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FatCash Investopedia game to join some local pals in a friendly game of stock simulation. Now if you are a pro you'll probably take names as many of us barely know what a stock is much less know what to look for in buying and selling securities. If you have tips i hope you'll share, and maybe this'll be a learning or just a fun experience for all of us.
the password for the game is "fatcash1" no parenthesis of course.
you start out with 100k ... lets see who can best build up their simulated nest egg! You will most undoubtedly need an Investopedia Account to join up which is free though you'll have to dodge their spam mails. no, i dont get any benefit of you joining Investopedia, i'm just using their free sim game as a way for us to have some fun. :D

If the title didn't cause you to immediately click the upper-right most 'X' on your screen or 'Back' on your browser then read on for this lunch hack. Disclaimer: This really is not so much 'a hack' as it is an observation or revelation about an amazingly easy way to workup a lunch that is not only consumable but cheap and quick to boot!

Here's the lunch-hack of the day: Microwaveable Veggies
Herein lies the problem: Lunch time rolls around and you have again brown bagged a PB&J with a side order of chips. Perhaps you opted to allow the fine cuisinal experts of McBurgerKing prepare a dish for you. Or maybe you are counting calories and have a delectable entree consisting of a yogurt cup paired with a celery stalk and diet cola.
Nutritionists propose them for good health. Old man Bush used to state "Eat your broccoli" and if you look at nutritive stats, with good reason. But for those of us that, either due to time or being cuisinart challenged, have trouble bringing together a nutritious meal - veggies may be just the answer.

steps:
1. Hit up a market. If you have access to a freezer @ work, head to the frozen food aisle; if not then head to the canned food or fresh non-frozen produce aisles. (you can of course mix and match these aisle as you wish)
2. In the frozen aisles, I like to stick to the basics which will be cheaper than going with anything that requires the producer extra prep time (such as bags of veggies in a sauce etc). But get what you want, its your dollar. Glance at the microwaveable instructions on the back to ensure they will be easy to cook up at your microwave accessible workplace.
3. You will need an old bowl or plastic tupperware type of container that you might want to leave at work if able. Obviously a food shoveler in the form of a fork, spoon, or spork that you can leave at work would be good too. If you buy something new for this purpose, you might check out one of those tupperware type of containers that have the steamer vents built into the lid.
4. Bring your items to work but take care to determine how much fridge/freezer space you have in respect to others sharing the icebox. Alternatively and more traditionally you could keep your wares at home, and simply fill up your plastic container or plastic wrapped bowl with a frozen veggie or mix of veggies (easy, this could be considered "cooking" to mix vegetables!) and bring that to the work freezer.
TIPS:

• Spice up your veggies with anything on hand. Salt, pepper, or any of the multitude of spices in the spice aisle or in your cabinets are fair game so have at it. Like spicy? check out the cajun creole seasonings. Heck think meat spices are just for meat? I said EVERYTHING is fair game- try it on your veggies too.
• Butter is always a tasty choice to help you take in some of those blander items
• The power of cheese most definitely will enhance the flavor of any veggie- and there are all kinds of cheeses so it will never be boring again
• Some vegetable product lines come in "steamer bags" which might be more convenient for you.

What follows is a tangent that goes a different direction, of the spiritual kind. So stop here if you are a pawn and simply required the lunch hack.
All others continue by clicking Read More...

We all get it. And as the adage goes, it isn't the problem but how we DEAL with it that counts. Yes I usually take pleasure in simply trashing it immediately upon identification- feeling satisfied that the mere fact that I could identify the article as junk simply by the envelope means I had accomplished something. {beware, i have trashed a legit article before accidentally}
But then, a revelation was had about an alternative for the simple rip and trash method of dealing with junkmail:
Something brilliant; something that could make junk mail FUN; something maniacal and totally nuerotic!

In some of the junk mail you get, return envelopes with the postage already paid is often included. Perhaps you are already coming across my line of thinking (and consequently, crossing over to the "dark side of the force"). There are several options for responding to junk mail solitications:

Accept the offer and concede to getting their product (and further junk mail from them and any of their affiliates and joe-schmoes that they've sold your information to).

OR perhaps some more "creative responses" would be in order:

Swap solitications with another piece of junk mail that you've gotten that day. Better yet, do it with a direct competitor of the solicitator (remembering to remove anything with your name on it).

Send an image or note expressing your feelings about junk mail. I think a picture of Uncle Randy in his yellow speedos out at beach would do nicely. Would be a good use for all of those facsimiles of your boss/coworkers' tail-end from past Christmas parties that you have saved up in your cubicle.

How bout mixing your online and offline unsolicitations by printing out the content of email spam and using that for your response to mailed junkmail. Can't think of a better place for those penis enlargement offers and emails from rich men in Nigeria.

On a less maliscious note- you could express your Spirtual side by sending a page about your theological beliefs or favorite scripture verse. A compromise might be a funny "church" cartoon.

Just make sure to not include personal information about yourself in the response. So tear off the portions of anything being returned that would have your address, etc.
You get the idea- whether being vindicative or theological; you can take that annoying junk mail and increase your day because of it rather than just being more annoyed by all the unsolicited garbage.

