Sleeping with the fishes

Okay. Came home from work last week. Noticed that a fish appeared to be missing from  the tank. Where once there were three green tiger barbs, now only two remained.

There was no evidence of foul play so I started to think that maybe we never had three. Perhaps there was always only two.

Then Wednesday I left for work. Before I left, I fed the fish. Little sucker fish was swimming around on the bottom of the tank. He appeared to be annoyed that I turned on the light.

Later that evening. We arrived home late, I went in to turn the light off in the tank. Oh look, sucker fish is on the filter….wait….WTF That’s not sucker fish!

IT was his skeleton. Apparently sometime between 8 am and 8 pm he died. The rest of the fish ate him.

I love watching our fish but this was so disgusting. Guess I know where that tiger barb went now.

Car Saga part whatever or why Dodge really sucks!

Since we last left our intrepid Dodge Stratus, it was stranded at Brian’s workplace unable to be driven. It required new struts which could not be replaced because the strut mounts were on back order. We got a rental for a month through our insurance, fairly certain that all would be resolved within that 30 day window.

Oh how little we knew.

The strut mounts aren’t just a little backordered. There are 9,000 backordered nationwide. The person Brian spoke to at Dodge said that none are in production and they don’t PLAN on EVER putting them in production. Translation: Buy a new car sucker because this $25 part isn’t ever coming back!

He gave us the names and numbers of the last 7 dealerships in the country that were known to have parts. By the time we spoke to them? All gone. And we were like number 42 on the list of people who called.

I freaked out because I really don’t want to buy a new car! Not when I put $800 into it the week before this happened and over a $25 part!!!
Long story short, Brian managed to find the part in San Diego. They’ll only sell it to us with the entire strut but I don’t care. It’s cheaper than a new car.

All I know is. NEVER buy a Dodge!! The reasoning for not putting the part in production is that they’re all from cars that are out of warranty so Dodge doesn’t really care about them any more. F%^& you Dodge!
I would now like to change my outgoing answering message to Dodge sucks, and to do anything else I can to ensure Dodge’s demise. I’m sorry if people work there but clearly they have no heart and would rather lose 9000 customers than fix a problem they created with a shoddy part. It has comfirmed my hatred of American cars and you sure as heck will never see a new one in my driveway again!

We’re like, totally famous and stuff

The article was published yesterday and here is a link to it!

I think it turned out alright. Pretty positive for everyone involved and the picture was not hideous. It was above the fold on the front page of the business section. (Of course the business section is the back of the sports section, whatever.) But it was good coverage and I didn’t look horrible. Yay!

Go check it out. And don’t worry mom, I have a copy for you!

Extra! Extra!

******Update: We totally got bumped for the stupid iPhone story! Damn. I will post when it is actually published**********

So… umm. Totally going to be in the newspaper tomorrow someday?

The story got bumped because of the new iPhone coming out. Hopefully it will be in this weeks paper somewhere?

I must admit, I’m a little excited.

They’re doing a story in the business section about the store and they interviewed me, Bridget and several customers. Hopefully I didn’t say anything tremendously stupid and it will be all good. They sent over a photographer on Thursday to get pictures of Bridget and I at the store.

Not sure if I’m more nervous about the article or how my hair looks in the picture.

I’ll post a link tomorrow when the article is actually published.

I can’t believe I freakin own (part of )a store!?

Cable, oh how I miss thee…

Seriously? What in the world made us decide to get rid of cable tv?

I realize it’s ridiculously expensive and that we barely ever watch it. Oh yeah and that whole trying to save money, not spend it frivolously and… oh yeah buying into a business!

BUT

I forgot that Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show are both cable.

More importantly. The Tour de France started Saturday! I love the Tour! I’m not sure I’ll make it without being able to see it.

I may whither away. I do follow several web sites that give me live coverage but it’s just not the same as watching it.

Damn you Time Warner. Why do you have to be so freaking expensive! If I don’t make it, I lay the blame square at your monstrous conglomerate feet.

****Small update: Realized that I can watch Stewart and Colbert online. Woot! And although I love my Tour, most of my websites now have streaming on their sites. I’ll still get the highlights and not pay the way too high prices!

Check out Get Rich Slowly. They posted about this last year. Very interesting read!