Author Archives: Average Joe Speaks

It all started one day while I was browsing the Amazon website. I noticed that the Surface Duo which was normally $1399 was cut down to $699. I figured it must have been an Amazon price cut but I went over to the Best Buy Website and looked and low and behold they were theContinue reading “Microsoft Surface Duo”

Well it has been a while since I have had time to sit at a computer and give a product review. I have been busy with work and family and now I’m nursing a bad sciatica pain and have nothing better to do then stay at home and write a few reviews of the latestContinue reading “Back at it”

As you drive down Highway 101 going south, there are acres and acres of farmland on both sides. As you look out the windows you probably are wondering what is growing in the perfectly symmetrical rows. Salinas Valley, being one of the premier growing areas in the country stretches from Salinas in the North toContinue reading “Salinas Valley and the Salad Bowl”

OPIOID EPIDEMIC IN AMERICA You hear about it on the news a lot. You might know a few people who suffer from it. But what is the opioid epidemic? It all started in the late 1990s when the pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers andContinue reading “OPIOID EPIDEMIC IN AMERICA”

Caffeine Crash Let’s face it, between the stress of work, life, family, and other things you feel your self drained on energy sometimes. You try many different cures like energy drinks, energy shots, quad strength coffees, and other herbal concoctions but they never work. Even if you try what I listed above they usually leaveContinue reading “Emergen -C shot”

Walking…We do it all day. At work and at home, it is an essential way to get around but did you know that it had so many benefits both mentally and physically. According to the Arthritis Foundation and the American Heart Association, some of the physical benefits include: Improve your circulation Stop the loss ofContinue reading “Walking and its benefits”

I’m back and this time I’m going to write about an item we got in our store. It’s called Spectacular Kola and it is made and marketed by Q Drinks out of Brooklyn, New York. The business was started by a group of friends getting together on a warm summer evening in New York City.Continue reading “Spectacular Kola”

Santa Cruz, a city situated on the northern part of the Monterey Bay is located across the Bay from Monterey. Present day Santa Cruz was originally a Spanish settlement in 1791. During that time they founded many local sites like Mission Santa Cruz which is located next to Holy Cross Church and the Villa deContinue reading “Santa Cruz(Holy Cross)”

As I sit here in front of the fire I think of how 2020 flew by. It went by like a bolt of lighting we had during the summer storms. I think it was the pandemic that made it go by so fast. I vividly remember at Christmas 2019 hearing how the Virus which startedContinue reading “Reflections in front of the Fire”