All together now: Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!
All together now: Its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!!
You do realize that that logic is the same as anti-gunners that blame the gun, don't you? A phone is no different than a gun. In the wrong hands, bad things can happen...
More often than not, "free shipping" on lower priced items is Fed-Up. Ordered a $14 item from Homeless Despot today - free shipping. And yea, its coming via Fed-Up. They won't walk an extra six inches more than they just have to...
today my gripe is that Cabelas (and Basspro) have fallen from greatness to absolute crap, and they’re slumming around with the likes of FedEx, who I think I’ve complained about on this thread before. I remember back when Cabelas was awesome - high quality hunting gear, a fantastic website to shop on, and stores that were a real destination and experience. I visited several stores that I drive hours to get to, spent hours there, and spent thousands of dollars. I even got the credit card so I’d have the points.
Nowadays I struggle to even use the points. The website is torture to find anything, and their products are way lower quality. I still have and use Cabelas camos from 2007. I doubt anything I bought today would last a season. The stores boast empty shelves, no more great food, and absolute dolts working there who give bad advice to shoppers.
Well I had some points to use so I picked up a new pair of binos, struggling through the website to use my points and check out. I ordered them Wednesday, they were in WV, and the delivery was scheduled for Friday. On Friday FedEx said the binos ended up in Florida somehow, and the new delivery date was Monday. Well here we are Wednesday and they finally arrived according to my email. But I look around my house - where are they?? Oh right; this is FedEx.
So I walk down my long driveway, which no other delivery companies have any issue using to actually deliver packages to my house, I go all the way down to the very edge of the road, where my valuable package sits, on the ground, in the rain, smashed like he sat on it, and with a glob of red goo on the corner, soaking into the cardboard. What is this?! Grease? I smell it - it’s strawberry jam. Was he baiting bears with my binos??
To top it off he took a picture of the crumpled, wet, jam stained package on the dirt as the proof of delivery … no shame at all. “I done delibered it! Ya can’t say I didn’t!”
The binos appear ok and I didn’t get jam on my shirt … but GD it I’m done with Cabelas and FedEx!
Our closest Cabela's is Hammond Indiana which is chicago lite. I had enough CC points to buy a pistol for my son. The whole check out and 4473 process was a goat f*#k, like 1.5 hours. Then they escort your criminal ass out the door.
I got rid of the card right after that. This was before Bass Pro.
Time for my annual "I miss Colorado" rant.
Our nice, mild, wet spring has gone to full summer. I think the last time it rained was June 2nd, which apparently was enough time for some wasps to build a nest in the downspout right off my back patio. I nuked them yesterday after one had stung the dog and my lawn maintenance activities stirred them up enough to make their location obvious.
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Speaking of mowing, I'm allergic to Bermuda which is the most common grass here as it's the only thing that will tolerate both ends of our climate extremes. So I either suffocate in a dust mask in the heat or wind up hacking it up the rest of the day and have a nosebleed at some point.
Today broke 100 and despite the lack of rainfall was still humid enough for a dew point in the 70s. The ground is so hard my metal spike sprinklers won't go into the dirt more than an inch with my weight on them. Nothing in the forecast for the next two weeks, so I'll be watering to keep the fescue alive and hopefully keep some of the dust down.
I've killed one copperhead and my wife let one escape in the past two weeks.
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Something is coming out of the creek and tearing up my lawn at night. I've got about 3 patches like this that have shown up in the past month. I've had 2 hunting enthusiasts fairly confidently blame it on a feral pig but all I've caught on the game cam is a raccoon, so I don't know whether to borrow my buddies thermal scope and sit out with my .300BLK playing distressed piglet sounds or set a trap and put down permethrin to knock down the grubs that the raccoon might be digging up.
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I'm ready for October.
Over here in South East Arizona we're finally getting some Monsoon moisture. Since we live a few blocks into a residential neighborhood, we only have to deal with bark scorpions. Though last summer or the summer before we did have a couple of Javelinas show up at the next door neighbors front yard.
I almost stepped on a snake during my run this morning. A brutal section of steep uphill when I tend to look at the ground in front of me. Not a copperhead or anything venomous...maybe a speckled kingsnake that went light on the speckling, or a racer that came out mostly black with some yellow on it's sides. But it was about 4 feet long and right in the road so when I finally saw it, it got my attention.
. I think the last time it rained was June 2nd,