I hate it when people forward bogus warnings, and I have even done it myself a couple times unintentionally... but this one is real, and it's important. So please send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list.
If someone comes to your front door saying they are checking for ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up, DO NOT DO IT!! THIS IS A SCAM!! They only want to see you naked.
I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Can You Hear Me Now?
Cell phones. Some would argue, the best technology that has ever been invented. I call it a necessary evil. I am one of a growing number of people who do not have a land line. I can't see the point in having one because most of my friends are like me in that they have cell phones only and they are in wacky area codes.
So I set out to purchase a cell phone this weekend. My current phone is starting to fall apart, literally. I think I have done pretty well since it looks like I bought my phone back in spring 2004. Three years and it's still working. I haven't had any problems with it and if I could I would buy this exact same phone again. But that's not how it works.
I tried to buy a phone last summer, but I was thwarted by the online buying process and Verizon's stupidity that I just gave up and let it go for another year. I have gone to look at phones a couple of times since then and have no been successful in that either. The sales person will start yapping at me which is where they go wrong. For some reason they do not understand the universal polite way to say leave me alone, "I'm just looking." That should turn them off, but in reality they try harder. I have walked away from two different sales people on two different occasions because they didn't get it and they pissed me off. I don't want to hear about all the things you think are cool. I want to play with the phones in silence and ask questions when I get them. Most sales people are trying to sell every other feature other than the ability to call someone which is the only one I care about.
I was reading reviews on cells phones yesterday with their ratings, pros, cons, etc. I thought it was odd in a funny sad way that a con for a phone now can be - "it takes fuzzy pictures". ??? It's a phone not a camera!!! But there are a number of reviews that are based around how well it takes pictures, movies, plays music, and everything else you wouldn't use a cell phone for. Can I just get a phone that makes phone calls? My features I would like include an alarm, a calculator, and speaker phone but it won't make or break the deal.
Today, I purchased the phone. It was easier than I thought it was going to be, however, the first store we went to was closed. Nice try, I pressed on. I got to my store in the Circuit City and just walked right up and said I want that phone. I am sure the Verizon rep felt this was the easiest sale in history. I picked out the phone charger and he rang it all up, I signed, paid, and got my phone. How neat it is! It makes constellations for me on my "front banner" aka - the outside of the phone screen. I can also choose from a whopping 10 ring tones thanks to the invention of buying ring tones online. Anything to make money. I can also apparently download music and listen to that as well. Why did I even invest in an IPOD? But amazingly enough, it makes and receives phone calls! Who would have thought?
So far, I am 100% impressed with this new fangled technology. The most impressive feature it has is that it also allowed me to capture a movie of Mike P. running around the dinner table and flicking me off the whole way. To purchase this video for whatever purpose you see fit, please contact me. Yes technology is wonderful.
So I set out to purchase a cell phone this weekend. My current phone is starting to fall apart, literally. I think I have done pretty well since it looks like I bought my phone back in spring 2004. Three years and it's still working. I haven't had any problems with it and if I could I would buy this exact same phone again. But that's not how it works.
I tried to buy a phone last summer, but I was thwarted by the online buying process and Verizon's stupidity that I just gave up and let it go for another year. I have gone to look at phones a couple of times since then and have no been successful in that either. The sales person will start yapping at me which is where they go wrong. For some reason they do not understand the universal polite way to say leave me alone, "I'm just looking." That should turn them off, but in reality they try harder. I have walked away from two different sales people on two different occasions because they didn't get it and they pissed me off. I don't want to hear about all the things you think are cool. I want to play with the phones in silence and ask questions when I get them. Most sales people are trying to sell every other feature other than the ability to call someone which is the only one I care about.
I was reading reviews on cells phones yesterday with their ratings, pros, cons, etc. I thought it was odd in a funny sad way that a con for a phone now can be - "it takes fuzzy pictures". ??? It's a phone not a camera!!! But there are a number of reviews that are based around how well it takes pictures, movies, plays music, and everything else you wouldn't use a cell phone for. Can I just get a phone that makes phone calls? My features I would like include an alarm, a calculator, and speaker phone but it won't make or break the deal.
