Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-04

Posted on | September 4, 2009 | No Comments

• I am so tired of people on either side of the political aisle regurgitating hearsay as fact. #
• I'm the worst tweeter ever #
• Side note, Windows 7 is pretty good. Hated Vista and 7 is very similar but it does it better. Beats that dated Mac OS X interface #
• We've been slacking on our tweeting. We've been busy lately. #
• iPhone to get MMS on the 25th, 6 years after the cheapest phones on the planet! #
• Windows 7: 0 64-bit VPN install: 1 http://twitpic.com/gcrod #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-21

Posted on | August 21, 2009 | No Comments

• @The3dStudioCom Nicely done sir. You were never the best at anything until now. in reply to The3dStudioCom #
• @designcurve I had seen their site but not the elevator pitch. That was great and I hear a lot of those same concerns about lending to ppl in reply to designcurve #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-14

Posted on | August 14, 2009 | No Comments

• I've been so lazy with my tweeter-twitters lately #
• Ground pork chorizo, ground pork, and eggs in a tortilla with some salsa on top is pretty much awesome. Just in case you're hungry this AM #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-07

Posted on | August 7, 2009 | No Comments

• this is how you start the weekend with @breckbrew Avalanche filling the fridge http://twitpic.com/cb2hl #
• Woman sues college for $70k in tuition since she can't get a job : http://bit.ly/5Drmw :: College gives you the tools not a guaranteed job #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-31

Posted on | July 31, 2009 | No Comments

• Twitter cracks down on spam, turns out I had like 100 of them following me! It's so lonely now! http://bit.ly/tfctR #
• Heavy rain in Parker…wonder if I could rent an umbrella on CrowdRent? Not yet but list one if you have one! #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-24

Posted on | July 24, 2009 | No Comments

• I just shot past 1000 followers! Many thanks to all those who listen to me go on and on about nothing #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-17

Posted on | July 17, 2009 | No Comments

• The old Jay-Z MTV unplugged album may be the best album ever #
• Holy cow it's hot here. As a Phoenix native this shouldn't be hot but 90 in Denver is my new 112 from Phoenix. #
• Have a deadbolt-door situation. The deadbolt knob moves but the bolt doesn't retract. I'm stuck in my own house (if not for the other exits) #
• I can't open the front door to fix the deadbolt!!!!!!!! #
• I want to go to Slightly Stoopid at Red Rocks tonight but noooo I can't. Stupid school #
• All I need is a @BreckBrew Vanilla Porter and some good music and the night is all good. Breck Brew is one of the best parts of life in CO #
• My personal favorite Breckenridge Brewery beer: http://twitpic.com/ahvdw #
• The puppies are wrestling and Max just let out the biggest whimper. Zoey is running this show! #
• Happy 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. #
• Pet Airline: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12847075 :: I love my dogs but this is a little crazy #

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Discount tire – Good prices and not skimping on service

Posted on | July 12, 2009 | No Comments

I’ve been a fan of Discount Tire for some time.  When it came time to put tires on my 2002 Nissan Xterra I wanted good tires.  I’ve been a fan of Pep Boys for a while and had great success with them.  However I was looking for Michelin tires for it.  Pep Boys offers good tires but I wanted what is largely considered the best tire and Discount had them.  I dropped over $700 on them and they were hands down the best tire I’d ever had.  When my wife’s Lexus needed tires we went back to Discount, we bought Michelin tires, we dropped over $900 this time.  The last time I used Discount was last summer when I bought another set of Michelin tires, this time for my BMW X5.  If you own one of have own a 4.4 sport version you know how big these tires are.  This time I dropped over $1400 (one reason I sold it) and Discount was as helpful and friendly as ever.

I went back in today with my wife’s brand new Honda CR-V.  She’d picked up a screw in the tire and it was a simple patch.  It did require a half hour of someone’s time there and materials to repair.  These are OEM tires that were not purchased from Discount, I expected to be charged at least $5 to $10 to fix it which I felt was exceedingly reasonable.  A half hour later I was handed the paper work and the keys and thanked for coming it.  They didn’t charge me a dime.  And it wasn’t like I was treated as a second-class customer.  Quite the contrary, they treated me like everyone else, like someone who was spending $1,400 today on tires.

So, what does that mean?  It means I’m a customer for life.  They’ll match anyone’s prices, even Tire Rack who had my X5 tires for a bit less.  When my Civic needs tires or the CR-V I assure you I’ll be going to Discount and no where else.  When I needed tires for the X5 I went to a Goodyear store and he was convinced that I couldn’t have two different sizes front and rear on my car.  He called BMW to confirm it.  It took an hour to get a price and they didn’t even make tires for my car.  Discount had to order them but they did it that day and had them on Monday and they were installed and ready to roll.  When you buy from Discount they rotate and balance them free and if you have the road hazard they’ll replace them.  My wife used it on her Lexus within three weeks.  She had a nail in the tire and they couldn’t patch it.  Discount replaced a $250 tire and gave her a new road hazard warranty free since it was so quick.  They didn’t need to do it but they did because they truly seem to understand customer service.

