Miss iJustine truly
is the internet after today. She is out in Ontario, CA at the Podcast and New Media Expo for 3 days and so far Justine has been very busy. She started the day bringing her Justin.tv broadcast back online after a little downtime. Once at the Expo she hooked up with
Talkshoe and started joining in with that. Justine then jumped in on a Ustream broadcast with
Mason who is a ustreamer. So at one point she was interacting and even taking a call or 2 on talkshoe. Broadcasting on Justin.tv as always and also broadcasting on Ustream. 3 streams, 3 sites, 1 iJustine. Just mind boggling.
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- Author: smojo
- Filed under: smojo
- Date: Sep 28,2007
Many of you will not know this but at the moment my current workplace is a retail store. I’m working in the kids department of this store selling baby items and furniture. During the last few months the amount of recalls hitting our store has been staggering. We all know and have seen on the news about the toys coming from China with lead in them. Some of the most popular toys like Thomas the Train and Dora the Explorer had to be recalled. Then in the last week an even greater recall happened. Simplicity who manufactures baby cribs did a recall on 2 cribs. These 2 cribs were our best selling cribs at my store. The reason for the recall was because of a faulty drop-side rail. A few children were killed because they suffocated in these cribs. Where were these cribs made you ask? China. A few days ago another recall was issued for a Kolcraft play yard. It seems like everyday I go into work I am no longer actually selling stuff to customers. My whole time is spent gather recalled items and shipping them back to manufacturers.
I’m not really sure what to make of all this. One thing I am happy about is that I do not have any kids. If I did have any kids I would be a nervous freaked out parent. The majority of items sold in this country are Made in China. Theres not much we can do I believe though. China’s products are cheap and people will still be willing to buy them. Americans will never be able to check all the imported products coming into the country. It is just not possible to check it all for defects and dangers.
Let me just give you a quick rundown on the items that have been recalled in the past few months at my store. Infant car seats from Evenflo and Cosco, swings and jump stations from Evenflo and Fisher Price, toys from Mattel, Fisher Price, cribs from Delta Luv and Simplicity. Not to mention the 2 dozen different teething items from various companies. One thing they all had in common though is that they were Made in China
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So the clock is ticking on my time left here in Connecticut. I’m working hard to get everything set out in Arizona. Got a job all setup to go to which I will be starting on the 22nd of October. The apartment search is still going on. My roommate and I are still in negotiations over which apartment to get. I will admit it, I am a cheap bastard and don’t want to spend lots of money on a place where I’m just going to sleep really. The problem is that he will have his parents supporting him somewhat so he has extra money to spend. I do not have this extra money to spend plus I do not want to put all my money into the rent. I would like to save some money if I could. Maybe even go back to college while I am out there.
One thing I am still debating with myself is whether or not to bring someone with me for the cross country drive. In the past it has been nice. I have done the cross country trip two times so far. For both trips I did all the driving. Something I’m looking forward to is having the chance to maybe video log most of my trip. Maybe even stop at one or two of the weird roadside attractions along the way. When I have the chance to find a wifi hotspot I will gladly jump online and broadcast on my JTV channel. Stay tuned to the blog for more information about my trip back to Arizona.
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