Boy, God really works in mysterious ways.

I had a melt down on my computer early this fall. One day I got up and the computer started no problemo, but it wouldn't load!

That's weird for my type of computer... it's not a PC, but a few times it DID go on and acted normally. All summer long, though I had tried to get my stuff backed up on the new portable hard drive but it wouldn't even show UP on my computer! I'm not real computer savvy so thought it was just somethign I was doing wrong! Wrong!

The damn hard drive just didn't FIT my type of computer, though the staff at Office Depot SWORE it would! They probably just told me that so I'd drop $100 in their stupid store!

Unfortunately I bought a portable hard-drive from Office Depot and their staff don't know squat about half the stuff they sell. I think I may be writing a letter to their corporate office soon, as I was told them last time I went in there, my portable hard drive did NOT work I bought from them, and they told me, that, if I found my receipt for the hard drive, they'd refund my money! Horray! However, I've not seen THAT receipt from OFFICE DEPOT in months! Literally months!

Cuz it cost me almost $200 to try and fix the computer and I sure wouldn't have spent that on a 5 year old computer, I'd probably used it towards a new one or bought myself a nice portable laptop, they're only $300!

Anyway.. all my photos and music and personal stuff of course, was ON the old computer and cuz the stupid Hard-drive from Office Depot which was SUPPOSED to work on my computer did NOT, I was NOT able to retrieve ANYTHING from my old hard-drive!

What a disappointment that is.. Get that off-line back up... is it Cobalt or something.. Name escapes me, but if I had used that program I'd not be in the position I'm in now.. losing ALL my photos and music for the last 5 years and ALL my notes from my friends, family (some of which are dead now). It's tragic losing the stuff off your hard drive these days isn't it?

Well, yesterday, I went to return a curtain to Walmart, cuz it was too short.. We got east facing windows and they drive me NUTS in the morning.. I'm a nightbird and I don't want all this sunlight STREAMING into our room. I want to relax in the morning....
So I got this cool window that blocks out light TOTALLY and it was ONLY $7, but damn it, it was way too SHORT for our windows..
So.. I decide, I'll go to the new Walmart I like to much and return it there! They got the coolest stuff in that store, and it's 24 hours too and they sell groceries there. I need to go more often. I hate our nearest Walmart, honestly! They even got this pink file cabinet I've been ITCHING to buy! :)

Well, I'm a girl, so go figure! The black ones are morbid looking. So.. I go in there and find the exact curtain I need, the right length and while I'm there, I KNOW I need paper clips.. I'm SEARCHING all over the place to find a few paper clips and I need a mouse, and see these things, which come in this cool color pattern, but I also see this need 8 folder file that supposed costs $4.

well, I'm spent $$-wise, and wonder if I should buy it, but I like the color scheme and the pattern, this pretty flowered-number... So.. I get to the registar and the paper clips, the mouse and the 8 folder file only costs me like $5.50! That rocks!
They made the 8 page folder only $2! Maybe I"ll go get another one.

Anyway.. I get home and start organizing and no ti ce both the mouse and and the folder matches this little small spiral notebook shoved into a corner i n our office room. I pull it out, start going thru it, and SURE ENOUGH, THERE'S THE RECEIPT FOR THE DAMN PORTABLE HARD-DRIVE THAT DIDN'T FIT ON MY COMPUTER! WOW! Isn't that wild??

I mean.. I just went to that particular Walmart on a whim! It's not close by, and I just found the too-short curtains on a whim too.. but to pick out the same little accessories that match a notebook that held that long-last receipt for that stupid hard-drive that cost me hundreds is unreal!

I swear... God IS looking out for me, lately! It's weird.. i've been listening to the christian radio more, cuz lately, they got really GOOD music and they are so much more positive than all the other channels I am forced to listen to.. We got a limited selection in my area.

I think I need Sirius radio! Ever have that? Wonder what the monthly charges are? Well, I think I'll go write myself a letter to the Office Depot place, and THEN I'll go to the store and SEE if they'll refund my money.

If they don't... I can always YELP about them! That's a website where you can complain about businesses that do you wrong! And they will be getting quite a write up. I lost about 2 weeks of work, cuz my computer wouldn't work, and it took that long to get it fixed by the computer store! Plus, I took ALOT of flack from that damn computer store. They were mean as rattlesnakes to me in there, when I went to go pick up the computer.

i cannot even get HULU anymore on my computer! They gave me a USED new hard drive, instead of a new one.. They said it was to save money, but I talke to another Apple dealer and he said the New hard drives just are NOT that expensive anymore, so I've lost a LOT of capacity to my computer..

Hey, if I hadn't bought that damn stupid hard drive I would of easily been able to afford a NEW hard drive, and one with much more memory besides!

Stupid Office Depot! I bought a $400 all-in-one printer from them a long time ago, and when it went on the fritz, they wouldn't even LOOK at it! Dumb store!

Living in a Snowglobe! The Angels got a bad case of dandruff :0

Wow! Lately, we've NOT gotten snowstorms but these lil' weather episodes of where there's tons of tiny white snowflakes just "floating" about the sky!

I feel like I'm living in a perpetual snowglobe! It's fun! It's pretty, but it also makes me think that the Angels upstairs (in heaven) have a really bad case of Dandruff! lol

I remember as a kid, whenever it thundered and lightning occurred, our folks would tell us that the "angels were bowling"... :)

As a result, I never felt afraid of thunderstorms I guess, cuz bowling is a fun sport! But now I'm assuming the angels got alot of dandruff and are getting rid of it, and sending it to earth! :)

However, the surrounding counties are getting LOTS of snow and we are not! That's okay, cuz this county does a shitty job of clearing the roads and I need to get out of our home & go to work! Missed enough work in the month of December, and really we ONLY got 3 inches at our place!

THREE inches shouldn't make you miss work, but here in the south, it does!

Well, now we got the strong winds... that makes things cold.. Last nite was SO cold! Be sure to fill up your heating tank with fuel, if you got one! I'm assuming this winter ain't gonna be over very soon.....

Long long winter here... 4 months long.. that's phenomenal for the south! I do see the little daffodil sprouts showing their heads though, so maybe that's an indicator we'll get spring soon!

Come on now Obama, you're in the White House now... give it a rest!

I couldn't believe it when I saw this on TV today. They were having a senate hearing on the health insurance bill, I guess.

McCain, was talking and saying that people were not happy with the results of the last year and the bills that were being passed.

Obama, has to quip, in the most rudest, snarly tone of voice... "well, "John", we are NOT still campaigning!"

Oh, DUH, Obama.. I THINK that Senator McCain REALIZES that one! Seeing as YOUR have acted like some ROCK STAR for the past year! Also.. no matter what the outcome, you'll be getting not severance pay... (oh, what a freudian slip) but a lifelong retirement payments until you die now!