Today, I purchased the phone. It was easier than I thought it was going to be, however, the first store we went to was closed. Nice try, I pressed on. I got to my store in the Circuit City and just walked right up and said I want that phone. I am sure the Verizon rep felt this was the easiest sale in history. I picked out the phone charger and he rang it all up, I signed, paid, and got my phone. How neat it is! It makes constellations for me on my "front banner" aka - the outside of the phone screen. I can also choose from a whopping 10 ring tones thanks to the invention of buying ring tones online. Anything to make money. I can also apparently download music and listen to that as well. Why did I even invest in an IPOD? But amazingly enough, it makes and receives phone calls! Who would have thought?
Soda vs. Pop
In my web surfing today I found an interesting website that put the carbonated beverage naming convention in a pretty color chart. It's called Generic Names of Soft Drinks by County.
As you can tell it's pretty concentrated in some areas and in others, I am surprised the next war of northern aggression hasn't broken out. It could get pretty heated while I was in college, which if you will notice Rochester, NY is located on the border of the blue and the yellow.
This was my argument, you call it a soda fountain and you get soda out of it, therefore it's soda. My logic is completely flawless. See how that works? Pretty nifty if you ask me. So what do you call it?
This was my argument, you call it a soda fountain and you get soda out of it, therefore it's soda. My logic is completely flawless. See how that works? Pretty nifty if you ask me. So what do you call it?
Monday, June 18, 2007
Cruising but no controlling
This latest blog has been inspired by our trip (or race if you will) back to Atlanta from the DC metro area. The Pennocks took one route and Rob and I dared to go out on a limb and try another new route. In the end, both got us back in about the same time, so it still takes forever to get from there to here. No magic fairy dust to sprinkle and go. :(
In all that forever time it takes to get from there to here, one must drive. Well unless you are do the rich people thing and fly, which would not take you forever and thus would imply you did not drive.
Driving on highways can be a crap shoot. Is the weather going to be nice? Will everyone play nice on the highway and there will be no accidents? Did DOT decide that section or road really needed a make-over? You just never know what you are in for. Rob and I had a compilation of a 2-hour sit on 85-N from a dump truck spill closing all northbound traffic for a few hours, a horrible thunderstorm slowing traffic to 30 mph with blinkers on, and heavy fog.
However I find the one of the more annoying things about driving on the highways is dealing with the people who refuse to use their cruise control. I am willing to say some cars still may not come with it, but the ones I have encountered ought to have it standard given the make and model. Now there are three reasons I have come up with for why someone would not use this fantabulous feature on their car.
1. Ignorance - completely unaware of their inability to hold a constant speed and or the fact they have such a device in their car.
2. Stubbornness - cruise control is for lazy people who don't know how to drive. I know how to drive and therefore don't need it.
3. THAT car - the one that can't stand being passed. If they are passed they pass you in return and eventually slow back down to where they were so that you pass them again, but not this time because they decided to speed up just enough... for a little while at least. Oie...
Pick any combination of those reasons above and you can play leap frog with a person for many many many miles on the road and you don't need to do a thing! Just set the cruise control and go. If I am on the highway for any length of time over 20 miles, you better bet that I will be using it. For one, my leg gets tired. Two - I know I can't hold a constant speed, I will start thinking about my grocery list or something and get distracted. Three - I don't want to be "that car". So remember! As part of highway safety - Be kind, use cruise control!
In all that forever time it takes to get from there to here, one must drive. Well unless you are do the rich people thing and fly, which would not take you forever and thus would imply you did not drive.
Driving on highways can be a crap shoot. Is the weather going to be nice? Will everyone play nice on the highway and there will be no accidents? Did DOT decide that section or road really needed a make-over? You just never know what you are in for. Rob and I had a compilation of a 2-hour sit on 85-N from a dump truck spill closing all northbound traffic for a few hours, a horrible thunderstorm slowing traffic to 30 mph with blinkers on, and heavy fog.
