The rodeo

When I was younger my father took the whole family to a local rodeo one hot summer’s afternoon.  I’ve always been fascinated with everything rodeo – from the trick riding to the roping to the bronc-busting and bull riding!  I loved watching the rodeo clowns do their work, too.  Those rodeo clowns work hard to help make sure that everyone is as safe as possible – and they are grossly under-appreciated (in my opinion, anyway!) 

I’ve never tried my hand at roping anything, although I’ve always thought it would be really great to learn how to rope.  I just never even knew of a place to go to learn how to rope!  My own attempts to self-teach were totally laughable!  Phil called me the other day and told me that he was given four  Houston Rodeo concert tickets and asked us if we’d like to join him and Angela on a short little vacation trip to the rodeo!  I sure would love to go, but we need to find out if we can get the time off of work before we say yes.  It sure sounds like a wonderful trip!

Knowing how much my wife loves horses, I would be really surprised if she said she didn’t want to go.  I hope she can get the time off from work!

Finding local businesses

My brother has been telling me that he wants to open a catering business in his town.  He thinks that there is a strong market for it because there are a lot of “high end” businesses that he thinks that will use his services.  So he’s been looking at ways to advertise his new business and was thinking about using the justclicklocal.com website.  So I went to the website to check it out for myself.  I saw that the website can be used to find just about any kind of product or service anywhere in the country.  For example, I can find a dog walker in Miami FL, a dentist in Pittsburg PA or an auto mechanic in Charlotte, NC just by typing in the keywords and location!

So, just to try it out, and to help him out I was looking around the site some more and found that he could list his business for free!  I thought it seemed easy enough to do.  So I recommend that you give it a try yourself if you are looking for a local business, or want to advertise your own – give this site a chance!

Disputing a credit card charge

There used to be a time when the credit card companies backed me up when I made a claim, disputing a payment. Well, those days sure seem to be over! There was a charge on my American Express card last May for $197 for a product that I did order. However I then subsequently cancelled that order and the merchandise was never received. I have proof that I contacted the company and cancelled the order, and I have an email from the company acknowledging the cancellation. Yet American Express keeps telling me that the charge is valid and that I have to pay it! So every month I have to reopen the claim. It is getting very tiring and I am thinking about cancelling that credit card! I have plenty of other credit cards that I can use – I don’t need the aggravation that goes along with this one!