I think it's time to put down the hachet Prez Obama, don't ya think? :0

How your hostility and arrogant attitude pops up once again and that's the PRIME reason I NEVER voted for YOU, Obama!

I remember, well, how rude you were to Hilary Clinton due the democratic campaign, and all I could think to myself was, "geez, this lady was once the First Lady of our country, and you cannot bother to treat her with even a sliver of respect?"

What an arse you are Obama! I see how WELL you've CHANGED our nation! Oh yeah.. it's been CHANGED alright! Changed for the worst, and ALL that's in my pocket lately is small change!

Anyway... I resent the fact the government is going to INSIST I HAVE to have Health Insurance! Is this another Big Brother scheme of yours!

Have you noticed, that if you signed up for the digital converter coupons, they INSISTED on having your HOME ADDRESS, not a mailing address, like a p.o. box? Then when we finally GOT the digital converters, the ONLY station on the Major networks we're able to pick up is ABC news, which consistently kisses Obama's okole all thru the presidential campaign.

George Stephanopolis, I'd like to take that man and set him on a tiny boat adrift out in the Red Sea full of sharks! He's SO annoying, it's incredible and also equally as arrogant and egotistical as Obama! I cannot stand ANY of the ABC commentators anymore! It's just propaganda times 12!

All these so-called "liberals" I've grown to dislike, cuz honestly they are really NOT liberals. The only viewpoint they seem to tolerate is their OWN! How LIBERAL is that I must ask?

Hypocrits is what they are! Well, it's nice to see John McCain still sticking up for himself. I like that guy! Man, what a cool president he'd be! I hope he runs again! It's amazing this guy's stamina considering all the stuff he's been thru in his life!

I'm betting if he was president the economy would be in MUCH better shape than it is today! God almighty, I cannot believe just HOW bad things are, job-wise! I never thought i'd be living near the poverty level in my life, but that sure has come to pass, thanks to the STIM bill that "clever" Obama instigated!
So WHEN are these jobs EVER going to transpire? I don't know, but I think I may be living in a tent soon!

They've created new jobs with the stimulus bill! WHERE? and for whom? Gay people?

I've spent literally months & months looking for a decent paying job.

There are jobs? WHERE? and for whom? Gay people? I've just read the front page of the Asheville Times and see they are contemplating providing health care benefits....(if they are not already doing it) for the PARTNERS of gay people!

God almighty! If this is NOT the most DISCRIMINATORY town when it comes to disabled people, I'm not sure what is?
I've known several disabled people who NEVER were even GIVEN the opportunity to even GET a job, let alone get benefits for themselves... usually they got NO BENEFITS and were ONLY given minimum wage and then only part-time, lots of time only 4-8 hours a week! I had a friend who applied to AMAZING SAVINGS, that discount store on Sweeten Creek. They'd been a cashier many times before, but once the manager found out they were disabled, they were NOT offered the job, and this is a place that is SUPPOSED to be an EEOC employer! Oh, sure you are! Not!
Another discriminatory employer against disabled people is Advance Auto... Again, my friend applied and got an interview, but when they told them they couldn't lift 70 lbs, they were NOT offered the job!

Now, many people who are completely healthy cannot lift 70 lbs, so WHY expect a disabled person to do so?

The manager told my friend that they were expected to help carry out groceries for customers, but when they themselves go in there and have over 30 lbs of groceries, NO ONE ever offers to carry out groceries for them!

I'm not kidding. I think the ADA needs to be informed of the highly discriminatory practices of the town of Asheville! I have known disabled people who were threatened at gunpoint, and the officers in charge, not only did NOT charge the people threatening the disabled people, but starting GABBING with them, like they were long lost friends and then ASSAULTED the disabled people who were threatened in the first place!

This whole state SUCKS when it comes to the abusive and discriminatory ways they treat disabled people! And tell me something, if you needed to pay your taxes, (that's if you can even GENERATE the money to pay your taxes) how on EARTH do you get up the steps of the courthouse in Asheville, when they got NO DISABLED entrance whatsoever???

Hmmmm... Asheville? But YET, you want US, the taxpayers to foot the bill for the degenerates who comes to this town, and their little fudge packing lovers!

Their whole lifestyle disgusts me to be honest! I mean, when I think of what they are doing behind closed doors, I just go UGH! And NOW, we are expected to FOOT the BILL for that lifestyle??
I'm SICK of these people cuz they are the most arrogant annoying, disrespectful lot I've EVER run into! Don't come to Asheville unless you want to CONSTANTLY be harassed by Gay People! They look you up & down in clubs, they'll grab your arse, they simply do NOT care about anyone but themselves and their own stupid, screwed up agenda. They expect us to foot their lover's health bill, but yet, they have absolutely NO respect for straight people and their feeling and their civil rights.
And YES, a disabled person DOES have the right to get a job. Go look up the ADA, American Disability Act, which has been in place for over 20 years!

But WHEN does the ADA laws EVER get enforced?

I have NO sympathy for the "poor" gay people, as they aren't discriminated against anymore! They are put up on pedestals like they are some kind of gods! Hey, how would you like to be able to not even WALK gay people? Or talk normally? Or not be able to see hardly at all?

Those are people who need health benefits, not YOU! I'm so pissed I feel like writing a letter to the town, and letting them know my dissatisfaction with the way they CONSTANTLY discriminate against the disabled people of the region, yet they are going to give HEALTH benefits to a "partner" of a gay person, who's not even WORKING for the town?

So.. what.. we taxpayers get to foot the bill for whatever medical needs some mixed up queer needs or wants to get done! Does that include sex changes??? That can be very expensive!

Get your fucking act together Asheville! You cannot even BOTHER to provide decent jobs ANYWHERE in this county for the long-time residents or the straight people who are desperately trying to stay alive and make ends meet!

This town has become so stupid! They cannot BOTHER to even TRY to get any good EMPLOYERS in this town, while down in South Carolina there are SLEWS of great employers!

God almighty! This place has gone to the dogs...(excuse me dogs, lol) but honestly, is there any decent things about living in Asheville anymore!

I hardly think so.

APPLYING ONLINE & THEY LOSE YOUR APPLICATION!

WOW.. THIS has happened to me BEFORE! I went and took the time to drive down to a store and go apply at their kiosk!

I KNOW everything went thru fine, but somehow when I called up to see if they were hiring, they CLAIMED they did NOT have my application in their system!

Probably more likely, someone DELETED it from their system!

See.. this is WHY I HATE applying online! Plus, too, any decent hacker could EASILY get into their system, find your SS. No, and Steal your identity!

