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Discovery Cruise Lines offers cruise to those who have served

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Did you know that Discovery Cruise Line has decided to do something that I think is very generous for anyone in the military who is serving or who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan?

How does a one day cruise sound? That’s right. Discovery Cruise Line is offering a complimentary one day cruise from FT. Lauderdale, Florida to Grand Bahama Island. This offer is valid from now until December 31, 2008.

If you’ve served your country and this sounds like a nice break from it all, just visit the Discovery Cruise Line website and click on special offers. At the bottom of that page you’ll find a link titled “To the Men and Women serving overseas” that you can click to find out more information as well as register. Military ID is required in order to qualify for this very special offer.

The one day cruise is absolutely free. All of the costs will be covered, which means the meals, service charge, taxes and Bahamian Departure fees are all covered.

If you know someone who’s serving in the Military now, or who has recently served please let them know about this special offer.





The Birthday Meme

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Mrs. Lifecruiser has tagged me with the birth date.

3 Events that occurred on September 6th:

1522 – The Victoria, one of the surviving ships of Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition, returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1952 – Canada’s first television station, CBFT-TV, opens in Montreal. – and it’s been reruns ever since!

1997 – Princess Diana is laid to rest in front of a television audience of more than 2.5 billion. – That was depressing!

2 Births September 6th:

1947 – Jane Curtin, American actress

1958 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian

Why did I pick these people? I like comedians and these are two funny people.

1 death September 6th:

1990 – Tom Fogerty, American singer (b. 1941) of Creedence Clearwater Revival

Chosen because I enjoy Classic rock and CCR.

As you might have guessed by now, yes I’m a Virgo. Can’t you tell?

You are a Virgo if you were born between August 23rd and September 22nd, and your opposite sign is Pisces.

The sign of Virgo is associated with purity and service. Individuals born under this sign are thought to have a diligent, analytical, self-sufficient, controlled, orderly, and modest character but one which is also prone to fussiness, and perfectionism. In terms of anatomy, Virgo is said to rule the abdominal region, large and small intestines, spleen, solar plexus, lower lobes of the liver, pancreas, portal veins, umbilicus, hands, nails, and carpal bones.

Great – my abdominal region rules me? Who would’a guessed that one? LOL

I’m not going to tag anyone for this meme, but if you decide to do it let me know and I’ll link to you. (first five only please).

Gastric Bypass surgery resource

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More and more people seem to be turning to surgical methods of weight loss and or weight control. One of the many techniques that people are trying, and having success with is Lapband surgery.

Lapband surgery is a form of gastric bypass surgery. There are a few forms of lap band surgery, but the effect of this procedure is to reduce the capacity of a persons stomach so that they can’t eat as much food at one time. This results in them feeling fuller faster and obviously results in weight loss.

There are some surgeries that actually remove part of a persons stomach in order to reduce the size of the stomach, but I think the most common procedures these days involve attaching a band around the top of the stomach in order to reduce the opening and thus capacity of the stomach. This is called a gastric sleeve or a mini gastric sleeve – depending upon which procedure is decided will work best for a patient.

MyLapbandsurgery.com has quite a bit of information about lapband surgery, and the different types of gastric bypass procedures. I suppose you could say it’s a central resource for information about gastric bypass surgery.

You can read the testimonials of people who have had gastric bypass surgery and then join the forum to talk to others who are considering the procedure, and those who’ve had it done.

Certainly there are many benefits to losing weight. People who are overweight who lose weight at a healthy rate reduce their chance of cardiovascular and respiratory disease, hypertension, stroke, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, joint problems, heart attack and diseases such as diabetes. Weight reduction will also reduce the strain on the back, and likely as a result of the weight loss the person who has reduced their weight will become more active which is another way to help improve ones health.

Having any kind of surgery has both pros and cons to it. I strongly suggest that if you are considering gastric bypass surgery that you attempt to get as much information about the surgery and the expected outcome before deciding if this the method for you.

Stupid karaoke neighbors

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I’m so angry right now.

My karaoke neighbors are at it again!

My neighbors are having a party. That’s fine. We have parties too.

My neighbors are having a barbecue. Fine, we have them too.

The adults are outside and the kids, or mostly kids, are inside. Guess what they are doing? They’ve turned their Karaoke machine up full blast, which I swear the speakers of face our house walls, and they are singing the most gawd awful songs I’ve ever heard.

My house is vibrating. I’m vibrating I’m so angry.

I’ve phoned the house to ask them to turn it down but no one answers. They probably can’t hear the phone. I’ve called out to the adults outside to ask them to turn it down but they can’t hear me either and I’m feeling way to ill to wander into their yard. They’ll only offer me food anyway if I go over and ignore my pleas.

I’m feeling ill and I’ve been working hard to get a bunch of articles done all day. This is extremely distracting because it’s so loud it’s like they’re in my living room.

Oh yeah. I finished my articles for one site and just tried to hand them in right now. They were due on June 9th. No time is listed at all in the campaign offers. Well guess what. They must have gotten canceled. I’m assuming I went over the time limit, but if they don’t give me anything that says what time they are due I assume that they are due by midnight. Right?

Shouldn’t they have sent an email or something with a time limit? I know I’ve gotten those in the past on offers … but campaigns? Either way – it only said June 9th – no time was written down or counting down … so now I’m ticked.

I put in a support ticket, but I’ll bet there’s nothing they can do about it now. I’ll bet as soon as they got canceled by the system they went back into the campaign marketplace. So, if anyone just got a nice $100 or $25 offer … well that was mine!

!@!@$#%$^&^**&((%&%^$#$@!

This is how neighbors end up feuding or worse.

I don’t think the police can do much about loud noise at 9 pm but believe me … at 11 pm or 11:30 whichever the law states that noise must be reduced … if they haven’t stopped I’ll be calling in a complaint.

Of course I’ll have probably pulled out all my hair by that point too.

Street people take Visa?

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Last night, after my brothers and sister, Chris and I finished dinner we were walking back towards my brothers hotel we found that the streets were crowded with partiers.

Everyone was lined up to get into the hot night clubs, or walking the street after seeing a movie, leaving restaurants as we were and so on.

As we made our way down one of the busy streets we passed a street person. He was sitting on the ground with a sign in his lap. We’d already been approached by street people even as we ate at the restaurants outdoor patio … and yes we did give some money to those who looked like they needed it, but not to all.

This particular street person was sitting on the ground near a light pole. He called out as we walked by “I accept credit card payments! I have a family to feed you know!”.

We couldn’t help but laugh, picturing a street persons Visa business address – 5th pole at Front and Adelaide, and pictured him with one of those Visa machines that make an impression of the card number.

Only in Toronto!

Now to be clear I’m not laughing at this guy. I thought it was a great way to catch our attention. Obviously it worked. LOL

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