ShowMeBlog

Move over Nancy Grace for Dr. Phil

  The list of people I hate is getting longer and longer.  They all seem to be TV people and news people now. 
  The news story is that Dr. Phil posted bond for the teen ringleader of the beating of the girl down here.   
  The story is that he posted $30,000.00 bond for her.  The story is that Dr. Phil's producer showed up and ordered local media to leave because the Dr. Phil Show had exclusive rights to the story.

Notary Public?

  I am doing the FL Notary Public training on line right now.
 

"What is a Notary Public?
A notary public is a public officer appointed and commissioned by the Governor whose function is to administer oaths; to take acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments; to attest to or certify photocopies of certain documents; and to perform other duties specified by law..."

  The online training is 3 hours.  If I pass the training and the tests I will need to come up with about $75.00 and I should be a Notary Public in the state of Florida.
  The state fees are $39.00 but you have to get a bond issued and buy a seal and other stuff.
  There are a lot of places that will do everything for you for about $75.00 and I will do that when I get the money.
  
  A Notary can solemnize a marriage in the state of FL.
  How many of you remember that I am a member of the clergy?
  I was ordained by the Universal Life Church on April 20, 2002. 

  What are the duties of a Notary in FL?

          Administer oaths or affirmations

• Take acknowledgments
• Attest to photocopies of certain documents
• Solemnize marriage
• Verify vehicle identification numbers (VINs)
• Certify the contents of a safe-deposit box

  I  better get back to the training.

Get $25.00 Right Now

  I just signed up with the above people and they put $25.00 into my account.  If you sign up with them they will put $25.00 into your account and they will put $10.00 into my account.
  This offer ends in 3 days.  I wish I had found this site sooner.
  Maybe they will extend the offer past 15th of April.
  If you been reading my blog you will remember a number of services, one was PayPal, when they began made offers like this and we all made some money.
  If you don't need $25.00 sign up and send it to me.  Smile

  Update:  04/12/2008 1600 hours
                Someone just signed up and got $25.00 because I just got $10.00 put into my account.

A List You DO Want to be on

  My feeling is that you do not want to be on a list.  I found a list that I would like to be on and I am sure you would like to be on this list.
  It is a list of Powerball Winners. 
  If you look at the list I see some interesting things.  The person that won $16 million and lives in Kentucky is interesting.  I bet for $16 million you could buy about half the real estate in KY.  Smile
  I am from Missouri and I see a family won $120 million.  Now in MO you could live like kings for the rest of your life.  If you won the same amount of money in Florida I am not sure you could find a house you could afford.
    I do have a Florida Lotto ticket for tomorrow.  The normal jackpot for it is $17 million.  You can pay $2.00 and the jackpot would be $27 million if you won.  I paid $3.00 and if I win tomorrow I would win $42 million.  Wish me luck.

  Russell, my grandson, will leave for Washington DC on the 14th (3 days) and he will be in DC when Pope Benedict XVI is in DC.  Russell is not interested.  If I was in DC I would try and find some spot were I could see him drive by or something.  Then I could say I had seen a pope.
 

  I know many of you, my guess 35% of you, hate to read anything I say about politics.  I am thinking about having a blog just for my political stuff.  I am thinking about using WordPress.  Anyone think of a good name for my blog on politics?
  I set up a blog for all things about the Internet.  I am not sure if I will post all geek tech stuff on that site.  Right now it is called:  Howard on the Internet and is at:  www.hnbdo.com/hnb
  I have tried things like this in the past and it is hard, for me, to have more than one blog.  I also find it hard to remember to post the stuff to the correct site. 

  I just got a video from Netflix.  It is "Vitus" (2006) and I think I will enjoy this movie.

