Today I am posting this with a heavy heart. My mom has passed away. She was found Tuesday morning and she died in her sleep Saturday night into Sunday morning.
I am writing this because I am a little surprised. Obviously at the fact that she is gone now and wasn't expecting it but also the fact that is hurts more than I thought it would. Let me explain. For the last 10 years of my life I have hardly spoken to my mother at all. I would even go as far as to say I hated her. There was a lot of lying and deceiving that came from her my whole life along with a lot of drinking. So because of this I though it wouldn't bother me as much as it has.
Looking back now I wish I had let all this anger go and just at least talk to my mom once in a while. I know its so cliche to say that but its 100% true. I could of even showed her how much better my life has been. I have a loving wife and I couldn't be happier (you know before this news). That might of made it easier to let the anger go. Its all to late now and I wished she knew how I felt now.
I wish I had a second chance do redo this, but I don't so just need to take it day by day.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Deer in my yard
Tonight I got up to go to the kitchen and i saw this is my back yard.
There was a deer just standing in my back yard eating my grass. I kinda felt bad for it because it was pretty skinny. I could see most of his ribs.
I then went on the back porch with my dog to show him and he didn't even notice the deer at all.
I took a video of it running away though. This is one of the reasons I like living where i live.
There was a deer just standing in my back yard eating my grass. I kinda felt bad for it because it was pretty skinny. I could see most of his ribs.
I then went on the back porch with my dog to show him and he didn't even notice the deer at all.
I took a video of it running away though. This is one of the reasons I like living where i live.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Lock & Lock sucks
This is my bad experience with Lock & Lock. This is also why I will not be shopping with them again.
It started with a deal I found on Plum District for Lock & Lock. It was $23 for $50 worth of stuff at Lock & Lock. I bought it from plum district and didnt use it until a month later, I should say tried to use it. I picked out some stuff on their site and tried to use the coupon code and it wasn't accepted. Tried a few different times even making sure there were not extra spaces or anything.
I then did a little goggling and found a couple of people saying to make sure you were logged in the Lock & Lock first. I created an account and made sure I was logged in. Still didn't work.
Next I contacted Plum Districts support. I get a response from them saying they will contact our vendor for Lock & Lock.
Overall the responsiveness from Plum district is what I would expect.
Three days after contacting plum district I hear back from Lock & Lock. The email from them was bad on a few levels.
1. The email address. The email came from this email address *name*.locknlock@gmail.com. My first thought is this was not a real response. (I will include the email at the bottom)
2. In the email they said they checked the code and it works. I don't believe this because all of a sudden the code worked after this email even though I tried all the suggestions from them in their email.
3. They CC'd other people on the email. So now they exposed my email address and two other peoples email. This tells me 2 things. They don't know what they are doing with customer service and other people are having the same problem.
Now that the code works I put a order in on their site.
The order process was normal for any site. I got an order confirmation and everything seemed fine. In the email they sent me was a link to log into their account and check my status. After about a week of using this link and checking the status it never changed it always said processing. Finally I stopped using the link and went to the main site. This is where they had a warning saying they were backed up with orders and shipping later than normal. For the life of me I am not sure why they couldn't email me this or even have it on every page not just the front page.
I finally get an email from FedEx NOT Lock & Lock that my order has been shipped. According to the email the package is coming to
"Aaron Russell of ToddzShoppe" I have no idea what ToddzShoppe is and I never put anything like that into the Lock & Lock site.
The package doesn't end up getting delivered because of an incorrect address. So I call fedex and it turns out they Lock & Lock didn't put any apartment number on the shipping info so they couldn't deliver it. Luckily FedEx fixed that for me but it did delay the shipment one day.
Also the status on Lock & Lock site still says processing and its been weeks since my order.
Overall the products are good and what I expected and worth the cost. The hassle I went through with their site and customer service was not worth it and I will be not ordering from their site again.
It started with a deal I found on Plum District for Lock & Lock. It was $23 for $50 worth of stuff at Lock & Lock. I bought it from plum district and didnt use it until a month later, I should say tried to use it. I picked out some stuff on their site and tried to use the coupon code and it wasn't accepted. Tried a few different times even making sure there were not extra spaces or anything.
