Tuesday, April 30, 2013
AARP, really
I got my first mailing from AARP today. I do believe I have a few years/decades to go yet before heading into retirement. At the rate my 401K is going, along with social security being pilfered to oblivion, it may be until I take a dirt nap. On the plus side, no bills.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Back to work -week one
Only been back from vacation a week and I am ready to go again. Back to ten to twelve hour days. Money is good, but it sure gets harder as the weather gets better. Living room floor turned out great. I still need to nail the trim in place, but it is all cleaned up ready to go. Tomorrow after work, I can get the air compressor and brad nailer out and get it done. Battery in Vette was dead last weekend, so I couldn't move it out of the way. Work has been so hectic, I haven't felt like doing it after work. May have hit the range Sunday for a little R and R. I may go safe shopping as well. Know which one I want, just have to see which of the two places that carry it has the best price. Now that the living room is done, it is ready for a new safe. The guns that don't fit in my other one will have a cozy safe home and I will have room for new toys.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
It's hell to get old
Woke up today and couldn't hardly move. All the crawling around yesterday ripping up carpet and putting flooring down had me sore just about everywhere. I did manage to get almost all of it done today though. Just need to put some trim and thresholds down and reinstall base boards. May do that tomorrow if I can still bend that low. Turned out great. Dog did his part laying on the boards, sitting in the pathway to the saw, asking to go out every few minutes. Not sure where I would be without all his help. Not sure if he likes it or not though. He loves going at a dead run as fast as he can doing laps through the house. Poor dog can't get traction on the wood flooring. Like watching a dog do a burn out. One day of vacation left. Still would like to hit Louisville gun show tomorrow, but I believe I will be recovering and trying to get the joints working again.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Oops, I tried to save money
Finally got around to ripping the carpet up in the living room and laying the wood floor. Now I have used Pergo with very good results, but, I had the bright idea to try the Roth Allen flooring at Lowes. What a mistake. I am laying 300 square feet and the Roth Allen crap was a dollar a foot cheaper. It looked great and the samples seemed OK. I spent a couple hours trying to get the stuff to lock and stay. I have laid a lot of tile and wood flooring so I am not new at it. I figured I could save about $300. Nope. I had cut to fit one full box and part of another trying to get it to work. In the end, I wound up taking the unopened boxes back and picked up the Pergo. When I got home, I started putting the replacement flooring down and actually got a good chunk of floor covered. Should finish tomorrow afternoon. Wish I hadn't have tried to save money. Wound up losing about $100, almost half a day labor and having to haul boxes back and pick up replacement supplies.
Check out was fun too. On the original purchase, my Lowes card had to be ran through a couple times and had to verify on the phone that it was me and I was buying something. Here I go the next day, take old flooring back and get it credited to account, get new flooring. head to check out. Card declined. Poor cashier is the same one I had yesterday when I had trouble with the card. She is going through the hoops again trying to get the purchase to go through. I finally just pay cash with money left from last weeks machine gun shoot. I get home and call Lowes. I get the Hindu help that speaks broken English on a bad connection after a wait. I ask what the problem is. Two days in a row I have problems out of my card that has a zero balance on it. I use it to get the discount. They give you a choice of a discount or 6 months same as cash, so I usually just put it on the card and pay it off when the card comes in. Well the Indian woman on the other end of the line is trying to figure it out. She asks me if I tried charging a grand today at a store. Yes, that is what I am calling about, it was rejected. Well sir, we didn't know if it was you or not so it was declined. ?????????? In the end, she said it is fixed???? what ever was broke. and all should be good now. I hate dealing with customer service that is farmed out to foreign countries. I have another issue with the card, I am going to see if the store has a way I can talk to an actual American worker who may have a clue. It happens again, I will start shopping Home Depot.
Check out was fun too. On the original purchase, my Lowes card had to be ran through a couple times and had to verify on the phone that it was me and I was buying something. Here I go the next day, take old flooring back and get it credited to account, get new flooring. head to check out. Card declined. Poor cashier is the same one I had yesterday when I had trouble with the card. She is going through the hoops again trying to get the purchase to go through. I finally just pay cash with money left from last weeks machine gun shoot. I get home and call Lowes. I get the Hindu help that speaks broken English on a bad connection after a wait. I ask what the problem is. Two days in a row I have problems out of my card that has a zero balance on it. I use it to get the discount. They give you a choice of a discount or 6 months same as cash, so I usually just put it on the card and pay it off when the card comes in. Well the Indian woman on the other end of the line is trying to figure it out. She asks me if I tried charging a grand today at a store. Yes, that is what I am calling about, it was rejected. Well sir, we didn't know if it was you or not so it was declined. ?????????? In the end, she said it is fixed???? what ever was broke. and all should be good now. I hate dealing with customer service that is farmed out to foreign countries. I have another issue with the card, I am going to see if the store has a way I can talk to an actual American worker who may have a clue. It happens again, I will start shopping Home Depot.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Oh oh, Gabby is pissed
http://news.yahoo.com/mark-kelly-gun-vote-gabby-angry-today-160735664--abc-news-politics.html
Please explain how Gabby and her husband can bitch about a bill not passing and judge other people for the same thing they do. Gabby's hubby bought an AR and some magazines (or clips as the libs like to call them) not long ago. It is all over the news, look it up. I HATE hypocrites with a passion.
