Shopping in the Grocery Store

I was in the grocery store today to get a few things on the way home and had a few random thoughts.

Why in the hell do grocery stores have sooo much candy left over after every holiday?  I mean the candy sales guy had better be driving a luxury car for all the excess I have to navigate around immediately after I enter the store.  There were 6 carts lined up with nothing but sweets with the ‘ol 50% off sign taped to the front.  No wonder so many people in America have a problem losing weight.  WTF?

Second thing was as I found the aisle where the salad dressing was (yes it was fat free) This lady had her cart on one side of the aisle and was standing in the other side of the aisle pondering her navel what she was going to buy.  I as the gentlemen that I am, said nothing and smiled when she realized she was indeed blocking the entire fucking aisle and moved while saying oh sorry…….   Come on lady, be more alert on your surroundings for crying out loud will ya?!@  Note to self, don’t block aisles in grocery store.

The Third and last thing I will rant about is the half cans of Diet 7UP I saw at my friend’s house the other night while we were over for dinner.  

These are *ahem* half cans of Diet 7Up.  How non=committal.  Diet drink in a 6oz can?? May as well have water!

From the Cadbury Scweppes website:

Did you know?

• When mixed with half a cup of water, half a can of 7 Up keeps Roses blooming for 7 to 10 days.  YUCK what does that mean it does do your intestines then??
   
• 7 Up originally contained small amounts of lithium – used for its medicinal qualities in the early part of the 20th century to make people feel good – an appropriate additive for a drink in the US Great Depression.   Yuck again.

Cheerio!

Trump VS Rosie

I just had to write about this.  I really hate Rosie and everything she is……I also believe that Trump can be a jerk as well……but why would a woman like Rosie slam a guy for giving an addict a second chance??  I don’t get it.

 Click here to see what Trump has to say about The snowflake Rosie.

New Years

It was a good Year in 2006, for the Bulldawg.  I achieved over 209% of my Q4 number and came in right around 156% for the year. 

That being said Santa was good to the wife and kids and so I move forward into thinking about next year.

 I always hear about really lofty New Years resolutions and now is the time you will see the gyms really start hitting the advertising hard, to capitalize on the Holiday 20 as some like to call it.  In putting together my list for 2007, I thought that it must be attainable and realistic.  Things that are basically a shift in habit that can benefit me, don’t cost a ton of dough $$, and will make me feel better about myself.

My New Year’s Resolutions:

1)    Try to brush and floss teeth after each meal.  I have really only brushed my teeth twice per day; morning and night my whole life, flossing like 3x per week.  I think that my choppers will be happier if I brush more and floss more.

2)   Try to cut Caffeine from my daily fluid intake.  I know this will be tough expecially since I am hooked and fully caffeinated as I right this, but what the heck right?! I have 4 days left to drink my Diet Pepsi, Diet Dr Pepper and Frescas.  From then on, I will only drink water, juices and milk; just like my kids.  Which leads me to my next resolution; weight loss.

3)  I will try to lose weight.  I know I know.  But really, I need to.  Like 60 pounds!  I am 260 and 5′11 inches right now.  So, I will try to lose weight.  I think losing the diet sodas will be good for this too, as I will drink more water which will help me with boosting my metabolism.  I hope to lose 60 pounds by September, 2007.  That will give me 9 months and in each month I need to lose approx 6 3/4 pounds. Ways to lose it:

Ride bike, walk at lunch, walk when at home with family, play basketball, play with kids, other physical things, but above all, eat less and drink more water while tracking what I eat each day.

4)  I will finish the garage.  I have installed the beams, now I just need to do a little bit of re-wiring and laying the plywood down for storage.  Then the garage will be clean and I can use my weight set to lose more weight!

Well that’s it for me until tomorrow.  Good night and roger dodger!

UPS Tracking

I just want to sound off about UPS.  First off, if you have a choice, use the USPS or FedEx.

I had something 2nd day Air ship out on the 18th of December.  It is now 3 business days later and I still don’t have my package.

This is something that has occurred 2 or 3 times this year so far.  This shipment is from Costco and the agent at Costco said that UPS doesn’t even include a PO with their tracking info!  What a POS company UPS is.  They must have given Costco a whale of a deal to get their business.

FedEx sales people:  Please go to Costco and get their business.  Consumers like me are sick of not receiving and receiving late packages from tired ‘ol UPS.  They suck!

Costco execs:  Please switch to FedEx; they are worth it for just the piece of mind alone!

UPS (Untimely Piece of Shit) :  You really need to get you act together!

Check this for more trouble with UPS:  http://www.geekasaurus.com/clint/blog/?p=27

Christmas Light Display

I found a couple of awesome Christmas light shows this year and thought I would share them.  Enjoy!

