Getting rid of Stinky Milk
For some reason, as I’ve gotten older, handy household tips like this have drawn my attention. I posted one myself about two months ago about using old candle wax as an air freshener. My wife also had a good one about mildly reducing heat by putting a tea kettle over an oven burner after you’ve been using it to reduce the amount of heat (or increase depending on the season) put off into the room. However, today I’m talking about stinky milk. This comes into play if your house recycles. I suppose it could still be useful if you throw out your plastic, but I don’t see it as a big a deal as that. With four people in the household, including two kids, we go through a decent amount of milk. Not an obscene amount, but we consume our...
Read MoreSaving Money with Candles
I like candles. Always have. I have bought them for ages, burned a virtual infinite number of them. Used to burn them at work too, until some moron I worked with left his burning after he left for the night, so nobody was allowed to burn candles at work. Grr.. Heck, during my unemployment period, I applied to work at the Yankee Candle store in Garland not too far from me. You want a good gift idea for me? Gift certificate to Yankee Candle Store! Seriously though, I’ve never been a big person to get all handy and save money by doing “Martha Stewart” types of things. I’m generally a “it’s done? Throw it out, get another one” kind of person. But for some reason, what about I’m about to post...
Read MoreA Google Fridge
In doing my morning reading, I ran across a blog entry where someone who belonged to the Google Adsense program got a Google fridge for his high level of activity. He’s giving it away to someone who writes an entry that he likes the most about what they would do with the Google Fridge. So I thought I’d take a stab at it – hence this non part of the story intro for those reading my blog. First off, I’ve always thought these little fridges are cool, but have never brought myself to actually buying one. I work at a game company, and the fridge would be a great addition to my gaggle of toys in my office. That’s one thing the fridge wouldn’t be. It wouldn’t be lonely. It would be loved. In fact, it would get more...
Read MoreGeorge W. Bush’s Resignation Speech
Normally I don’t get into political stuff, because it tends to just be combative – most people can’t discuss these things logically. I’m also not one to just pile on the President because of unpopular things. I thought Dubya made a pretty decent governor, but not a terribly great President. I was sent one of these “Fwd:..” things in email. Normally I delete them, because 999 out of 1,000 of them are stupid and pointless. But for some reason I looked at this one. The tone of this is written from a Dubya supporter. I didn’t vote for him, but again, I won’t just dump on him because of that. The whole reason I’m posting this is that I like the angle this piece takes about the majority of the people in...
Read MoreAmazon.com, 800, and talking to a real person
As most who have looked for this info know, the 1-800 phone number for Amazon.com has been around for years and years. It’s existence is not listed in the Amazon help area, but if you googled for Amazon 800 number, you could find it. That number is 1-800-201-7575 I’ve called that for years, I almost NEVER go through email, because if I have a problem, I want some sort of immediate resolution, I don’t want to wait for an email to maybe get responded to in a timely fashion, bounce back with a response, etc, etc.. So I called the 800 number. Well, I had to do that this morning, got a nice guy on the line, and we spoke about Amazon, ordering, help and all that. Anyway, he told me the phone number above is being phased out, and a better number to...
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