kibitzing

Airtrack Devices

2008-06-23T10:20:00.003-04:00

Last year my wife broke the glass on the front of her Motorola Q. It was within her contract and not close to being able to get a new phone at a discounted price. An Alltel employee suggested we take it to Airtrack Devices to see if they could fix it.

The result: Yes they could and it only cost $50.00 and fixed it in minutes.

In June I had my Motorola RAZR in my back pocket with my keys. I sat down and crunch! The lens on the outside broke. Again, in a contract, we took it over to Airtrack Devices at their new location and they fixed it in a few minutes and cost only $25.00.

I'm posting this because we live in such a disposable society and sometimes as soon as something stops working (or breaks) our first thought is to replace it. Sometimes its a good idea to fix the old.

If you live Greensboro NC and you have a problem with your cell phone I recommend that you call Airtrack Devices.

Airtrack Devices
701 Carnegie Place
Greensboro, NC 27409
Phone: 1-800-550-9440
Local Phone: 336-851-5152
Fax: 336-851-2104
Email: airtrack@clearwire.net
Web: www.airtrackdevices.com

A Day at the Beech!

2008-03-01T21:38:00.002-05:00

There is almost nothing you can get for free any more. We stumbled across something pretty spectacular for free today and I want to thank the town of Beech Mountain.

We were looking for a place to take our children sledding and we found a wonderful place next door to the Beech Mountain Chamber of Commerce.

Children 12 and under can enjoy their free sledding hill. The hill is outfitted with its own snow making machines! Check out the conditions before you go - in this live webcam the sledding hill is directly across the street.

If you get there and you don't have a sled with you, there is a Mast General Store just up the road you should visit - what don't they sell?

Thank you Beech Mountain!

I got a new camera for Christmas

2007-12-26T22:55:00.000-05:00

I'm really excited, after years of owning digital camera's that left me wanting more, I now feel like I have a digital camera that is the most like a 35mm camera I used to own. It looks and acts like a 35mm camera and takes outstanding pictures!

I feel like everything is going to be OK in the world now.

Its the Nikon D40
http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25420

Ergot Poisoning

2007-10-27T08:51:00.000-04:00

My wife and I sometimes just sit down and watch TV for a couple hours. We're not really couch potatoes so it doesn't happen often but when it does, we very often notice themes from one movie to the next or one show to the next. It can really be funny how we end up connecting two random shows together.

We have Tivo (and love it) and last night we watched Ghost Whisperer on TV, then a Tivo'd episode of House.

Both shows featured Ergot poisoning - what a wacky thing to have in common!

Since we learned about it on Ghost Whisperer, you would think we'd be able to figure out what the diagnosis was on House prior to being told - but we didn't, we're very disappointed with ourselves!

Autumn

2007-10-20T18:38:00.000-04:00

Some people think Autumn is just the transition from summer to winter. Others like my wife think of it as one of the most beautiful times of the year. We moved to NC from FL for a change of seasons so we were excited as fall approached.

A couple of newsworthy items about this, our first fall in NC. According to the news, because of the severe drought occurring here, this is supposed to be a year with less color. Then we heard on the news that October 13th was going to be the peak foliage time in Boone NC.

So Saturday October 13th, we drove out to Boone (a couple hours away) to see the fall foliage and we were a little disappointed. Almost no color at all, but it was still nice. It was nice to get out of town and spend time with the family. We took our new puppy, Sam with us, I think he had fun!

It was funny, the Monday after we went to Boone, I was telling someone about our trip and they asked "why would you drive all the way to Boone when you can stay home and see fall colors in a couple weeks?"

So maybe we'll have better luck soon by just looking out the window!

Black's Furniture

2007-10-18T18:42:00.001-04:00

Here I am on my second post and I decided that I need to post a complaint. My wife and I ordered furniture from Black's Furniture at the end of June 2007. We were told that the furniture would be delivered in 6 - 8 weeks.

We ordered dining room furniture including, table, chairs, side tables. We ordered living room furniture including tables, chairs and a sofa. We ordered bedroom furniture including a bed, night stands, armoire, television cabinet.

Its now getting toward the end of October and we still don't have any furniture. We have called numerous times, but real people never answer the phone, we always have to leave a message. Then we get messages left for us in the middle of the day when we're not here.

One day we had success when my wife happened to be home for one of their returned calls and it turns out that one of the pieces is back ordered. Everything else is in, but they won't deliver until everything is in. If we want two deliveries we need to pay two delivery charges.

I worked in retail for a while and I understand their side of this, but what I don't understand the lack of customer service and rudeness of people that we have talked to or those who have left messages. They act like we are an inconvenience for them when we call.

I feel better now that I've posted this...

U P D A T E
Friday October 19th - the day after this was posted, we got a call from Black's Furniture... Our furniture is in! Now we just need it delivered...

First Post

2007-09-29T16:36:00.000-04:00

OK, so this is my first post... I don't know why I started this except that I have a coworker who blogs frequently and I mentioned to him that I had read his blog and enjoyed it, he suggested I try.

Like most people I'm opinionated and as I've aged I like to comment on society as a whole. My wife has stopped listening to me and I need a new forum, so here I am. I'm enjoying some "down time" today while my wife and kids are upstairs playing Wii so I decided today to start this blog

We'll see what the future holds - hopefully something more interesting than this first post!