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Teri has been talking to be recently about wanting to move to Florida. Her parents have been looking at Florida as a possible place to retire, and Teri is nervous about being so far away from them as they get older. I’m not quite sure how all of that would work out for us, after all we’ve been here several years and I thought we had settled down quite nicely. But since her father had that heart attack a few months ago Teri has become quite anxious about being too far away from her parents for a very long time.

Apparently when her father had the heart attack he denied that he was having one and he did not call an ambulance right away. Long story short, he was lucky to survive, and now Teri is convinced that her parents are no longer able to take proper care of each other anymore. If Teri had her way, her parents would be moving in with us. I like them a lot, but our house really is way too small to take in her parents!

I certainly wouldn’t mind if they moved into the little cottage next door that is up for sale, though. But Teri seems pretty sure that they are going to want to move to Florida, so she planning to go down there next month with them and take a look around Jacksonville. She’s going to meet up with a Jacksonville Florida Staffing Agency while she is there, to talk to them about job prospects. I have an uneasy feeling about how this is going to end.

I was reading an article on TheStreet.com about how retrofitting a company to be more “green” is a good business move; it generates positive publicity and may attract more customers. I agree that it is a good idea. But I also seem to remember reading an article (I don’t recall where) about how some unscrupulous companies are making “green” claims that they don’t deserve.  So that brings me to pondering how a company can go “greener” and be transparent about it in such a way that it doesn’t cost the company too much money. Going green is great, and much needed, but we also need to make sure that the company can still make a profit!

Guest post written by Jim Fischer

When I called the so-called “free lawyer” being provided to me by the “Legal Club of *****” the lawyer was quick to inform me that the “free simple will” that I was trying to get from him was not going to be free at all. He quoted me a price of several hundreds of dollars, which just about knocked me off of my chair! All I wanted was a will drawn up that said that I leave everything to my wife, and to my kids. But this lawyer said that since I had been divorced and remarried, and owned my own home that the will was no longer a “simple will” at all.

Well, I was not in the position to be spending several hundreds of dollars at the moment, so I told him that I was not going to be able to make an appointment with him to do that. He got rather nasty and said “Well, I won’t work for free, and what you need is an entire estate planning appointment!” At that point I said “thank you but I really am broke and don’t have the money for that and said good-bye and hung up the phone.

So instead of making an appointment with a guy whose only interest appeared to be to separate me from my imaginary money, I decided to start doing a little bit of research on my own about estate planning, and wills, and that sort of thing. I’ve found that there is an very interesting blog about issues regarding those subjects on the website of Boyes And Farina, who are estate planning attorneys. Their blog talks about legal issues of celebrities, like Zsa Zsa Gabor, so I feel like I’m doing some celebrity peeking while I’m learning things, and that’s rather cool!

Myrtle Beach has always been a great place to get-a-way to. It was one of our favorites back in the day for the whole family to take our vacation to, something for everybody could be found at Myrtle Beach. I haven’t been able to visit Myrtle Beach in several years and I look forward to seeing the changes that have taken place since I’ve been there last.

I reserved a bit of my tax refund money for a nice summer vacation this year, it has been a long year and a vacation is way over due. I found a great Myrtle Beach hotel online – Avista Resort.  It  is one of the many oceanfront resorts located in the North Myrtle Beach area and it has been designated as America’s “Number One Family Beach” I like that it is only two walk-able blocks away from the famous Main Street that has such a wide variety of things to see and to do.

There are tons of resorts in Myrtle Beach that can be checked out on the Internet, what a great way to find the best one to suite my needs and wants. I look forward to playing a few rounds of golf while I’m there. I come from a family of golfers and we used to always make time to play a game or two during the family vacations back in the 70′s, it’s a good sport for the whole family to enjoy all year round.

I’ll make sure and take plenty of pictures and will post a few here shortly after my return.

For some unknown reason I was in the mood to listen to really old rock and roll songs, like from the 1950′s.  The Golden Oldies type of music means different things to different people. To me, it means Elvis, the Supremes, Frankie Valley, the Temptations, and Chubby Checker. Those are the songs I remember my parents listening to on the radio and on the old phonographs.

Some of the first albums that I bought included the righteous Brothers, Gene Pitney, Buddy Holly, Ben E. King, and every album ever put out by Elvis Presley. My mother absolutely adored and worshiped Elvis Presley. I still remember that horrible day that we heard the news about Elvis dying. My mother cried the entire night.

I also will never forget the first time we heard the Beatles. We watched their concert on the Ed Sullivan Show and we all became instant fans. My dad went out and bought the Beatles LP album the very next day! All of us played that Beatles album over and over again on the family stereo that we wore it out. Wow – those were the good old days!