Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Man is selling his life
I was reading all the interesting bits on the different news pages on the web today and found an interesting one about a man in Australia who is selling his life. In fact he is auctioning it off on E-bay starting June 22nd at Noon. Since it is in Australia I am not quite sure of the time difference though I believe it is about 14hrs and they are like a day ahead of us. (The youngest went there a few years back)
He is selling his life because he built it with his girlfriend who then became his wife and now that they are divorced he no longer wants any part of it. He is auctioning off as one package his home, the entire contents, his vehicles, his friends and a two week temporary job that could turn into a permanent one if the person works out. If you don’t work out in that job you could also go work in the mining industry or many other areas that are seeking trained people.
You can check out his site Life for Sale to see pictures of his home, his stuff - which includes TVs, projectors, cameras, video games and console, DVDs, pots, pans, literally everything that is in his home. The home is a nice size and gorgeous with a stunning view out the front door. He has even included a video on the site of what working in the mine is like; he was a dump truck driver. It is not your ordinary dump truck either.
Take a peek at it. Maybe we can all pool our monies together and have it for a shared vacation home!!! We could rent it out the weeks that we don’t use it and pay ourselves back!! Write me!! Let me know!!
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Update on me
Sorry for the rather vain title.
For those of you who wish to know - I am pretty much all better now. Suffice to say it was probably the worst case of food poisoning that I have ever had and I hope that I never have one that bad again. At one point we thought that I might have to go to the hospital after all, but a quick check of WebMd.com found that I was just having some of the worst symptoms of the many that one could have.
For the first time in 5 years I had to spend 2 1/2 days in bed, eating Jell-O, playing on the laptop and basically being bored out of my skull.
As to what caused it, chances are it was the meat topping on the loaded baked potato as that would be an ingredient more prone to giving that type of food poisoning. It could’ve been any of the salad ingredients, one of them may have come in contact with raw meat juices and not rinsed well after or even been handled by someone with improperly washed hands.
Also, we took our youngest (who is all of 18.5 yrs old) out to another restaurant for St. Patrick’s day since no one was up to cooking and she fell ill later that evening from a salmon sandwich. Whether the fish was old or handled improperly or what - it just made her sicker than a dog from Monday night till earlier today. She is starting to feel better and even managed to eat some Mrs. Grass’s soup for her dinner. I gave a piece of advice; “If a restaurant doesn’t specialize in fish/seafood like Red Lobster, etc. than it is best not to eat it.“ (That restaurant specializes in another type of food and if you ask me privately I will tell you which restaurants we both ate at when we got sick.)
Beware those of you who eat at restaurants - just beware.
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