AlDente67

Speaking of Amazon... Thrice now in the last few weeks, I have ordered some items on next-day delivery as a Prime member. I chose these items, among other considerations, for the next-day option. In all cases, the items were delayed by a day or two (so 3 days, not next day). I chose these because I needed it the next day. Amazon, has 3 monster distribution centers within 10 miles radius from my address. It isn't as if I live in Tumbleweed City, Iowa. Given the fact that Amazon is trying like mad to hire warm bodies around here (I get an email a day offering to hire anyone who doesn't have a syringe dangling from their arm), it seems like they are running short of warm body applicants willing to kill themselves for $15/hr. Maybe they need to rethink their model of hourly whipping. The 30-day retention rate must be close to zero.

So our dishwasher electronic panel died a sudden death, and we decided to just get a new one. SO I hop online and look around the typical retail sites and find the perfect model for our needs at sears.com for a great sale price. The others had not yet announced their current sales, so sears beat them all by $200 on the exact same model. So I place the order for in-store pickup (I can pick it up and drive it home for much less than forking over $99 for home delivery). Confirmation email states availability of on or before Nov 2 (I placed the order on Oct 19). Ok, well I guess we will suffer for a bit, lol. On Nov 5th, I call to inquire if it has arrived and the rude ass at the store transfers me to the "manager" which is a phone that nobody ever picks up. From his gruff tone, I assumed that only a manager could handle those complex interwebs orders, and someone in authority needs to be involved. In this case a dead phone in a closet. I actually put it on speaker and let it ring 40 times before ending the call, just to see if someone got annoyed enough to actually pick up the call. So I go back on the site and open a chat. Person was very nice and apologized but the unit was in "high demand". Awesome, I must have picked a good one to be that popular. To make up for it, he gave me a free 3 year warranty, and promised the thing would arrive within 2 days. Ok fine. That came and went, so again I chat...sorry, we can have it by the 9th and we will give you free in-home delivery. Ok, getting annoyed, but whatever... Meanwhile my online billing now shows 3 dishwashers at ever-increasing prices (plus a $99 delivery fee). I now call and am told they will credit back the difference later (what? When is later?). The 9th came and went so now I am pissed. I call again and get hung up on promptly. I call right back and get the same guy who hangs up immediately. So I call a third time and get some girl overseas who takes the brunt of my frustration as I instruct her to cancel everything completely and email a confirmation (which, of course, never comes). I hop online to the big Blue store down the street and place the same order, now at the same sales price. It is ready an hour later. I go pick it up and go home. Pretty easy. Meanwhile, I get a call from sears yesterday (!) saying my unit will be arriving soon if I want to come and get it... at the store 20 miles away. Unreal. Sears - almost a month Blue bigbox - 1 hour Hmmm... The funny thing is that we realized we actually could live just fine washing a few dishes in the sink each day. Dinner for 15 over the holidays might be an exception, but otherwise the earth still turns.

I have cheap ones (I assume since we never specified otherwise when the cabinets were ordered). 3 drawers failed so far. Drives me crazy fixing them all the time. I had to laugh at one HGTV episode of First Time Home Buyers or some such where the wifes' main criterion to choose a house was whether or not the kitchen drawers were self-closing. Seriously, that was THE most important feature.

I think it was mentioned in Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential that the chefs despise cooking any meat past medium, as an affront to the sensibility, but on the other hand welcome any customer to order such, as it gives them a way to sell the mistakes and unintentionally aging cuts they would otherwise have to throw in the garbage.

If you are on Long Beach Island, the Engleside Hotel restaurant in Beach Haven serves a fantastic Prime Rib year-round.

I would add that if you vacation at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, the Bahamian steakhouse was quite impressive. It isn't cheap, but nothing there is. Also an option on the absurdly-priced mealplan, which I think has outpaced Disneyworld park tickets in annual inflation. On the other hand, Bobby Flay has a place elsewhere on the property and is perhaps the worst meal I have ever had. Who thought a large bunch of Cilantro made a good garnish on a veal chop? It doesn't.

All you need to is peek at the banking records of the sleeping guards. Any unusual deposits recently? Any new cars or other property? I always get a kick out of the village idiot trying to deny the bloody obvious. Now he claims the Veritas somehow creates totally fabricated recordings. Can this puddle of poo come off any dumber?

