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So besides house pics, I have been pinged a lot about “Hey how is that Carbon Monoxide thing working out for you?”

Well I have finally gone through all of the various doctor tests. Overall I am in very good shape, just getting older. It was confirmed through blood work that I had had serious CO exposure.

There appears to be no damage to the heart, at least nothing they could detect but my memory is a little bit funny on some things. I will recall previously telling a story of something that say happened at work, but I can’t recall the actual story. Lots of folks look at me weird when I say that and say, ah, everyone forgets stuff. True… but my mind tends to work very well for recall. In junior high and high school I had near total recall and could look at say a list of Presidents and then be able to “see” that list in my head and recite as I wanted in whatever order I wanted, etc. That dropped a lot and I haven’t had that for a long time but I still have very good memory to the point of recalling what part of a page and how far into a book I saw a specific sentence, etc.

I don’t seem to have any issues with new memories, I get them I recall them. Just bits and pieces from the past, nothing seriously important as far as I can tell. But then… how do I really know??

Physically I have been getting stronger and stronger which is nice. Overall stamina is coming back and I am able to get on a bike (usually) and ride 12-18 miles without a major issue. I still get run down faster and easier than I did before and am having issues doing my sleep 3-4 hours a night for weeks at a time and then have a catch up sleep weekend where I lay in bed all weekend but hopefully that will come back around as that is how I get so much done.

All in all, I know I am very lucky that I got through with as little damage as I did and I spend quite a bit of time talking to people about Carbon Monoxide sensors when I can. I would hate for what happened to me (or worse) to happen to someone else.

I always thought this company had a great hook for their advertising but would never trust technology to the extent he says it could be trusted when he gave out his SS# during the ad.

ID Theft Security Company CEO Gets ID Stolen

After putting his social security number in ads as part of the marketing strategy of its company, the CEO of LifeLock, Todd Davis, has gotten his identity stolen. His ID information has been used to make a loan of $500 dollars.

A year ago, a Texas man used Davis’ Social Security number to get a $500 payday advance loan. Davis points out that the check cashing company made no attempt to verify the identity, which he believes would have stopped the theft cold, but says that’s not the important part of the story.

As soon as this has been made public, several lawsuits started against the company regarding the fact that it does not offer the protection it says it does, and that it charges for actions people can take for themselves for free.
Todd Davis replied to the accusations by saying that if his social security number has been seen by everybody looking at the company ads for the past two years, and only one attempt has succeeded in using it, then this is a proof that the service does work.

During the past two years, there have been allegedly 87 ID steeling attempts, twenty of them regarding people trying to use the information for obtaining driving licenses. Even though some of them were successful, LifeLock’s CEO considers that only the $500 loan case was a failure of the company’s system.

Mr. Davis states that people that thought that LifeLock offers 100 percent protection against ID theft, have gotten the wrong idea. According to him, there are no legal actions a company can do to fully prevent this sort of fraud, and that this claim can be found on LifeLock’s website also.

At this moment, Mr. Davis’s company offers ID fraud protection for 1 million members, and its service has failed for supposedly only 105 of them. LifeLock ‘s $1 Million Total Service Guarantee completely covered every one of them.