 

 

Perrier Jouet Champagne

 

I was driving to work the other day and heard a commercial on the radio for the bubbly.

It feels like champagne is being sold more agressively these days.  I mean with Christmas right around the corner, then ringing in the New Year,  it makes sense right? 

I even received two bottles at work yesterday as gifts.  I must say I re-gifted one of them as I am more a Cabernet and blend type, rather than the white wine and tiny bubble type.  I also like beer, but wine and port seem to be my choice as of late.  They just feel a little more “cozy”.  The two bottles I received were Perrier Jouet, an authentic French Champagne.  Follow is a description from BevMo:

93 PTS WINE ENTHUSIAST. The Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut is poised and stylish; layers sharp citrus fruit with spicy wood and light toast; layers of citrus, tangerine and flower blossoms unfold elegantly.

Let me tell you, I really wish they had been two bottles of Silver Oak or Caymus or even Opus One.  So I opened the one I left tonight and my wife says, “don’t waste it, make sure you have more than just one glass!”  (She is pregnant with our third child, so she missed out.)  I have have never really been a fan of the bubbly, but I bacame a fan of it tonight; at least this one brand of Champagne.  I probably would not ever spend the $30-40 bucks to buy myself a bottle, but am enjoying this one.  (Yes as I write this )  Yummy.

So go out and try this brand of Champagne.  It will make a believer out of you.

The Bulldawg Bounce Song

I found a saweeet rap song on the Bulldawg!

Yeah baby yeah!

http://tomtom101.imeem.com/music/-SbH0t_s/bulldawg_bounce

Time: Person of The Year

I saw the Time Person of the Year a few days ago was ….drum roll please….YOU!

Blah.

Couldn’t those folks at Time Magazine make a decision on one person?  I would have hated to be at those internal meetings.  I bet an intern watching the clock thought this up.  Pretty undeniably unoriginal.

Very non-committal.  Like cutting a piece of chocolate in half.  Just something you don’t do.

Come on Time Magazinites get it together!

Christmas Card Etiquette

OK people, ’tis the season…….the grinch stole Christmas…..I got a brick….whatever.

Can someone please tell me why 90% of the cards I am receiving from both friends and family are completely preprinted.  I am talking about the entire damned thing!

Let’s start with the envelope shall we??  I mean I can understand that most folks these days have return address labels, for heavens sake the Salvation Army send me 50 with a flag every year I give a donation. 

I digress.  Why can’t people hand write the address anymore?  I do.  I hand write the addresses because I think it adds a little bit of humanity and thought to the whole process.  I would really appreciate it if folks would hand write their addresses.  At the very craziest minimum, I would like my complete name spelled correctly.  For example if it were Smith, I am talking S-M-I-T-H.  NOT smythe, smithe, smyth or smit.  Come on put some time into proof reading and verifying the last names are at least correct.

Let’s move inside the envelope.   Please don’t buy those really expensive, foil lined and double packed envelopes.  They are hard as hell to open and after all, why spend extra on something goes into the trash anyway?  I don’t care about the envelope.  A carrier pigeon could drop the card on me and that would be just fine. 

On to the card.  If you send a card….any card, please make sure you at least sign your name to it.  Sign something to it….hell at least get a pen and write on it somewhere.  This year I am receiving an inordantly high amount of the costco picture cards with the very generic “Merry Christmas!  Love Becky, Paul, Olivia and John Smith”  What the hell is that?  Come on people, I haven’t heard from you in 6 months and would like to get caught up on what is going on. 

Let’s move on to the final piece of this rant.  The stamp.  It is now $0.39 to mail a letter/card.  Don’t send me a card with a $0.33 cent stamp and the rest in 1 or 3 cent stamps.  It is time to bite the bullet sammy and realize that if it has been that long since you sent a letter, you might as well just pack it in.

 Oh, and no joking around….if I don’t receive a card from you this year, you won’t get one from me next year.  I am tired of you lazy sons-of-bitches that can’t send a Merry Christmas  card with a love, so and so on it.

Every year I send out at least 30 cards.  I handwrite all of them with the exception of the return address. 

Yes they have correct postage as well.

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas!

DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack)

In the spirit of a sales guy knowing just enough to have an educated conversation with an engineer, I bring you the following rocking story!

How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist – and Won

Facing an online extortion threat, Mickey Richardson bet his Web-based business on a networking whiz from Sacramento, California who first beat back the bad guys, then helped the cops nab them. 

If you collect any revenue online, you’d better read this.

It is a little long……about 30 minutes to read.  But great reading.  Could they make a series out of this guy?

Click here to check it all out!