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You’re rushing through your morning routine, showering, getting dressed, looking in the mirror to make sure you’re neat and ready to go. Now you have to make sure you have everything you need to bring to the office: paperwork you brought home to work on, your lunch.

What are those ever-important items that you can’t walk out the door without, that you’re always feeling your pockets for and going frantic if you can’t find them? Your cell phone. Gotta be able to keep in touch with everyone. Your wallet. Gotta have your credit card, your driver’s license, the picture of your special someone. Your pack of your favorite citrus-flavored gum. And your keys. The keychain with the house key, the key to that office cabinet, the keys to your car, the lock/panic button for your car, and a flash drive.

There might be a couple more, or a couple fewer, items in this list for you. But everyone has things that they can’t go anywhere unless they have those oh-so-necessary objects. Sometimes it would be nice to have a way to streamline the things you have to remember to take to work. What about the little USB flash drive hanging from the keychain? You’ve probably realized how handy those can be. Just plug it into your computers, drag the files on, pop it out, and put it into a computer when you need to get the files.

Think about it. Using a flash drive can help streamline what you have to take with you. If for some reason you have to bring paperwork away from the office, you could just put PDFs or Word docs or whatever format you have your files in on the drive and carry it with you. If you know everything is there, you won’t have to worry about checking for papers that might be scattered around your desk.

In fact, this might be an idea for a manager to implement in his whole company. Give each of your employees a company flash drive that he can use to store files that he is working on, and take them home or travel with them.

CF Gear specializes in customizing flash drives to the needs of a specific company. We can imprint or engrave a company logo on the drives. You can choose from a huge selection of designs for the drives.

It doesn’t matter how large or small your company is. CF Gear works with businesses of all sizes. Their website contains product catalogs, testimonials from many happy customers, and detailed descriptions of product options for all the information you want to know.

So don’t make getting ready for that trip to the office any more difficult than it has to be. Invest in some customized flash drives to make traveling so much smoother and so much easier.

When renovating a home in preparation for habitation of the elderly, there are some things that need to be taken into consideration. At the ripe old age of 59 and 61, my parents have determined that they will not wait until it is impossible to do this chore. They thought of almost everything from remodeling their bedroom and bathroom, to moving the chest freezer from the basement to the main floor of the house. No one can blame them for doing this project.

However, in the past few years, I have recognized that they now consider themselves “old”. They think and act like old people. Of course, when it comes to physical age, it’s just a number but when it comes to mental age, it’s what you think your age is. In other words, my parents are still fairly young age wise but they act and think like a 75 year old. It is a sad thing to watch because I know that their physical abilities will match the mental age very quickly.

As for the renovation project, they have carefully considered what they need to exist just to live on the main floor of the house. The master bathroom was fitted with a walk in shower and grab bars. The toilet has a bidet attachment. They also installed central heating and air, and the kitchen floor now sports a new wooden look to limit the vacuuming. They closed in the lanai and turned it into a second office. They replaced the sticky steel door with one that closes without slamming. A lot of time, effort and thought went into making their house their home for the later years.

All of this reorganizing and renovation is a relief to me as the oldest child who lives over 1000 miles away. There are a few more things that I would like to see taken care of, and, probably given time, they may take care of them. I’d like to see them fix the step up from the carport to the office so that it is ramped thus limiting the possibility of tripping and falling. They could also install X10 lamp controllers  with an X10 wireless remote so that they could turn lights on/off without finding the light switch in the dark. Simple upgrades could make life a whole lot easier in the future.

They have effectively closed off the upstairs and the basement and simply use the main floor for living. The house is a lovely big home that suited the family in years gone by. Each of the three children had their own bedroom and life was comfortable in the old log home. But times have changed and the home is too big for just the two of them. It instantaneously becomes too small when all of us go home for a visit since now there are the spouses and seven grandchildren. However, none of us will be able to talk them into purchasing another home. They have lived there for the last thirty-seven years, and it is their intention to be buried on the property. I’m just hoping that day doesn’t come as soon as they think it will.

“Suction. Clamp. Scalpel. Ok, now he’s ready to be stitched up.” Those are just some of the words and phrases you hear surgeons speak. Typical talk that lets you know what’s expected of the staff around him. You also expect that he’s wearing a gown, gloves, face mask and a hat. Those items represent personal cleanliness. They don’t permit the spreading of his germs to the patient. You, as a patient, have the right to expect that the equipment has been sterilized and that the operating room has been cleaned since its last use.

I have a friend who had to have a colonoscopy done. The process that they went through in order to prepare for this procedure was less than pleasant. There was this horrible liquid that had to be drunk which in turn causes your insides to heave out stuff that no one wants to know about. One bottle certainly isn’t enough according to the professionals. Oh no. You must have at least two, and it’s best if you have three. Why? I don’t know. Can’t they understand that once your body expels its contents, there really isn’t much left? I’m beginning to think they like to see people in a not-so-pleasant form. They must derive some sick pleasure from taking a perfectly normal human being and giving them some “healthy” poison to turn them into submission to the sadistic professionals.

My friend had gone in and had been sedated enough to be awake yet very relaxed… or as much as one can be when your backside is exposed. Of course, relaxed is a relative term. To the torturers, relaxed means that you’re almost unconscious but not completely under because they want to make sure you feel the pain but don’t have the ability to fight back when they feed a garden hose with a video camera attached to it up your intestine. To add to the pleasurable experience, the surgeon questions the operating staff as to whether this garden hose has been cleaned because he’s not able to see properly. The attending nurse says that she emptied the canister for cleaning medical parts yesterday. What a comforting thought. Yesterday…who’s used it since then? Ah, it’s all part of the plan to make you feel better. Oh and by the way, there’s no extra charge for messing with your psyche.

Once they’ve removed the 50ft garden hose and cleaned up my friend, they then declared him an image of health, as if he wasn’t before they decided to torture him. They inform him that he may take some time to occupy the bed to sleep off the remaining relaxation meds they have given him and that he will not need their services again for another year. Yipee!, one whole year until they get to work the magic torture again. But in the meantime, they will take the liberty of sending you a bill for their services. It’s a bill that you will pay for the rest of the year…until the next session.