So, you search the vast internet just knowing that there must be some easy way to earn supplemental income or be able to quit your job en lieu of home/online ways at quick and easy money that will not only sustain you but fulfill your financial dreams. You plugin the keyword "home business" or "online business" or "work at home" and you are immersed in various urls that promise easy financial gain from home using the internet. Flashy banners and pictures of happy couples with accompanying testimonials about how they went from middle class to upper class in no time at all using some mysterious ubiquitous "system" for generating dollars out of thin air. Sound too good to be true? Are you guessing my next statement? If you are guessing my next statement will be "Then it probably is?" then I must ask, "WHY DID YOU SIGN UP IF YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT?!"

Check out the following from Online Business Systems' Privacy Policy: it basically states that by signing your name and email into their site you give them the permission to SELL your information to whomever they please (even if you are part of a no-call list). So basically the only ones making money here is Online Business Systems. If someone wants to SELL you information about making millions of dollars easily- don't you think they just wouldn't bother and just USE such a system themselves? Are they just being nice? Please, don't allow your wishful optimism to fool you so. If they were being "nice" they would have offered the information for free. You say, "but they're offering it freely! I just have to sign up." And that is precisely what they are betting on you thinking. But that makes the system 'not free' you see. That puts you on the radar of countless marketers of every source, telemarketers, spammers, etc etc. You'll be lucky if you don't have someone standing outside your door in the morning with a big sign asking you if you're interested in a penis enlargement.

Please, don't give anyone your email or physical address to get information about becoming rich and for goodness sakes don't pay anyone for this alleged information!! I implore you on behalf of tired, burned out, frustrated, experienced computer users everywhere who because of the thousands who have fell for such marketing TRAPS must face these same marketers and their spawn since they're still in business. Just think, if noone succumbed to such efforts, then these scam artists wouldn't have a business at all and the internet world might be a friendly, happier place.
This methodolgy goes for pop-up ads as well... under NO CIRCUMSTANCES click ANY POPUP that you ever see. You WILL NOT win the cash; you HAVE NOT instantly won anything; and you WILL NOT be taken to a site that can provide you with anything you could not have found otherwise. Treat pop-ups like you treat phone solicitors who call you in the middle of dinner.

Marketers are people too (maybe) but lets encourage them to provide services that can both achieve their objectives of connecting product/service sellers with customers while at the same time not appearing to be scam con-artists who fill us all with the dread of unwanted solicitation. Remember, if you wanted to buy that pharmaceutical drug offered in the email, you would have asked your doctor about it previously.

Missouri is a state of rivers and lakes; forests; bluffs and valleys; home to KC bbq and the St Louis Archway to the west. The countryside and outdoors activities are a fair draw for tourists; but for reasons that have been largely lost on me; Branson is Missouri's "Vegas strip."

The quandry: How can I hate "Branson" (put in quotes to emphasize the metaphysical vacationing ideal rather than the communitycommunity) when it packs in thousands every season and new development is booming? Being in the minority makes me wonder if i'm missing some redeeming quality. To digress, I should point out that the natural beauty of the area is worth partaking. Table Rock Lake is quite popular and with good reason, being well known for its clarity and fishing qualities. Again, the tall hill covered forests, Ozark mountains if you will- are worth seeing. The elements of my despise lie along the popular highway 76 and other adjoining "strip" roads. What's not to like?? ( Cue Sarcasm) Wall to wall advertising is always lovely to see (isn't this why popup blockers were created for internet surfing- because we actually DONT like being hammered with marketing). If I see one more Yakov poster or billboards proclaiming coupons for Branson shows I'll kill myself Shoji Tabuchi style (no, i dont know what that means either). And you know, someone really must look into the consequences of rearing a family of 6 children into becoming Branson show stars, that just can't be healthy. How many Hansen-Osmond wannabe's do we really need to be subjected to? Just seeing the faces of conservative salon tailored caucasian children in sequined outfits stretched across a huge billboard is enough to make me cringe and choke up my $2.99 breakfast buffet.




Dominating my Branson blahs is the lack of original creativity exhibited in the many popular shows that pimple Branson's 76 strip and surrounding area. Too often they seem to regurgitate the works of others; or dig into the popularity of certain eras of American History. Where is 'the Ozarks' relative content? Branson is infested with sing and dance shows of which are sprinkled with comedic relief by the stereotypical "goofy guy." The first "goofy guy" was probably quite funny; perhaps even the second- but how about instead of the 127th goofy guy routine, just hiring a good stand up comic to do his material - at least it would contrast the other shows. Switch out the comedian each month for even MORE variety - give something to encourage a return visit.

One of the original and still popular Branson stars is Ray Stevens. Having not grown up listening to his brand of musical campy comedy - perhaps the the nostalgic factor was lost. As for me, Ray Stevens was like watching someone's crazy uncle try to be funny at a family reunion without the comedic appeal of knowing that he's actually related to someone there. Leaving the theatre, accolades like "that was the best show he's done, it was great" were heard and I wondered how this was the case and how he's made it this far. A significant portion of his humor was surprisingly adult and sexual in nature though perhaps not by today's standards of lewdness. So now, you're listening to the crazy perv uncle.


>The Branson Script<

In many ways The Ray Steven's Show followed the Branson Script. What is the Branson Script you didn't ask?