Archive for the ‘Business’ Category
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Last month my bank changed over to being a Wells Fargo bank, which I’m not too happy about, but not much I can do about it right now. What is a real bummer is that all the employees that I had gotten to know, relied on and looked forward to seeing when I came are no longer there, which really bites.
Today I had go inside because the teller at the drive in window was giving me a hassle about a check that I wanted to cash, which was never an issue before Wells Fargo came into the picture. I was surprised to see that this very small home town branch now had these stanchions with the nice and plush looking velvet rope (which I’m sure customers such as myself helped pay for) placed in front of the tellers for their “crowd control” issues. What crowd is what I want to know? What a joke.
Next thing I expect to see is some of barricades put into place for the employees that are conducting business behind the desks and in their high and mighty offices that now look very uninviting to the eye, sigh . .
Tags: bank, employees, fargo, wells
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Every now and then I like watching The Animal Planet and I had heard of a new show that didn’t really sound like something that I would enjoy, but I have to say that their new show called Tanked was pretty entertaining, much better than their other new show called Hillbilly Handfishing. It’s just not something that I can get into and I’m pretty sure that it won’t survive for another season.
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Friday, August 26th, 2011
I’m so glad that I switched over to Direct TV. I just hope that we don’t lose power over the weekend due to the up and coming arrival of the hurricane that we have been watching the progress of on our new Direct TV system. I have always wanted a generator for the house just for occasions such as this, but we haven’t had the extra money lately to put into something like this. Right now my main concern is finding a home security system to have installed so I have Googled “home security cordova” to see what kind of deals I can find.
Since the economy doesn’t seem to be letting up at all, there has been more and more home break ins and robberies happening and I just don’t feel safe anymore. Even though we really don’t have much of anything of value around here they could still walk away with some of the electronics and really trash the place searching for more things that we might possibly have and that just wouldn’t be cool. We have worked hard for the things that we have.
In the mean time I’m praying that these hurricane doesn’t hit as hard as they are saying it could hit. Be safe.
Tags: security, system
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Our oldest son has always had issues with his teeth, and now that he is grown and out on his own I’m afraid that he isn’t taking his oral hygiene as seriously as he should be and I’m not happy about it one bit. I have spent so money on this kid’s mouth that it just isn’t funny and to think that he isn’t following up on all the time, money, effort and work that has been put into that mouth of his just jerks my chain.
His girlfriend sent me an email today informing me that she thinks that he needs to see a Periodontist and is asking me to step into the picture and urge him to find a Periodontist that will take his insurance and is taking new patients. So I have decided to do a bit of the leg work for him and went to smilegeneration.com to see if I could find a Periodontist for him. I love how the Internet makes a task such as this a much easier task to tackle, it sure beats thumbing through the Big Yellow Book trying to find what you want and need. I don’t even have any phone books in my house any more, they were just taking up space and collecting dust so as soon as one arrives at the end of the drive way they go straight into the paper recycling bin and good riddance to them all.
So I did find a couple of Periodontists that fit the bill and I have sent him an email with the information that is needed and I can only hope that he takes it from there, if not I guess I will have go into my “nag” mode and I really don’t like going there any more than I have to.
Tags: mouth, periodontist, taking
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Sunday, July 24th, 2011
First thing that showed up on my laptop this morning was a big story about the angry Netflix customers that are busy speaking up against the raise in the price that Netflix just announced for their movie rentals. The story indicates that the price is going up 60% which sounds likes a massive increase, which has prompted numerous Netflix customers to cancel their subscription.
I’ve been been into the whole Netflix scene, but it seems to me that $10 a month for unlimited movies was a very low price, so the jump to $16 a month isn’t all that major if you ask me. That is still a very cheap price considering how easy it is to use and how many movies you get to watch in a months time.
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