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February 28, 2015

Get Along Little Doggie

I love the gags that can be played around the little dachshund dog. Like the meme that goes around Facebook every now and then, of a dachshund puppy in a hot dog roll, like the photo below:

And the joke about why did the cowboy adopt a dachsund?

I like looking at pet halloween costumes online and in stores, and I’m always amused by how cute they are, and find myself wishing that my own pets would tolerate wearing something like that. My experience, however, has been that my pets do their best to remove whatever article of clothing I try to put on them! So I’m afraid that for me, it would be an exercise in frustration, and a waste of money to buy the costume for my pets.

October 19, 2014March 25, 2018

Fool me once shame on you

My sister asked me if I would help her to buy a beginner guitar for her son so she could give it to him for Christmas. She doesn’t have any credit or debit cards, or a paypal account to use to be able to order one online for herself. She has found the one that she wants, and she told me that she will get paid this Friday and give me the money to pay for it. I told her that when she gives me the money I’ll go ahead and order it and use my paypal account to pay for it. But I’m not going to order it before she pays me! I’ve been burnt before! Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me!

August 20, 2014March 25, 2018

Cute hand painted box

I was so excited to find this beautiful hand painted box for sale online when I was asked by my sister to help her find discount furniture at goods to furnish her new apartment. I don’t know how much the box costs, which is a little bit frustrating. The website doesn’t have a price listed, and has the notice to call them for a price. This puts me in mind of going to a restaurant and being given a menu without any prices listed.

June 28, 2014

Stocking up when the price is right

When Sandy told me that she was going to go online and order four boxes of rico alto sax reeds I told her that I thought she was crazy! There are twenty-five reeds in a box! One hundred reeds sounds like a life-time supply to me! But she told me that she has a couple of friends that will buy some off of her, and that she found them at a good price, and doesn’t want to take the chance of missing out on the good deal. She reminded me of the old adage “strike while the iron is hot.” I still think she’s crazy.

June 22, 2014

Sweet little machine that makes music

I can remember years ago when my mother brought home a large, electric organ. It was amazing how there were some buttons and pedals that she could push to make the instrument sound like a snare drum, or a trumpet, or a variety of instruments that I never would have thought would come out of something that looked so much like a piano! When I was looking at the zoom drums & percussion machine online today, and was reading about all of the things it can do, it brought back memories of my mother playing and demonstrating that electric organ the first day that she brought it home. Music has evolved so much since then – it really is amazing!

June 16, 2014

I hate when that happens!

Jerry asked me to help him pay for the purchase of a new e-mu keyboard for him to give Joshua for his birthday. I asked him how much did he need, and he asked me to chip in half. I decided to go online to find out more information about the keyboard, and typed in the link that Jerry gave me. The link, however, led to a page that said “no results.” I hate when that happens, and now I have to let Jerry know that I’m not going to chip in for anything until I see the details. I want to make sure that I’m not being taken advantage of. I hate when that happens!

April 29, 2014

No Chess

Most of the games that I play are on the computer and online, but I decided that it would be nice to have a chess set in the house. So at WalMart I looked in the toy section and even with 12 aisles of toys and games, I could not find a chess set. I guess WalMart does not attract the smart people who like to play chess and other intellectual games.

January 30, 2014

Luxury on your wrist

I was aghast when Shan was showing me some photos of these TAG Heuer watches that she found online. She was telling me that her husband had told her that his boss gave his wife one of the ladies watches from the website, and she was showing me the selection. I thought that the watches were nice looking, but I just cannot imagine having enough disposable income to put a luxury watch like that on my wrist! Just my luck I’d lose the watch a few days after getting it! Too rich for my blood, that’s for sure! But, I sure wish that I had enough disposable income to buy something like that! Must be nice!

January 8, 2014

I don’t need the attitude

When the Internet first came into our house, I never thought for a moment that I’d be using it to find bits and pieces of tooling supplies, mechanical parts, and hardware. But after a few trips to the local hardware store lately, where I got a lot of bad attitude from a rude cashier, I decided to go online and see if I could find what I needed without being subjected to a lot of aggravation. I found several sites that really had just about everything I needed, and their online catalogs were organized in such a way that really helped out a lot when I was trying to find specific pieces.

People complain about business being bad in town, and complain about how they are losing business to the Internet, and big box stores. Well, I’d like to suggest that they took a good, long, look at their employees and have a reality check when it comes to customer service. That is going to make or break the businesses, that is for sure!