Um Vultures… No Joke

Check out the newest pictures in my Photo Album called “My Photos”. There were 3 of them total. Man I never would have believed I would see 3 vultures in the middle of freaking mclean, VA 13 stories up..

Maybe I should go see a doctor or something.

Nothing New

So like shadow destroyed pretty much the last cushion that we had on the couch and pulled out the stuffing. I wonder if the warranty we got will cover it? maybe we could spill some coffee on it and then claim under warranty and then they would replace them? Ehhhh, not likely.

Got a new picture of shadow up on the slideshow. He is running 62.5 pounds now. Getting up there in weight and such. Tried to take him for a walk yesterday and we were successful however I think it was too much on his hip cause on the way back he started to limp bad and fall behind, and then when we got home, he pretty much chilled for a good hour or 2. He has stopped sleeping through the night because he has so much energy and does so much sleeping during the day, so most people would say take him on more walks, but then we can’t cause of his hips. Were gonna have to find some way to get him some exercise cause if not, he is going to go crazy in the house just like a 7 month old puppy would as all he wants to do is play. Still working on the not shitting in my house, and biting though. If anyone has help on how to prevent that let me know.

Suppose to head out to dinner with dad today, but after some airport mishaps and me having to work late doesn’t look like it is going to work out. Maybe next time he is in town ya know?

I’m loving the new Christmas Eve Sarajevo song that I just posted to my profile. I’ve been listening to it for some time and pretty much enjoying it.

Diet is starting to suck big time. The food you can eat is good, but how much is what sucks. I can’t even have a full peanut and butter sandwich… Only half of it ya know? Leaves ya hungry, but ohhh well, gotta deal with it I guess.

Nothing else is new, as we prep for good old christmas. Tree is up, Wreath is up, just need to clean up the house and maybe, just maybe, we can start the new year with a clean basement and clean office. But who knows.

Got a new video up on my profile. Youtube kept taking it down, so I decided to rip it from youtube, convert the flv file into an avi file and them upload it to my personal collection of videos in myspace. So far my video count is at 1. Ha

Gotta Jet

Shadow and the Snip Snip

So we finally took shadow yesterday to get the snip snip done. Everything went well and he is at home recovering, however we did have the doctor take some extra X-Rays because he has been limping pretty badly recently.

Upon investigation of the X-Rays the doctor found out that shadow has Stage 4 Dysplasia. You can find some nice info here: http://www.thepetcenter.com/xra/hd.html

Looks like we are going to need to do a hip replacement for his left side, and maybe a hip replacement for his right side (He has Stage 2 in his right side). Either way I do love him, and we’ll be taking donations anytime you want to contribute to the Save Shadow fund .

Other then that, he is recovering from the snip snip that he had done yesterday, he is resting at home, and looking forward to some turkey tomorrow for dinner.

Eh

Ehh

Don’t really feel like writing anything. Maybe some other time.

New Profile Song

Man it took awhile of looking but I found one of the coolest songs you could have as a profile song…

Not much is going on, just the usual BS. I’m still sick but hoping it will go away in the next couple of days thanks to some antibiotics from mom. I wish I could call in sick and catch up on stuff that I need to with the DVR but that will just have to wait for now.

“Four Months Gone” will show tonight on NBC. Man am i excited to see how Heros fits everything together ya know? I have to admit I did check out some spoilers but nothing too graphic that reveals everything. I’m kinda bummed that Heros might end the season 3 episodes short because of the writers strike. That really blows man.

Well thats all for now.

Changing

Sears New Slogan

Not sure if many people have heard about this, but Sears is coming out with a new slogan/motto. Let be the first to inform you about it: “SEARS!!!!!! We’ll bend you over, and screw you until we get every last cent!” They wanted to move to something that more describes the company and how they operate then what they currently have.

Okay, so maybe thats not their new slogan, but it demonstrates how I currently feel about sears. Jess and I got a stove from mom and dad for our Wedding, so they gave us some giftcards to go and pick one out from Sears. We head to there and after speaking with a sales associate who didn’t even seem to know what the hell he was talking about, we pick a stove. Well lets not forget the delivery fee of $75, plus the $10 to deliver on the weekend, plus the $10 per item hallaway fee, plus the $100 installation fee… Not to mention the $200 warranty. Plus $20 for the cables, because they are not allowed to use your cables/wiring you have, you have to buy them from the store… I mean shit, by the time we are done with their fee’s the fee’s cost more then the damn stove and hood range. WTF. Well I sucked it up and dealed with it, and said fuck it, with the installation and warranty I’ll do it myself.

Well when they deliver it they can’t give you a time until after 6pm the day before they are going to install it. No need to have you plan early or anything because you work, and hell if you arn’t going to pay that $10 for a weekend delivery you better just take the whole damn day off from work. Its not like they have a computer system that tells them who has bought something so far, and what their time preference was or estimated delivery time is…… Well they do arrive at the proper time they said within the 3 hour window they gave me, but when the tech comes in, the first thing he does it pull out the bottom of the stove and see if it is directly connected or plugged into the wall. Surprise, it is directly connected and that means they can’t do anything besides deliver it, no free hookup of your stove with the wiring / plug you were forced to buy from them. Gee if the techs knows the first thing to look for, I sure wish the sales associate would have told me that so I could check and prepare before hand…. But no, that would be too easy and too much of what to expect from a customer service friendly organization. So he gets on the phone with customer service, who tells me that if they deliver it today and don’t hook it up, they cannot remove the old stove (cause its hard wired) so I would lose my hallaway that I paid $10 per item. Well I’m about to say reschedule to another time, when the tech tells me that the stove isn’t in a box so it will get damage by the time they return to install it. ARRGGGGGG its brand new, why isn’t it in a box, well because they inspected it at the warehouse, which involves removing the box (yet in the truck there were other items in boxes fine….). Well after much discussion we decided to just have them deliver it, and I would re-wire the walls and shit myself. But yet, here is another surprise, you can’t get your refund over the phone for the installation because they need you to go into the store…. UM WTF….

In the end, Billy (father-in-law) ended up removing the old hood and stove, installing the wiring we needed, and installing the new hood and range in under 2 hours and that 2 hours counts the time it took me to run to Lowes and wait for him to arrive.

So thats my rant about Sears. Until next time.