Russ Fairchild

I was able to get into a good university to earn my degree. However, I had a hard time in school before college. My parents helped me with the sciences by enrolling me with a tutor that provides physics tuition in Singapore. I needed the extra help to pass my classes and get the grades I wanted to achieve in the sciences. I wanted to be more than adequate in the sciences even though I was not pursuing a degree where I would need to build on them or use them to any great degree in my career. I have always enjoyed antiquities and history. I have participated in museum curation since my teenage years interning at a museum of history. Science applies to some of the techniques we use in restoration, but I did not need to be a physics expert.

The school system is highly geared toward academic performance of students. I think it is driven by our culture. Read more »

We bought a house for my parents to live in. They like being able to live in a separate house rather than any apartments or condominiums. We have been doing well in our careers, and my parents helped out with the purchase. The previous owners are also an older couple, but they wanted to move into a condo. We looked into house cleaning prices to get the entire house professionally cleaned from top to bottom before my parents moved in. We wanted to make their transition from their condominium that was on the 30th floor of a building effortless. We also hired a moving company to help them pack, move and unpack. The goal was to make the move as stress-free as possible for them and us. Read more »

I have heard of spinal manipulation before, but I really did not know what it was. It sounded scary to me, so I just didn’t care to know more about it. I wish that I would have taken the initiative to know more about it then because I might have saved myself some painful months. I knew I had to finally see what it was all about when my regular doctor told me I should see a chiropractor in Campbell CA to help me with the pain I was having in my back.

My PCP is the type of doctor who wants to treat holistically first, and he goes to a chiropractor himself. He told me a bit about spinal manipulations and what I could expect from them, and how he put it made it a lot less scary to me. I made the appointment with the same chiropractor that he uses since he is so pleased with him. Even before I went to the office for my first visit, I went online so I could learn more about manipulations and what all was involved in getting one. Read more »

I hate to admit it, but sometimes I go a little to far to impress people. When I’m at the supermarket, if I see someone who needs help lifting something or reaching something, I’ll do it for them, especially if they are a woman. I tried to lift a heavy bag of rice for a woman to get it into her cart. I was able to do it, but I hurt my back in the process and had to find a chiropractor in Mesa. At first, it felt like a small pain. I was able to hide it from the woman so I wouldn’t look weak. As I continued to do my own shopping, the pain got worse. Putting my own groceries in the cart and in my car was harder to do with the pain. Read more »

I love to bake cookies every Christmas. I rarely make them any other time of the year because of how many I make for the holidays. I will start as soon as Thanksgiving is over, and I will bake for at least two weeks as I give them away to neighbors, family, friends and people at work. I was really surprised when my first batch turned out really flat. It didn’t even register that I might need to contact someone who does major appliance repair in Sacramento because I just figured I had messed something up with the recipe.

I tried another tray, but they came out just as flat. They were baking a little, but not much at all. They were flat and mushy, so I threw out the cookie dough and started fresh. I was almost in tears when my next batch came out the exact same way. Read more »

We bought an apartment building that has 20 units. The structure was sound and needed only a little updating to the outside and some landscaping. We gutted all of the units upgrading them to modern apartments that would appeal to a lot of tenants. We got all new appliances for each unit, and everything from the flooring to the lighting was modernized. In the bathrooms we used shower enclosures from a company that makes shower doors in Union County NJ. The enclosures they provided really make the bathrooms look nice. They are glass walls that open up the small areas we had for the bathrooms in the apartment units. It makes the rooms look bigger than they actually are.

