Quiznos Dudes....cool

We have a Quiznos down the street from the office. Over the years I have been there a few times. Almost every time was a bad experience. The owner...I think...was never there. There were always a bunch of young punks running the store....into the ground. The place closed...(which is almost impossible in the valley of the franchise) then reopened. As I earlier blogged, I was sucked into the advertising for the new Torpedo and Sammies. They were GREAT!

That has not changed,...in fact I love the Turkey Pesto Torpedo! The reason for the short rant today is the trio of guys that are at our quiznos. 1st....they are the same three guys every time I have been in there....(about 3-4 times in the past few months) 2nd....they either have great memories are know how to fake making you feel like they know just who you are. 3rd they are having some fun making sandwiches and working with the customers. All of this lends itself to a great experience.

I love great service....Quiznos Chesterfield has it.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is an idiot...not cool

Everyday gets worse for this idiot. OK you had an affair....so you screwed over your wife who has dedicated her life to you....and also your 4 sons. Nice way to teach your sons to be good men. But enough already....shut up...you are making it worse. It seems everyday he has to bear his soul to the media.....this time he not only coughs up that he saw the women more then just the two times that he claimed....but that he has also has crossed the line a few more times throughout his marriage.

Today I read this garbage...."This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story," Sanford said. "A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day." Why don't you just kick your wife in the face.
I am just so tired of reading about this wimp.

What an idiot.

Patriot Video.....cool

Take a look at this video......

They always come in three....not cool!

Michael Jackson....By now everyone has heard the news. Famous deaths always come in threes.....that's and old wives's tale....but it did happen this week!

Interesting coverage of this issue....

My first exposure was on talk radio....no surprise there. My buddy Frank Opinion from KTRS had an interesting spin on his death. He said he knew that there would be hours upon hours of coverage of this issue and that people would be saying what a great guy he was...what a great loss to the world. Boy was he right! But what he went onto explain was his thought about Jacko. He said good riddens...the guy was a pedophile and if he wasn't rich....he would be behind bars. He went on a mini rant on how....yes the guy was a talent....15 years ago....but today there was no big loss.

Frank also believes that OJ is guilty. Both of these guys were acquitted of all criminal charges. So should we remember them as guilty? I am not sure.

I think the WSJ had the best opening line.
"While he led a controversial life, there is no doubt about his talent and impact on the music industry."

I am not going soft on criminal behavior, I just have to live in our justice system.

Ed Mcmahon and Farrah die this week....not cool

Who at my age and my gender did not have this poster....if you didn't....then I hope you enjoyed Brokeback Mountain.

2 major "stars" fell silent this week. I was never a hue Johnny and Ed fan, but if you read anything about the man....he was just that ...a good person.

Charlies Angels....what a show....I was a lone wolf in my crowd at the time. Guys either loved Farrah or they loved Jaclyn Smith...me...I was a Kate Jackson fan.

Good memories, God bless them both!

Jessica's nose....I guess it's cool!

For close to 11 years Jessica has not breathed through her nostrils. She broke her nose as a little "clumsy" kid and in addition has a deviated septum......whatever that is. She was finally old enough to have the operation to fix the break and clean out the septum???

She has been living.....and I mean living on my couch. When Jessica tells you she is bored of TV....you know she has watched a lot of TV. She has been a real trooper about this. They told Denise that it may take 6 months to a year for the entire swelling to finally be gone. I cannot wait to see her on the soccer field this fall and seeing how much faster this very fast kid is now that she can breathe!


Except for the bunchy shorts issue.....all has been pretty good.

Daddy Daughter night.....cool

Denise and my two oldest are to the Muny tonight. I gave Denise season passess to this venue for the summer. Every couple of weeks or so she and one or two of the girls go and see a play.

In addition....my new part time job is at summer camp. Chris is at Boy scout camp this week. Between the math, scouts, getting him ready for football....he started sucking up all of my free time....thus his new title.

Anyway....That leaves me and the Shelbster for the night. Always a great time to get one on one with one of the brood. And a night with Shelb is always a treat.

Off to Genghis grill for dinner with all the girls and then Shelby and I will find something to do!

Info overload....not cool!

It is almost impossible to keep up with what is going on politically these days. There are a couple of issues that make it worse then normal.
The main stream press albeit, most local newspapers and network news is in Obama's camp. I don't mind that they love him....but let's tell the news. On the other hand you have right wing radio....Rush, Savage, Beck, Ingrahm....and many more. They do a good job of pointing out what is going on that you may not know about....

Take for example one of the biggest issues...the Chrysler Chapter 11. It passed today on account of Obama's pressure on the courts to uphold his arrangement. Does not sound bad until you dig into the details. When someone goes into bankruptcy, secured creditors get in line first. Unsecured creditors get what's left over. This is how it always works....people who invest in businesses....loan to businesses....and buy businesses depend on this rule of law. Obama put the secured creditors at the back of the line...giving control to unsecured creditors and one of his European buddies Fiat. There will be huge ramifications in the financial markets to come based on his agenda.

Back to info overload.....so without hearing too much of this on mainstream news....and the talking heads of Right wing radio harping on it....two things happen. I have to go then and look for deeper information to confirm the radio guys. It takes more time....and there are not just a few issues. Obama is working at such a fast pace....he needs to! In less the 18 months the economy will still be in the toilet....unemployment will be over 10%....and people will again want change....he may lose some of his power in the house as the result of mid term elections.