Yahoo PLus Mail

  I have been signed up for Yahoo Plus mail for a year.  Maybe even longer than a year.  I don’t remember how long I have used the service.  It cost $19.99 a year.  Not much money and the mail service is pretty good.  The truth is I never use it.  I have lots of mail accounts.  In fact I got too many mail accounts.
So I had no plans to renew the service.
  They have four credit cards on file for me.  I hate those places that keep all your credit cards on file and  there never appears to be any way to delete the cards.
Well the card that I had marked as the card to use for that account had no money in it.  Plus it had my old address.  So I was not worried about them charging the $19.99 for the service for another year.
  Today I got an email from PayPal saying that Yahoo had taken out $19.99 for Yahoo Mail Plus.  The PayPal card was listed with them but not marked as the card to use.  Plus all cards on file with they had my wrong address.
I guess they could not charge one card so they rolled over to PayPal.
I was pissed.  I called Yahoo and they were very nice and told me right from the start that they would cancel the service and re-fund my money.
In 3 to 5 days I should get my money back.

AOL could learn from Yahoo.  A couple of weeks ago AOL took out $119.00 for the AOL Phone service.  I had not used it in over a year and had attempted to cancel the service and remove the credit cards they had on file.  The service cost $9.99 a month and they took out $119.00 for past due amounts.
AOL refused to give me back my $119.00 but after I said I was going to blast them in my blog and create a video for YouTube about them they said they would credit me back $19.99 and come to think of it I do not remember getting the refund.

Update:  04/12/2008 Yahoo put the $19.99 back into my PayPal account.
              AOL never put the $19.99 they stole from me back into my account.
              If you have a choice between AOL and Yahoo my recommendation is pick Yahoo.

FL lawmakers approve gun-in-car law

  My advice to everyone is be very careful at work.  Florida just passed a law that allows employees to keep firearms in their locked cars on company property.  So you're at work and you piss off a fellow employee. If he goes to his car you better call 911 and lock yourself in the bathroom.
  If you're the boss and you fire an employee how are you going to feel when he walks to his car?

  TALLAHASSEE --

"In the three-year fight over whether citizens should be allowed to conceal their firearms in locked vehicles at work, state lawmakers have decided Florida business owners will have to bite the bullet.

Siding with the influential gun lobby, the state Senate on Wednesday gave final approval to a compromise measure allowing employees to stash firearms in their parked cars, despite the objections or policies of their employers -- as long as they have concealed-weapons permits. Already passed by the House, the bill now heads to the governor, who said Wednesday he would sign it..."

 I think the world has gone mad.  I do not understand how anyone can think this is a good idea.
  Sure if your a gun nut and you have a concealed-weapons permit you want to carry your gun with you.  You're going to want to have it with you all the time.
  So you're going to think you should be allowed to carry it to work, to church, to vote, to school, to a bar and you get the idea.
  The NRA and the gun lobby won this fight.   Now they will start working on allowing you to take it in your workplace. 

  I did hospital security for 30 years.  I have seen a lot of nuts.  One hospital I worked at the guy that was the plant operations guy at night was crazy.  He needed treatment and medication.  He punched me in the chest one time.  He broke the window on an employee's car.  He put a rag with acid on my car.  I saw him driving his little sports MG around the hospital at a high rate of speed and screaming at the top of his lungs.
  He asked the hospital for permission to bring a gun into work.
 
  A number of times I had to escort out a fired employee.  One time a guy acted like he was leaving and then came back and kicked the supervisor's car.  What would he have done if he had a gun?
  We had a number of family members that had a patient that died and they went crazy and said they were going to kill the doctor. 
  People having guns around does not make them safer and it does not make you safer or me safer.

High-tech LZR Swimsuits

  This is all news to me.  I remember in the past there was talk about swimmers shaving their body of hair.  Now some sort of high-tech swimsuits.  It looks like the swimsuits do work.
  It is interesting.
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- "FINA president Mustapha Larfaoui defended swimmers Wednesday who have broken world records in Speedo's new high-tech LZR Racer suit.  At the same time, though, Larfaoui is open to changing the rules if the swimsuit's ultra-lightweight technology, based on NASA intelligence, is deemed to give competitors an unfair advantage..."
   

  I would think then that body size would have a great deal to do with your speed and with winning. 
  Some guy that is well hung (large penis) would have more drag in the water.  I guess women with their breast then would have a great deal more drag.
  I am not a sports fan.  I also do not know how to swim.  You get my head underwater and I freak out.  If Bush and the CIA decide to waterboard me I will tell them anything they want to know.  I will sign anything they want me to sign.

