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Carrying a murse is not a crime

Karrde — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:27:41 +0000

And to that point I say FUCK YOU Burlington Coat Factory.

Carying a murse is not a crime

Frankly I’m tired of the discrimination. On the left we have my wife’s purse. On the right we have my murse, or man-bag, or whatever you want to call it. See much of a size difference? Didn’t think so.

So anyway, my wife needed a new lightweight coat. After a few failed attempts at department stores we decided to try a “coat” place. Shortly after dinner we headed out to BCF. Upon entering we were approached my a gentleman from the fron of the store asking to check my bag. I then asked him if he was going to chek my wife’s purse, the response was no. I then politely informed him that he was not going to check my bag. He continued to press the issue, citing “company policy”. I pointed out that my wife’s purse was just as big as my bag, and that whatever I could steal she could steal just as easy. Since he continued to press the issue stating company policy I chose to leave the store, and doubt I will ever return.

This isn’t the first time this has happened to me since I started carying my murse. But damnit I like to do something to make it the last. I doubt the local news agencies consumer rights reporting will touch this as I haven’t been cheated out of anything, but I’m not sure where to go. I can address it with this one company by contacting thier corporate offices. But what are they going to give me, and I’m very disinclined to go back to the store anyway.

… on wind and neighbors.

Karrde — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:20:30 +0000

Two things that aren’t usually bad per say, but when combined can lead to dreadful results.

Weather was quite crazy yesterday, with winds up to 30 mph at times and gusts past that. Big flat things interact poorly with strong wind. Fences among them… old fences espically. In the 12 years we’ve lived in the house we’ve replaced almost all of the fence in the back yard. The only section remaining is between us and our neighbor on the left. By common “definition” the owner of a fence is the side where the posts and rails are, so this section of fence belongs to them. This is where I have to admit that I don’t know many of my neighbors well, and couldn’t tell you if the residents of the house own or rent.

Regardless, sometime yesterday the wind blew out a plank of the fence large enough for the dogs to get through. Now usually this wouldn’t be too big of a problem. We might realise it, the neighbors might see the dogs and realise it, but they were going from one yard to the other. Unfortuneatly these neighbors don’t close thier gate, so the dogs just strolled right out.

The mind can be a funny thing. Lisa swears that the dogs were underfoot while she was cooking. Elise swears that Jazz as curled up on the couch with her before she left for work. Neither of these things are possible since Animal Control picked them up about 12:30. I had the “excuse” that I was upstaris most of the time, and a quiet afternoon is never unappreciated. The doggy-door is always open, so it’s not like any of us have to let them in and out. Quite often they snuggle into thier crates and snooze the day away. So when I went to go feed them at 6pm…

After a little bit of searching through the neighborhood we got a story from someone that at least Missy was at Animal Control. We hopped in the truck and went to see if she was there, but they were closed for the evening. We headed back home and looked around a bit more. Lisa decided to head to the house that supposedly called Animal Control. It was the right house, and she was so sorry, but she couldn’t have kept missy at her house with her big lab. She had knocked on all the houses on the street and cul-de-sacs… except for our house and the house to the right, the first two houses on the street. She also informed us that after AC picked up Missy from her, they found Jazz on the street and took both of them in.

So, it’s 7pm, and AC doesn’t open until 11am, with no-one to call to confirm. So I head out as soon as reasonable, getting there a bit early, and wait for the doors to open. Thankfully they were there and physically fine. Someone had the foresight to place them in the same pen, so at least they had each other. After a little bit of paperwork, of the white and green kind, I went back and took them home. They got in the door and were a bit clingly for a while (understandaby so), so I sat with them and gave them the attention they needed. After some water and a trip out back, they both curled up in their crates and zonked out, not even touching the food I gave them.

Movies and such….

Karrde — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:16:05 +0000

As I sat at my computer lastnight watching Underworld: Evolution a few things crossed my mind.

First and formost, was that I was glad I didn’t waste money to to see this in theaters. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll buy it and it’ll sit right next to Underworld on the DVD shelf. But I’m glad that I didn’t spend $25 on movies and popcorn, to sit in a crowded room with incosiderate jerks.

But anyway…

I’ve always been a “Letterbox” snob. Even in the days of VHS tapes, if I could get a movie in letterbox I did. And my recent episode of not paying attention when I picked up Serenity, purchasing the fullscreen, and not being able to get a widescreen at Best Buy for a month (and still having to buy it elsewhere) frustrates me that movies are still released as such. When more widescreen TVs are being sold than standard. When mandates for the broadcast of digital/widescreen TV stations are right around the corner (even if they do keep pushing them back). Why or why is it necessary to release a movie in other than it’s original aspect ratio. But then I watch U:E at 2.35:1 aspect ratio on my 17″ monitor, and maybe I do understand a little. I’m probably just spoiled.

Back to incosiderate jerks. I limit what I will and won’t go to in the theaters nowadays because of them. And then I do try to go when the posibilities of them is reduced. So I was thinking that there wouldn’t be any movies that I’d actually want to see this year, guess I was wrong though. X-Men 3 comes out, though probably to my DVD player. Pirates of the Caribbean 2… a must see. Ice Age 2, I can hope it’ll live up to the original.

What’s your movie list look like?

I hate computers.

Karrde — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:09:25 +0000

Replacing the computer for this server should have been an easy process. I had a new computer ready to go, just needed to swap a couple of aprts from the old to the new. Not a big deal, do it all the time.

Of course this computer happend to be in a building out of the way for both myself and the people who let me put it there. And because I’m not directly authorised, must be escorted into the server room. So timeing issues to get out there.

Then I get there, start swaping out the parts, Hard Drives, Network card, video card…. why won’t the video card go in??? You see at some point in time computer manufactures decided that AGP video cards ran at the “wrong” voltage, so they switched them from 5V to 3.3V or is it the other way around. So you call things the same, they work the same, but they just slightly incompatable. My luck struck again.

So I trek off to CompUSA to pick up a part, would you believe that the cheapest vido card they had was $30. You’d think that workign with computers every day I’d be used to this….

I must be an idiot!

Karrde — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:06:39 +0000

Despite being great game by a friend of mine, this is not what this is about.

I just can’t seem to do anything right this past week, I’ll blame my cold.

I tried to make muffins last night, and I wanted to use the recipe from IJHFMF. So I pop open the book to the “muffin method” and look at the recipe. Hardware, check. Ingredients, check. Start assembling the ingredients. Flour sugar, eggs, oil, yogurt…… YOGURT?!?!?!????

I swear to god that wasn’t there when I started the recipe… and of course none in the house. So we try to substitute Sour cream… not perfect, but a good general substitute. So what to go in the muffins, cranberries or blackberries. Despite mild objections from other parties I go with the cranberries. Sometimes I should listen. Cranberries were way to tart, combined with the fact that this is a log sugar recipe to begin with and I’m sure sour cream over yogurt supplied some extra twang.

Muffins… complete failure.

So did I mention I’m going back to school. Well since a few of us are at it, and books are so expensive at the school bookstore I ordered from amazon. Since I was ordering “used” the shipments actually come from various locations, so our books have trickled in over the past week. Well classes started Monday, and we still hadn’t received my Accounting book. So I go to Amazon to look up the order and find who to send an email to. Insurance billing, Psychology, Nutrition, Statistics….. why is there no accounting book on this list…. $150 to the campus bookstore… grumble grumble grumble.

Verdict withheld on the success of this class.