Great Deal?? Not if Home Depot has their way!!!! ONE MONTH FOR SHIPPING IS RIDICULOUS!!! = NO PRESENT FOR TIMMY!!!

I ordered what I think is a steal of a deal from Home Depot! When did this occur? you might ask. Well on cyber Monday, Nov. 27th, of course. By the time I found out about the great deals most of them were gone. I did find a $50 Ryobi Laser Level Kit (see picture) for $10 though so I snagged me three of them. One for me and two for gifts. Well today, Dec. 12th, I checked the status on the order for the umpteenth time and it still stated "processing." Finally, with much hesitation I called Home Depot's customer service number I got with the conformation email. After an excruciating ten minutes of horrible Christmas Hold Music, I talked to a very nice woman that played extremely stupid with me, saying she couldn't do anything for me except send the warehouse an email asking 'what's up' and that would take 72 hours. When I told her I ordered the product on the 27th of November and I needed my package by Christmas she said there was nothing she could do. She refused to expedite the shipping, or the "contacting" of the warehouse. So after 72 hours (which in online shopping equals next Monday) and then 5 - 7 Business Days "after your item leaves the warehouse" I will receive my order. This will most likely be after Christmas and will give my order a total order to delivery time of ONE FULL MONTH!!!!!!!!! Deal or no deal this has been another horrible experience and has once again affirmed my hatred for Big Box stores.

UPDATE: 1/4/07: Just found out from Seth Godin's Blog that Bob Nardelli, Home Depot's CEO, got fired. HA! Here's the kicker, according to Seth Mr. Nardelli got $210,000,000.00 in severance. Yes, count those zero's!!

Amazon Officially Sucks

Amazon has invented this awful system to get their amazing deals for the holidays. First you have to be registered and logged in to your account. Next you have to vote on the deal you want. In my case I wanted the 30GB Microsoft Zune that retailed for $260 but amazon was selling 1000 of them for $90! Great deal right??? Well hold you horses. Next Amazon has to "randomly" select you to be eligible to buy one. I did not win and now I, along with I assume tens of thousands of amazon users will hold a grudge against them and possibly never shop with them again!!! Does losing make ANYBODY want to shop at amazon *more*??
Yes, I am a sore loser and amazon should realize that most people are sore losers and they are creating thousands of them each week. What kind of idiot came up with that kind of marketing strategy!

Visa checkcards and tracking

I was just thinking yesterday morning about what our world would be like if there were no longer any Greenbacks. This would definitely make GW a happy man. The government would be able to track our day from our first cup of joe at Starbucks to our late night iTunes purchase. Mind you I'm currently reading 1984. Well last night during Heroes I saw a Visa commercial about a made-up fast food restaurant where everyone was going throuh the routine with utmost efficient. They were all using their Visa cards and dancing to choreographed music while. Suddenly a guy pulls some cash out of his wallet and the whole production screeched to a halt. Trays fall, people collide; it became chaotic all because a guy paid for his meal with cash. I am definitely addicted to my VISA check card and it scares the hell out of me knowing that Big Brother knows my every move.

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NPR : Wide-Open Spaces and Large-Scale Sounds

NPR : Wide-Open Spaces and Large-Scale Sounds

Nice sound! From NPR's Song of the Day

I love my Google reader!

I was never really into RSS feeds. I figured I would just go to the websites I wanted to read, right? Wrong! I started out by trying NewsGator but didn't find it to appealing so I decided to give Google Reader a try. Surprise Surprise Surprise! It is. Another wonderful web 2.0 application from Google. Everything I want from the Internet now comes to me! From videos and news to education and technology. It uses tagging, folders and stars just like Gmail.

I WIN!!!!!!!

I was the Blog of the Day at blogoftheday.org on August 23rd. Pretty sweet! I'm practically famous now.

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TJ's wedding weekend

A late entry but the weekend as a whole during TJ's bachelor party was a lot of fun. I wanted to upload of picture of me and Mel outside our SWEET cabin but Picasa Web Albums site is down right now so I can't upload any pics. I saw a lot of old faces of which most I was glad to see and catch up to. There were of course, the obligatory people who haven't changed since high school and probably never will. I took al ot of pictures so feel free to browse them at my Web Albums link on the right side of the page (as soon as can upload them of course).

Back to school

Well, classes started up again on Monday. I think I'm going to like all of them but it looks like I'll be observing a lot of hours at the high school. That plus I have to go to three state or local government meetings for my final poly sci class. All this on top of woirking until November 1st. My school schedule is great with lots of time for lunch and studying.

Sailing

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