Working in many places I have built up a long list of funny coworker stories. When taking breaks while at work, this is also always a hot topic. Stories of instances where you worked with people who did such crazy things that you didn’t believe. That is why I just started this new website, http://www.coworkerstories.com. It is an open forum for people to read and put down funny things that happened while working with others.

Field & Stream Magazine and Outdoor Life Magazine will jointly
sponsor the 27^th Chicagoland Outdoors Show. The Outdoors Show will start on January
18^th and run through January 22 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention
Center in Rosemont, Illinois, one of the largest exhibit halls in the nation.

The Chicagoland Outdoors Show is the largest consumer fishing event
of its kind in the Midwest and Chicago areas.
People come from all over the United States to view and purchase fishing
and hunting products, plan outdoor vacations, shop for boats, RV’s, ATV’s and
4WD’s, learn from educational seminars and demonstrations and participate in a
wide range of family entertainment.

A total of 436 Exhibitors will participate in the show
demonstrating their products and services in the following categories:

• Fishing
• Boats and Marine Products
• Fishing Lodges and Charter Fishing Trips
• Hunting
• Outfitters and Guides
• Travel and Tourism
• All Terrain
  Vehicles

Thousands of dollars in discounts and prizes are being given away
by the exhibitors to lucky attendees, including an African Safari and, of
course, several fishing expeditions with expert guides who know exactly where
the whopping big ones like to feed.

In addition to the exhibits and the expert assistance provided by
the exhibitors, outdoor enthusiasts attending the Chicagoland Outdoors Show will
have a wide ranging choice of free seminars to choose from. Some of the seminars that have already been
scheduled are:

• Alaska Roadside Fishing on the Cheap
• Alternative Tactics for Lake Michigan
• Fishing with Meat Rigs
• Canada and Big Pike
• Creating a Lifelong Angler – Teaching Kids to Fish
• Dog Demos
• Door County Smallmouth
• Fine-tuning Walleye Tactics

Who was watching the Australian Open and saw Baghdatis girlfriend? Her name is Camille Neviere and she is the hotest girl we have seen in a long time.

Guaranteed she will get a modeling contract from all the press she received from the Australian Open. The camera men loved her too. Espn had two camera’s on her the whole time.

Also, what is she doing with Baghdatis? That guy is ugly. Then again, she is only 18 years old.

We wish her the best in her future modeling career.

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The 20^th Annual Nashville Boat & SportShow will be
sponsored again this year by the American National Marine Manufacturers
Association. The show will take place
in the world-class Convention Center located in the heart of
downtown Nashville from January 11 to
January 15, 2006. 124 Representatives
of many of the more than 1,400 companies that produce every
conceivable product used by recreational boaters will be on hand to demonstrate
and answer questions about their products.

In addition to the exhibits and the expert assistance available from
the manufacturer representatives manning the exhibition booths, the outdoors
enthusiasts attending the Boat & SportShow will have a wide ranging choice
of free seminars to choose from. Some
of the seminars that have already been scheduled are:

Multi-Media presentation on Bass, Sonar and more

Big Bass – Where to Go and What to Throw

How To Stock Your Tackle Box

Two Dozen Deadly Tackle Tips

One-On-One with a Fishing Pro – Gerald Swindle “Bass Angler of the
Year”

Serious Crappie Fishing

Dog Obedience and
Training

But
what outdoor convention would be complete without a Canoe give-away? Courtesy of River Ridge Custom Canoes, the
20th Annual Nashville Boat & Sportshow will giveaway one X-Stream River
Ridge Custom Canoe to a lucky event attendee.
The hulls are all hand-rolled and hand-laid fiberglass and matte
material. Special attention to detail
on this model includes single rod holders, canoe storage hoist, solar battery
charger, mahogany accessory tray, two coolers, umbrellas and mounts, tackle
box, car carry kit, aluminum paddles, anchor system and more for this $2,800
value. Just register while attending
the boat show – you will not have to be present at the drawing to win.