Now once again, I have applied to one of these BIG BOX store, that had a BIG sign out front claiming they were HIRING (sure, they are, just not ME :( ) and so you spend a whole hour of your time, getting your hopes up, calling back to make sure they KNOW you are interested and then find out they do not, or CLAIM to NOT HAVE your application even on file!

Oh, really! That's so interesting! What a bunch of SHIT! i have spent literally THOUSANDS of dollars over the years in this store, as I had renovations I had to make to our residence, but somehow I'm NOT good enuf to even get a job as a CASHIER, when I have TWO college degrees!

And I just spend like an hour, calling THREE different store managers to let them know I was very interested, only to find out they are now INTERVIEWING and every hour my application is NOT in their system (even though I KNOW I applied to their stores), there goes ANY chance in HELL, I'll ever get hired by them.

And that hour, I could easily spent filling out a paper application and at least KNOWING they had my application on file for sure!

What a fucking waste of time, this big name box store's is! I'm so FED UP with Asheville and N. Carolina period! You people suck arse! I cannot believe just HOW MANY times I've been discriminated against in this region!

I need to contact the EEOC.. cuz it's OBVIOUS they like to discriminate against people in this region!

I will too! Don't think I will NOT! I'm starting to HATE the fact I've ever spend a single DIME in this area, and I've been living here for years now!

Another thing too, is as a customer it's most disconcerting that people in their store have my S.S. # if I ever wanted to use a credit card at their store. You can do alot of damage having someone's S.S. #. What a complete fucking waste of time and not to mention putting myself at risk!

This is BULLSHIT! I hate these damn fucked up corporations. It seems the more successful a company, the more they think they can discriminate against people which is breaking the LAW!

I'm going to be contacting the EEOC, and filing a complaint against their people! Why NOT! I sure cannot hurt... they just want to waste people time and get their S.S. #????

That's bullshit in this economy. People are starvin and having SUCH a hard time making ends meet. To actually waste even an hour of someone's time, let alone insist they insert their S.S. # into their "hiring" system is F***ked up as hell!

Next time I won't even BOTHER putting in anything accurate about myself.....

So I'm NOT the only one who feels this way!

Wow! That's enlightening, and kind of lifts my spirits too. I have written several blogs on bad service in a store in which I love their products.

Just yesterday I ran into TWO people who seconded that notion! One guy told me their friends did NOT want to shop any more at a popular music store, cuz the sales people were NOT too friendly! I'm sad to hear this, as I know the owner of the original store, and I'm assuming he spent alot of money to create the new store, plus time.

But, if many people are feeling this way, he's losing business! I feel like writing him, as I have bought things from his store, and his original store, the sales people are very nice! That's why I buy from them, plus they have quality stuff... good books, CD, all kinds of variety of musical instruments to try out! They are really a great store, but I'm rather crushed to hear their new store is NOT generating as much income as it could.

Now I'm NOT affiliated with the store in any way, just a loyal customer! They had one GREAT salesperson there who was genuinely nice to deal with. I used to love to come into the store and just talk to him, though for awhile I've been considering on getting an instrument from them.

But now, the salesman I've encountered in there, are rather arrogant and sure do NOT make you feel welcome. Well, you sure don't want to spend over $100 on a store in which the staff makes you feel SO unwelcome, you feel badly when you leave the store, do you?

I had thought, well, this is just ME who feels this way, but last nite even I ran into this lady in a store, not that one, but we got to talking and I was saying how much I enjoyed shopping in that particular store, but there were stores in the area, that certainly did NOT fit that bill!

She agreed and also said, she's had the SAME experience! That when she's treated badly in a store or a business, she certainly does NOT want to do business with them.. i.e. spend money!

She even commented, bravely enough, that she would come back when she was treated kindly to the staff! That's brave of her, I'm afraid I'm not that bold, or brave enough to say that kind of stuff to the staff of someone who's being mean to me, though maybe I SHOULD, but I've seen how people tend to retaliate against you here in the south! She was a nice black lady, and so, there's enough groups out there sticking up for black people, but not so for the white people unfortunately.
Anyway, she was a very nice person to talk to. In fact, I ran into SEVERAL nice people in that store, and that ALSO makes me want to go back there.

I also talked to an employee there for several minutes, who was also equally as pleasant to chat with, and that also makes you want to go into that kind of store again! AND ALSO SPEND MONEY, EVEN IF IT IS ONLY A LITTLE BIT YOU HAVE TO SPEND! BUT.. that all adds up in the corporate world!
It's funny, cuz there is a website, YELP, where you can go and complain about different stores or businesses, but I don't want to bother!

I'd probably rather contact the company directly and let them know they have certain employees which are ruining their business, that's more fair to the company.

Which brings to mind this one store, I used to LOVE to go into! I've been a customer there for over 15 years! LOL :)

They had nice employees there at one time, but now it's a bunch of rather hostile rude snarky people who have been there FOREVER and I'm also made to feel like I'm some kind of bag woman when I go in there, even though, I've spent hundreds of dollars in there!
They have a number you can call if you want to.. Maybe I should.. Even the manager was rude one night, insisting I leave like 10 minutes BEFORE the store even closed! That's not right! I was waiting on a ride too, and had to stand in the cold, waiting for my friend to come pick me up!
I had overhead the mgr telling a new employee (AFTER they claimed they were NOT hiring anyone new) that he always made sure they left the store on time... not late after closing!

Yeah, if you are kicking customers out BEFORE their store is supposed to close, I can see WHY you can get home early! That's wrong on so many levels! I used to work a retail store, and they sure nice enough, that even if we were closed, we wouldn't be kicking out the customer, if they were still shopping! At least we treated our customers good there, even if they paid us not very well, and that made me feel more content to work there.

I hate to see customers treated poorly, especially if I'm working there, as you can probably tell, from my blogs, I've been treated QUITE badly on a number of ocassions AS a customer!

Yeah, I hate that store.. I mean, I like their stuff ALOT! But after being treated badly by so many of their employees OVER & OVER & OVER again, I really have come to the stance where i hardly do NOT want to spend any money there.

Oftentimes, if i see something I'd like to buy there, after I'm done hanging out there, I'll go to ANOTHER store and buy it! That's pretty bad, that you've alienated your customers to THAT point!

And I remember for SO SO long, they wouldn't even put your receipts if you paid by bank card into their REGISTER! How stupid that is! I remember even, going down to Greenville, SC, and finding a whole ROLL of their register tapes sitting on the counter where ANY thief could of easily picked it up and ripped off hundreds of customers! I brought up to their counter so they'd have it, but honestly, they got ALOT to improve in that store!

Also, their exchange policy SUCKS now! You only have 14 days to bring back somethign you do not like. 14 days! That's absurdly short in time.

