IT”S HOT
This picture is a snapshot of my desktop gadget that tells me what the temp is outside. As far as I know, this is the actual temp and NOT adjusted for the heat index.
So no matter how you slice it, it’s hot!
Jul 212010
Image from 3rd Street Website
I’ve been to 3rd Street Stuff on several occasions in the past - exclusively for lunch. So today, when I needed to grab lunch in a hurry, I walked over and ordered my usual – the Curry Chicken Salad sandwich.
The main difference between today’s visit and all the visits in the past, was I ordered my lunch to go. I had two vendors in the office working on various things and I needed to get back to supervise them.
So I grabbed my drink and chips, ordered the sandwich and said I needed it to go. I paid for the meal and the lady who had waited on me went off to prepare my sandwich.
I waited next to the counter, because I wasn’t told otherwise. A few minutes later a different lady came to oversee the cash register and noticed my items sitting on the counter. She asked me if they were mine and I said, “Yes, and I’m waiting on a sandwich.”
I was then told, that I should take my items and move them to a table while I waited. So I did that. When my sandwich was ready, the original lady placed it on the counter and yelled “Curry Chicken.”, turning back to either clean up after herself or work on another order.
I grabbed my items and walked over to the counter and set them down next to the sandwich. No one noticed me or acknowledged that I was even there. After a moment or two I asked the original lady “May I have a bag, please?” and she said, “Sure.”
She walked over and grabbed a paper bag and then handed it to me – and went back to whatever she was doing.
Now, I’m not really the kind of guy to complain about little things, but I really think it’s sad when you go into a restaurant and pay $10 for a chicken salad sandwich, a soda and bag of chips and not get the items placed in the to go bag for you. For that price I would have really appreciated a little service - AT LEAST!
I’m done, I’m off my soapbax for now. But it’ll be a LONG time before I go back to 3rd Street Stuff.
(BTW, this post has nothing to do with the quality of their food – the sandwich was awesome! I just wish they would have taken to the time to wait on me.)
Jul 112010
Today turned out to be a good day for taking photos. I drove down Walnut Hill and found a couple of really nice places that I’d never stopped at before. Here are three of the forty or so pictures I took.
The Sky Co-operated
The Clouds and Sky were Working.
Horses from the Car
Jul 102010
Salvatore Vuono : FreeDigitalPhotos.net
So once again, I’ve been tweaking the site.
Thanks to the flexibility of the Suffusion theme and the abilities of WordPress, I now have a semi-static front page, and my blog posts are actually one level down. This is something that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. But doing so in the past always meant custom code, multiple software packages, and the site basically looking like a kludge of parts.
Now, I have an elegant way of presenting more professional things, while still providing access to the more personal blog. I’m loving it!
Jul 072010
So I got up this morning around 6am – on purpose! I did so to stretch my legs a bit and to try to get a few pre/early dawn photos.
I live about 1 block from the Tradition at Park’s Edge condominium complex which has a very upscale entrance sign. This morning, the lights were on and it caught my eye with the way the stone and flowers looked, so I snapped a picture.
Here is a cropped version of it:
Image Credit to fercozzz
When I first heard about this story, I told myself this can’t be true. But today as I drove home, I heard a story on NPR that not only proved it was true, but it pissed me off.
The story is about a family in Texas who lost their home when the home owner’s association foreclosed on the house for back HOA dues. Oh and by the way one of the family members was a Captain in the Army National Guard on active duty, deployed in Iraq.
Yes the last part pisses me off the most. Coming from a military family, knowing what our service men and women sacrifice to give us our freedom, I find it very offensive.
But here’s what really concerns me. This family had the house PAID FOR. The American Dream – owning your own home was true for them, the owned the house completely. And, here’s what get’s me – they lost the house over a mere $800. I don’t know what led to the $800 being owed to the HOA, but come on. A $300,000 house getting stolen for $800?
What’s even better: It’s my understanding that this kind of stuff is supposed to be illegal. Because in 2003, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act was passed by Congress to protect our service men and women from just this sort of thing.
I mean really, don’t you think they have enough to worry about than forgetting to mail a check in a war zone?
This is a crying shame and I hope that when the case does come to trial that Mr. Clauer rapes the HOA and gives them a taste of what he has been going through. This kind of thing simply SHOULD NOT happen!!!
Jun 292010
So I’ve updated this blog to WordPress 3.0. I’ve even installed the default theme because it seems to work well. I’ll be tweaking for the next several days, so forgive any mess you may see around here.
I like the new abilities of this theme (maybe WordPress 3.0 period). Being able to create Menus, set custom backgrounds and header images – without touching a line of code – very nice.
Oh, and I’ve started to use Flickr again – since I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately. I’ll be tweaking that functionality as well in the coming days.
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