Anyway....wow what a ramble....So much to keep up with, let alone try to formulate a coherent paragraph....not that my blog even closely resembles coherent literature!

Off to Outbacks for Taylor's 17Th birthday dinner.

Too much customer service?....I guess it can't be "not" cool!

I flew out to Philly last week on business. I flew in at 1, rented a car, had a meeting at 3 and was gone the next morning at 10 am. As most of you know...I hate poor customer service. So I ask you....can there be too much customer service?

I rented a car from Enterprise off of Yahoo travel. It's fast, you can compare rates and my history of checking around has taught me that the rates are usually the best you can get. It took less the 10 minutes to rent the car.

I show up at Enterprise and the counter person comes around the desk, shakes my hand, welcomes me to Enterprise. All very nice....but I am in a hurry. She gives me the run down on the gas and insurance things that I always waive. chats me up about St Louis and my flight. 5-10 minutes and we are done. I figure great give me the keys and point me in the direction of the car. The usual gig....oh no...Miss friendly comes back around the counter and leads me outside. She asks me to wait and then brings the car around front for me. She then has me do am outside inspection of the vehicle getting to agree that the only issue is the scrapes on the back bumper. ...I am now getting a little antsy and want to get out of there.....

I fill out some more paperwork and I am on my way. It really was a good experience. But I really didn't need the extra attention. If it was pouring...then that would of been really cool, but it was a great day out. Can you over customer service people to the point of being a little annoying? Am I just a grumpy-pants as my daughters sometimes call me? Not sure, but with all that effort I was not wow'd

Maybe she just though I was hot.....guess not, they treat all their customers that way!

Knaves and Knights....hard ...but cool

Chris is taking this braniac math course this summer. No bragging or anything....the little dude is a math whiz....anyway, so he gets his first 27 problems and they are all variations of this:


A very special island is inhabited only by knights and knaves. Knights always tell the truth, and knaves always lie. You meet three inhabitants: Zippy, Ted and Bob. Zippy claims, `Bob and I are both knights.' Ted tells you, `Of Bob and I, exactly one is a knight.' Bob says, `Ted could claim that I am a knight.'
So who is a knight and who is a knave?

And by the middle of the questions...they add in an additional issue that these people could be normal or not normal.....they can either lie or not lie

Then 3/4 of the way through they add another twist.... in that they can also be werewolves.

If you are wondering what the answer is....Chris will need to post the answer!

This took some serious concentration..and with help from Chris I figured most of them out!!!!

Phone Cord Detangler.....so cool!

I cannot tell you the amount of times that I have pulled the phone off my desk when I answer it. Hello....oh wait a minute....crash ...crash..Hello? of sorry about that....all this when you try desperately to untangle the phone cord so your face is not 3 inches from the desk.

So we started selling these little phone detanglers
They are really awesome.

Last month we sold out of them and the next thing I know one of the guys in the warehouse comes by and "steals" my personal detangler off my phone....anything for customer service I suppose.

Now I am back to the 3 inch leash....gotta run back to the warehouse and grab me one of these!

Reverse Tithing.....cool!

If you have not seen this article........


Bay Community Church in Malbis, Ala., gave away $50,000 to its parishioners.

Instead of asking its members for donations, the trustees of Bay Community doled out cash. Each of the church's 2,000 congregants walked away with an envelope containing between $20 to $100.

But there's a catch; the cash is not for them.

Along with various amounts of cash, the envelopes contained instructions to "turn around and bless someone."

"The instructions were simple, you can't give it back to the church and you can't spend it on you and your family," Associate Senior Pastor Trey Taylor told WALA-TV. Taylor masterminded the plan to spread goodness and cash during tough economic times.

Here is a link to the entire story

Some basic information:
The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, a sexual orientation law and public policy think tank, estimates that there are 8.8 million gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons in the U.S There are roughly 304,000,000 people in the US. That means this group represents about 2.8% of the population.


Today New Hampshire joined other states in Gay Marriage. Here is a cut from yahoo news.....
The law will take effect in January, exactly two years after the state legalized civil unions. New Hampshire joins Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont and Iowa in recognizing same-sex marriages, though opponents hope to overturn Maine's law with a public vote.

This is not a discussion on whether it should be legal....I will leave that for another day.... my thought is why on earth is this issue on the front page of the paper EVERY single day. This is issue effect less then 3% of the population. With the coverage this gets....you would think it effected 97% of the population. If the press would just spend equal amounts of time in relation to population on other items.....guess what?....there would be no room in the papers or the news broadcast....this is a very small majority in the United States. Agree with them or not......I am tired of listening to it.

Obama is being a hypocrite.....not cool!

So the president wants a night out with the wife.......sound normal to me.

So off to NYC to see a Broadway show! Again, nothing I have not done when I lived in CT. Then again I did not just come off the lecture circuit telling the Big Three's executives that they were basically Pigs....how dare they fly to Washington on their private jets. Oh wait....He could understand that it was probably the mot efficient way to get them there....but it was timing boys....how dare you be so elitist when your companies are in a financial mess. He had everyone including his personal press up in arms.

With that said.....3 Gulf Streams to not only to carry the president, but the press....(God forbid they are not by his side like a good lap dog)THREE private jets....so he and his wife can fly from Washington to NYC. Was this the same guy who just push GM into bankruptcy this week....is this the same guy whose financials.....are a mess.

Timing Mr. President....shame on you.....That million dollar date....I am sure many people could of used that money back in a tax cut. I am sure you could of found something in Washington to do......