I then did a little goggling and found a couple of people saying to make sure you were logged in the Lock & Lock first. I created an account and made sure I was logged in. Still didn't work.
Next I contacted Plum Districts support. I get a response from them saying they will contact our vendor for Lock & Lock.
Overall the responsiveness from Plum district is what I would expect.
Three days after contacting plum district I hear back from Lock & Lock. The email from them was bad on a few levels.
1. The email address. The email came from this email address *name*.locknlock@gmail.com. My first thought is this was not a real response. (I will include the email at the bottom)
2. In the email they said they checked the code and it works. I don't believe this because all of a sudden the code worked after this email even though I tried all the suggestions from them in their email.
3. They CC'd other people on the email. So now they exposed my email address and two other peoples email. This tells me 2 things. They don't know what they are doing with customer service and other people are having the same problem.
Now that the code works I put a order in on their site.
The order process was normal for any site. I got an order confirmation and everything seemed fine. In the email they sent me was a link to log into their account and check my status. After about a week of using this link and checking the status it never changed it always said processing. Finally I stopped using the link and went to the main site. This is where they had a warning saying they were backed up with orders and shipping later than normal. For the life of me I am not sure why they couldn't email me this or even have it on every page not just the front page.
I finally get an email from FedEx NOT Lock & Lock that my order has been shipped. According to the email the package is coming to
"Aaron Russell of ToddzShoppe" I have no idea what ToddzShoppe is and I never put anything like that into the Lock & Lock site.
The package doesn't end up getting delivered because of an incorrect address. So I call fedex and it turns out they Lock & Lock didn't put any apartment number on the shipping info so they couldn't deliver it. Luckily FedEx fixed that for me but it did delay the shipment one day.
Also the status on Lock & Lock site still says processing and its been weeks since my order.
Overall the products are good and what I expected and worth the cost. The hassle I went through with their site and customer service was not worth it and I will be not ordering from their site again.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Smart shuffle
Let me start off by telling how I listen to music on the go. I either make a playlist or copy all the music I might want to listen to onto my portable device. I then use shuffle and play all the music. Sometimes there's 40 songs sometimes 100.
This is the problem with shuffle on every device and piece of software I use, its truly random. I know that's how shuffle works but I feel it could work better. Now what happens to me all the time is ill hear some of the same songs on my way to work and on my way home. Then there will be other songs I hear hardly ever hear.
I wish shuffle would be smart, meaning keep track of what songs it plays and their play count. For example it could pick 2 songs to play next then compare the last time each one was played and their play count, then play the lesser played one. This way it would still be shuffle but you wouldn't get the same songs over and over.
Maybe I should submit this to some software vendors as improvements and hope they use it.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Tablet weirdness
Last night I decided to flash a new kernel on my Acer iconia tablet.
When it booted up the screen was flipped!!
Everything on the screen was backwards but it only looks backwards you sill had to touch the screen in the normal position.
I made a video of it so you can see how odd it was. I just thought it was pretty funny so I figured I would share.
Its fixed now in case you were wondering.
You tube video
When it booted up the screen was flipped!!
Everything on the screen was backwards but it only looks backwards you sill had to touch the screen in the normal position.
I made a video of it so you can see how odd it was. I just thought it was pretty funny so I figured I would share.
Its fixed now in case you were wondering.
You tube video
Good ideas #1
I am going to start posting some of my ideas either for a new product or how to improve one.
This one is how to improve elevators. This might exist somewhere but I haven't seen it yet.
People love and hate elevators. There great for getting to floors without expending much energy. We also hate waiting for them and stopping at floors with no one at them, because someone presses the call button then decided to take the stairs.
Here are my two ideas to help with these problems.
There should b a cancel button. So if I go to take the elevator and decided not to for what ever reason I can hit this button and cancel the call request. So that way it doesn't stop at the floor for no reason. This would also be useful for when you it the wrong button like up instead of down or even in the elevator when you hit 1 instead of ground.
