Review: SaniGuard Surface Sanitizing Spray

Health and Beauty, Home Life - No Comments » - Posted on August, 28 at 9:54 pm

I was given the opportunity to sample and review some products from CareCleaningAndProtection.com. The product I got to review was their SaniGuard Surface Sanitizing Spray (sanitizer). The following review is composed of my own honest opinion and experience.

As I mentioned in the video review, it’s kind of hard to test the over all effectiveness of a sanitizer and it’s ability to kill germs without, you know, having the germs and what not there to actually kill. I would have really liked to try this out for a lengthy period during the flu season. Now that would be an awesome test right there.

The sanitizer comes in these 0.75oz cans, is simple to use, and has a pleasant and clean lemony scent to it. The sanitizer is designed to kill 99.99% of the germs that can cause MRSA, HIV, Staph, E-coli, and influenza – definitely something you’d want to use in a work place (or anywhere really) that sees a heavy amount of traffic. I was pleased to note that the spray did not have an overpowering and harsh chemical scent to it like I had feared. Also, as someone with rather delicate skin, I was also pleased to note that I did not have any adverse reaction to the sanitizer when my skin made contact with the surfaces that had been treated with it over time.

For me, the sanitizer spray would not be that ideal given the price and the quantity that the sanitizer is available for on the website.

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It’s Too Early for This

Home Life, Rants and Raves - No Comments » - Posted on August, 26 at 7:14 am

The first thought that went through my head when I heard my cell phone start ringing was “It’s a damn good thing I’m already awake” swiftly followed by a litany of words that really shouldn’t be repeated. I mean seriously, who would be silly enough to call me at 6:15 in the morning? I’m a notorious night-owl, I sleep in late, and even when I have to wake up early I am slow going and grouchy as hell. So who in their right mind who brave calling me this early?

My grandfather would.

Well okay, it must be an emergency right? Um no, apparently there’s some dinner and seminar thing that he RSVP’d for this evening and he wants me to attend as his guest. Said he would more than likely not fully understand everything being said and would like me to go with him. Okay, I dig that. But what is with the last minute notice? Seriously, my internet was dragging last night so I went up to a 24-hr lab in ‘Cruces. I was out and didn’t get back until a little while ago and was fixing to go to bed. Now I have to be sure to wake up early this afternoon to get things done in order to be ready when he drops by to pick me up.

I probably should have said no, but oh well. I just really wanna go to bed now. I’m tired and grumpy because – you’ll think I’m pulling your leg – I had to deal with the stupidest person ever at the lab.

You see, the lab has wi-fi and some poor schmuck brought his laptop, left it there to go do something, and came back to see it gone-gone. Now I got there a little after midnight and there was no laptop there. I did see a bag at one of the tables, but didn’t think much of it. I was there for about five hours and there was no laptop at that table when I got there. I was fixing to leave when the guy came in, and just started cursing. I was shutting down my laptop and glanced up to see some dorky guy standing at the table with a bag cursing up a blue-streak before he whirled around to look at me and started yelling at me to tell him what I did with his laptop.

Somehow I managed not to snap at the moron and simply told him, nice and calm-like, that I didn’t know what he was talking about and that this was my laptop. To which of course the guy replied with “I’m not talking about that piece of shit, I’m talking about my laptop”. My response was not exactly nice at that point and was something along the lines of “I don’t even know you so how would I know what you did with your stuff”. He was not pleased and started yelling about how he left his laptop “right there” while pointing at the table with the bag and claiming he left for just a little bit and how I had to know what happened to it.

I was very tempted to laugh at him then. The place is a24-hr lab that anyone can waltz into why would you go off and leave something valuable for an extended period of time and expect it to still be there? I hate just leaving mine long enough to go the restroom and will often ask someone to watch my stuff for me. Although truthfully, I usually just wait or bundle my stuff up and take it with me. More hassle, sure, but at least my stuff is there.

