligible for business grants, and she is going to take a look at what they will have to do in order to apply for one.

In this job market, it seems to me that creating your own job just might be a good idea. So many companies are laying off employees, and the few that are hiring are only hiring temporary or part time help so they don’t have to give them any kind of benefits. Becoming self-reliant is a good idea, don’t you agree?

I’ve always had a soft spot for our feathered friends.  I keep a pair of binoculars and a bird identification book close at hand so if I spot a bird I haven’t seen before I can get a closer look and try to figure out what it is.  From time to time I’m thrilled and blessed to spot a few American Bald Eagles near our house!  But sightings like that are few and far between.  I mostly see hawks, blue jays, robin red breasts, grosbeaks, woodpeckers, doves, nuthatches, finches and cardinals.  Once in a great while I see a Northern Bluebird – what a thrill that is to see that!  I see way too many turkey vultures and buzzards for my liking, though, if you know what I mean.  I understand that they are a protected species and I know that they have a job to do, but they give me the creeps! 

I’d like to put a few Quality birdhouses and birdfeeders in our yard to help care for the birds in our neighborhood.  I suspect that if I did that I’d see a lot more of them in the yard a lot more often.  I’m just not really sure what is the best kind of birdhouse.  I love the colorful and whimsical ones, but I’ve read that the plain ones are more attractive to the birds.  What do you think?

The Internet can be very useful for the elderly if they know the right places to look. Networking sites like Facebook and Myspace can be used to meet people with similar interests. Many websites can help seniors get the products they need at a much lower price than they could in normal retail outlets. You can find miracle ear hearing aids prices and reviews. Powerscooter.com can give them the information they need to get a mobility scooter. Any elderly person who is feeling lonely can go to littlebrothers.org to be matched up with someone who would be happy to keep them company. The seniors.lovetoknow.com is a site that has much information about caring for the elderly. It includes knowledge of financial planning, assisted living, fashion, senior services, athletic activities, medical insurance and health.

If someone is looking for information on the best place to retire bestretirementspots.com, and bestretirementdestinations.com have tons of information. Search engine sites like yahoo, Webcrawler, and Google may be used to find any sort of information that anyone could ever need, all that is required is the knowledge to use these sites. Information on life and health insurance as well as the latest miracle ear can also easily be found using a search engine, with quotes being given in minutes. The internet is a tool that can be used by the elderly to get goods and services that would not otherwise be easily available to them and at a time when medical health care insurance is a must.

Do you know what parthenogenesis means?  I didn’t until I read it in an article that was talking about how a second case of asexual reproduction in sharks was documented  in Virginia Beach in October of 2008.  It seems that a female blacktip shark, having been the only kind of her species in an aquarium, gave birth without benefit of having a mate.  The article also mentions that last year a hammerhead shark in a zoo in Omaha also gave birth without benefit of mating.

I found this to be quite fascinating!  I knew that there were some animals that could do that, but not sharks!  Considering how many people are afraid of sharks, this could be very scary news to some people.  I would not be surprised to see this story on the Colbert Report’s threat down!

So many people flocking to the medical field these days makes it to where there is an abundant amount of folks walking around wearing nursing uniforms and medical scrubs. Much like the kind you can find at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/. I’ve been noticing it more and more, like at the gas stations the mall and the at the grocery store, you are likely to see at least one person wearing some type or another of medical uniforms. They have come a long way with different styles, fabrics, patterns and designs, and after all variety is the spice of life.

Some of these medical uniforms that are being seen now-a-days are really attractive and they look like they would be comfortable to wear. The majority of folks that are on their feet (medical personnel certainly stay on their feet all day) are wearing those funky looking crocs/clogs that have been selling like crazy in the last umpteen years or so now. But if it feels good do it, right?