However I find the one of the more annoying things about driving on the highways is dealing with the people who refuse to use their cruise control. I am willing to say some cars still may not come with it, but the ones I have encountered ought to have it standard given the make and model. Now there are three reasons I have come up with for why someone would not use this fantabulous feature on their car.
1. Ignorance - completely unaware of their inability to hold a constant speed and or the fact they have such a device in their car.
2. Stubbornness - cruise control is for lazy people who don't know how to drive. I know how to drive and therefore don't need it.
3. THAT car - the one that can't stand being passed. If they are passed they pass you in return and eventually slow back down to where they were so that you pass them again, but not this time because they decided to speed up just enough... for a little while at least. Oie...
Pick any combination of those reasons above and you can play leap frog with a person for many many many miles on the road and you don't need to do a thing! Just set the cruise control and go. If I am on the highway for any length of time over 20 miles, you better bet that I will be using it. For one, my leg gets tired. Two - I know I can't hold a constant speed, I will start thinking about my grocery list or something and get distracted. Three - I don't want to be "that car". So remember! As part of highway safety - Be kind, use cruise control!
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Blogs Galore
Ok, so it seems that there has been quite some activity in the blog world. Not too long ago Amanda M. created a blog entitled Living the Life in Baton Rouge. Shortly after that Marie also joined in on the fun with her blog Coast to Coast. And lastly, while not a new blog, Holly has officially added me to her list of fun blogs to read. It dawned on me that I go to Rob's blog to get her link, so why not add hers to mine as well and make life simple? Hers is known as Toadfrogs and Elephants. I am predicting that Mike P. may have a harder time keeping up with all the statuses that he likes to give blogs on a whim so I am looking forward to the next few months. :)
Monday, June 11, 2007
Water + Seeds + Sun = Flowers (sometimes)
I have news to share about my 5th grade science project. Out of the 50 or so seeds I plants and tried to make grow, I was about 10% successful which I think is pretty good first time out. Who knew it was going to be so hard to keep things alive. I was really doing better than 10% but then I forgot to transfer them to the planter. Oh well. Lesson learned, plan on having no weddings going on while growing seeds.
I started this project in April and here it is some months later and I actually have a flower starting! I am like a proud parent. So excited that it lived and did something with it's life! I am sure I will treat all of my children's accomplishments this way. And like a proud parent I have a picture to prove mine kid is the most awesome.
I started this project in April and here it is some months later and I actually have a flower starting! I am like a proud parent. So excited that it lived and did something with it's life! I am sure I will treat all of my children's accomplishments this way. And like a proud parent I have a picture to prove mine kid is the most awesome.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Digital Fortress
I just finished reading Dan Brown's Digital Fortress less than 12 hours ago. I have read Angels and Demons, Da Vinci Code, and Deception Point by him as well. I enjoyed those books and that is why I plucked Digital Fortress from the used book store as another read.
I did not enjoy this book nearly as much as I enjoyed the others by him. I don't know if this was because the book was legitimately cheesy or if my book reading has matured and I need something with more substance. I believe it may have been a combo of the two.
Basically the book is about cryptography and what would happen if the NSA got a code it was unable to break. The topic sounded interesting enough, but in actual execution it lacked the thrill of what it promised. Since not everyone just knows about cryptography, it had to be explained. I don't believe this was done all that well. Then he made the elaborate scheme of who is the bad guy and after reading three of his books already, I knew who it was going to be. That took some fun out of it. Also, he tried to have a romantic undertone in the book which didn't really fit. The guy of the relationship was being chased in the book for about 10 chapters. That sucked because it just kept going. The real kicker though was how it ended. They had gotten one last clue to figure out in order to "save the world" and I got to the end before they did which is particularly annoying. I know some authors do it on purpose, but he doesn't strike me as the type. I may be wrong.
So overall, it was just ok. I wish I had just stuck with reading Harry Potter to gear up for the 7th book, but it was a nice break I guess. Oh well. :) It will at least be added to the list of books I have read this year, good, bad, or indifferent.
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