Archive for July, 2007

When I was younger, my grandfather would sit and read through the entire business section of the newspaper. He was consumed with learning as much as he could about every company he could, and with the advent of the internet, he took full advantage of the information provided by companies using financial reporting software.

I wish I knew half as much as he did about the business world.

Twenty-five years ago I arrived in Hawaii, ready to start my first year of college. I remember seeing, as we travelled from the airport to my grandparents home, rows and rows of Mailboxes of every shape and size. Sometimes you could see the house that went with the cooresponding mailbox, other times there was just greenery and banyan trees. Sometimes I miss Hawaii.

I remember, when I was a kid, that our truck had two gas tanks. When we would take trips to Northern Nevada, my dad would fill up both tanks and off we would go. We’d get 2/3 of the way there before needing to stop for gas again.

I’m wondering though, as I look at new trucks, do they have any that come with two tanks anymore? Oh sure, I have seen some with a fuel transfer tank, which might work, if they don’t produce trucks with two tanks anymore.

I’ll post more about our trips in that truck soon.

I loved Totie Fields. I still love Totie Fields.

 
There are an estimated 170,000 people in the United States and Europe who are in need of organs. Many of them face a very dark future and may die if they don’t receive the organs they so desperately need. Over 70,000 people in the United States alone are waiting for kidneys and deceased organ donations are not keeping pace with the demand.

There is a growing need for live donations, and Matching Donors is working to fulfill that need. Matching Donors helps match those willing to donate an organ with those who are so desperately waiting to receive one.

Living donors can safely donate a single kidney, part of their liver, a single lung lobe (out of the five they have), and portions of their pancreas, bone marrow and instestines.

Take a moment out of your day to visit Matching Donors and learn about live organ donation.

As our nation’s population increases (and ages), there will be an increased demand for health care industry professionals. I’m not just talking about doctors either. Our country is going to need people ranging from Nurses and Phlebotomists to Pharmacist Assistants and Physical Therapists.

If you’re looking to pursue a career in Healthcare, one of the best resources out there is Guide To Healthcare Schools. They offer a vast range of information on schools on a great number of subjects. When you visit their site, you can search by the specific field you are interested in, or by the degree type you are looking for. They have a summary list of the most popular searches as well as a list of the most searched schools.

A couple years ago, my wife decided to go back to school to get her nursing degree. She has been taking a few classes as time permits and she hopes to have more time soon to pursue her educational goals. She hopes to complete her nursing degree before our parents get to the point that they need full time care, and now that we have found the Guide to Healthcare Schools, she’s bound to find the exact program she’s looking for.

I found an excellent site, 70’s Live Action Kid Vid.

If you have forgetten how cheesy the 1970’s really were (or if you weren’t born then), you may want to take a look at that site.

I completely forgot about Electra Woman & Dyna Girl.

I love Deidre Hall.

If you have a nostalgia site out there, let me know, so I can add you to my links list. I plan on featuring many different things here on RetroMental, and would love to highlight your site.

One of the most popular ways to remember the important moments of your life is taking photographs. Everyone I know has hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs in photo albums, boxes and trunks. Now, with digital cameras becoming so popular, people are taking even more photographs by the thousands, capturing the special moments in their lives without the cost of processing all that film.

While most photographs end up in places few people see them, digital photo frames make it possible to display hundreds of your photos all within the same photo frame. There is no need to learn how to use a computer, or how to load the images into the frame. You can simply take the storage card from your camera and plug it into the digital photo frame.

Digital photo frames make it easy to show off all of those special moments, whether from your wedding day or your retirement party and with prices starting around $100, these attractive photo frames have become an affordable solution for displaying all of your cherished memories.

Thanks to Wild-Heart for taking us back to 1970.

When I first started blogging, over ten years ago, I never thought I would make money by simply writing about the things that interest me. Sure, I have run a few ads in the sidebars here on RetroMental for over a year now, but I never made more than 21 cents per month on those ads.

I thought it would be nice if I could make enough money so this blog would be self-sufficient. Then along came Smorty. Smorty is a blog for money program that allows me to get paid for blogging about the things I would be blogging about anyway, by simply placing a link back to a sponsor site within my posts.

The link above is just such a link. It’s hardly intrusive in any way. By joining Smorty I am able to reduce the number of ads in the sidebars (since they weren’t making any money anyway) and still make a small income from blog advertising.

Smorty connects advertisers with bloggers and allows bloggers to keep doing what they have always been doing, while making some money on the side. Now I might be able to afford that subscription to Reminisce magazine I have been wanting.