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.  

Fullerton Pines Apartments

1412 South Citrus

Fullerton, CA

714-879-6293

$422

Our Administrators Workplace is open 6 days a week

Monday: 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Tuesday: 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Wednesday: 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Thursday: 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Friday: 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

Saturday 10:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m.

Turns out that the Craigslist ad above was over two weeks old. Why repost or keep a post up of two weeks or more?  I went to the address on Citrus and rang the manager.  He came out to tell me that that unit was an old ad, for me to check the date on the ad.  He was right--but don't know why people leave things up on Craigslist weeks after the ad has been answered.  So I asked him if he had any other units.  He said no.  Despite his dismissive tones and general rudeness, I thanked him for his time and walked away.

Padua Avenue Park, Claremont, CA 01/09/2016

This park is essentially a soccer field,a large soccer field.  They should call this park Padua Avenue Soccer Park.

On the Road Again with Vons.com, November 13, 2015

 I took a shot of the truck's tire to prove that they needed air.  Proof.  Always the proof.

Here I came out of a stop in Redondo Beach and noticed the dent in that panel above the light.  The turn signla light too was cracked.  Turns out that that damage was reported on the Vehicle Inspection Report but nothing was done about it.  In my morning routine, I missed it.  Don't know how but I did. I know how.  I was looking at some damage on the bumper to the right, looking underneath the bumper to learn of its stability.  As I raised up I had already begun looking past that corner and onto the door and the ambient section of the truck.

Cracked turn signal.  Lovely.  Did not happen on my watch.  Was already recorded on the VIR.

Parking lot where I was detained for 90 minutes.

October 16, 2015

October 17, 2015

October 19, 2015

Be a Farmers Insurance agent.  

Cod Liver Oil: Which Kind Is Best?

This product came recommended as a superior form for getting Vitamin D3 and Retinol A.  It's Green Pasture's Blue Ice Cod Liver Oil.  It's not cheap.  Cost is $30.37.  I did experience remarkable improvements on the first few doses but after that the effects had plateaued.  And I felt like I was getting no benefit after the first 7 to 10 days.  I could be wrong.  I like Vitamin D3.  I use it whenever I am feeling less than.  And it seems to pick me up for that day and carry me for another couple of days.

Then this past week I read at Weston A. Price Foundation the hubbub over the quality of the cod liver oils recommended by Sally Fallon, the head of the Foundation.  It sounds like someone is trying to discredit the organization and her recommendations.  The conflict is stressful.  You can read it here.  And it is the comments following the article where the conflict becomes hostile.