(besides me :p) a Girl and Her Gun is offering up to $300 towards the cost of training, and a bunch of folks are offer ammo to go with it.
LInks
Chevy recalls cars for missing brake pads. I’m still trying to figure out how in heck no one noticed this.
FDLS not allowed sex till their leader is released. Apparently this was the last straw for an awful lot of people.
Verizon realizes that charging customers to pay their bills is a bad thing.
Man calls 911 after being run over. By a shopping cart, it ran over his foot.
Yet another person dead of the bird flu. Anyone read John Ringo’s Centurion?
Today’s links
Town decides only residents can sled there (and kids have to wear helmets). Seriously??
GoDaddy decides pissing off the internet is a bad idea. I seriously want to know what sort of response they THOUGHT they’d get.
WANT!!!!!!!
I was browsing the Gun Blog Blacklist and ran across someone linking to here. (of course I forgot to save a link to whoever it was that had it posted, arg) Damn. Maybe I need to go buy a Mega Millions or Powerball ticket….or better yet, have my husband do it, his luck is better than mine at such things.
Edited to add: I’d happily settle for this though.
Edited again: first house was found via Dum Vivimus, Vivamus, the 2nd came from a link at OldNFO.
To Tim Hortons USA Corporate
To the brilliant person who decided that busy corner needed one of your stores. Bravo. Thats a HUGE intersection with a ton of traffic, and no coffee or fast food of any kind for over a mile in any direction. You even designed the traffic flow in the parking lot such that it should work well in such a high traffic area. I was thrilled when I saw what was going in since I was having to go way out of my way to hit a Dunkin Donuts if I wanted something on my way to work.
To the idiot who decided to make the store a “small” store with a “limited menu”, I hope they fire you. Seriously. I can understand the lack of seating, but to essentially cut your menu in half, to the point where you don’t even carry everything on the drivethru menu (and aren’t GOING to carry everything on the drivethru menu) has got to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Especially in a location like that. And I don’t mean that you decided that location would only carry donuts/sweets/breakfast sandwiches with none of the main meal pieces, I mean you decided not to carry half the standard menu. AND THEN you put things on the drivethru menu that you aren’t EVER going to carry. Nice.
Well, I WAS thrilled to see the store going in. Instead you folks just lost yourselves a customer, one who was likely going to be stopping in several times a week on her way to work to buy a coffee and a snack for later. And I made sure to tell all my co-workers about your “limited menu” idiocy.
Not all AAA areas offer Tipsy Tows.
Did I mention that I hate people spreading miss-information?
So, a friend of a friend posted and shared that AAA is offering Tipsy Tows on New Years, NATION WIDE!!!!
Which isn’t actually the case.
So, the northern CA AAA (which covers northern Cali, Nevada and Utah) offers them on specific holidays. TX AAA offers them on New Years and 4th of July. Florida AAA (which covers FL, GA, and parts of TN) offers a Tow To Go on specific holidays (or they did as of almost two years ago when I worked for AAA, so I’m pretty confident of that info despite the information in the first linked article). The first linked article states that they actually checked with an AAA rep who told them that also Hawaii, New Mexico, and Alabama also offer Tipsy Tows. As far as I know none of the New England, New York or east coast AAAs (other than FL) offer Tipsy Tows at all. In fact in one article the North Carolina club states that they USED to do them and had to stop due to abuse of the system.
So if you happen to see that set of posts on Facebook do me a favor and tell folks to stop spreading incorrect information. The folks answering the phones at AAA overnight on New Years Eve/New Years morning will thank you.
If you think your area might offer them call your local AAA office to find out for sure (NOT the 800# in the articles, lookup the actual number for your actual local office, they’re going to have the most accurate information for your area).
Snow!!
The Abominable Snow Dog is THRILLED. Its drifted about a foot deep on the porch (where the picture was taken, he’s lying in it, first thing he did out the door was was flop and roll), two or three inches deep on the driveway. He was rather peeved when I made him come in. And of course, since this is our first REAL snowfall of the year (WTF? Seriously all we’ve had till now is trace amounts, normally we’ve had like 3 feet by now, instead its been so warm its coming down as rain) everyone was driving like they’d never seen snow before. Sigh.
Tam started it
She had to go list the top played songs on her Ipod.
- Gunpowder & Lead by Miranda Lambert
- Kiss This by Aaron Tippin
- Sic ’em On a Chicken by Zac Brown Band
- Toes by Zac Brown Band
- Drum Salute by Boghill & Bathgate Caledonia Pipe Band
- March Of Cambreadth by Heather Alexander
- Boondocks by Little Big Town
- Holler Back by The Lost Trailers
- Baby Girl by Sugerland
- Amazing Grace by The Canadian Scottish Regiment Pipes, et all
- Bones by Little Big Town
- Repent by SheDaisy
- Pour Me Trick Pony
- Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band
- The Fire by Chely Wright
- Welcome to the Family by Little Big Town
- Rough & Ready by Trace Adkins
- Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love by Trisha Yearwood
- Draggin’ the River by Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert
- Travelin’ Soldier by Dixie Chicks
- 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton
- Convoy by Paul Brandt
- The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Charlie Daniels
- Winterborn by Cruxshadows
- The Last Journey Home by Dragonforce
An awful lot of those I actually bought via ITunes, if someone there is paying attention they probably think I have multiple personalities. (note: I took the Christmas stuff out of the list, as its been overly inflated by being listened to alot this last month. Also note: since I have 6.5 days worth of music imported into ITunes I’m not really sure how this ended up being so reasonably representative of what I listen too, there isn’t really much missing style wise.)
Poor Apollo
He doesn’t like the bass from my computer’s sound system…….(and its a pretty decent sound system if I do say so myself). Guess I need to listen to music on it more often!