All of the shower units are big enough to move around in even if you are a big person. Using the same design from unit to unit also saved us some money. The only apartments that are different are the ones at the end of each floor. The layouts are designed a bit different so we used a different type of shower door system for them. Read more »

I like a luxury style of easy living. I like things clean and new. I thoroughly enjoy swimming in a pool that does not have hard edges as I look out over the ocean. Those pools where the water flows over the edge into the trough that returns the water to the pool pump are works of art. There are plenty of them at the biscayne beach condos. I picked my condo based on these things and how the building looked at twilight. I looked up to the floor where the condo I was thinking about buying was at and saw the night sky settling in. The building’s lights came on in the twilight anchoring it visually to the landscape like the art I produce that pays my bills. Read more »

I have always had a maid service take care of my condo, no matter where I am living. It is not that I am lazy. It’s quite the opposite actually. I am so busy with my work that I have very little time at home to take care of the necessary things. I would much rather spend my free time with friends and family rather than doing some chores around the condo. When I moved a few months ago, one of the first things I did was a search for a reputable maid agency in singapore.

I knew that I wanted to have a maid get started within my first week of living in the condo. I was able to find a company that has stellar reviews, and I called to talk to them about their maids, their prices and other things that I had written down. I didn’t have any outrageous requests. I just wanted everything dusted, polished and vacuumed on a regular basis. Read more »

I need to get a security system installed in my house soon, and I hope to find something that will work very well for my particular set of circumstances. I am scared for the safety of my family though, and it seems kind of insane to not have a security system in this day and age. It seems to me, like the whole world is going crazy, and that is very concerning to me. I am browsing – http://home-security.co/adt-home-security/ – to try to find the best deals that I can on home security.

It does not seem like a very good idea to try to wait much longer to have a security system installed, so I am going to need to go ahead and call a security system provider soon, so that I will be able to schedule a date for having a having a security system installed. Read more »

I am moving to the other side of the country, in order to accept my dream job. I did not really think that I had much of a chance of landing the job when I applied for it. Thank goodness that I actually followed through, and applied for it, because it is a great opportunity and the type of job that I have always wanted. I am on this site, http://homeinsurance-deals.com/home-insurance/washington/port-orchard/, that I found while trying to look for home insurance rates in the state of Washington.

I am searching for a house to buy soon, and my wife and I have picked out a few likely candidates. Read more »

My wife and I would like to purchase a condo in the near future, but we want to approach this decision as carefully as we can in order to make sure that there are no problems during the transaction. We have been talking about getting a condo for a number of years, but I am not sure that I thought we would actually get one until recently. It just makes sense at this point in our lives, and I want to find out about bond on brickell condominiums to see if that is the right place for us to purchase a condo from.

I want to learn a bit more about the availability and pricing of the condos at that location first off. I am hoping they still have a good number of condos available to be sold. I definitely want to buy a two bedroom condo, so it is also important that they still have that type of condo available. I am not sure what I am going to do if I can’t find a condo there, but I guess I will have to look elsewhere.

I also want to find out more about how much the condos cost at this location. I want to get a good deal on a condo, but I also want to make sure that I get a very nice condo that looks quite luxurious on the interior. I hope that my two goals there are not too at odds with eachother. I definitely want to spend a lot less money on the condo that I end up getting than I end up selling my current house for. I need to work on selling the house too, but I am going to look up more info on these condos first while I am on the internet.

I would like to get some trees removed from my property, and I am also looking to have some dead wood taken down out of some other trees, which I do not want to be otherwise harmed. I do not get enough light in my yard, and a lot of the reason is that there are several trees that are between 80 and 100 feet tall in my yard. I need to find a tree service in long island that has a good bit of experience when it comes to removing very tall trees.

It is more of a tricky situation than just having to cut down trees that are very tall, as they are also located close to my house, and there is the additional risk of accidentally dropping trees onto my house. Read more »

I knew I wanted a serviced office, but I had no idea what area I wanted it in. I decided to go online to see if I could find a listing for some in the area I was most interested in. There were a few different sites that had what I wanted, but I was able to narrow it down to the one site that I wanted to use. They had a lot of information in addition to the listings, and they also had a wide variety of pictures available too.

