http://ericfrey.com Hopes, Dreams, Ambitions And Things of Interest Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:11:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It seems like Cancer and I have been bitter acquaintances my whole life. When I was six my mother died due to breast cancer that was detected too late to treat properly. About two years ago my mother in law developed cancer, was treated and got over it, only to find about ... http://ericfrey.com/cancer-early-detection-is-key-to-survival/ For a good part of my adult life I've made most or at least some of my income from my own home business ventures. My first and still most busy home business is being a private vocal coach.   About eight years ago I happened upon the idea of starting an Internet business.  ... http://ericfrey.com/home-business-scams/ Just like everyone else in the United States, regardless of your income bracket, I hate the I.R.S. with a passion. It's not enough that we have taxes on everything we buy, but we also get taxed on income, so before we even spend our money it's taxed. Beyond the every day reaching ... http://ericfrey.com/the-irs-legalized-robbery/ I've been using bodylastics resistance bands as my main workout for the last few months.  Once I got over my thyroid operation going back the gym no longer appealed to me.  I wanted something I could do in my own home without buying a huge machine. I got the idea of ... http://ericfrey.com/bodylastics-as-good-as-a-home-gym/ I was reminded today that sometimes the person with the most talent and skill is the worst person for a job. Case in point my bands search for a drummer and bass player to fill out our bands line up and become permanent members.    In other words member who play well and ... http://ericfrey.com/natural-talent-vs-hard-work/ Recently my rat terrier developed a boil on her but.  This is the second time.  The first time it got rather large, but went away the day I was about to take her to the vet. At the time I had thought she got bit by a bug and got a ... http://ericfrey.com/what-is-that-boil-on-my-dogs-but/ As I'm 37 I guess that makes me officially too old to properly judge popular music.  However I've been noticing something with my teen age and twenty something students and family members.   More and more they are listening to older music that is considered classic rock, even to me, and ... http://ericfrey.com/the-devolution-of-popular-music/ Recently went to see the Hulk expecting to be disappointed.  I liked the first one, it was entertaining, but I didn't like how they re wrote the Hulk story line and invented stupid villains when the Hulk comics have far better ones to draw from.   I really hate it when ... http://ericfrey.com/the-incredible-hulk-movie-review/ I'm writing this just to point out how silly the claims are of companies that sell, "eat all you want diet pills."  Don't waste your money, they don't work.   If someone invented a pill like that there wouldn't be any overweight people and the company would be hugely successfull.  But, it ... http://ericfrey.com/eat-all-you-want-diet-pills/ Often times when people think about losing weight and changing their diet they only thing about the solid foods they eat and not the liquids. However for a lot of people the liquids is the very thing that put on much of the extra weight in the first place.   Things such as ... http://ericfrey.com/is-your-fluid-intake-sabotaging-your-weightloss-goals/