Disher Family Fodder
Think Different [TM] Bengals Style
It takes an Apple fan to appreciate this. It was sent to me by a buddy of mine, makes a great desktop background if you’re a Bengals fan and an Apple advocate 😉
You can download the original wallpaper here: Think Who-Dey – Large
Holy Moly what a year!
Nobody can complain about the economy that’s all I have to say!
About 5 years ago my wife decided for her birthday (Which falls on Nov 30’th) that we’d take the day after Thanksgiving and knock out the bulk of our Christmas shopping. I let her talk me into it.
It was the easiest thing we ever did. Really. No lines, no traffic No nothing the last 4 years. A LONG day sure, but we’ve had fun and enjoyed the day together taking our time and getting the bulk of our shopping done in one day.
I’m not kidding. What’s billed as the busiest day of the year simply was a piece of cake for us. Most malls and stores were empty. We’d get front row or near front row parking everywhere. Now I worked retail for a number of years and I know what this day is capable of being but for the last few years, it has not been bad at all.
This year was very, very different. Butts and elbows everywhere. We didn’t even attempt to get up early. Didn’t even drop the kiddies off at the in-laws until 10 am to avoid the BIG rush to get the uber bargains. To me that’s just not worth the hassle.
Our first stop was at Kohl’s, and I kid you not at 11:30 am the check out lines wrapped half way around the store. (Sheesh).
More on this day later, in depth but I’ll leave you with a couple tid-bits.
I do a fair amount of Internet shopping. Best Buy, you didn’t get a DIME from me this year. Here’s why.
Every time I went to your website from Thursday night on, this is what I saw:
Not good. I never got a good chance to see what you had on sale. We did stop by and browse the store, but I can’t stand you’re return policy anyway so you lose.
I almost bought this camera online from Circuit City.
After all I was saving almost $10,000 dollars 🙂
Man you’d think as important a day as this was and as far as the internet has progressed companies would have their act together when it comes to this stuff.’
Customer Service is rare these days, especially with electronic goods and getting them repaired.
I thought I’d give a shout out to Nikon.
I needed to get a Nikon D70 repaired. The flash had quit working and the unit was out of warranty.
A quick look at Nikon’s Repair page pretty much gives you your options.
I’m probably about to step in it in a really big way… But this is about the only way I can think of to explain the situation.
When I married my wife she was a blond. For the purpose of this discussion we’ll use this color to signify blond: 
Over the years she’s taken her hair back to her natural color, more of a brunette color, for that color I’ll use this to illustrate: 
Caveat Emptur
Home Depot item information:
LG Electronics
Semi Integrated Tall Tub Stainless Interior Dishwasher, White
Model LDS5811WW
Store SKU # 143898
Internet # HD0000009493
Catalog # 100385663
First, we are a larger than average family. We have 6 people in our household. We cook at home 3 meals a day so we use the heck out of a dishwasher and we wear them out. We run one 2x a day and have very hard water. Yes, we have a water softener but even with one, we still have harder than average water and appliances just aren’t made like they used to be. I figure 5 years is about the average life cycle these days.
Our last dishwasher was a Kenmore and we got a good years out of it. We broke it about once a year. In fact there was a part in the top that was simply a poor design element. We were able to pick this part up for $8 at RepairClinic.com and I highly recommend that site. But after 5 years of use and abuse if finally gave it up. The pump quit and we decided we wanted something newer. We didn’t have a ‘high-end’ Kenmore but it wasn’t a bargain basement builder model either. something in the $350 range 5 years ago.