Well, they got a competitor across the street from them, and so, I may just STOP shopping there & give their competition a go instead! They ALSO got issues with their employees but I've not seen them HALF as arrogant to me, as the store I've been shopping at for years!

So.. I think I've decided where I'm going to start shopping now.. after last nite. they got really GOOD deals on stuff.. I bought this clothes washing stuff at the Dollar store, but it was 30 cents cheaper at the store I was at last nite.
And this store has NO issues about using coupons, while Dollar Store, can you even USE coupons?

See all these discount stores sure have their disadvantages too! Oh, and they have a great deal on the Red Box movies too! you can get them for only a buck a night! That's awesome. the convenience store charges $2 a night!

Coo place, good parking, long store hours, good deals, not so snotty arrogant workers and sometimes some nice folks to chat with when you go in there! I'll go back, for sure!

Leaving Asheville.... how nice!

I always feel good on the days when I get to leave Asheville! It's a good day usually.. full of expectations, meeting congenial people... I just start realizing lately how much I am starting to HATE Asheville! LOL

I mean, obviously.. cuz my blogs about it are not too positive, but honestly there are NOT too many positive things I can say any longer about the town!

Weird... cuz I ran into a guy today who was also telling me that there was a store that had great stuff, but their service was HORRIBLE and it made one customer who wanted to spend a lot of money there decide NOT TO!

Well, I can well see that! The guy said the clerk treated him like dirt cuz he wasn't all dressed up!

You see, asheville is all about image now, and nothing about substance! Which is tragic, cuz it once was a town full of good-hearted people! I think these people, personally, have either left town, never leave their homes anymore, or have turned into the worst most self-centered folks I've ever met, cuz you hardly ever run into nice good-hearted folks in Asheville anymore!

But you still do outside Asheville, which is a really good thing! I love some of the town that surround the WNC area.. they have GREAT people in them! Really they do.. and as much as I fuss about NC, it's starting to dawn on me, just how useless to my future staying in the town of Asheville actually is!

you see.. I can NEVER get a job in this town! If I am able, it's ALWAYS a minimum wage, hardly more than 8 hours/week job!

HOW does one survive on that nonsense? I cannot anymore, and for my own sanity and survival I realize I MUST leave this town!

The other thing I noticed when I went out of town yesterday is that people do NOT stare at you in this weird way the way they do in Asheville!!! I mean, I'm sorry, but there are just so many judgemental and nosey people who live in our midst now.. and it is just SO uncomfortable to go ANYWHERE in town, without expecting to be treated like dirt!

I even notice the bank in town are just HORRIBLE to their customers, while in other towns, not really is that the norm! The arrogance of the folks in this town is just killing its spirit!

So.. I'm intrigued that OTHER people also agree with me, that there's lots of clerks in the stores here in Town, who are NOT nice to their customers! And so... those people, ALSO, do NOT want to shop there! I'm sorry for the store owner, but honestly they need to take a look at their staff and see which ones are not showing any aloha to the customers, or only nice to "certain" customers, cuz just cuz you are all dressed to the nines, does NOT mean you'll spend money there, nor does it mean, the guy/girl who comes in, in sweatshirt and pants will NOT spend money there.

But if you treat someone like dirt just cuz they are dressed casually when they come into your store, the chances of them even spending ANYTHING at all is nill! :)

See, I'm not so weird after all, I just want to be shown some respect! Now, it's the first day back in Asheville and I start REALIZING.. it's NOT me! It's the damn assholes who want to act like their god's gift to the earth, that make this place such a bummer to live in now!

And that's sad, cuz it's a pretty place! It truly is.. but it's NOT pretty enough to make yourself miserable having to be treated like dirt over & over & over, day in and day out, with NO chance for ANY type of gainful employment.

You see, I always have to leave town to get a job, but i'm not alone in that facet. I had a friend who's daughter had just given birth to her baby girl, and my friend couldn't even hang out for the first 3 weeks of his grandchild's life, cuz he had to go out of state to find work!

That's messed up, in so many ways! This is NOT a progressive state, by any means!

So.. I'm going to start seeking another place to live! I'm not unhappy about it.. it's probably a good thing, as god, or life is showing me that this is NOT a good place to stay indefinitely! It's just NOT!

I'm sorry it's come to that, but I'm a pretty adaptive person. I can be happy in a variety of different places, as long as i have a productive life and get to meet nice people!

And I'm not meeting ANY nice people in like YEARS since I moved back to Asheville! So.. time to go... time to move on.... no need to mourn it or anything......

The universe is trying to tell me something.....and I'm just NOT listening! I DO NOT fit in here anymore! I'm not treated with respect or dignity, and I'm always being discriminated against, so it's time for a new dawn.

It's OK! It really is! You think that Asheville is the ONLY nice place to live, scenery wise? Wrong.. so so wrong! And too, this place has NEVER been a good spot to make a living, so I'm not one who likes living in poverty... so this is the wrong place for me!

So.. my next step is to start seeking out new spots. Where or HOW I can do this...? I'm not sure, but I need to get moving on that.

Also.. I came home last night and there was yet ANOTHER GROUP of wild deer right outside our doorstep!! It was scarier than hell! As I could hear about 4-5 wild deer out there.... I KNOW it wasn't bear... bears are quiet... this was Deer and so that's another danger I do NOT want to face anymore!

Being hit by a deer when I'm driving, or catching Lyme Disease. I heard that is a bad thing.... well, I need to get going.. got stuff to get done...

Au revoir..

How do you get more digital channels on your converter TV box?

I've been wondering that for awhile.... we can only get THREE, maybe 5 if we are lucky!

That sucks.. no wonder i'm SO bored! I must admit that i'm a bit of a tv addict.

We had such GREAT TV shows when I was a kid growing up! Now... not so great stuff, but it keeps you company, especially when friends cannot come visit or you cannot go visit your friends and your SO is out shovelling snow or working, :)

Well, I want to see about getting better reception on HULU tv.. Our harddrive died this past year and they put a "new" one in, but it was a USED hard drive actually, and I think it works WORSE than the old one did.. Do NOT use Obsidian something on Smokey Park Highway!

They are RIPOFF artists, and not very considerate to be honest! The one guy, Doug, who is supposedly the MANAGER actually stood like 4 inches from my face and started SCREAMING at me, just cuz I needed to talk to the Tech guy who fixed my computer and I was STILL having problems!

This is a MAC shop???? On what planet would that be? The planet Mars, the planet of war! Talk about alienating customers from ever wanting to STEP FOOT into their shop again!

I paid a decent fee too! $200.. and I have been told by authorized Mac dealers that was outrageous to pay for a used mac and just an upgrade to the OS! Okay, they did put memory in it, but if the NEW hard drive works WORSE than the old 5 year old 40 GB hard drive, something's wrong!

