Category: rants and raves

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All you could ask for

Usually a web site only contains one satellite service but not this web site. Direct TV Questions are answered on there as well and Dish network.  You don’t have to do any comparison shopping because  Kaptain Satellite compares them for you.

I don’t know about you but I’m sick and tired of my cable service because they change their rates so ofter and you get better packages from satellite TV I have found.  I would rather be watching something I like than stuck with having to get a bunch of channels that I don’t watch just to get one I do like.  How about you?

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I love this!!!

I have never been on an air plane that has done the announcements like this one did.  I think I need to check out this airline.  They are known for their unusual way or I should say unique way of doing their announcements.  I loved this and just had to share it with you.  Have any of you ever flown with this airline before?

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This is the coolest thing I have ever seen

Animals absolutely amaze me.  The Cameleon is one of the strangest creatures God ever created.  I knew they changed colors to camouflage themselves to their surroundings but I had no idea just how fast they could change colors or the extent of the colors they could adapt to.  You have to watch this video.  It will blow your mind.  I know it did mine.

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Mom and her online shopping!

I can not believe how quickly my mother took to online shopping.  She’s become the online shopping queen.  She finds things I haven’t even found yet, can you imagine that?  Like I have been telling you, she’s redoing everything.  She found the bedding and bed linens at great prices online that she has on her new bed.  She even found the furniture and mattress online too.

She hasn’t stopped there.  When my nephew needed some baby bedding and linens for his bed, you guessed it, she found them online too.  Most of her home decor was found online and she has a beautiful home because of it.  Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  Sorry Mom, I didn’t mean to call you an old dog!!!

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How to save some American jobs and we can help!

I got this in an email and thought it needed to be shared by any means possible. Here’s what the email read:

I want to share with you some great information that I found out purely by accident. I believe it can also save and create jobs in America while giving people better customer service.

So how many times have you called a company’s service phone line and found that the rep. can barely speak English? Once with a major mortgage company it was so bad I demanded to speak with someone who spoke English. Right at that moment I broke the code, the secret password for customer service.

Come to find out that every American company using overseas operators must transfer you to an American rep. by saying…….” I want to speak to a representative in America “. (Don’t take no for an answer on this)

This was confirmed by the American rep. that they must transfer you after that request. I’ve tried it on a half a dozen major companies including cable, bank, phone and mortgage companies. It works every time and I actually get my issues taken care of.

Last thing to help save even more jobs…. don’t use the automated check out lanes they are pushing at the big box stores. Once again I found out that if we use those check outs rather than cashiers people loose their jobs too. I’ve refused to use the automated check outs and have had two cashiers already thank me for help saving their job.

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Well darn it’s raining again

This is sure to put a damper on some peoples cookouts they had planned today unless it stops raining before they had their cookout planned.  I love the way everything smells after it has rained but I am so very tired of rain.  I don’t think I have ever seen it rain so much in May before.

Well at least we’re getting ahead of what we need for the year so maybe we wont’ have another drought year.  Besides, rain always makes the grass grow and turn a beautiful green.  But then there’s all of the extra mowing so I guess you just can’t win either way.

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You have got to be kidding me!

My sister had me stop by after work so she could show me the American Idol finale.  I just knew Adam would win.  Did you see it?  I thought he out sang the lead singer of Kiss!!!  He was great.  Then when they announce the winner, it was Kris?  The judges thought for sure Adam would win and even Kris said that Adam should have won.  That’s okay, he’ll make it huge, you just wait and see.  In fact, I bet Slash will have him as the lead singer of his new group since he doesn’t have a lead singer yet.  I just had to share Adam with Kiss with you.  Enjoy!!!

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Thinking about going to Myrtle Beach this summer

Even though my mother has a beach house on the Virginia coast, I have been thinking about going to Myrtle Beach this summer with a couple of my friends.  We were checking out Myrtle Beach Resorts online and man there are some really nice ones down there.  If the three of us go and split the cost, it won’t cost us that much each to have a blast.  Even the Myrtel Beach Hotels are beautiful.  There are some that have great views of the beach and are high rise at that.  Some have jacuzzi tubs and all the extras you would ever want.

We haven’t decided just where we want to stay right now but we are all leaning more towards a Myrtle Beach Resort rather than a hotel.  The resort we were looking at is really close to all of the hot entertainment sites too.  I am so excited about going to Myrtle Beach.  At least it’s not the same old beach I have been going to since I was a kid.

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Mom’s at it again

Mom sent me another joke and I just thought I would die laughing.  I had to share it with you.

Elderly Road Trip….(Remind you of anyone you know?)

While on a road trip, an elderly couple stopped at a roadside restaurant for lunch. After finishing their meal, they left the restaurant, and resumed their trip. When leaving, the elderly woman unknowingly left her glasses on the table, and she didn’t miss them until they had been driving about forty minutes.

By then, to add to the aggravation, they had to travel quite a distance before they could find a place to turn around, in order to return to the restaurant to retrieve her glasses..  All the way back, the elderly husband became the classic grouchy old man…He fussed and complained, and scolded his wife relentlessly during the entire return drive.  The more he chided her, the more agitated he became. He just wouldn’t let up one minute.

To her relief, they finally arrived at the restaurant. As the woman got out of the car, and hurried inside to retrieve her glasses, the old geezer yelled to her, ‘While you’re in there, you might as well get my hat and the credit card.’

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This proves that not all bankers are heartless!!

With the economy in the shape it’s in and the banks being so stingy with the money they are supposed to be lending out, well bankers are appearing as a bit ‘heartless’.  Well when I saw this, I knew that this was one banker that had a heart of gold or he sure wouldn’t have done what he did.  You probably saw it on the news but just in case you didn’t, here it is: