We're in the early stage of price acceleration. So people get ready.

"Nothing Good Happens Until There's a Sale."

TARGETS

1.  $10k gold/silver.

2.  Home.

3.  Apartments.

4.  Toyota Tacoma or Rav 4.

5.  Ramp up business targets to $1,000/week.
6.  Get in shape:
     a.  buy good pair of running shoes.
     b.  1 hour in the morning, 1 hour in the evening.
     c.  25 sit-ups.
     d.


A few ideas.  Never specific on details, but you can infer and then search on your own.  Maybe his website will prove more fruitful.

7.  Buy & Sell trucks, washers & dryers (and here).  Cell phones, furniture, tires (did not realize how expensive rims are), etc.
8.  Price-wise, Uber is appearing less and less feasible.  They have a financing program, called Xchanging.  The types of cars are restricted mainly to small cars.  They charge $210/week but don't charge for miles.  There is a $210 deposit but that is eligible to be refunded. Which means that I would have to earn $800 to $1,000 per week.   

As it stands now, I am waiting for the results of a background check.  Once I have that, then I can reserve a vehicle from Uber's Xchanging.  

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UBER

Rent by the week or longer.

Price: $210/week, plus taxes AND fees.  $250 refundable deposit. Unlimited mileage.

Vehicles: Toyota Corolla, Nissan Sentra, Hyundai Elantra, Chevy Cruze, and Ford Focus.

Okay, I need to pay the IRS $513.52.  Learned of that this morning when I picked up my mail from Norwalk PO around 9:30am.  9:58am to be more precise.

Then I went to Arcadia Library for a pit-stop, then to the Temple City PO snd placed the envelope in the box just outside their front door.  I'm hoping for good things.

I can't wait to hear back from California.  I'm hoping it's good news. 

Conducting a Background Check: What's Involved, Where to Go, and What to Do With that Information?

My first stop to finding out how to do a background check was the Internet.  How to was one of the sites that is ubiquitous with very general information. 

Second, I simply stopped in at the local County Sheriff's Station in my home town.  I spoke with two individuals who didn't even appear to be fully sworn officers or sheriffs but instead they looked like community support personnel.  They had no holstered weapon except for perhaps a radio and a cell phone.  But they were friendly . . . sort of.  They don't need to be.  They're busy.  They've got things to do than to answer questions of strangers who drift in and out of their offices.  So when I asked about a background search, they looked puzzled or inquisitive before the one community support personnel went into the back behind opaque bullet-proof glass, reminiscent of a gone-by, hard-hitting police era.  When she came out she handed me a 3 x 3 slip of paper that read:

Livescan Fingerprints
Arson or Drug Registration
Clearance Letters
Criminal History
Records
Reports over 6 months old

Bechtel Building
12440 East Imperial Hwy.
Norwalk, CA  90650
562-345-4441

That's the building but the specific room to go to to get a criminal background clearance is Room 120, directly in the front middle of the building on the 1st floor.  The entrance to Room 120 is along the outside corridor that runs parallel with the building's façade. 

What I learned was this:

I checked with the County seat in Norwalk. Apparently, criminal records only show arrests is what I was told. If no arrests, then nothing on my criminal background. I've never--knock on wood--been arrested. And the print out is only a clearance record. Meaning if there's no arrest, it will state that and form proof to an employer that I've never been arrested. This is what the guy in Colorado did when he told me everything was fine. So a small relief. The clerk here also said that some local PDs will do their own background checks.

To find pending court cases, like lawsuits filed against you, you go to the local courts.
To find your criminal record, if any, which just means to find evidence if you've ever been arrested, you go to a county facility. 

But what about medical records. 

Doctors, doctors, doctors--just enough readin' to make 'em dangerous.

Truth be told I've had less than a handful of good doctors.  They try to be helpful.  They want to be helpful, but it's results that are important and not intentions.

The title to this video sounds promising.  But as you watch this chiropractor, Dr. Gregory Johnson, you get the feeling that he doesn't have the right techniques.  I don't know for sure.   I am no chiropractor.   He starts his patients off with a spinal decompression. Sounds impressive, even fancy.   But in practice he is pulling and yanking the skull away from the Atlas disc.  That can't feel good.  Wouldn't that have the same feeling of being pulled by, say, a mugger or by an opponent in wrestling? I don't know but that yanking can't feel too good.  I mean he wraps a towel around the neck to buffer the blow.  Then his patient says after moving to another table "Oh, my neck feels really good."

Give a look and a listen.  I just think that being gentle and going slow better serves the long-term results. 

I phoned this doctor.  He's out of business.  Can't say for sure that his treatments and moves on his patient are particularly out of the ordinary, but I just think that people require a bit more proof that something works than to have a spokesman, a patient who is getting free treatment, offering a glowing report. 

U-Haul quote:
15' moving van is $1440.  With tax it comes to $1575.  This quote was for pick up date Thursday, December 31, 2015.  No telling what the price is today, nearly 5 months later.  That rate, says my quote sheet, "will expire in 24 hours" of the quote which was given on December 22, 2015.  So that's already an old price.  Still, I couldn't find a better price when comparing vans to move across states.  I will have to bite the bullet on this price. 

U-Haul Moving & Storage at Valley Blvd.
17959 Valley Blvd.
City of Industry, CA 91744
626-935-0226


Got a price quote on one of those PODS containers.  For where I am heading it would cost me $3,000.