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Whitening strip gone wrong.

Expose Suarez Corp and put them out of business!

What is Suarez Corp?

Ever see those wordy 2-page ads in Parade in the Sunday paper
advertising those heaters "made by Amish craftsmen" and you see the pic
of some people purporting to be Amish busily working on these things? Or
how about the obviously photoshopped images of a cat sitting on one?
Sure they probably work, but they're not made by anyone Amish.

How about the latest scam? "Rare" $2 bill honoring the 50 states, first
starting with New York?

Those $2 bills are also sold by Suarez Corp. The address for this place
is 8000 Freedom Avenue, North Canton, OH 44720. In fact, they place a
lot of wordy 2-page ad spreads in various places. The products are
expensive, and frequently like the $2 bill I mentioned, a rip-off scam.

Don't buy their products!! This also goes for all those TV ads where you
can call toll free and for $20 you can change your life with a product
you didn't know you needed. Those commercials annoy me. I would say buy
only those that still show Billy Mays.

But the rest of them are just stupid. There's the Red X over stuff.
People nod a lot. The Bark Off commercial is annoying because you can
tell the dogs in the commercials are clearly looking at the trainer.
Same with the Potty Patch one. You never see a dog using it in that one,
and they're clearly just doing what the trainer is getting them to do.
That dual draft guard thing has annoying door closing sound effects
which it doesn't need - especially when you hear it twice for what's
obviously a split screen of the same damn door closing once!!

Or ones that say the offer is available "to the first 100 callers in
this area" when it's a nationally broadcast cable channel!!! I also hate
21st Century Insurance. "Attention drivers STATEWIDE." Why is it just
Statewide? How big is this state? The right world is NATIONWIDE. And
check that toll free number they want you to call. It changes a lot!

OK, so why is the Suarez $2 bill a fake? It's not authorized by the U.S.
Mint. For New York, the Federal Reserve bank isn't in Atlanta, GA, so
the seal wouldn't have an F in the middle. There are twelve Fed banks
around the US, but not one in New York, so the closest I think they'd
get would be A for Boston or B for Philadelphia, if I remember that
right. D is Cleveland, that I remember.

But then bills are issued by all the Fed Banks, but I'd think they'd get
this one to the banks closest to New York, or at least issue them in
some similar order to the 50 State Quarters, but do your checking.
They're fake.

It's the latest scam by Suarez Corp. Check the address, pass the word,
stop buying their crap and put them out of business!

Hanamaru Youchien

This is a recent anime production by GAINAX, and at only 12 episodes
(right now anyway) it's painfully short. Just as you get to the last
episode, the cute characters have grown on you and you want to see more.
Some episodes are PG13, while most of them are PG at least. It's cute
and funny, but there needs to be more of it.

This is one of those times which I had the means to go to Gainax and
offer to support production of more episodes. If there's a manga for
Hanamaru Kindergaten, it'd be nice to see it get licensed and brought
over.

This is a rather short anime review, but then I don't want to spoil it
all and this anime deserves recognition.

Thankful for therapy

I am glad to be getting help for dealing with things since October. I have been in so much pain since then that I couldn't have handled it myself. I don't know how anyone else handles what I've had to go through. Mom didn't do this when her mom, my grandmother (one of them), passed away in August 2000. Instead of dealing with it, Mom just turned to her doctor Anne K., and instead of referring her to counseling just went and prescribed her Paxil. This was a bad idea. Mom had been in the care of a Dr. Beshara (sp) for years until she began working in 1991 due to stupid changes in public assistance rules.

What Anne K probably didn't know was mom had a nervous breakdown in 1979 or 1980. She was in the hospital for a while. My sisters and I had to live with my grandparents. I barely remember that time.

I don't want to have the same problems she had. I've had some dark times since June 2007. I just want to be able to do what I know. I know computers, I don't know about people. I wish I knew more about women, at least enough to get one to marry and live with me.

My mom accomplished some things in her life. She had an X-Ray Technician certificate, but I don't understand why she didn't get a job as one. She also got an Associate in Medical Laboratory Technology, which meant she knew how to run all those tests in medical labs in hospitals. It's a shame she was unable to get a job doing that like she always wanted.

She did work in plastics plants though. Our Christmas of 1982 was pretty good because she went to work for one place in East Canton that had its workers on strike.

She ended up getting another plastics factory job in 1991 after going out for a temp agency, working at another place that ended up hiring her, where she worked until she was laid off, then after working sporadically until the end of 2001, after which she was injured on the job and was unable to work after that.

She lost weight in the 1970s only to gain it back during 2002-2003 by going out to buy ice cream for some reason. And not the cheap stuff, but the expensive stuff with loads of fat. She had a problem buying the wrong things, and it reared its ugly head during 2001.

She quit smoking in 1997 or 1998. She had smoked all the time I knew my mom, and for her to be able to stop showed her determination when it came to setting a goal and achieving it. Soon after that, she saved enough money to buy the big screen TV we have now.

There are some good things, but because she was a huge part of life and I was right in front of it all, I have taken things quite hard. And I definitely need help.

No~Shoes Skooter Lady

Min at Borders

Another dream about Mom

I had another dream about my mom. She was sitting in a chair or upright
in bed somewhere. It might have been a room somewhere, like a hotel or
someone else's house or maybe a hospital or care facility. She wasn't at
home. She had just woken up.

"Oh my god!" I said. "Mom, you woke up!"

"Of course I did! Why would you ask that?"

"Because we thought you were dead. I let you lay there long ebough. You
must have been really tired!"

"I must have!"

She was wearing her thick fabric pink sleeper thingy she used to wear in
the winter to keep warm. She had her glasses on. She looked alert and
OK. I gave her a hug.

"I hope you'll get to come home soon."

"I hope so, too." she said.

I woke up crying again after this dream as well.

I think there were some other details in this dream like I think she was
on a couch and we woke her up for some reason because I couldn't get her
to wake up and someone came and did it.

Sometimes I really hate air conditioners

Right now I have just one small Energy Star air conditioner (air
cooler?) in the window at the top of the stairs. Reason being that it's
an Energy Star unit, which means it's not going to co$t a lot to run it.
This past week has been consistently hot, so while after the night time
temperatures come around again, the comfort level in the place is OK,
but then the goddamn temperature inside starts going up again to 80
(even 81) degrees F around 4 to 5 pm.

This little air conditioner isn't cutting it. I hate to put the big one
back in and the little one downstairs and then have to run both, but me
and the animals are getting tired of the inside temperature going up
like that in the evening. I don't know why it's so ineffective in the
early evening like that. It's like it just stops cooling for some damn
reason.

I'd like to have one of those Japanese units with the remote control and
all. Maybe they'd work better.

Bereavement

I finally began the latest round of counseling for my current problem, not my Aspergers, and apparently what I currently am suffering from isn't quite depression but bereavement. The man who saw me today says it's an emotional response to the loss of a loved one, and the more pain you feel means the move you loved the person you lost. But this feels like depression to me anyway. I imagine you can have Asperger's and still suffer from depression or bereavement.

At least there's a word for what I've had a problem with so far. I hope in the course of counseling I can get help for a bunch of the other things I'm having problems with. The man I spoke to said it will help to just be able to talk about things.

A Perpetual annoyance