I reminds me a bit of Toyota, who looks like they are being found out for being fraudelent and completely unethical in their business dealings with their customers.

There's now even MORE Toyota models out there who are exp. really severe and dangerous problems with their cars! If you are GOING to buy Japanese, maybe only think of buying a Honda! Those are good cars, reliable and I don't hear many complaints from their owners about the cars. Civics last for years......

That's sad, but if you fuck up, at least admit to it!!

You KNOW it's been a cold winter when......

The horses had so much heavy winter coats their coats resemble the fur off Chow Dogs! I mean, that's a natural thing, for horses to grow heavy coats in winter, even up north, but I've never seen such heavy coats on horses, before this winter! All the horses in the county are sporting really really THICK heavy coats now!.

I mean.. honestly, it's been COLD since mid October! I do NOT remember such a cold Asheville winter in all the years I've been living here!

I went driving out to the country yesterday and I saw these really cute furry horses as I kept driving further out into the country. I was lost at this point though, and I had to stop and turn around.. since I was lost. This horse, as I stopped in someone's driveway, immediately came up to the fence, like he wanted attention. They were adorable, the horses were...I could see he was a young horse. I love horses, and I just felt compelled to go out and pet the horse! I guess I've been lonely too, from all this bad weather, and not being able to get out and my friends. Maybe he's been lonely too since the ground has been so icy lately and his owner's not been able to go hang out with them during the day even, since the weather's been frigid lately!

My best friend had horses when we were growing up, so I'm not really afraid of horses, though I guess you should be cautious around a strange horse.. The horse was SO furry though, from the really cold winter weather. I'm not sure I've EVER seen such a furry little horse. Cute! :)

My God, the guys are SO cheap in Asheville!

I'm not sure if I ever blogged about this before, but I did mention I went way way out in the country this past week, and stopped by this nightclub, early in the afternoon. I was not even INSIDE the club but a nice guy outside, when I asked him about admittance to the club, as it was a private club, offered to buy me a drink!

Geez.. I did not even KNOW that guy & he offered to buy me a drink! I didn't take him up on it, since I was far from home and not one to drink in the afternoon to begin with. However, I've known this one guy in Asheville since almost Halloween, and he's NEVER offered to buy me a drink, even when I've driven like late at night to come hang out in public with him! This guy is SO cheap! :(

Well, today we thought we might get to hang out, but the weather was not so good, it was snowy pretty steadily actually. It was bad actually, they were calling for snowstorms later in the evening, and even though I risked my safety to come down and meet with him, I actually had to TALK him into buying me some french fries!

Come on now! I don't have the kind of money he's got..I've been looking for a good job for MONTHS now! He's had a good paying job, for years, FULL TIME, and has LOTS Of roommates! He only moved a month or so ago, before that he was living with his Mom... Wow.. how much does Mom charge you to stay at your house? Nothing probably.. so he's probably not hurting for cash!

Damn... this makes me feel like garbage.. I do NOT have lots of money now.. Hardly anything actually. It cost me probably more in gas to get down to that place, than the darn french fries cost him.

He called me like 10 times today and we do NOT have the same cell carrier, so I'll probably end up paying a overage fee at the end of the month for my phone! We were supposed to be getting together to play music, but that's YET to transpire!

Man... this is ridiculous, and so disheartening! I'm SO SO tired of wasting my time on these cheap, inconsiderate, rude Asheville guys! You Asheville guys STINK!

The funny thing about is, I have a female friend who's ALWAYS willing to treat me to dinner, or dessert when we go hang out together, and all she does for living is wash dishes!

She's sure not rich, that's for sure..... but a much better friend honestly!

If she is generous enough to spend her hard-earned money on just a platonic friend, then why on earth cannot this guy be decent enough to spend $5 for a girl?

Also, he keeps insisting he wants to come pick up at my place, (when I hardly even KNOW this guy) or even stay overnight at my home! That's just weird and pretty cheap to boot! He's never asked me out to the movies or even asked me out for coffee!

After we got talking in person, me & the guy I've known since Halloween, the weather got much worse... I had actually put my safety at risk to go see this guy, but he insisted wanted me to pick up the tip!

I mean.. hell, he wouldn't even buy me an iced tea the last time I saw him! After I paid the gas to get there and the tip, it probably would of been about $6 out of my pocket to make this visit in the heavy snowstorm!Not to mention the hundreds of dollars of car insurance deductible that I risked, if I were to get into a wreck driving home! And there was NUMEROUS wrecks today.. I saw them with my own eyes, in fact, even in broad daylight when it WAS NOT snowing out!

I went out to Leicester today... and man.. those people are so nice out there.. Unfortunately, as I was driving there, I saw this strange thing on the side of the road! A pickup truck had pulled over, and there was a motorcycle on the ground... I was talking to that guy I met up with tonite, about 19 seconds before I hung up talking to him! Good thing! I may well have run into the cars off the side of the road. I think talking on the phone is so distracting, honestly, while you are driving.. I really do!! I need one of those hands-free things... I cannot safely drive a car and talk at the same time!

Well, as I drove past the wreck, I saw a woman, who seemed frantic & so disraught, and was holding her face with her hands.. Then I saw a man, in a motorcycle jacket, lying prone on the ground, not really moving! :(

I was looking at the local news website tonite, and it was the SAME wreck I had seen this afternoon. The guy was dead! OMG! I don't know if the guy was dead when I saw him, but that means I saw a dead guy today! Or a guy who was dying :(

Oh, god! Immediately, when I saw the wreck, I called the police and asked for an ambulance and police for the wreck since I did not see either at the scene of the accident, and wanted the guy on the ground to get help as soon as possible! I don't know if he died on impact, but a pickup truck hit him and it was a LARGE pickup too! Egads.. that's tragic.....

I felt real bad after I drove past the wreck, maybe I sensed something really WRONG had happened and the guy was past help... I'm not sure...

Well, I'm getting tired of this guy's attitude! I think I need to say something to this guy! If he thinks SO little of me, that we always have to go dutch treat, but at the same time, ALWAYS wants to come pick me up at my place, when I really do NOT know him THAT well, & then ALSO insist he come spend the night if he's had too much to drink (I'm also starting to think the guy has a drinking problem) then I need to speak up on my own behalf I believe! I don't need any more psuedo-friends! Asheville is full of those kind of people and all they do is waste your time & gobs of your money and bring you down!

Life's too short for that, imho!

I think the guy's pretty disrespectful honestly. He will call me like 1 am in the morning, out of the blue, but about a month ago, wouldn't even return a single phone call, when I was going thru some ridiculously dangerous circumstances! That's NOT a friend!