The next piece is have the elevator learn floor patterns. For example if at 3 -3:15 pm the 3rd floor calls the elevator the most have the elevator reset to that floor when idle instead of staying at whatever the last floor was. Yes this might take a little more energy but ultimately it would be worth it.
I think this would improve everyone's experience on elevators 10 fold. Well at least it would for me.
This one is how to improve elevators. This might exist somewhere but I haven't seen it yet.
People love and hate elevators. There great for getting to floors without expending much energy. We also hate waiting for them and stopping at floors with no one at them, because someone presses the call button then decided to take the stairs.
Here are my two ideas to help with these problems.
There should b a cancel button. So if I go to take the elevator and decided not to for what ever reason I can hit this button and cancel the call request. So that way it doesn't stop at the floor for no reason. This would also be useful for when you it the wrong button like up instead of down or even in the elevator when you hit 1 instead of ground.
The next piece is have the elevator learn floor patterns. For example if at 3 -3:15 pm the 3rd floor calls the elevator the most have the elevator reset to that floor when idle instead of staying at whatever the last floor was. Yes this might take a little more energy but ultimately it would be worth it.
I think this would improve everyone's experience on elevators 10 fold. Well at least it would for me.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Aquarium/Whale Watch
For my wife's birthday I took her to the aquarium and a whale watch on Saturday.
We had gone to the aquarium months ago but they didn't have the penguin exhibit open. Which made us sad because we love penguins but this time it was open and full of penguins. We spent a lot of time watching the penguins and that is why there are a lot of pictures of them. (link below) There was a lady standing in the exhibit talking about penguins and the entire time there were penguins biting at her. It was really funny she was just standing there and they were biting at her wetsuit. It was so funny and I wish i got some pictures but i though it would of creepy to take pictures of her.
There were a lot of rude people there including parents who don't teach their children good manners. We were standing at one exhibit looking and there were a few other people there too so it was full. Normally what you should do is wait till someone moves on then you can move in close and see. Well we had a guy and his kid walk up behind the group of us, mind you he didn't wait just walked up and said excuse me in a really rude voice like we had somehow cut him off. I wanted to punch this guy in the face because he was a rude ass-hole. Also parents just don't pay attention to their kids and care what they do. We had kids cut us off and get in our way when we were trying to move. There really needs to be an application to have children because there are a lot of people who don't deserve them. The sad thing is that the parent doesn't loose out its really the children.
We also went whale watching. That was a lot of fun. There was a lot of rude people on the boat to and they are lucky I didn't throw them overboard. We did see some whales and was worth it.
Link to the photos I took.
Aquarium/Whale watch photos.
Video my wife took.
Whale watch video
We had gone to the aquarium months ago but they didn't have the penguin exhibit open. Which made us sad because we love penguins but this time it was open and full of penguins. We spent a lot of time watching the penguins and that is why there are a lot of pictures of them. (link below) There was a lady standing in the exhibit talking about penguins and the entire time there were penguins biting at her. It was really funny she was just standing there and they were biting at her wetsuit. It was so funny and I wish i got some pictures but i though it would of creepy to take pictures of her.
There were a lot of rude people there including parents who don't teach their children good manners. We were standing at one exhibit looking and there were a few other people there too so it was full. Normally what you should do is wait till someone moves on then you can move in close and see. Well we had a guy and his kid walk up behind the group of us, mind you he didn't wait just walked up and said excuse me in a really rude voice like we had somehow cut him off. I wanted to punch this guy in the face because he was a rude ass-hole. Also parents just don't pay attention to their kids and care what they do. We had kids cut us off and get in our way when we were trying to move. There really needs to be an application to have children because there are a lot of people who don't deserve them. The sad thing is that the parent doesn't loose out its really the children.
We also went whale watching. That was a lot of fun. There was a lot of rude people on the boat to and they are lucky I didn't throw them overboard. We did see some whales and was worth it.
Link to the photos I took.
Aquarium/Whale watch photos.
Video my wife took.
Whale watch video
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