I looked at some of the pictures first, and that is how I knew I wanted to use this company. The pictures were crisp and attractive, and I knew that the featured offices were exactly what I wanted. I read about the features that are attached to each serviced office, and I was impressed that so much was included. The part that I liked the best is that an answering service is available to be used. Read more »

School moves along at a steady pace. If your child misses a number of school days due to an injury or illness, it can cause your child to be left behind trying to catch up. It is highly stressful for the whole family if a child is perpetually trying to get caught up for any particular school year. Then, if you do not address the problem, it can leave your child behind next year. We called an agency that does home tuition in singapore to help our daughter get caught up quickly after she recovered from her surgery.

Our little girl was out for three weeks before she had surgery. Then it was three more weeks of recovery. By the seventh week, after all this began, she was back in school. Even though she had work brought to her in the hospital and at home, she had missed out on a lot of the hands-on and lecture parts of daily school. Her first exams showed a decline. Read more »

My sister has an allergy to eggs, so it makes it very difficult to find things that she can eat at times. A particularly hard thing to get for her was something to help celebrate special occasions. Normally, people will enjoy cake for a birthday or anniversary, but we could never do that for her because of her allergy. When a friend of mine told me to look at the cakes offered at www.cakeflower.com.sg, I wasn’t expecting to find anything that I would be able to get for her birthday.

I am so glad that I did this though, because I was able to find a cake that she would actually be able to eat. She hadn’t had cake since she was a child, so I knew that this was something that she would love. I have tried making her a cake without eggs before, and they just never turned out as good as I had hoped. Others had tried too, but their results were similar to mine. Read more »

For us Americans, it’s the time of the year where we are packing our bags, or the family is, and heading off for vacation. As a country with some of the highest work hours in the global community, we earn this time of the year in a way that most working individuals in foreign countries just can’t understand. I decided that I would head to Europe this time around, with Bristol specifically in mind, so it was only natural that I would look into renting a Bristol minibus hire! What’s a better way to tour a place than having your very own minibus? I can’t imagine what else it would be myself but I’ve never been credited with having the most imaginative mind. It’s rare for us Americans to be able to head out to Europe as most of us prefer to stay here within the safe boundaries of our old red, white and blue.

It’s a shame that in a post-9/11 world that we have become so fearful of the greater global community around us. Read more »

Did you know it is illegal to overload your skip? I was worried about that thinking we might need a bigger one. However the mini skip from skiphirewolverhamptonuk.com holds up to 22 bags of rubbish. We do generate quite a number of bags of rubbish, but we do not have that many going into a skip before it is picked up. The mini skip is perfect for us. They do residential and commercial skip hire. We are commercial but only because of our home business. We do not have any customers that come to the house. We buy and ship through our online business. We converted the garage into our little operations center. Read more »

When I found an apartment at the Water Ford Creek apartments, I was stoked. I had been looking for a new place for weeks now without any sort of luck – fortunately there was an opening the day before I put an application in and I was the first person to do so. I can’t believe how great the timing was; in this area it’s incredibly hard to find a place that is pet friendly and is as well priced as these apartments are. All this time I’ve been trying to find an apartment that would allow for a pet resulting in not one place allowing for it.

It’s kind of crazy how this is beginning to happen. More and more apartments are turning down individuals because of their pets and yet the vast majority of Americans have pets. Wha’s going on? Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand where they’re coming from as a cat and even a dog can really cause some serious smells in a tiny apartment. Read more »

As a guy who grew up being raised by a mother who utterly spoiled him, who made sure that he never had to clean a single day of his life while growing up, I have come to the conclusion that as an adult I am fundamentally broken. It’s true. Shamefully, I am terrible with cleaning my own home as well as being terrible at doing my own laundry. While I am proud of the fact that I can actually fold my own clothes, I usually have to resort to taking my clothing to a dry cleaner in Paterson NJ if I want to have clean clothes for the week.

I suppose it’s not so bad taking your clothes to a dry cleaners. Read more »