He obviously doesn't want to date me, which is FINE by me.. He's got alot of quirks I just cannot get comfortable with, honestly.....and he's no hottie, for sure.. but really... I'm just TIRED of the shitty way Asheville people treat you! LOL.. it's getting old..

I keep leaving the city & meeting genuinely NICE people, out of the city limits, and realizing just HOW rude these Asheville people are, and I'm NOT one to take someone's crap over & over!

Well, as I was getting ready to go, after we sat and talked for awhile, with this guy who doesn't want to buy me an iced tea or pay the tips after MONTHS of knowing me, this guy he knew walks into the place we met up at! My friend seemed SO glad to see him! Of course, it was an old friend of his, but he seemed much more excited to hang out with HIM than with ME!

Maybe the guy's gay?? Who knows.......I wouldn't be surprised.. or bisexual.. that's so PAR FOR THE COURSE here in Asheville!

Then there was a wreck on the other side of town that I was going to head to, earlier in the day. Now I'm glad I didn't go out that way until later! I could of well been involved in the wreck too, since the woman ran a red light and hit a state trooper! The trooper is ok, luckily, but you gotta be SO careful driving around Asheville, people are such BAD drivers here!

It's a darn good thing, I'm even hear to blog about this! Considering all the bad wrecks we had yesterday in broad DAYLIGHT. To go meet someone who's so inconsiderate when it's dark out and it's snowing heavily is NOT a good thing! Not too akamai either!

I'm really not sure I want to keep meeting up with this guy in public honestly! Either he wants to play music with me, or he can find someone else's time to waste, I'm starting to think!

Life is just too short for that kind of nonsense. Well, y'all be safe out there bloggers and blog-readers! :) Take care.

What do you think of stores that tell you they ain't hiring, but when you go into them a week or so later, there are all new faces behind the counter?

I see this ALOT in Asheville! And it's starting to make me feel I need to STOP spending money in stores I have long been a customer in. Maybe just STOP spending money in Asheville period!

Many of these places, because the economy is so bad..... I've actually went and applied at their store. After all, I know the place well, I've been a customer for years ... and I'd know where all the items of the store are... I'd probably be a good employee.

But time after time, I go apply and the manager will INSIST that we are not hiring.. not for months! Yet, you go back into that store, only a week or so later, as a customer, and sure enough.. they got 10 NEW FACES BEHIND the counter or working in their store!

So.... not only are they LYING to me, then have it in their head, that I'm NOT GOOD ENOUGH to work in their place of employment! That's ridiculous..... I've worked all my life and have a good education and background....there's nothing wrong with me as an employee. Well, I guess that's THEIR option, but it's also MY option to NEVER spend money there again!

Or even better, contact their corporate office and tell them how I'm so disgusted by their lack of integrity and hostile attitude towards me, I can see NO MORE reason to further THEIR profits! ha ha ha ha ha

The bank tellers SUCK in this town!

I've never come into a town that had such BAD bank tellers! They are rude, they are unfriendly, they make TONS of errors.. (one even gave me over $100 extra in cash one time, though I returned it!)... the list goes on and on and on.

I'd just like to find a nice local bank where the bank tellers were friendly, professional... didn't give you a hard time CONSTANTLY every time you wanted to take out your money or make a deposit!

Is that SO hard to find Arseville???? I think so... Yesterday I went to the bank and asked for my statement..... I didn't want very much of it.. only the past week or so..

Instead the teller, who was OBVIOUSLY new to that bank, as she "claimed" I'd never banked there before, even though I'd been coming there literally for YEARS.... gave me SUCH a hard time, cuz I didn't have a bank card with me! Oh, ladee da! What a huge crime on my part!

I have my account number and my license, though that didn't seem to be GOOD enuf for her! Instead she insisted on my SS#, my date of birth (duh, isn't that ON a license, chickee?) and various OTHER forms of ID.....

Now I wasn't even asking for a withdrawal of anything of that nature! I asked the teller next to her, whom I myself recognized, so not SURE why they didn't recognize ME... if the teller was NEW, as not only I had thought so by the stupid way she was acting, but the customer standing next to me, was also giving her the eye, like "what the heck are you doing lady?" type of looks.

This is the same branch I went to a few weeks ago, and one of the OTHER tellers was quite professional and cordial but that was the business line, so go figure!

I'm not even WANTING to come back to that branch again. Instead of giving me the last week or so statement, the stupid chick gives me all the way back to christmas, but doesn't even INCLUDE the last 10 days!

What the F was that about? They were closing and I had to go up to the door again and show the older teller that she'd made an error.. (not that they were going to CORRECT it for me).

Gosh.. I feel like filing a complaint against that teller! Anonymously of course! You better watch OUT in this F##k-ed town! If you even THINK of complaining about ANYONE in their bank branch, they will immediately CLOSE OUT YOUR ACCOUNT, without your permission and with no warning at all!

That's happens to a few people I know! That's ridiculous. Get your damn $hit together A-ville banks!

You are a disgrace to the banking industry! I have gone to many many other towns and NEVER EVER been treated so rudely and had people make SO many errors on my account, like they do in the town of Asheville!

Do they NOT train you people or WHAT? Or do you get some kind of BONUS for treating some of your customers like SHIT?

I have to wonder...... I need to find a new bank.... This one sucks!

$10 for your puppy to meet other puppies, $20 to sew your own project?

Ok, I'll get off this soapbox, but in this town there is hardly NOTHING you can do, that doesn't involve a wad of cash!

I'm so surprised at this city. This is supposed to be Southern Hospitality. I used to live in the islands..... far away and there was so many things you could do in town, that only involved really a few bucks, at most!

Yes, of course, there was rich people in the islands, but it wasn't in the eyes of the city of HNL to ripoff EVERYONE, just to make a quick buck!

Geez.. that is sure the way AVL works though..... I hate this place, even a cup of coffee typically costs about $2 here! What the hell.....

So.. I was thinking it would be cool to bring our young dog to meet other dogs... they mentioned you could meet other "puppy" parents, errr. sorry, but I MET my dog's mom, and I'm NOT her! LOL..... And then you can drink wine, eat puupuus... but who wants to transport your pet back to home if you've been drinking??? Not so good...supposed you get stopped for a DUI? What are you going to do with your pet? Bring him in the jail cell with you?

Oh, gosh.... this is stupid.. THEN.. the OTHER great social opportunity... spending $20 to go sew a project at one of the local fabric stores! I'm not talking about a class either.. just bringing in one of your OWN project is going to cost you $20!

Good night! This place is like major rip-off city! What is so GREAT about this city anyways?