Good day in Miami

  Today may be a good day.  I can post to Howard's Notebook.  I got a $100.00 donation via PayPal from a friend in Japan.  The swelling in my feet is down a little bit.  My feet are still swollen but not as much.  The swelling in my legs is much better.  My weight is down 5 pounds to 210 pounds.  Yes I must have had about five pounds of water in my feet and legs.
 
  I am going to walk up to the ATM, CVS and the store soon.  I have to make sure that Ken gets up for work first.  I need to pick up a Rx at CVS.  It will be for two of my medications and will cost me $30.00 and then I will go to the store.  I can carry about $20.00 worth of food. 
  I am going to have to watch what I get to eat.  I do not want my feet to swell up again.
  It looks like any amount of salt will make my feet and legs swell.

   I got "No Country for Old Men" (2007) on DVD from Netflix.  Ken wanted to see it.  I watched it yesterday when he was at work.  Then I saw most of it hours later when Ken got home from work and he watched it.
   Movies about violence are not my type of film but the movie was excellent.  I do not see how a movie could be any better.  Everything about the movie was great.  The story and the direction and the acting.  The casting was great. 
   The movie won an Academy Awards for;  Best Achievement in Directing, Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role and other awards.
   The bad guy in the movie, well there were a lot of them, was named Anton Chigurh and he was played by Javier Bardem.  Let me tell you that he was scary.  I locked my doors last night and looked under my bed before I went to sleep.
    If you asked me to name the two most scary bad guys in a movies it would have to be the Anton Chigurh (by actor Javier Bardem) and from "The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Harry Power (by actor Robert Mitchum). 

Update on the blog

  The post went OK.  So, as of right now, I can post to Howard's Notebook. 
I went to my account with them and it shows my last payment being made on 03/31/2007 and that was $119.60 for one year.
  No other payments show up.  I am not sure how long I can post here.  Each post may be my last one.  Today is the 10th of April.  On the 23rd of April I will have money in my bank account and I can pay with a card other than PayPal.  So if you do not see any more post here I will be back posting here on the 23rd.
  I am not sure why I can post and access my account now.  Did they feel sorry for me and turn on the access or did their system mess up.  My guess is that system messed up and they may correct it soon.

  I guess I need a back up site.
  I will try and post each day to the video at the top of this blog.  I can update that video even if they turn off my access posting here.
  For a written blog I will post to www.hnbbs.net and I may setup and try to get working:
  www.hnbdo.com/hnb as a site.

   I just received a donation from a fan, and friend, in Japan.  I want to thank Mitsukuni for a donation to PayPal of $100.00 and that will help a great deal here.  Thank you again Mitsukuni.

   I am going to work on this site as much as I can today.  I am not sure how much longer I will have access.  In 13 days I hope I can pay TypePad for one year and not have to worry about paying them each month.

  Keep your fingers crossed that I can keep accessing this site until I can pay them on the 23rd.

We are back baby

  We have not posted here in four days.  But it looks like we are back.
  I have been paying for Typepad to host this blog since 2003.   That is six years.  I always paid by the year and it was about $130.00 each year.  I could not afford to come up with that money this time.
  So I switched to the monthly billing plan.  I told them to bill PayPal.  Right away as soon as you do that they bill the card for $1.00 as a test and it came back with a problem.  But I got an email from PayPal saying $1.00 was paid to TypePad.  So I did not worry.  Well four days ago Typepad billed for $13.00 or so for the month and it was rejected.  I had a little more than $13.00 in the account.
  So Typepad turned off my account.  You could still see the blog but I could not post to it and do anything to make a change to it. 
  So I logged into Typepad and attempted a number of times to pay using Paypal and it rejected it each time.

  I can now post to the blog.  I do not see that a payment has been made.  I am not sure if it is an error.
  I am going to post this and see if I can find out why they have now turned on my ability to post to the blog here on Typepad.