Home Depot and Toro

I haven't ranted in a while so I thought I would let one loose on Home Depot today. I've been pretty faithful to Home Depot over the years, and have pretty much bought everything I've ever needed for the house there.

So here is what pisses me off. For years the only irrigation system you could get at Home Depot was Toro. It was either that or Rain Bird. I chose Toro and bought all Toro products for my sprinklers, valves, and timer. For years when something has broken, I was able to get a replacement item, or repair part from Home Depot. Now all of the sudden, the valves I've been buying for years, along with all the repair parts, are gone from the shelves. You are lucky if you can find anyting from Toro on a Home Depot shelf. Oh and yes I've tried Lowes and they have never carried Toro products.

So not only can I not get the Toro valve, but now the valves connectiors are all female in and female out and you guessed it, all my current valves are male in and male out. It makes me want to scream. Here you are loyal to both brands and they SCREW YOU be stop carrying the brand you have been purchasing there for years, and manufacturer is making the product the totally opposite of the way they have for the past 10 years. It's a racket and worth a rant!

Carbonite Back Up at Carbonite.com

Just a warning to anyone who might consider using Carbonite.com as an online back up service for their computer. Having paid the fee to have my work laptop continuously backed up by the Carbonite service, my laptop hard drive crashed and I lost all of my data. I wasn't worried at all as I knew I had a complete back up.

Little did I know that the process of restoring your data takes days and days and days. I'm on my third day of the restore process, and not one single solitary file has been restored to my new computer, and here I sit, staring at a progress bar that doesn't move.

I've been in contact with Carbonite customer service twice, every 24 hours since I started and all they can say is be patient. The service really sucks. They can't send me my data on disk, can't let me access it by FTP, not one other alternative except to trickle it bit by bit back to my computer.

You have been warned, the service is not what it seems. If you ever lose your data, plan on being without it for a week at least!

XL106.7

Several years ago, I gave up listening to local orlando radio station XL106.7 because I just couldn't stand the incessant babble of their DJ's and the constant listener call ins to tell us "Where was the most embarrasing place you ever farted?"



They also played the same songs over and over and over. The did it so much, I often thought they must be getting kick backs from the record companies to play them.



Now years later, I'm painting my house, and decide to try 106.7 again. I wanted to hear something a bit peppier to make the tedious work go faster. What I found was that 106.7 had changed a bit in years. They still play the same 10 songs over and over and over again. I've heard some songs played twice within an hour. If they have a program director, he doesn't have a very hard job, that is for sure.



There recent favorites; Beyonce - Single Ladies and Akon Stripped - Right Now (Na Na Na). I've heard them both twice in the last hour, and I expect I will hear

Fatburger in Palm Springs

Well I spent a fabulous week in Palm Springs, California and the only thing I felt like blogging about was our Sunday trip to Fatburger. You see, we have a strong and fast rule of not eating at any place we can find here in Orlando, so when we were feeling like getting something fast and what we thought cheap, we opted to try the local Fatburger drive thru. The menu is pretty limited to burgers or chicken sandwich, so we opted for 2 1/2 pound kingburgers, 2 regular fries, and 2 regular colas.

It was then that I heard something in a drive through that I've never heard before. "That will be $22.09 at the window". I nearly fainted as I pulled forward, thinking I must have mistook what I heard, but no, that was what I had heard, and as I quickly fished out a couple of extra bucks to go along with the twenty dollar bill I had already pulled from my wallet, I thought this was going to be some AWESOME burger. Then to my surprise, I hear something else that makes my head spin. "That will be 10 minutes." Damn! So we spent the next "15" minutes giggling about the price and how long it was taking this sorry excuse for a fast food employee to cook 2 hamburgers. Yes, we were on vacation and didn't really give a damn. There was nobody behind us waiting, and all I could think of was what a good story I would have to tell when I got home.

We finally got our order, and zipped back to the resort to feast on our $22 meal and all I can bring myself to write is "YUCK". The one half pound burger tasted like all the life had been pressed out of it. Not juicy, not warm, but hell yes it was big. The fries were those awful fake batter coated artificial ones like they have at Burger King. Wasn't enough ketchup in the world to make those things worth eating.

Anyway, just wanted to warn those in Orlando just in case this awful franchise should make its way to our area. If you want a good burger for 8 dollars, get your ass down to Fuddruckers where they are big, juicy, and well worth the price. You have been warned!

Obama Yard Signs

Well it took about 2 weeks for some low life to destroy one of two Obama yard signs I had put out in my yard. Then today, one day after he spoke at a rally in downtown Orlando, I find my second yard sign had been taken down and replaced with a nice bag of dog poop.

Why is it that people are SO ANGRY? What goes through their heads as they walk into someone elses yard and destroy a campaign sign and replace it with a bag of dog poop? I have the feeling that if Barack Obama does pull it off and win the election, the first thing he will have to do is offer free anger management as part of his healthcare package because there are a lot of Republicans that are going to need it.

Tropical Storm Fay Coverage

Well its our first TROPICAL STORM of the season to hit Florida and the local news agencies are all in a flutter, trying to see who can hype it more than the rest.

Today's local idiot at the beach reporter award goes to WFTV Channel 9 who had a reporter and the beach in the typical rain slicker when the camera pans to the shore he says "and look at those wipers on the cars going" like it was some incredible observation that windshield wipers tend to go back and forth when it rains. I guess he was expecting them somehow to be going faster since it was a tropical storm.

Too bad nobody in Orlando cares about the waves crashing against the sand since they do that every day but the local and national news seems to think we are all morons. What we really want to know is what the weather looks like inside the city limits of the tropical storm area, not at the beach, cause nobody is going to the beach on tropical storm day except you idiots.

And speaking of idiots, when a CNN beach reporter asked a kid why he was out in such bad weather his reply was "so I can be on TV". Hmmm, if you guys weren't out there gawking, maybe nobody else would either. Just once I'd like to see them interviewing some hurricane gawker and a piece of metal slices through their skull and drops them dead while we are all watching. It will take that before the stop acting like idiots.

More Obama Hate Emails

THIS IS JUST CRAP AND IT MAKES ME BELIEVE WE ARE NO BETTER THAN THE THOSE WHO USE FAITH AS AN EXCUSE TO KILL. TO USE CHRISTIANITY AS A TOOL FOR RACISM IS JUST AS WRONG!

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Some of you may have seen this before… This will make you re-think: A Trivia question in Sunday School: How long is the beast allowed to have authority in Revelations?Guess the Answer? Revelations Chapter 13 tells us it is 42 months, and you know what that is? Almost a four year term to a Presidency. All I can say is Lord Have Mercy on us!According to The Book of Revelations the anti-Christ is:The Anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything.Is it OBAMA??
I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it! I refuse to take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of nowhere.God Bless America