I cannot think of ONE thing, other than the views of the mountains.... The Lousy job market.. the weird, weird people that now inhabit so much of the area..... it's becoming known as the San Francisco of the East, and that's NOT a good thing in my book.

I was reading somewhere that Asheville is now in the 11th place as the gayest city in the nation! Well, that explains ALOT! It explains why NONE of the straight women can find a date to save their LIFE in this town, unless you are right out of college!

It explains why so many ugly guys have girlfriends, while pretty str8 women don't even have the chance to date ANY decent looking straight guys! Gosh, the number of ugly guys in this town is unbelievable too!

If you DO see a nice looking guy, he's either married, or he's gay! It's THAT bad in this town! I find this pathetic!

I used to have a couple of gay friends but the kind of gay people who move here, are rude, obnoxious, totally off-the-deep-end type of people, that I wouldn't even say HELLO to.. let alone try to be friends with, but I've had to work with a couple of them, and trust me, it was NO FUN!

Anyway.. that explains why it is SO weird to go out now to any kind of nightlife in Asheville!

We got some of the other TV channels to appear, hurray....

I was watching our tv set last Friday morn and suddenly the channel 8, CBS station went kaput!

Damn.. I hate this.. this stupid digital converting crap! I only have 5 stations now on the "new" digital converter, that's ALL it will allow me to put on my tv set.. so my ONLY major channel on the tv set with the digital converter is ABC, which i detest!

My other two sets, however, did FINE without the converter box, but all they could pick up was CBS, which is ok, I like that station and the big set had a nice religious station that was actually pretty interesting at times.

Plus, I'm So So tired of all the sleaze and crap and nudity of women I'm forced to view on the ABC stations...

It's getting old! I like men, not women! lol.. gosh, give me a large break.. Even the fashion magazines seem to think we'll buy their products much MORE readily if they show some half dressed waif with arms the size of toothpicks!

I'm so tired of this crap! This society is just so shallow and rude now! It makes me wish I was born back in the 1800s many times.

Well, I didn't have to put up with that stuff on the religious channel, and even though I had THREE PBS channels, after awhile I'm TIRED of learning ALL about North Carolina! Fuck North Carolina! This is the worst state in the nation, I believe to try to make a living, get ahead, have some decent job opportunities I've EVER encountered!

As soon as the rock slide gets cleared away I'm OUTTA HERE! Adios you idiots! You people are so damn hateful anyway. Too bad, cuz parts of this state ARE pretty, but what the F.. who wants to put up with pretty scenery and MEAN people all the time?

There are other parts of the nation that are MUCH more pretty, let's get real!

So, now I was forced to see NO tv on my other two sets or listen to static 24/7... Last nite though I was experimenting with the little tv and checking out the other channel and got it to memorize TWO channels, 14 and 50..

Now 14 happens to be FOX! right on! I love Fox Tv.. I like their mentality.. I like their ideas.. They even had Sarah Palin on there talking to the people out in Nashville, TN at a Teabag (?) convention and they didn't have ONE mean thing to say about her!

Right on! I like Sarah Palin... I think she's been put thru the mill by the media though, and I feel awful for all the horrible things people have said about her.

Even here in Asheville, if our harddrive didn't die on us.. i took a photo of some wise-ass protestors at her convention in Asheville, back in October 2008.

Let's just say that photo SURE wouldn't make it to the major networks, it was THAT RUDE, obscene, offensive, etc, etc... but the dirtbag "liberals" were all standing there with chit-eating smiles looking at that rude poster that protestor was holding up!

I wanted to go over there and burn the damn thing! Course, we did NOT have much police protection that day.. so that would of be fool-hardy, but that's the darn liberals for ya now.

you know.. back in my day, liberal meant you had "tolerance" for other people's viewpoints, not just your own!

Not today! I so hate it for the young kids who are more conservative and not covered by millions of piercings and armlong tattoes who must deal with these types! It must be AWFUL!

You know... peer pressure is always a given in any generation, but to be pressured to do stuff that is painful, disgusting, immoral, and just plain weird, must be a tough thing to deal with!

I can see so many people now home-school their kids. And you know, I've met some home-schooled kids and they were pretty bright! So... I just don't know WHAT they teach kids in schools now, but it must NOT be good, in many towns.

Well, anyway... at 11 pm.. I even got to see Seinfeld on my little tv and that's GREAT! I'm So so pysched.. this is WAY better than CBS even....

Well, finally got to leave the cabin.... man this cabin fever is driving me nuts! I got to take a LONG walk.. woohoo. .I'm worn out, but glad to leave our stupid little neighborhood.....

People actually said HELLO to me! That hardly EVER happens in OUR lovely little neighborhood! Actually I don't find it lovely at all! With NOWHERE safe to walk, all the nasty neighbors who cannot even BOTHER to EVER speak to you, no matter HOW bad the weather conditions are... I'm finding this a VERY VERY hostile and dangerous place to live!

Plus it's super expensive around here.. the people in the stores in our area.. are JERKS! They act like they are doing you a FAVOR just waiting on you, even if you shop there ALL the time!

Who needs that? there are a FEW people in some of the stores that are nice. There's one guy I always like talking to.. just cuz he's FRIENDLY! That's just such an UNUSUAL thing now in our "progressive, liberal" town!

This place is a crock of CHIT! I've heard other people talking about how WEIRD A-ville is! And it SURE is!

You may like coming to visit here, but to live here, sucks big time! Never EVER used to be this way, but now it's a way of life! I just do NOT expect to run into ANYONE friendly anymore!

We have SO many weird guys and chicks in this town now! Gosh, i went to the laundromat, and got there about a half hour before they closed and this old lady was taking my clothes out of the dryer!

She worked there, and she saw me come in.. so WHAT is she doing taking my clothes? She "claimed" that they were super busy and that she THOUGHT it was a bunch of clothes she was supposed to be taking care of, but I don't buy that!

All the dryers which were paying for their personal laundry service were MARKED!

See if I EVER go back there again, or if I DO, I'll be sure to sit and have to STAND GUARD watching my clothes! How weird!

See! This is what I'm talking about..... the f-ed up things that happen in this town are just so commonplace now. They hire the WEIRDEST people in the local businesses, so many times, and just DO NOT want to hire anyone NORMAL hardly anymore!

I'm getting tired of all this foul winter weather!

I was just thinking lately how I'd like to live once again in a nice warm climate.. One where you didn't have to worry about paying for a big heating bill in the winter, and worry about driving around on icy roads. I know I love the fall weather and like to stay all snuggled up and cozy in the winter time, but it's starting to get on my nerves.. all this bad weather.

Especially when you got a dog to walk! I went for a walk with the puppy and it was not freezing out, but it was wet and rainy and there was slush everywhere! It got so so windy though, it literally started to get really scary to even be outside, let alone trying to walk the dog!

