Archive for June, 2010


Needed a jeweler

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Computers and/or Internet, General Life, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
June 24, 2010

About ten days ago I bought a couple of pretty bracelets from Ebay.  They were identical, and I loved them.  The only problem was that they were both two large for my slender wrists.  Having only started working in town a few months ago, I had no idea where I could find a local jeweler to help me out.  I wanted to take a couple of links out of one bracelet and put them in the other so that I’d have a matching set of a bracelet and an anklet.

I asked the other girls at work where we kept the local yellowpages book, but when they pulled it out from under the counter I saw that the book was over six years old!  I don’t think it was exactly up to date on which local businesses were still up and running!  One of the ladies told me that there was a jeweler in the shopping center across town, but when I drove past it on my way home tonight I saw that the jeweler had gone out of business.  So I’m going to try to find one using the local.com search engine.  I’m tired of wasting my time trying to find a jeweler!

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Rogaine thefts

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Computers and/or Internet, Educational, General Life, Shopping by Paige — Leave a comment
June 24, 2010

A couple of days ago one of the shift supervisors came back into the pharmacy and asked the pharmacist if there was some illegal use of Rogaine where people could use it to make some kind of new designer drug. Apparently someone had stolen almost all of the Rogaine from our store. We’d never heard of anything like that before! So when I got home I went online and tried to find out what I could about why someone would steal Rogaine. Apparently this is a widespread problem in many stores. People are stealing Rogaine and then selling it on the streets, and then using the money for whatever they want to buy. I just don’t understand why there would be such a strong market for stolen Rogaine – there is a cheap generic on the market. Doesn’t seem like it would be worth the risk of getting caught!  But then again, I’m a straight-shooter and find it hard to justify any kind of thefts…..

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E-Trade Commercial

Filed Under: Computers and/or Internet, Entertainment and Fun, Friends and/or family, General Life, Shopping, Technology by Paige — Leave a comment
June 23, 2010

Post written by my friend Stanley Harrell

One of my favorite commercials is where the E-Trade baby talks about the ease of trading stocks online, and then throws up all over himself when he‘s done. This really caught me by surprise, even more so than the baby talking like an adult. I laughed for quite some time after watching the baby vomit on himself, it was just a great shock thriller.

I remember watching the commercial quite well actually. I was enjoying a night in and was watching my Direct.TV satellite TV with my girlfriend when the commercial came on. We were first blown away when the baby opened his little mouth and had sounded like an adult. This was really great entertainment. We really began to lose it when he started talking about trading stocks online. And when the baby clicked the computer mouse and said he just traded stocks, we both calmly laughed a little bit. We both loved the baby so much. And then the unthinkable happened, the baby puked. I thought this was really funny, but my girlfriend was kind of grossed out. I don’t think she laughed too much after that, and I don’t really think she likes the commercial anymore. The puke scene really made the commercial entertaining and enjoyable. I look forward to the next E-trade commercial. I can’t wait!

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Counterfeit

Filed Under: Business and/or Work, Money and finances by Paige — Leave a comment
June 23, 2010

A few days ago we were told that the bank found a counterfeit $50 bill in our deposit. So now we’ve been told we have to use our counterfeit detecting markers on all $50 and $100 bills. That’s all well and good, but we weren’t given any counterfeit detecting markers! I can’t remember ever seeing a counterfeit bill. There was a “counterfeit” bill hanging on a wall in an office that I used to work in, but there was not explanation as to what was obviously counterfeit about it.

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Water in the Basement

Filed Under: Home and Garden by Paige — Leave a comment
June 15, 2010

Guest blog written by Darcy Kindle

The basement was getting wet every time there was a lot of rain. The water would leak through the cracked cement of the part of the driveway nearest the garage door. The driveway was angled which didn’t help. The drainage hole could not handle the amount of water and when filled it ran over the hole, through the garage into the playroom and through the floor to the sub basement.

It was an expensive but good job that was finally accomplished. The French Drain was put in and it has never leaked since. It was a couple days work on the part of sears home pro improvement. The driveway had to be broken and the pipe from above had to be put in and then down to the basement. The perimeter of the basement floor had to be broken as part of the construction of the French Drain.

It is a pleasure not having to check downstairs every rain and especially during the summer and fall downpours. As a way of explaining better, the water comes down the pipes into the sub basement and back into the soil. When the rain is just too much and the French Drain fills, there is a pump already installed for the below ground bathroom which pumps the excess water away.

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