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In which National City caves (Satisfaction part 2)
Oh yes National City, you WILL be mine. Following up on the post from the other day, here are the updates on my saga with National City. Attempt 7: Going back on what the lady in Attempt 6, I called up what is apparently my “home branch”, which is where I opened the account some…
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I will not GIVE you the satisfaction
So a friend of ours was talking to Carolyn the other day. She was telling us a story from a few years ago. Apparently she got upset that she was the only one doing the dishes and that her husband never did them. So one day she decided to go “on strike” (i.e. not wash…
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A few points to clarify
#1. I’ll post when I’m good and ready.#2. The goals bar only gets updated when I remember#3. Exercising isn’t even one of the goals on the goals bar anyways.#4. I can’t believe that my “stalker” wasn’t Ray.
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College Football
So last night was the big bad Bowl Championship Series National Championship game. Long title, huh? Wait, I think I missed a “Presented by Allstate” or a “dot com” or a “your mom” Anyway, it was LSU vs. Ohio State. I have to say I am not a big Ohio State fan, but I marginally…
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Dear Active.com – you suck
Active.com – you are dead to me. For a few years I have been using CoolRunning.com as my exercise logger. For the past few months I have seen notices that they would be migrating their data over to Active.com. The “transition” was this past weekend and boy did it go badly. Much of the data…
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School bui
The plural of bus of course is bui. Just ask Vanilla Ice. In any case, we had the first snow of the year here today. There were lots of schools closed or delayed, though our schools were not affected. The roads were not very bad IMO at least in our part of town. While at…
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Toilet Paper Investigative Journalism
<br> Words you thought you might never see in the same sentence? Yes folks, it is time for some investigative journalism that TPMHTDM is known for. Well, er, maybe. I come to you on the mighty subject of toilet paper. We all use it, but nobody is ready to ask the hard-hitting questions that the…
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Post Office and Library
So, one of the things that we’ve been doing off and on is cleaning our basement. Mostly, just de-cluttering all the JUNK that has accumulated there over the past 5 years or so. So one of the things that I found was a package of 24 “aerogrammes”. I had these from my mission – the…
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Kickball
Okay, a little late, but I thought it worthwhile to take a bit of time to report on the kickball tournament that I mentioned in my last post. There was some talk going back and forth in the morning about whether or not we were going to play. It had rained the last 2 nights,…
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National Employee Health and Fitness Week
So this week at work we are celebrating National Employee Health and Fitness week. Every day this week there are various events that the company is putting on, generally over lunch. Monday, there was a wiffleball tournament. Yesterday there was a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, cornhole, punt pass and kick, and a dunk tank. Today, a…