Archive for the 'Health' Category

23 Mar

Recommended Health Care For Geeks

People who plays a lot on computers and game consoles and rarely exercises – are recommended to use  colonetix every now and then – so the buddy told me the other day.    Why? they said it helps with constipation, and of course – the weight problem from sitting in front of the computer for a [...]

04 Mar

The Buddy – The Gamer

Ever since my kid was born – I rarely have time to play any games – whether on the computer or any consoles – not to say I don’t try and then falling asleep right in the middle of a game.  But I do envy my buddy – who has a few kids, wife and [...]

18 Feb

Woman & Their Hair

The spouse spends a lot on her hair – from cutting them – styling them and then coloring them – the color are not permanent – and if she wasn’t careful on what the hair-stylist use – she tend to have her hair dropped more than usual.  But she still loves to have her hair [...]

19 Jan

Couch Potato

I’m a couch potato. And sometimes a chair potato. My job doesn’t require much physical labour, except lugging computers around and those are usually pretty light these days. So in the last 12 years, since I start working retail, I’ve put on about 50lbs. I’d like to lose about half that. Any monkey could tell [...]

19 Jan

No Best Diet Plan

I’m always hearing about weight loss success stories from this friend or that TV show, and they all used a different method. Weight Watchers, P90X, Simply for Life, and the list goes on. I’ve never tried any of them and don’t plan to. What seems apparent to me is that it’s not important what “plan” [...]

25 Dec

Merry Christmas!

Had a pretty good Christmas this year, got myself a Kindle, which so far I’m really liking. Digital books are so much cheaper than real ones and they take up hardly any space. I look forward to selling off about 4 boxes full of novels that are taking up space in the basement and living [...]

19 Nov

Exercise Gear

When we were up in the city on the weekend we got a great rate at the Sheraton Four Points hotel, $99 a night for a 3.5 star joint. While the wife & kid were in the pool I checked out the gym and tried some of the equipment. I’d like to get some stuff [...]

17 Aug

Time for New Shoes again

I hate sneakers these days, it takes forever to find a good comfortable pair and then they typically don’t even last a year regardless of how much they cost. And what’s with all the fanciness now? Air pockets here and there. Now if I get the bottom of my right sneaker wet it proceeds to [...]

26 Mar

Video Games are Good for You

I’ve always been a believer that playing games is good for you as long as you don’t go overboard and play all the time. Shooters help develop hand-eye coordination, RPG’s can get to your emotional side with great story-telling and adventure games tend to have challenging puzzles that encourage you to think outside the box. [...]

21 Feb

It’s the Thought that Counts

Someone gave us a little gift bag at Christmas that included a box of Lifesavers. It ended up under some clothes in a pile in the bedroom until a few days ago when it was re-discovered, opened and (almost) eaten. See, they’re supposed to be the old-school hard life savers, not the new gummy type. [...]

13 Sep

Losing a Family Doctor again

It seems like this town has a hard time holding on to good doctors lately. A few years back the wife & kids family doc picked up and moved without even letting them know. We managed to find a new one for them fairly quickly and he’s been around for a few years now. It [...]

15 Jul

Dead Gamers

I’m sure we’ve all heard lots of stories about gamers taking their hobby a little too seriously, to the point where they end up dead due to various reasons such as sleep deprivation, starvation and so on. Seems like a tiny bit of common sense is all you’d need to keep yourself alive during an [...]

05 Jul

Brat needs a new Bed

The little one in the house is getting a little too big for her toddler bed. Her feet aren’t dangling off the edge yet, but another growth spurt is all it’ll take to render this one useless. There’s a lot of options out there for new beds, but most are way out of my price [...]

10 Aug

Skin Care

One of the best skin care products I’ve used lately is made by a local company. The cream is made from natural calciums from shell fish and works great on various skin conditions such as psoriasis. It’s great for bug bites as well since it acts as a disinfectant, killing the poisons that the bug [...]