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Care Packages

rmiles7721September 23, 2007Uncategorized

A while back we sent a couple of care packages to our nephew in Iraq. He has thus far received one of them and thoroughly enjoyed the contents which ranged from snacks and libations to toothbrushes and stuff. It took right around a month to get to him, which could be worse I suppose. We have sent him another one more recently but he hasn’t received it yet. I guess now that my son is in the military we will end up sending quite a few more care packages each month.

As much as I enjoy sending out the care packages it can be a pain to try and get everything together and packaged properly for a long trip. There is a website at CookiesAmore.com that will ship care packages to our soldiers for you. Show Your Support of Our Troops! CookiesAmore has several different type of care packages that include different types of snacks for soldiers with and without a sweet tooth.

Some of theses guys (and ladies) spend a year or more away from their families and friends and even away from people that speak the same language. One of the coolest things that you can do to show your support for the members of our military is to send them a care package.

Talking Jesus Action Figure

rmiles7721September 23, 20071Site News

Now we just need a Santa action figure to fight him…


Too Drunk to ????

rmiles7721September 22, 2007Parenting/Family

It’s definitely weird to try and write after several beers. Thank goodness for the spell-checking plugin I use with Firefox. We’ve had a pretty good time a the Marine’s going away party. As much as I talk about beer, I am actually pretty much a lightweight. I am on my 6th or 7th beer and am pretty much toast. The only down side to this is that I have to be up at 4:30 tomorrow morning.

I have to call all of the store pretty shortly and hope that they are staffed. I am most certainly not in the condition to drive to work if someone hasn’t shown up or calls in, which is unfortunately exactly what will happen if I get hung tonight.

No matter what happens we have had a pretty good time, although I think I might try to hit the sack at a decent time.

Just got off the phone with my stores and they are all staffed. I’m either going out for another beer or I am going to hit the sack…

Party On…

rmiles7721September 22, 2007Home & Garden

Only one person hung me today and I have taken her off the rest of the week. Amazingly enough for a Saturday I made it home at a decent time. I even had time to stop and get ice and chips for the party. Right now I am just drinking coffee, although once the Sam Adams Oktoberfest is cold enough I will have to break into that.

Party on…

Need More SLeep…

rmiles7721September 22, 20071Blogging

I have a ton of writing that I want to do but as I sit down at the keyboard I just don’t feel like doing any of it. Part of it is that I have had a long week full of long days and I am worn out. I sat down to write a couple of things before I have to go to work but I think that perhaps I will just reset my alarm on the cell phone and go lie back down for another 45 minutes or so…

The party is tonight so although I am sure that I will be posting tweets and the occasional picture, this is about it until tomorrow.

Sometimes Customer Service Sucks

rmiles7721September 21, 2007Site News

I ordered some parts for my gas grill a couple of days ago and paid for next day air. As a matter of fact I paid more for the damned delivery charges than I did for the parts themselves. I gave them very specific instructions that if they couldn’t get the parts for me today then they just need to cancel the order. Get them to me they did. Too bad they sent the wrong parts. I ordered a burner and the two venturi things that hook to the gas lines. The burner that they sent me doesn’t even remotely look like the one that I ordered and the venturi pair won’t even fit the damn thing. I guess someone must have smoked a bit too much dope before packing the box.

I called and called and called and called and of course they don’t answer the phone, so I have emailed clagrills.com and told them that they need to send me an RMA airbill so that I can send these parts back and that as long as they refund my shipping costs they could send me the correct parts. If they can’t do that they just need to send me my damn money back. Although for the party tomorrow we are just doing cold cuts and party trays I had planned on grilling steaks for the Marine Sunday night since he has to go back the next day.

I hate it when things don’t go the way I think they should go.

Two Arrested in Noose Incident

rmiles7721September 21, 2007Site News

Police in Alexandria Louisiana, a few miles from Jena and host to several demonstrations in answer to the Jena 6 stuff that has been going on have arrested 18-year-old Jeremiah Munsen and a minor for driving intoxicated and hanging two nooses from the back of his pickup. Apparently he also had an unloaded rifle in the truck, which would be fairly common for the area anyway.

Apparently Munsen kept cruising the demonstration slowly and police have also charged him with inciting to riot as well as the DUI.

Just one more redneck asshat.

The Gulf Coast Readies for a Tropical Storm

rmiles7721September 21, 2007Site News

Tropical winds and rain will be reaching the gulf coast someplace between the Florida Panhandle and Mississippi by midday Saturday.

According to Weather.com the subtropical depression is about 50 miles southwest of Appalachicola right now and moving to the northwest.

Much Better Day…

rmiles7721September 21, 2007Site News

Yesterday ended up being a much better day than the previous one was. I didn’t get much sleep the night before last so was pretty worn out by the time I hit the sack last night. I no longer have a manager in my store where I have had so many problems. That is a good thing believe it or not. It gives me the opportunity to start trying to fix things there and actually start making some money. It will be at least week before I get a manager in there, which makes it kind of rough since I have one of them off today and tomorrow and another on on Tuesday and Wednesday. As long as everyone shows up for work tomorrow I’m cool.

We are still planning on having our party tomorrow afternoon for the Marine. I am looking forward to it and just wish I were off on Sunday. If all goes well I will sleep in on Sunday morning and head in to work around 8AM. I will just have to wait and see about that one.

I just found out last night that one of the other two district managers is on vacation the same weekend I am supposed to be in Helen, which sucks. I am still planning on attending but I may end up not being able to go. I have really been looking forward to that weekend and am going to make every attempt to get there. I’m going to speak with my boss today and try to work that one out, but changing her vacation date is not going to happen.

Resident Computer Geek

rmiles7721September 21, 2007Technology

It’s somewhat funny. Every time someone at work has a computer issue they always end up coming to me. I don’t mind answering questions and stuff but I really don’t have the time to fool with fixing them anymore and have had to tell several people that. I do have one here that I seem to have had forever that I am almost done with. I am going to have to move it out of the kitchen for the party though.

Apparently one of my waitresses has a Thinkpad because yesterday she asked me where to buy IBM memory for them, as if I had some kind of secret pipeline. I told her that if she could do the upgrade herself to just do a search online, otherwise she needed to take it back where she bought it and talk with them.