So Discount, you have a customer for life.  This time my tires won’t be the massive X5 hunks of rubber so you’re not getting as much of my money but I will tell people that Discount is the only place to go for tires.  Anyone who treats customers as well as you do and values theirs business like you do probably has a ton of loyal customers just like me.  It’s not a coincidence.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-10

Posted on | July 10, 2009 | No Comments

• Top Gear tests a Ford Fiesta by simulating a Royal Marine beach landing: http://bit.ly/fY7R0
  :: BEST VIDEO EVER! #
• President Obama's first 167 days in pictures: http://bit.ly/iHvEK :: I'd love to be able to take pictures like these. #
• @almostyourlover Things are good, I was sick for like a week and a half which sucked. My wife is getting it now I think. How about you? in reply to almostyourlover #
• Let's hope no real news happens today and interferes with wall-to-wall coverage of Michael Jackson! #
• Why is twitter filled with people selling their "money making system"? The only money it makes is for the people selling it! They're scams! #
• I'm on an affiliate scam unfollowing spree. Anyone else with an affiliate scam or "$10,000 system" to sell? #
• A news site where I could filter out useless stories like Michael Jackson and other pointless media frenzy stories would be stellar righ … #
• RT @ShimonSandler:Google Plans to Launch Operating System for PC to compete with Microsoft: http://bit.ly/13jIEZ :This could get interesting #
• They're putting in the electrical lines to the new house next door and they're digging right by the phone box and my DSL line is there! PRAY #
• I need my intert00bs! #
• I got an email saying @pandora_radio is going to limit people to 40 hours a month and that I'm a heavy user. 99 cents a month or $36 a year? #
• I love Pandora so much I might be compelled to pay for it! #
• @almostyourlover I do love it and it might be worth the $12-$36 a year in reply to almostyourlover #
• I am working on a masters in computer science and I cannot ever spell algorithm right. I always write algorithim with the extra i at the end #
• @lbutlr Almost 11 at night and you're making all the sense in the world right now! in reply to lbutlr #
• Born and raised in Phoenix, it's hell when you can't take anymore off! RT @caddymob: i have officially removed my pants. Its hot. #
• The whole BS line from Apple about how it just works? Neither my iPhone or iMac work that well. #
• I am craving taco bell right now… #
• AT&T Wireless has provided excellent customer service since I got my iPhone, Apple has been miserable. Just called ATT to credit act. fees #

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Sports Authority can’t do math

Posted on | July 6, 2009 | No Comments

So my wife went and bought some swimming gear to try out in the lap lanes at Lifetime Fitness.  She was an avid swimmer as a kid and would love to do some laps for exercise and relaxation.  She went to Sports Authority and bought a suit, goggles, and a swim cap.  When she gets home she realizes the goggles are huge and the suit has a spot of some sorts on it.  It wasn’t anything serious, but when you pay $40 for a new suit you’d like to not have it look like a hand-me-down.  So prior to our trip to the gym that night we stop by the store to swap out the suit for a new one and a different pair of goggles.

She finds the suit, the exact same suit and the same price, and a pair of goggles that were a dollar cheaper than the first pair.  The trouble begins when we try to exchange them.  You would think exchanging things that were a dollar cheaper than the originals would result in a crisp dollar bill coming back at us.  Not in the high school dropout math of the Sports Authority manager at the time.  My wife used a coupon for $10 off and he was telling us we’d owe about $20 more than originally.  Turns out the cashier returned the suit and goggles and then charged for the goggles on the exchange.  So now we just need to make the suit line up with what we paid minus a dollar to make this work.  Twenty minutes later the manager was getting pissy with me and my wife was about to make someone pay for this.

What I tried to stress to the manager, whose grasp of mathematics was about that of a three year old child’s, was that we’re returning X dollars worth of merchandise and purchasing X-1 dollar worth as such, we should see a dollar credit in the end.  After about twenty minutes total I got him down to only paying an extra dollar.  What’s funny is my wife is very adept at math, she’ll know the total check when we go out to eat within cents or the grocery bill almost exactly doing casual mental gymnastics and even she was lost the manager had screwed it up so bad.

She of course wants to go back and return it all out of spite.  I said it’s not worth your time or energy for two dollars but you can say you won’t shop there anymore.  So going forward, we’ve pledged not to shop at the Sports Authority.  Granted shortly after that we realized we’ll be at the tent sale this spring when they’re giving away snow boards for 80% off.  So going forward we will only shop them if they’re giving massive discounts!  That will show them!