We tried a place called Wolfgangs on the main drag in Somerset, NJ. I had something called a Tomahawk, which is a giant steak bone-in....lasted for for 3 meals. The side of mashed potatoes is the best I have ever eaten, and I make a mean mashed potato at home. Wolfgang is not the Puck brand. Apparently he was head waiter at Lugers in Brooklyn for about 25 years. I agree that Lugers is all hype. Last time I met some friends there and wasn't getting the vibe that was so special for $100 per head. Ok it is tasty, but not 10x as tasty as a good cut from the store. I wonder what happened to Arthurs in New Brunswick. Used to meet with old friends every so often and chomp on the 48-oa slab.

I sent him $900 on a Steam gift card. Instructed him to use discreet packaging.

I briefly considered a nice wall display of my collection, sans ammo. I was changing around my home office and thought they would look cool on the wall behind my new desk. Then I thought of my niece and nephew falling under that 'kid" category, and that the parents are pretty much antis. And those kids are all over the place every holiday gathering. No tellling if they would even notice, but the parents sure would. I could imagine getting at least a sudden visit from the 10 town cops who have nothing better to do, or worse. I put up beer neon instead. Nobody seems to mind that, nor the slot machine. (the office would have been in close proximity to be basement rec room, to explain the choice of replacements). All the scary stuff is well locked up elsewhere. But if no kids ever came over, might be a different story. That was then. Now with the red flag nonsense, I could imagine getting into a heated poilitical discussion with a brother-in-law...and then Knock Knock a few days after the picnic.

Still looking for a simple explanation on the difference between what we go through now for a NJ FID and the proposal. It has been a few years, but I do recall getting fingerprinted, asking two people I know to mail in a letter of reference, interviewing with the PD, paying up, checking my record, etc etc. Is there more to it?

Edit: ...and it is pork roll, dammit!!

A cruise missile has about 250 pounds of high explosive, or thereabouts. The tanks would not exist. By the way, in the extreme lower right corner of the picture is a pickup truck, for a sense of scale. The damage to the tanks would be consistent with cruise missiles made of twice-baked potatoes.

I would pay 5 or 10 bucks for a few of those for interesting wall art.

Did everyone miss the funeral last year?

I'm not sure if the pricing is better than boxed ammo, but it sure looks enticing.

I lost the second fob for my 2016 jeep which is coming up very soon for lease end. Wonder if the dealer will ding me?

Cherry fruit snack pies! Never any on the shelf when I had out for my weekly commute down south. So I have to get Apple-filled, which I dont enjoy.

I thought I read somewhere that small claims courts won't allow you to seek partial compensation. In other words, if the limit is 3k, they will look at the bill and see it is over that and reject the case. So you can't claim under actual damages to stay at or below the court limit.

Plus, if I were the CEO, I would look with suspicion upon those signatures. Is there a Donald Duck or two mixed in?

Just because you are wearing a fancy dress and laughing at me...gives you no right to abuse me! Lol

Interesting..the latest Jack Reacher novel is about a group of rich guys hunting a couple of poor young travelers stuck there by car trouble. Of course, any fans of the series can guess how it turns out.

The funny part is that some people think anything is in a shed behind a fence. Supposedly it is really 30 stories underground behind blast doors. They wouldn't need to fire a shot. Edit: I watch too many episodes of Cosmic Disclosure on gaia TV.

My aunt and uncle and brood had a vacation house in Hemlock Farms back in the 80s. Many fond memories of going up there for a day trip and getting to ride their dirtbikes and mopeds all over the place...and shooting a BB gun from the back deck into the woods. I think they had around 10 acres of woods, but there were no markers, so nobody knew for sure. At some point, they sold it and got a place a few blocks away from Barneget Light on LBI. Nice digs but no more of the do whateveryou want kind of environment.

Pose the question to Scotty Kilmer over on Youtube. He might even respond on his video. I am on my second Grand Cherokee now. For me, it was the locking differential and adjustable ride height from an inside knob, since I drive on the beach whenever I can get out for fishing. I can tell you that these suckers rock when getting towed out of a dune by a real truck. Really comfy.