Blogging...

I am also going to weekly post various pictures of demotivation I have collected over my years of meandering the internet... Or rather I have an aquaintance that has an abundance of them and he sent them all to me.

So I figure what better one to start with than blogging. I by no means set out to name the monkies, but I am sure some of you out there in the blog-o-sphere could think of a few good names...

Besides, Monkies make almost anything funnier... Well, except for the gene pool... But that is going to be another blog in the not-so-distant future...

Flood Inusrance...

So I spent all day yesterday working on my flood insurance classes. I learned several things about flood insurance that I never knew before. The more important ones that are relevant to others are, in no particular order:

1. Flood insurance is cheaper than a disaster relief fund.

Most disaster relief funds are actually loans. You eventually will have to pay it back with interest. Plus, in order for you to even get those funds there is a far more amount of red-tape then with a basic flood policy. On top of that, those funds are not even available unless the president declares it an emergency. When I heard that, I could not help but think of FEMA. They really could not act until the beaurocratic red-tape had been cleared. Yet, the media massacured them.

2. How much damage even 2 inches of water can cause.

On the NFIP website there is a tool that you can input some numbers and it would give you an approximate amount of damage of a given size of flood. And this does not even take into account other effects such as Mold, Loss of Usage, etc...

3. Even low risk areas have a chance.

Of course the FEMA website was full of stories of places that are out of the way, never would get hit by a flood locations. There are lots of places like this. I know that they tend to show the worst of the worst stories for shock value, but hey, it could happen.

4. What to do in a post-flood environment.

They first thought I had was not to plant a vineyard. Plant rice instead. Seriously though. Photograph everything and you need to air out the house. There was this story about a lady "who did not want to do anything until the adjuster got there." Mold formed in her walls and climbed up to the second floor and infected up there, ruining the some of the second floor. While her stuff on the main floor was covered, the upper floor was not covered because she did not take reasonable steps to prevent damage. So air out the house.

So why did I even bother to make this post? Well, I am not trying to sell you insurance, although I could, I am a gold level flood agent with the NFIP/FEMA people here in California only. It is to tell others that it is important and depending on the construction, age, and location of your house it really is not that expensive. And of course I would not be doing my job, if I did not let you all know about the potential danger of it.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Or check out the NFIP home page, or the FEMA homepage or go to www.smartflood.gov and find out there.


Christopher A. Myers
CA #0G10340

My goals...

My goal is to at the very least... Post something here every Monday... Just thought I would share that...

The mole...

So the mole is now over... I am not the world's biggest fan of television... I admit though that I did grow up on Gameshows... Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Press Your Luck, What's My Line... The list goes on... Now adays though TV has gone decidely downhill... Both in character and mentality... Then along comes a gem... The Mole...

A show where the audience actually participated without actually affecting the show... 12 people competeing in varying competitions to add money to a prize pot that only 1 was going to win with a cap of 500,000 dollars... The catch... One of the 12 is actually working for the Producers of the show to sabotage the missions, and keep money from the pot while staying under the radar of the other players... The Mole...

The single best part of this is that no one but a select few actually know who the mole is... Not the players, the host, most of the crew, and especially us at home... We got to play along and scrounge through the editing to try and answer that question... Who is the Mole?

Then in a stroke of brilliance, the players were eliminated based upon themselves... It is not a vote, or physical test... They all simply take a quiz that culminates in that question... The lowest scorer is executed and sent home...

So what now that it is over? I guess the ratings were low for this show at the beginning, and several people on the message boards started a few petitions to try and save this show... Some are even sending lemonheads to the executive offices of ABC (I probably will too)... There is even a website coming up soon called www.abcsavethemole.com ...

So in conclusion, in an age of trashy television and "mental taffy," as one influential person in my life puts it, it was great to get a show that made ya think, even if it was at 10 o'clock at night...