For
the competitive convention attendee, there is a chance to demonstrate your
skill at handling a high-speed, competition-class, remote controlled Sport
Fisherman model boat. From an actual
helm and at full throttle, steer the 4 foot, twin engine, remote controlled
Sport Fisherman down the 20 ft tank to the marina. As the boat passes through the channel markers toward the marina,
an electronic sensor will start the Timing Clock. You will enter the marina and back the boat into a fully
instrumented slip while the crowd watches and measures your skills against
theirs. Any contact with the slip
activates a penalty counter, confirming the crowd’s suspicions and giving you
penalty points. You then leave the slip
under full throttle and return through the channel markers to stop the Timing
Clock while the crowd cheers with approval. The computerized scoring system combines your elapse time and
penalty points, displaying your score against the standings for all
contestants.

Nashville is planning to host over 15,000 attendees to the Boat and
SportShow. Local business leaders are
preparing to receive visitors from all over the United States. A visit to historic Nashville, alone, is
worth the trip to the Convention. In
addition to the attractions and events at the convention, visitors can take
advantage of the guided tours of the Grand Ole Opry, the Belle Meade
Plantation, the Red Groom’s Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel and other historical
sites in and around Nashville.

According to On-line Hotel booking
website, www.bookyourstay.com, bookings for the Convention have
already begun. Accommodations near the
Nashville Convention Center are still available but are expected to be sold out
well in advance of the January 11^th start date.

If you are looking to quit smoking. There are many resources online that can provide help on quitting. This is an analysis of some methods and results published in studies:

Smoking Cessation. These are programs that assist in the cessation of smoking. I have found that the Universite of Wisconsin, Department of Medicine did a study that found that cessation programs worked on 23.6% of the people. Whereas, people that 47.5% who tried to quit on their own were able to quit.

Nicotine Replacement. St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Medical College, London performed a study of nicotine replacement. Their finding were that both gum and the patch are effective aids to help nicotine dependent smokers who seek help in stopping. Among the most highly nicotine dependent smokers (those craving a cigarette on waking) the 4 mg gum is the most effective form of replacement therapy; it could enable one third to stop. In less highly dependent smokers the different preparations are comparable in their efficacy but the patch offers greater convenience and minimal need for instruction in its use. Overall, nicotine replacement therapy could enable about 15% of smokers who seek help in stopping smoking to give up the habit. The study can be read in full on: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/308/6920/21

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With the holiday season here and shopping being of ultimate importance, there is a website out there that offers Hotels Near Malls. HotelsAndDeals.com offers mall hotels. Currently if you are looking for good priced hotels near the Mall of America, Opry Mills Mall, Mall of Georgia, HotelsAndDeals.com is your website. They provide good information on each hotel and best of all, low prices. Give them a try today and you will be happy you tried them.

Next time you think about booking a hotel, make sure you’re getting a complimentary breakfast. Not only that, make sure the breakfast includes more than a box of stale donuts and burnt coffee. A new website Free Breakfast Hotels was launched this month is taking all the legwork out of finding out just what kind of breakfast hotels are offering.
So far they have researched over 200 hotels and painstakingly annoted all the breakfast items. According to an industry specialist, some of the information is not even available to the corporate offices of many of these hotels. This is what makes the service so unique and valueable.
The company was started by two internet entrepeneurs who have been personally collecting the information about the meals.
“I try to be as thourough as thorough as possible, collecting the exact items included in the breakfast, what the hours are and even if they have other services such as free shuttles. Many times I come up with really unique deals like a hotel with their own breakfast chef! This adds real value to the data.”

The company expects to be done collecting all the breakfast information from more than 55 thousand hotels by mid-2006.

For those homeowners who have decided to put in upgrades to your homes, I warn you to beware. With the recent home value increase, you could unwittenly get yourself in some large tax problems.

I recently put in a swimming pool on my property in South Florida. I did not find out until later that my home, which was homesteaded, now had an almost double in my tax bill. I have literally screwed myself for putting in a pool.

After purchasing our home prior to the recent rise in real estate, the state of Florida allows home owners to put in for a homestead exemption. This means that if you live in your house, the most the city can raise your property taxes is 3% a year.

My assessed home value was $185,000 dollars. I now put in a pool for $30,000. I realized that I would have an increase in my home value $30,000 for the upgrade. What I did not know was that this opened the door for the city to completely reassess my entire home value! What this means is that my house now is assessed for $380,000. This is the cost of the house being assessed at current values and the pool.

This is completely wrong and should be looked at again. My taxes have now almost doubled. What homeowner can afford this?