Year: 2012

Categories Rants

I have got to get switched off of Blogger

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The good news is I found instructions on how to switch back to the old Blogger interface, for any one else who needs those instructions go here? It was pretty easy after all once I knew where to look, oh well.

The bad news is that in the NEW interface you cannot turn off or on the Word Verification for comments.  WTF???  So at whatever point they force the switch you’re stuck with whatever settings you happen to have set for that.  Makes me wonder what ELSE they’re taking away the settings for…..

At any rate the Word Verification for commenting should be turned OFF.  If its NOT off please let me know.  The new one SUCKS to try to read, I’ve gotten it wrong so many times trying to comment places.  So off it goes, and I’ll just have to deal with spam as it happens I guess.

I will be paying for hosting sometime in the next month so I can set up my own blog without this sort of interference.  It’ll probly be some time after that before I actually switch, I will at that point attempt to make sure that everyone who has me on their blogroll is alerted to the change as well as leaving a link here in the last post.

Categories Apollo, Dog

Poor Apollo

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First something walks through his yard earlier this week sending him into protection overdrive.  He’s STILL carefully sniffing over, and then peeing on, the original scent mark in the front yard.

Then this morning two different sets of kids knock on the door selling stuff for school. He totally went nuts “somebodies at the DOOR and I didn’t hear them drive IN!!”. The second time worse than the first, the poor girl at the door about fainted when the giant barking head abruptly appeared at higher than her eye level at the door. Not sure she believed me when I said he’s friendly….

Now the poor giant puppy is flinching at every sound, jerking out of his nap to half bark, before realizing that its ok and going back to sleep……

Edited: I’m thinking we’re going to have to do some desensitizing to people “appearing” at the front door if he’s going to be this twitchy afterwards.  He’s ok if he gets the “warning” of hearing a vehicle in the drive, but when they walk up the first warning is the knock on the door….

Categories Links

Links

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$12,000 to pull a tree out of a stream.

How to make yourself a laughing stock.

Another disembodied foot.  At least they figured out who this one belonged to.

Peanut butter will not hide your pot.

Five miles is a long walk for a 10yr old, but they DID kick him off the bus.

Pedal powered school bus.

App to track when your caffeine dose will do you the most good.

Your parking lot is killing your kids.

High arsenic levels found in organic foods.  Excuse me for a moment while I laugh hysterically……

Categories Nothing Much

Health

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I had to laugh a bit at Brigid’s post this morning.

See, I just had a physical done, and all the assorted bloodwork that comes with that.  And I’m about 50lbs overweight.  Now mind, I hate being this much overweight, it does things to my knees (which are already screwy to begin with), it slows me down, and it gives my mother another thing to get on my case about (which again, she has no room to get on my case about, but thats a mother for you).

And yet, my doctor has never seriously gotten on my case about my weight.  Why?  Well, I do get daily aerobic exercise in the form of chasing the dogs around the yard, but thats not really it.  What really keeps my doctor off my back is the bloodwork results she gets back every year:

Complete blood count: normal
Chemistry Panel (kidney/liver function, etc): Normal
Thyroid: Normal
Total Cholesterol: 179 (should be under 200)
Triglycerides: 87 (should be less than 150)
LDL: 119 (normal should be less than 130)
HDL: 43 (normal for a male is 40 or higher, female is 50)

So this year my LDL is a hair higher than it was last year, and my HDL a bit lower.  I’ll look into what I can do to fix those, but even then the only thing thats “out of the ideal range” is my HDL, and that only barely.

Would I like to loose at least some of that 50lb?  Sure, and I keep plugging away at it.  But you know what?  I’m healthy despite it.  So phooey on all those major political figures who keep insisting that any extra weight is GOING TO KILL YOU, and *blows raspberry* at Michelle Obama.

Categories Bleg

Meat Grinder Bleg

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So….Husband and I have been debating getting a meat grinder.  The dogs are fed almost entirely raw, and it would be cheaper if we could do any meat grinding ourselves instead of buying it pre-ground (they get lots thats not ground, but you know….).  Plus we could grind our own hamburger for ourselves….Did some looking around, my local Tractor Supply has one for less than $50 (their site’s wonky today so I can’t link), lots and lots more for varying sums more than that.  But neither of us has ever really used one before, so…..

What we NEED:
a grinder that will grind beef, chicken, and possibly sundry other meats

What we think we’d LIKE:
a grinder that will not only do the above mentioned meats, but also light bones (ie chicken bones, rabbit, maybe turkey)

What we’re not sure on:
hand powered vs electrical.  As much as I’d like to stay with hand powered I’m less than confident that I have the hand strength to manage it should an extended grinding be needed, but then I’ve never used one to try either.  But electrical things always seem to break down….

We’d like to keep it under the $100 mark, but thats not set in stone, cost is an issue though.

Thoughts?  Things to watch out for?  Suggestions?

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Not sure they’ll get away with it, but I’m tempted to donate a dollar to help.

Sending out bogus court papers doesn’t generally end well.  Trust me.

Ok, the Superman undies are cute, but even I coulda told you not to strip search the kid without his parents’ permission.

OMG, Mickey Mouse is in the school!!!  LOCKDOWN!!!


How not to make your customers feel welcome.

I coulda told you this.  The next time I go in for a sinus infection I’m bringing a copy of this article….

And PROOF!!! Electric cars polute more than gas cars.

Categories Online Idiots

Email Spam

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I mentioned a while back that I try to go through the Spam folder once a week or so to make sure that nothing important got caught in there.  In that post I talked about the fake AARP offers…..

Well, I’m a little behind on my Spam folder, so how about we take a look at what I’m getting today:

Hey, AT&T wants me to buy a smart phone from them, but hey, the email is “microwave at whitegloveaudience.com”  how weird….

Match.com is trying to get me to sign up, except THEIR email is “innovativeoptimum at whitegloveaudience.com” ….


Orchard Bank wants me to get a credit card from them, from an email: “continental at whitegloveaudience.com”  



(I’m sensing a trend here….)


Hey, Overstock wants to me know about a sale…..from “logicalretrieve at whitegloveaudience.com” 


(hmmmmmmm)


Get a NEW CELL PHONE PLAN from an unnamed company with the email: “mostnamed at whitegloveaudience.com”

Hey, Lasik knows I have to wear glasses!!! (“assessment at whitegloveaudience.com”)

Hey, another AT&T add, at least this one used a different email host: “info at superiormanagementconsultant.com” 

Hey, I was thinking I needed a new dentist: “leisurevirtue at whitegloveaudience.com” 

WhiteGloveAudience also apparently does Christian Mingle, Affordable Healthcare rates, Golf Fuel, and probly a bunch more but I got tired of clicking on spam.  When I looked at the actual links that clicking would have taken me too, well, I won’t post them, but some of the titles were rather, um, adult looking, and the one “unsubscribe” I clicked on to see where it took me redirected to what sure LOOKED like an unsubscribe link….at a redirected address…..(no I did not put my email in it, though I’m tempted to put my boss’s in just to see what happens). 

The joys of digging through the spam bin….. 

Categories Apollo, Dog

Apollo is seriously upset about something

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I have no idea what either.

Took him out to go pee, and he started sniffing something on the ground, scent trail of some kind (not unusual, between neighbor dogs, coyotes and possibly foxes, not to mention other wildlife this is pretty normal).  He peed on it a couple times, but kept getting more and more agitated, till he finally dragged me back to the house, in the door, and proceeded to check every window and door he has access too.  He’s now switching back and forth between front and back windows searching for whatever it is….