He claimed in one article that he did it to prove how easy an "assault weapon" (what libtards call AR's) is to get. Real funny part is he was turned down the first time because his ID had an outdated address on it. Then, when he went back with new ID, he had to wait twenty days for a waiting period at the place he purchased it. Sounds really easy to get, doesn't it. Almost sounds like the background checks that are in place work, doesn't it? Worthless two face libtards.
The people have spoken. We called our congress critters. We wrote them. We donated to the NRA and other support groups. We won an uphill fight (at least temporarily) even with a billionaire and a group of mayors doing all they could to rig the vote. I am waiting for Donnelly to come up for a reelection. He wants to vote on party lines, he can go to Illinois where he would be appreciated and rewarded for it. I don't much care what they put up against him, they have my vote. I believe the democrats are in for a rude awakening in 2014, or at least I sincerely hope they are.
Please explain how Gabby and her husband can bitch about a bill not passing and judge other people for the same thing they do. Gabby's hubby bought an AR and some magazines (or clips as the libs like to call them) not long ago. It is all over the news, look it up. I HATE hypocrites with a passion.
He claimed in one article that he did it to prove how easy an "assault weapon" (what libtards call AR's) is to get. Real funny part is he was turned down the first time because his ID had an outdated address on it. Then, when he went back with new ID, he had to wait twenty days for a waiting period at the place he purchased it. Sounds really easy to get, doesn't it. Almost sounds like the background checks that are in place work, doesn't it? Worthless two face libtards.
The people have spoken. We called our congress critters. We wrote them. We donated to the NRA and other support groups. We won an uphill fight (at least temporarily) even with a billionaire and a group of mayors doing all they could to rig the vote. I am waiting for Donnelly to come up for a reelection. He wants to vote on party lines, he can go to Illinois where he would be appreciated and rewarded for it. I don't much care what they put up against him, they have my vote. I believe the democrats are in for a rude awakening in 2014, or at least I sincerely hope they are.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Waaaa Waaaaa
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-gunsbre93f00d-20130415,0,4643798.story
Oh no, Obama didn't get his way. That's OK, they will just keep pushing until they do. I am trying to figure out where I can purchase one of those rapid firing assault weapons they keep talking about. All I have are the regular semi-auto type AR's. You know, pull trigger, one shot, release, pull again another shot. Gee, I must be in the wrong stores. I purchased a couple more AR magazines while they are in stock, but I couldn't find any "clips". I really do wish the media could grasp the terms and use them properly. I do see the media has lowered the count from 90to only 80 percent of people want universal background checks. I don't know a single person who agrees with that, but, I do live in the southern part of a red state. I believe if they get it down to about 10 percent, they will have a more accurate number. And those 10 percent won't really understand what the universal check is. I am hoping ammo starts to come down a bit now that some of the stupidity has worked it's way through congress. I am also hoping voters remember to thank all the democrats as elections roll around. People have short attention spans so I am hoping the democrats keep the ball rolling for a while to keep it fresh in peoples minds. Some are beyond help. You will never see Illinois go red. Same with some of the places that have the new strict gun laws. People have not ousted any politicians, and, shamefully, they will ignorantly reinstate them again at the next election. Hard to feel sorry for people that will do that to themselves over and over again.
Oh no, Obama didn't get his way. That's OK, they will just keep pushing until they do. I am trying to figure out where I can purchase one of those rapid firing assault weapons they keep talking about. All I have are the regular semi-auto type AR's. You know, pull trigger, one shot, release, pull again another shot. Gee, I must be in the wrong stores. I purchased a couple more AR magazines while they are in stock, but I couldn't find any "clips". I really do wish the media could grasp the terms and use them properly. I do see the media has lowered the count from 90to only 80 percent of people want universal background checks. I don't know a single person who agrees with that, but, I do live in the southern part of a red state. I believe if they get it down to about 10 percent, they will have a more accurate number. And those 10 percent won't really understand what the universal check is. I am hoping ammo starts to come down a bit now that some of the stupidity has worked it's way through congress. I am also hoping voters remember to thank all the democrats as elections roll around. People have short attention spans so I am hoping the democrats keep the ball rolling for a while to keep it fresh in peoples minds. Some are beyond help. You will never see Illinois go red. Same with some of the places that have the new strict gun laws. People have not ousted any politicians, and, shamefully, they will ignorantly reinstate them again at the next election. Hard to feel sorry for people that will do that to themselves over and over again.
Yeahhhhhhhhh
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/a_three_sections_with_teasers/votes.htm
The vote came back no. No thanks to Donnelly who voted yes in both instances. He needs to be flogged. He needs to be kicked out on his ass. What needs to be done to recall a senator??? The bill died, but the treasonous democrats are not hanging at the end of a rope. Every yes vote against the constitution should be treated as an act of treason. They should be ousted immediately. I don't understand why the states that have recently adopted the strict gun laws don't have the politicians responsible looking for a new job. I am very thankful it died in the senate and hopefully they can get back to the economy, jobs or something that may have meaning.
The vote came back no. No thanks to Donnelly who voted yes in both instances. He needs to be flogged. He needs to be kicked out on his ass. What needs to be done to recall a senator??? The bill died, but the treasonous democrats are not hanging at the end of a rope. Every yes vote against the constitution should be treated as an act of treason. They should be ousted immediately. I don't understand why the states that have recently adopted the strict gun laws don't have the politicians responsible looking for a new job. I am very thankful it died in the senate and hopefully they can get back to the economy, jobs or something that may have meaning.
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