Yeah, haven’t posted in a while now, moved from Maine to Washington State so that has been eating up my time. I’ll post again soon. Maybe, Yeah I will.
Archive for the ‘Random Things’ Category
Thank you for adjusting your rates. I hated a good deal on getting streaming videos and DVD’s in the mail. Your new higher prices for someone like myself that probably watches 3 DVD’s a month is a much better deal.
Okay, enough for the sarcasm. Netflix raised their rates so I went streaming only and will get DVD’s/Blu-Ray discs as needed from Redbox. At the old rates I might have saved a little bit of money by doing this earlier. With the new rates it is a no brainer on saving some cash.
So thanks for helping me save some money and give a little extra cash to one of your competitors.
Before booking tickets through Cheap Tickets be aware that their customer service is both poor and can be expensive to deal with on any issues (my opinion). I won’t go into all of the details but in the end when I had travel issues it was much easier and cheaper to deal with the airlines directly instead of Cheap Tickets. This was in spite of the fact of the airlines advising me at first to deal directly with Cheap Tickets. Lesson learned, use a different travel booking site next time.
You have someone that yo been friends with for many years, through good and bad times, then “poof” nothing from them. Emails and text messages go unanswered, phone calls never returned. The person is still alive and okay, social media can be a good and bad thing at time, but for whatever reason has decided not to communicate with you any longer.
Something you said or did? You would hope that a true friend would tell you when something upsets them. Moved on in their life to a different spot? Maybe, but seems like you would expect the “courtesy” reply now and then.
Not much you can do but go on with your life, and wonder from time to time.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona has a new thing going, a “Mug Shot of the Day” website. I have no issue with doing a little public shaming of convicted criminals, but these people have not been convicted of anything, just merely charged. What happens if an innocent person ends up as the “Mug Shot of the Day”?
Lets look at a situation. Deputies arrive at a scene one Saturday night and see one guy is laying down in the street, covered in blood” and another guy is standing against a truck, also bloody. The deputies start questioning the guy standing and because of the adrenaline rush and catching a blow to the side of the side, he isn’t too coherent. The best deputies can make out at that time is something about “decking the guy”. The other guys plays the innocent victim (once the deputies wake him up) and says the guy jumped him and started beating him for no reason. Given this information and no other witnesses being present the deputies arrest the guy that was standing up and charge him with assault. The blood, cuts, and bruises make for a pretty site and he ends up as the “winner” for the “Mug Shot of the Day”. And now, the rest of the story.
A bank across the street has video cameras in their parking lot and a bank employee looking at some of the film from the weekend catches what happens and calls the sheriff’s department to turn over the film as evidence. What the film shows was the person charged with assault walking done the street and being confronted by the other man. He tries to back away, hands up in a submissive posture, when the man confronting him launches the big overhand haymaker at him, followed up with a blitz of punches. The film shows the man at first being startled by what happens and then defending himself. He manages to land a clean punch to the other guy’s head, dropping him, with the deputies on patrol showing up right after that. With this evidence the assault charges are dropped as it was determined it was self-defense, as the man claimed once he re0vered his senses.
Maybe this could happen, maybe it won’t, but an innocent person could see his picture plastered all over the internet. Friends and family members could be calling him about it. His employer could call him into the office for a discussion. Should he be able to sue for damages? Going to be interesting to see how this plays out.
I have a good friend that is doing the Relay For Life this year in Derry New Hampshire on June 24-25, 2011. To use her own words as to why she is doing this:
“On June 12, 2010 I lost the most amazing, wonderful, caring, warm, beautiful person… my mom… after almost 5 years to cancer. For years I had thought about joining a team, making donations or doing whatever I could think of to support the fight for cancer, but had never been able to do it, that is until mom passed. We need to find a cure, and I want to be a part of it. I’m doing this for my mom, my uncle, my friends, and all those that I don’t know. Won’t you join in helping me?
Cancer Sucks!”
Please help out if you can by donating to her cause.
Been purchasing lots of Starbucks for my Tassimo single serve coffee brewer. Why yo may ask? Kraft, the distributor of the Tassimo has lost Starbucks as one of the brands they carry.
A couple of years ago when I was looking for a single serve coffee maker, I looked at the Tassimo and the Keurig. The Keurig is the most popular brand but the Tassimo had several things going for it that I liked.
First it uses a pressured system to brew drinks. In my opinion this allows more flavor from the coffee grounds to enter the cup. Second it uses a bar code system to read what type of drink you are brewing and adjusts its brewing cycle to this specific drink. Lastly they had Starbucks. The Keurig lacked all three of these items.
Now you would think that with Starbucks being involved I would be able to go to my local Starbucks and purchase discs for the Tassimo. No such luck. In fact finding discs tended to be a major pain. The only reliable way to get them was direct order from Tassimo. No problem, i order them from Tassimo or got what i could find at my local Bed, Bath, and Beyond, only store that carried them in my area.
Now Starbucks finally got tired of Kraft’s lack of marketing and bolted. Keurig will carry Starbucks now and Starbucks will stock the K-cups the Keurig’s use as well as Keurig machines, something Kraft wouldn’t let them do with the Tassimo. Kraft with the Tassimo has their heads up their asses and will only carry coffe for the Tassimo that Kraft has sole marketing rights. Talk about shooting yoruself in the foot.
So stocking up on Starbucks and as soon as they are done I’ll probably purchase a Keurig unless Tassimo starts to carry a good coffee. Sorry Kraft/Tassimo, Maxwell House doesn’t do it for me.
Larry Lucas, representative for All In Energy Drink, made a promise to Deadlifts and Dresses to fund 1000 calendars. To date Mr. Lucas has failed to do so and n fact is going out of his way even reply to questions about his promise. I e-mailed him last year about this issue and never got a response.
Mr. Lucas, you need to honor the promises you made on behalf of All In Energy drink.
With the start of a new year there is a tradition to set a resolution or resolutions for the new year, lose weight, get in shape, or quit smoking are examples. While a noble effort I would suggest setting goals instead of resolutions. And when setting goals, make them SMART goals. SMART being a mnemonic for:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Realistic
- Timely
Too often when setting goals people miss one or more of these points. A good way to avoid doing this is write everything down. Write down the specifics of the goal, how you will measure it, is it attainable and how you will attain the goal, is it possible for you to reach this goal and why, and the time time frame for reaching this goal.
There you go, set goals for the new year, not resolutions.
No surprise that Mike Singletary is gone from the 49′ers, just wasn’t doing anything.
Giants get my vote for biggest collapse at season end.
Seahawks could win the NFC West and make the playoffs with a record of 7-9, go Hawks!
I was impressed with Sam Bradford in the first game of the year, he looked like a professional quarterback. He should get rookie of the year.
Glad Time Tebow is getting some playig time to show what he is made of. He will be a good quarterback and seems to have the respect of his teammates already. I wish the Seahawks would have drafted him.
Speaking of the Seahawks, linemen and a quarterback should be the concerns in the off season and for the draft.