i don’t get it…
why couldn’t I have been independently wealthy so I can run my own animal rescue/adoption non-profit? Ugh!
I don’t get it…
…why do I either put too much sugar in my morning hot tea, or not enough?
I don’t get it…
… why do people do work that they know is shoddy? Why don’t they take pride in their job? Why doesn’t their management deal with it? If I did things like that, I’d never hear the end of it.
I don’t get it…
…I live in an area where road construction/repair seems to go on year-around. I pass by the sites on the way to and from work. It all looks like a huge cluster-fudge to me. How on earth does it go from mounds of dirt and construction barrels for months on end to nice smooth overpasses and roads? I don’t get it. Must be some awesome project manager involved!
R.I.P. Memphis Motorsports.
No More Elvis Trophy
As if the current monsoon season in the Mid South isn’t enough, I learned to day that Dover Motorsports is closing the Memphis Motorsports Park. The oval track 2010 dates have already been rescheduled elsewhere, but I can’t find out for certain if the drag strip is also closing. Maybe that piece of info will get updated somewhere soon.
What a bummer. Season tickets for the truck and Nationwide races have been birthday presents to myself for almost 6 years. The very first non-dirt track race I ever saw was at Memphis Motorsports when Junior was in the Busch series.
The races were a tailgating experience for me, my mother, my daughter, and my best friend – time to sit, chill (or keep warm if the weather was cold in October!), enjoy a beverage, grill out – and watch a race.
After witnessing the worst attendance I’ve seen at a Busch/Nationwide event since I’ve been frequenting the park, I kinda figured that something big needed to happen or it would close… Unfortunately, it was the latter. Let’s face it – Memphis does not promote anything. ANYTHING. I wouldn’t even know who to point the finger at – the city council? the exiting mayor? Memphis/Millington had a gold mine and they just left it to starve like the dogs in the Memphis Animal Shelter.
Rude users = Rude site?
Nah. I’m guessing when the FrugalReader site was created, the founder didn’t intend for users to be such…uh…snits? I’m fairly sure that the majority of the users there are friendly. Just not the ones I was subjected to. After the swaptree debacle, I decided not to stick around for more. Joined 10/5, had my fill on 10/10.
I’ll stick with BookMooch.com and Paperbackswap.com.
Hopefully Nursejulie and people like her will learn:
(1) If a user emails you to ask if they can mail a book later than the norm, that is what they are doing. Asking you a question. It’s not intended as some way to slight you. It’s not a solicitation to be read the riot act about the rules of the site. Would it be so difficult to say, “no, I really need it now?” I’m sorry – was cancelling the trade supposed to teach me a lesson?
(2) Life gets in the way. A lot. For a lot of people. I can’t think of a single time I’ve had the desire to belittle someone who asked me if they could ship a book at a later time – and it happens a lot. Did I mention A LOT? Unfortunately I don’t get this sort of consideration in return sometimes, but as a rule – people can’t help it if they are natural born asshats. You can’t cure stupid.
(3) Be nice and give people the benefit of the doubt. If you can’t, then take meds, scratch your mad place and get glad, join a help group, whatever.
Enough soap box today…
My Swaptree Honeymoon is over
It’s official. Give me an axe. I dumped Swaptree from my list of book/cd/dvd swapping sites. I did let quite a few bad experiences with the site go, chalking it up to experience – but after being asked to remove my listings because I wanted certain books in hardcover? Puuuuuhleeez.
As it stands right now, Paperbackswap.com and it’s DVD/CD sister sites are still my favorites.
Looking at a few others, I’m really looking for a spot to trade some books that aren’t in pristine condition (like they expect at paperbackswap), that use the credit system, and that are reputable. I could also do without the rating system. How many times did I swap a book on the tree site that I listed as *acceptable* (which is the lowest rating) only to have someone give me negative feedback because of a pen mark on page 77?
Yeah, I don’t need that anymore.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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