Recent content by zaxxon1982

The bid/offer spreads are too big for retail investors to succeed trading options. Also, you're probably buying options to get a leveraged position, not to trade the implied volatility of the shares, which means you're also taking positions in second-order risks you really don't want. Point...

Are you talking about being an agent, being a broker, or being a real estate investor? First let me disclose that IMHO real estate is a terrible business. Agents work extremely hard and most of them don't make very much money. The myth of the millionaire real estate agent has only...

You're doomed. I still have stretch marks on my legs from growth spurts as a teenager. There are some topical medications to help minimize them but upon close inspection they will always be visible.

If the spreadsheet's relatively simple, you can use google's web-based spreadsheet application to open and edit .xls files. You may have to sign up for a gmail account to get access to that, which you can do at www.gmail.com

Duragesic is a brand of fentanyl made by one of the J&J subs (can't remember which). Your experience is a good story for people to see. Different people experience different opiate withdrawals in different ways (Person A may have a hard time dropping Oxycontin but not Dilaudid while Person B...

Ya we're pretty off topic from your original q. Back on topic, I used 1-2 10/625 Hydrocodone/APAP (generic Vicodin HP) ED for several months rehabbing after a leg injury and had no problems. I continued use comparable amounts longer than I needed to because I just really like opiates, and that...

Dilaudid is the brand name for hydromorphone referenced above. Like oxycodone, it's a derivative of morphine, but it has better analgesic effects (and for most people, worse euphoric effects) which makes the physical addiction more severe. Demerol is the brand name for meperidine, a...

Pretty good info here. I was on hydrocodone for a little over a year and can say the withdrawal is difficult but not horrible if you don't have major chronic pain. For me the drugs managed the pain from a leg injury pretty well, and the occasional grinding of 10-20 pills, a cold water bath...

Again, big thanks all around. On budget, I could be comfortable spending pretty much whatever on this as long as I could be reasonably certain it would last. I do not, however, want to pay for functionality I won't use. I had planned to build a platform but would be glad to buy one if a...

Was looking at the Werksan lines and planning to just get bumpers since I'll need them anyway. Any reason to get plates in addition to the bumpers given the applications I've listed?

Thanks all for the input... this is very helpful and as has been pointed out this is a sizeable investment so I don't want to go the wrong way here. I'm olympic lifting with no intention of competing... really just a personal challenge/fitness sort of thing. I guess that's bodybuilding but I...

I'm considering building my first home gym and was looking at Werksan for the weights. I don't have any information on the difference between their "training" line and their "competition" line. Can anyone tell me what the differences are? Competition...

How to care for a blister: http://www.ehow.com/how_3365_care-blister.html

I recently switched chins out of my workout in favor of bb rows. When I first did the rows, I felt a tingling sensation in my left forearm and hand that came about halfway through the ROM. I dismissed it at first but later noticed that I had symptoms similar to tennis elbow even outside of the...

They will work. You don't want to put too much stress directly on the ligaments until you've had some time to recouperate. The big ones on the sides of the anlke are the stabilization exercises.