Anyway, I eventual got through to the guy and explained how long I’d been there and that there was no laptop on that table when I got there. In fact, no one was there pretty much the entire time I was. The guy was distraught over his lost laptop, crying about how he should have lo-jacked his computer or at least gotten laptop insurance, and going on about how all his work was gone. I might have felt sorry for the guy if he’d, I dunno, apologized for yelling at me and accusing me of stealing his laptop. The whole time he never apologized and even after I told him that I hadn’t seen anything, literally since there was no laptop there when I got there, he kept insinuating that I had it in my bag; which was just a purse big enough for my wallet, keys, mouse, and power cord because initially I hadn’t planned on being there that long and was holding my laptop in my arms. Oh yeah, I really had his computer in my purse. Then he kept insisting I knew what happened. I eventually left that idiot ranting and just left. Stopped long enough to find a security guard that walks the perimeter and filled him in on what happened so he could help the moron fill out a lost/stolen report.

The security guard’s response was priceless – he rolled his eyes and mutter “what a fuckin’ moron” under his breath before heading down the hall to the lab.

I couldn’t agree more.

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Everyone Is Out to Swindle You

Rants and Raves, Tech - 2 Comments » - Posted on August, 14 at 10:00 pm

That’s what it seems like to me at any rate. I just got back a little while ago from visiting a lady who was selling a color printer I was interested in buying. I returned printer-less and with a few gray hairs on my head (probably) from the stress.

The ad sounded good, a used printer that was still in good condition although some of the programing features didn’t seem to work properly anymore. It was a xerox phaser 8560 printer though (which sells for several hundred new) and the asking price was posted as $50. All in all, not a bad deal, right? WRONG!

So I drove up to ‘Cruces at the arranged time to pay for the printer and bring it home. And since Denali is acting like my shadow I let the little kitty tag along for the ride. Turns out the printer in question wasn’t a Phaser 8560 or even a Xerox period. It was an HP. But it was still a decent one, she demonstrated that it did indeed work well still, let me which functions that weren’t working. And hey, it was fax stuff and a timer. Features I could live without just fine. So despite it not being the brand I thought it was I was willing to buy it anyway.

Really, I should have realized that if she lied about the brand she was lying about other things as well. Somehow though, when I took out the $50 to pay her I was still surprised when she claimed that she had changed her mind about the price and wasn’t selling it for less than $400 dollars now. At first I seriously thought she was joking. $400 for a used-printer missing features, really? I mean, shit, that’s the price I’d expect to pay for an awesome one at Staples of Office Depot or something. But nope, she was dead serious. I tried to haggle the price but she was not budging so eventually I just said to hell with it. We had an agreed price for a specific kind of printer, she lied about the brand and I was still willing to deal. Then she tries to cheat me on the price. Uh, no, I ain’t that nice.

So as I’m turning to leave she had the gall to call me a liar and a thief and accuse me of trying to cheat her. Then she tries to threaten to call the police on me if I don’t hold to my bargain. I was just like, yeah lady, call the cops, they’ll just laugh at ya for your stupidity.

Eventually I got out of there without any trouble (sans a whole lot of being screamed at) but it was still a horrible experience I do not wish to repeat.

So I am still without a printer, but considering the fact that I’ve been debating on whether or not to buy memory for my laptop that may be a good thing. Well, maybe not. I really did have my heart set on finally getting a new printer. Especially a color one that was just so friggin’ awesome to boot.

I guess that’s what I get from trying to buy from the classifieds. I’d heard bad things about some people’s experiences with Craigslist but never with regular old classifieds before.

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Gah! Rain is Evil!

Home Life, Rants and Raves - 2 Comments » - Posted on August, 14 at 7:34 pm

It has been exceptionally muggy and humid today. So much so that the air conditioner (read: swamp cooler) has made no great difference at all. It has been thundering like crazy since yesterday but the rain never came. That, in conjunction with the kids on the atv and dirt bike that keep driving up and down the street annoying every dog at every house has been driving me insane. Hard to get anything accomplished when it’s so sticky-hot and it’s even harder to just relax when you’ve got over a dozen dogs barking and howling every few minutes.

Just a little while ago the electricity flickered off briefly, there was some heavy thunder, and then the rain finally came down. My annoyance was over, right? No kids riding around in this and the humidity began lifting. All is good, right? WRONG! There are three individual leaks in my ceiling right now. One outside the kitchen (where the vent for the swamp cooler is), one in the kitchen over the door, and the third in the bathroom and directly over the toilet. The leaks weren’t there before, aside from the swamp cooler one and that only seemed to occur if the rain was really bad and was being blown in somehow. These other leaks though are just outta the blue completely.

Guess who’s gonna be climbing on the roof tomorrow to find the sources? Yeah. Fun.

And here I actually wanted it to rain.

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