Jim came over today to show me his new Burton Lil Buddy bag. He was really excited about it because it is a cooler that will hold twelve beverage cans and it has built in weatherproof speakers, amp and input jack that you can plug an MP3 or CD player into. The Burton Lil Buddy speakers were detachable, which I thought was pretty cool too. I’ve never seen a bag like that before! I asked Jim where in the world did he find a bag like that! He told me that his wife bought the Burton Lil Buddy for him on sale through the Zappos.com website.
I was really surprised when he told me that! I didn’t realize that Zappos sold other things besides shoes! My wife and I have bought shoes through Zappos before and really liked the free shipping both ways policy. I also like their 365 day satisfaction guarantee! There aren’t very many Internet companies that stand behind their products like that. I’ll have to go online and check out what else they sell!
I spent the day getting the snow blower and my tractor ready to go for tomorrow. According to the weatherman we will be getting a record amount of snow overnight and over the weekend. I’m rather excited about that; I have had this snow blower for two years and only used it once! I pulled all of our cars off to the side of the driveway and pulled the tractor off of the trailer and into the garage. With the Subaru having four brand new studded snow tires, and our truck with four wheel drive and new snow tires I am feeling pretty secure about our ability to get out and about if we need to. Now I just hope we don’t lose electricity!
I”ve noticed that my wife has a large collection of broken watches. Now to be honest, some of them are not really broken, they are in her jewelry box with dead batteries. I asked her why she doesn’t replace the batteries in them and wear them and her answer has been that the replacement battery cost more than the watch did! And then she explains that she just can’t bring herself to throw them away.
She always has been one to keep things beyond their useful life. Sometimes that frustrates me, sometimes I think that’s a good thing! Maybe she’d be tossing me out the door too! I know there are times she thinks I’m past my useful life!
For our next wedding anniversary I’d like to buy her a really nice seiko diamond watch. She deserves to have a watch that isn’t a “throwaway” watch like the rest of the watches that her brothers, sisters, and parents have given her over the years. I’d like to buy her one that is nice enough to wear when we go out someplace nice, but not so fancy that she can’t wear it every day. I’d like for her to think of me whenever she looks at it. And I’d like for her to consider that our time together has been time well spent.
Have you ever had a calculator that gave you the wrong answers from time to time? I have a solar-powered calculator that seems to have “lost it” somehow. When I was given this calculator, I was thrilled – no more replacing batteries! But lately I’ve been getting a lot of wrong answers from it. I’m certain that I entered the correct data, so maybe one of the key pads has died. So I guess it’s time to throw it away, but I hate to throw away an electronic gadget. It’s bad for the environment, you know? But I can’t keep on collecting dead electronic junk either! I wonder if there is a local place that I can take this to….. I’ll have to do a little research on that. If you know of anyplace that takes dead calculators, let me know!
My wife was quite upset earlier this week because her computer was acting up. She ran all of the tools she could think of to correct the problem, but the computer continued to crash. So we called her brother Will and asked him to use his remote desktop software to access her computer from his house and see if he could figure out what the problem is, and if possible to correct it. We’re really lucky that Will is an expert on computer software issues; he is our designated geek!
Having this software allows Will to fix many of our computer problems from his home, which is wonderful because it saves us from the hassle of having to make an appointment with a computer repair service and packing up the CPU and taking it (or shipping it) somewhere off premises. We used to do that years ago, and it was frustrating because they often had to keep the computer at their location for up to a week while working on it!
I also like knowing that keeping our computer here on our premises and having the work done by Will makes us feel comfortable that our private information does not fall into unauthorized hands.
Fun, Gadgets and Technology, General life, Shopping | Dean | 
December 18, 2009 7:42 pm | 
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