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Investing in Gold

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If you’ve been thinking of investing your money, have you ever stopped to consider investing in gold. Practically since the beginning of civilizations gold has been used to signify personal wealth or the wealth of a community, and as a form of currency. By investing in gold you can diversify your investments.

MDC, the Monex Deposit Company, has been a leader in the gold and precious metals investment business. Monex has been helping investors purchase gold and other precious metals for over 30 years. If you are interested in working with the Monex Deposit Company, you’ll discover that when you purchase gold or precious metals for investment purposes that you can have it delivered to you immediately, or you may arrange to have it sent to a safe storage at an independent bank. When you purchase gold from Monex you may choose coin or ingot form. The ingots are pure bullion cast in convenient sizes and shapes, while the coins can actually have a currency value.

Visit the Monex Deposit Company to get more information about their company and learn about investing in gold and other precious metals.





Thinking about getting a hot tub

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I know I’ve talked about Chris and I visiting various friends and relatives this year who happen to have their own hot tub in their back yards. People like my brother and Chris’ sister! Well Chris has been pestering me “I wanna Hot Tub, I wanna Hot tube”.

He’s even got it all planned out as to how to fit it onto our back patio. Well, actually that part was my idea. Since our backyard is so small I was thinking that if we ever did get a hot tub we could maybe dig out the storage area that is under the enclosed back porch .. and put the hot tub half under than. If we did that we’d make an entrance into our basement so you could get to the hot tub from inside the house, or from the backyard by accessing it from the patio.

Sounds good doesn’t it?

Chris has been looking at companies that put in pools and spas and one that we both like is
Blue World Pools website because they have such nice products. They’ve installed over 35,000 swimming pools/hot tubs since 1982. Sounds like they have a good reputation to have been in business for such a long period of time.

I think we’ll spend some time looking over the site and the different types of hot tubs and installations that they do. I’ll probably give Chris the green light on the project at some point – but not this year, maybe next spring perhaps.

Do any of my readers have a pool or hot tub? Do you use it often?

Stop and smell the flowers

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Wordless Wednesday

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There once was a kitty,
Who climbed up a tree,
I thought oh what a pity
and for help I did plea.

But as it turned out
The kitty was just fine
I should never have doubt
Oh how I wished that kitty was mine

There was only one reason
that the kitty climbed the tree
The blossoms were in season
while smelling the flowers kitty looked down at me.

Ok not the best little rhyme but I thought I’d do something a little different. Isn’t that kitten cute?

Only Wordless Wednesday participants should leave a link below, everyone else will get an automatic link below this post anyway if they leave a comment.

Emoze Free push email service

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It’s about time a true “push” email service like emoze 1.30 came along. If you are interested in such a program you can download it for free at www.emoze.com. The program is easy to set up and you’ll using a Real “push” email program in no time.

In the past, this type of service was only available mainly in a very costly package and mostly restricted to a specific hardware and software platforms such as Blackberry.

I didn’t fully understand what exactly real push email was until I did some reading on it. I’ll explain how it works in case you as as clueless as I was to begin with. Emoze automatically pushes your email and Personal Information Manager (PIM) data. Data such as contacts, and diary scheduling are “pushed” to your mobile phone as soon as it is sent to you without you having to go through the process of connecting to a service every time you want to send or receive your emails or PIM data. Was that easier to understand? Can you see now why a service such as this would come in handy and how useful it could be?

You need to have an email account, and a compatible device – mobile phone – and that’s it! The current release works with all Microsoft pocketPC applications/ devices.

In the very near future a new release of Emoze will be released. This new version- 1.2 – will be compatible with the vast majority of Smart-Phones and symbian devices such as Nokia S60 and S70. Hmmm I wonder if it will work with my Nokia Smart phone 6882? That would be great if it does. Email and calendar reminders all the time no matter where I am? Great!

The Emoze technology is focused around personal and corporate privacy, providing one of the best security solutions available for mobile email. You can feel safe using emoze as they don’t gather or send information from your PC or in-box. Type freely as there are no cookies, no spyware and no duplication of user data on emoze servers. It will be interesting to see where this new technology takes us in the future, won’t it?

Singapore Swingers hit Feverishthoughts.com – HARD

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My dear friend Mr. Fab started a campaign a few months ago to try to get more people from China to visit his site. Why I’m not really certain. I think it was just an interesting challenge for him. He really only tried on and off for a few weeks and from what he said he didn’t have that much success.

I, on the other hand, have been having lots of visitors from China. Mainly on my reptile related site but I do think I get more visitors from China on my Feverishthoughts network that Mr. Fab does right now.

Why am I writing about this? Well the other day, last Saturday I think, my husband Chris wrote a story on Odd Planet about how Swingers clubs are becoming increasingly popular in Singapore. We both thought it was an interesting story, but lets facing it, there have been a lot more interesting and funny stories on Odd Planet than the Singapore Swing story.

To our surprise, when I was checking the site stats for my small feverishthoughts network of sites I noticed a huge increase in visitor rates over at odd planet beginning on Sunday. I investigated to see what was going on and I found that over 800 searches for Singapore Sg or Singapore Swingers had brought people to Odd Planet. Monday there were about 600 similar visits. Tuesday maybe 300. So it’s slowing down, but that’s a huge increase in visits for just one simple little post.

Right now, the top search terms for all of the feverishthoughts blogs combined are:

united sg swingers 636
united sg swinger 182
sg swingers 35
sg swinger 16
united sg swingers website 13
hugh laurie snl 78
hugh laurie 14
lucious 17
maniquins 14
photo scavenger hunt 12

Now, the Singapore swing post went up on Odd Planet at about 7 am on Saturday, and the stats are for the whole month, but obviously all the swinger search stats have occurred between Saturday and 6 am Tuesday morning … so four days, there were 882 swinger searches, and even more hits between reading the post and visiting comments etc.

Why did I bring up Fabs quest for China earlier? Well, I also noticed an increase in visitors from Singapore, malaysia, Hong Kong and China – so fab if you want more visitors from China you’d better write something controversial and maybe Kinky about china and see what happens. Ok?

One other pleasing benefit of looking at my stats? The four sites that are live on Feverishthoughts.com – Tricia’s Musings, As the Garden Grows, Breath of Life and Odd Planet are getting bookmarked a lot! A full third of the visitors to these sites are adding them to their bookmarks. Thank you! You like us, you really like us!

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