STOP! According to the Perpetual Kid fashion police you've really crossed the line. Create your own crime scene with this extra-long, extra cozy knit scarf. The coppers may question it, but you'll get off scot free…we guarantee it (NOT REALLY.) This C
Pros: Quality Materials, Attractive Design, Good Length, Soft, Warm
Best Uses: Cold Weather
Describe Yourself: Trendy/Stylish Dresser
Gear Usage: Cold Weather Living
Was this a gift?: Yes
Got this for my wife, a Florida native, who loves hot weather and thinks “cold” is anything below 75ºF. She’s a huge fan of crime scene investigation and criminal psychology, so I knew this was the perfect gift for her… and I was right. She loves it!
Generic white cotton swabs are fine for everyday use, but for those special occasions use these sleek, Black Cotton Swabs! Put some in a fancy cigarette case and offer them to new acquaintances at parties! One hundred swabs in each 3 inch tall clear pla
Pros: Works Great, Conversation starter, Comes in its own holder
Cons: Too awesome to wanna use
Best Uses: Bathrooms for Ninja’s, Art projects, Beauty salons
My wife is a makeup artist and hair stylist, so I bought these for her to use for her job. She loves them! They work just as well as other cotton swabs, but look so different that everyone takes notice.
Last month, my wife accidentally dropped her iPhone 4 on a brick road. Since it landed on a raised brick, it totally shattered the front glass. Rather than buy a new screen for it and fix it myself, we opted to order the new iPhone 4S for her. Unfortunately, as anyone who has tried to buy one will tell you, they were on back order for about 2 weeks. Even though the phone technically still worked (despite the shattered glass front), I didn’t want my wife to use it and possibly cut herself or something.
So, I thought I’d simply put the SIM card from her phone into an old iPhone 3G that we had laying around. That was when I remembered that Apple changed their SIM card format to a physically smaller chip with the introduction of the iPhone 4. >:(
Well, that wasn’t going to stop me. Without even knowing if I would work, I proceeded to make an “adapter” for the SIM card… and this was how I got it to work!
Mind you, this could have been a lucky fluke, so it may not work with all devices… I also doubt that it would work from one provider to another. I’m just happy that this Frankenstein SIM-hack worked! LOL
As you may have recently read on my blog, I got a new car earlier this year when I traded in my 2008 Smart car. The new car that I bought is a 2011 Ford Fiesta SES.
When I traded in my Smart car, I figured that my gas mileage (MPG) on the Fiesta would not be as good. however, after crunching some numbers, I have surprised myself. To clarify what I am going to be talking about, I’m going to provide you with a little chart below.
Since the Smart car requires the highest octane fuel, the amount of money spent per mile is actually more than the Fiesta. For proof, I input the gas prices into the Side-by-Side calculator at FuelEconomy.gov to get the following:
So even though the MPG on the sticker looks better on the Smart, when you crunch the numbers, the Fiesta actually comes out ahead in the $$$ department… which is really what matters in todays economy.
If you consider the fuel economy when looking to buy a car, I highly recommend checking out the FuelEconomy.gov website for comparison data before making a decision.
Ever since I was laid off from work at PwC last December, I have had to submit an unemployment claim every two weeks, and had to go to the unemployment office once a month to drop off a job search log showing the nine jobs that I have applied for over the previous month. While there, I also was to sign a waiver for an extension of my TAA/TRA benefits for the following month. Today, when I do my routine meeting with my new TAA coordinator (he was appointed to me last month), he looks at me surprised and says that he does not think that I qualify for any more waivers. Of course, I was pretty much like WTF???
It appeared that I was not supposed to be signing these waivers until my regular unemployment benefits ran out… and even when those run out, I have the option to apply for an extension to my regular unemployment benefits. Luckily, he was able to talk with the supervisor and find a possible alternative way for me to continue with the waivers. Hopefully, the unemployment folks up in Tallahassee approve of the change.
::crosses fingers::
On top of that mess, my coordinator tells me that I might get audited from the unemployment office because I do not have enough job applications for each month. Turns out, I am supposed to be submitting 5 applications a WEEK instead of 9 applications a MONTH… as I was informed when I first started this crap!! When I first started these jobs searches, I was given a form that had 9 spaces on it for me to fill out companies that I had submitted a job application to. My coordinator (at the time) told me that I need to bring the completed form back to her at the end of each month so that I can sign off on another extension waiver… no mention that I had to do anything more than what was on the form. By inadvertently having these waivers submitted each month, I have been effectively cutting short the amount of benefits I get from unemployment. … click HERE for more »
Well, it’s been about a week since I’ve had my new car, and I have been loving every minute of it!
I’m not sure when it all started, but for some reason I have been giving my cars names like one would do for a pet. For example, my 2002 Mini Cooper was named “Stitch” because he was blue and reminded me of the character and the Disney movie “Lilo & Stitch”; my VW GTI was dubbed “Edmund” (for the character in the TV show “Blackadder”); my Smart car was named “Gus” after a character in the TV show “Psych”; and now I am still trying to figure out a name for my new Ford Fiesta…
Just like with naming the pet, I don’t try to force a name on something. … click HERE for more »
It has been a while since I last wrote in my blog, but then again, not much is really happened in the past few months for me to blog about. Aside from a 1 1/2 week stint at Publix as a wedding cake decorator, I have remained for the most part unemployed. Furthermore, since we have used most of my severance from PwC to pay bills and other debts, I have started to entertain the idea of working in the IT support sector again. Probably one of the major reasons why I’ve even decided to go back into the IT world, much less even consider doing so, is because of what my friends and former PwC coworkers tell me what the world is like in a “real” IT shop. apparently it’s a much different world out there than what PwC had to offer us… and it is for the better.
Anyhow, that is pretty much the only major thing that has happened over the past six months up until a few days ago. Earlier this week, I received a phone call from my smart car dealership to see if I was interested in trading in my old car. The car that I had at the time was a 2008 “Smart fortwo Passion” in yellow. 2008 was the first year that the Smart car was offered in America… It was also the only year that yellow was offered. So out of curiosity, I decided to take them up on her offer and come down to see what they have him a lot and to possibly test drive one of the new 2011 Smart cars. … click HERE for more »
So, I am the proud owner of an iPad that has both wifi and 3G capability… it was a gift from my previous employer before they decided to lay us off and outsource their IT dept.
Anyhow, being a techno-geek, I decked to go into the iPad settings and streamline it to ensure the most bang for my buck… rather, that’s what I thought I was doing.
I think is was just a few weeks ago that I noticed that the clock on my iPad was not the same as the clock displaying on our cable box. I checked it with my iPhone and laptop and found it was not the same as those either. WTF???
I know I had set up the iPad to automatically update the time/date, so I thought that maybe the time servers at Apple were ahead by 6+ minutes. Then I recalled that both my laptop (a MacBook Pro) and iPhone all had the correct time listed and were syncing with the Apple servers.
Rather than go through all the tedious failed attempts of mine to resolve the problem, let me just tell you what simple setting fixed it: Cellular Data
I’ve always been connected to a wifi connection on my iPad, so turning OFF the Cellular Data setting was one of the first things I did. Apparently, my iPad NEEDS that setting to remain active to update the clock. Stupid, IMHO, but a simple fix that was unfortunately not obvious.
If you have an iPad with wifi+3G and are experiencing time sync issues, then I’d highly recommend making sure you have your Cellular Data setting turned ON.
So, I put together a prototype/proof-of-concept of the outdoor lights. I uploaded the video to my YouTube channel to show you a bit more of what I did.