After awhile there were some leaves that were blowing around from oak trees and the puppy LOVES to chase leaves! He finds it so fun.... :)

But I was trying to hang onto a dog leash and an umbrella and walking on slippery sleep roads at the same time when suddenly the umbrella got away from me! I didn't think I'd ever get it back, as it was SO windy....

Finally I managed to get back next to it, and pick it up.. the umbrella kept turning itself inside out, what cheap umbrellas often do! We got home okay, but it was not a fun walk by any stretch of the imagination!

It kept raining so much today and yet it was so cold.... hovering around 34-36 degrees. I HAD to go to the store and get eggs and some food, as they keep calling for snow and a wintery mix!

I get so nervous now, though, when it's wintery out and the roads are wet. I don't the roads to be safe anymore, even if they are level. I think it's possibly because of the 3 day blackout we had near Christmastime. We couldn't even celebrate our friends' birthday cuz we couldn't get out of the house!

I'm thinking as soon as I get a bit of a break from this weird weather I'm going to finally take my friend out for their birthday! ;)

I've got a great restaurant in mind.. They have excellent views of the city and it's such a cozy, elegant place. We'll get dressed up to the nines, hopefully to go, and have a nice evening out.....

I do remember a long time ago.. going out to the same place, with a dear friend of mine. They had some big celebration, the establishment did, as they wanted those residents where my friends lives to accept them building another large addition to their establishment. They gave a a great dinner with free drinks the whole night! It was a fun night.. My friend insisted I pose next to a knight of armour, and I made this silly pose.. I still laugh when I look at that photo!

Boy, that's been a long time. I kinda miss that friend, they were fun... they had alot of class too, and were smart, funny... were not these derelict people I keep meeting lately.

I heard her son got a divorce from his wife in the last few years, and I'm not sure why! His wife was a sweetheart.... I cannot imagine why things did not work out for them, and I remember too, her family was a bunch of real nice people. I remember going over to her house and we all sat watching the movie Jackass! It was so funny.. i was laughing my head off over it!

Gosh, I miss having cable period.. I remember my friend turning me onto the show Sex & the City and then I started to watch that religiously from my home too! i hate NOT having cable! I maybe even call up the Dish Network people and even pay the disconnect fee if I cannot finish the year out... I am that TIRED of only seeing 5 channels on my set!

There's nothing worth doing in town around here, that's for sure! I miss having the Weather Channel, and with this weird weather, I could sure use that channel, just to stay safe!

Well, I'm goign to watch the TV special on poor Mark Sanford's wife.. why she left her husband! I bet I'll be watching a similar one soon for John Edward wife, if I had to bet on something!

Speaking of betting, there's another lottery available now Tuesday and Fridays! That's great. I love that!

Did you ever see that show, Deal or No Deal? I didn't like it at first, but now i'm hooked on it. I like the betting and gambling it entails and I love when people do good at it, and take home a nice pile of cash. It makes you kinda hopeful in this economy.

Take care bloggers....

Oh, my god... they took away the regular analog signal on my TV set

Today, I was watching CBS station and I can see this station fine on two of my sets.. the ones I don't have a stupid digital converter device hooked up to.

Usually the signal is much better than the damn digital set but today, they took the signal off the air for the analog service period, and now two out of 3 of my tv sets don't get no signal at all anymore! Gosh and I cannot even get the religious station anymore! That makes me so bummed out and lonely! I hate the stuff they play on ABC, it's ALL crap!

I'm SO sad! I love to watch tv, it keeps me company, and I HATE ABC station! I am so damn sick of the stupid people on that network i could scream! George Stephanopolis, the idiots from the View, all that crap...even our local TV station I would must rather watch the CBS crew than the darn ABC station. I hate them... They are so arrogant and it's all about the Latest this and that, and who really CARES?

Now what am I going to do? Can I somehow rig the digital converter to play the CBS stations? Cuz I couldn't get it done with my one set that's rigged up WITH the digital converter. It will NOT play the CBS nor the NBC station and I miss that so much!

Arrrggggh.... I wanna cry! :(

This ain't fair.. Funny, I kept hearing how there was a group of people who were trying to get rid of the analog service. The digital service stinks! Sometimes it's so contorted the people on the tv set look like MONSTERS!

Oh, shoot... I HATE the fact they converted ALL the sets to digital. it's just like the damn screwed up digital cameras! I have been taking photos for over 25 years and I cannot for the life of me properly focus my damn digital camera easily at all! Who the hell is up with that?

Who on earth wants a photo that's not in focus? And who wants a damn TV set that only plays ABC stations for the main network? Life sucks lately! I hate this!!!! :(

Nosey people who don't really care about you......

I find that alot in town. People who want to know ALL your personal business, but at the same time, you really couldn't even expect them to call you on your birthday or even send a postcard at Christmas times.

I'm not complaining here, I'm merely explaining. I meet these type ALL the time now... even though many of them are natives of this area.

I used to live in an area of AVL where no one stuck their nose into your business, even if they knew all kinds of personal stuff about you. Those were nice people. They were not rich people, but they sure were salt of the earth, would give you the-shirt-off-their-backs and not EVER say a word about it type of people.

I sure miss those kind of people. It seems that people on one side of town are just SO snotty and rude and insolent and have to be so nervy in DEMANDING to know ALL your business, while on the other side of town, they don't bother you, but they do seem to care about people a whole lot more.

I not sure what creates this atmosphere. Those people who Are NOT nosey are much less affluent than the ones who are so rude, and insolent.

I sort became friends with this guy at school, but to be honest, he never really was a good friend. He always insisted on knowing EXACTLY where you were every time he called??? And though, he'd never invite you for even a cup of coffee or a movie, always ALSO insisted on coming over to your house, and calling up at the last minute to do so!

I never did invite him over, cuz I found rather unnerving to be honest. No one in their right minds invites over a stranger...he had strange friends, and once, I was at this club, and the bartender even warned me to stay away from him... that he was rather a creep!

Well, the bartender seemed like a nice guy and had no reason to lie to me.. I hardly knew the bartender, so I took his words to heart, as that was a place that guy would always call me from.

I'm sure he was trying to pick up other girls while he was calling me..... it was weird, as I'd be talking bout something important and then in mid-sentence, he'd INSIST he'd have to hang up the phone!

It was always so rude & disheartening.. I mean, what kind of friend is that anyways???? One who couldn't invite you over to THEIR place, instead of INSISTING on coming to yours? One who never really invited you ANYWHERE, though wanted to ALWAYS know where you spent time and where exactly you were at the time.

It was creepy! So... I decided to just take him out of my phone bank.. it was not worth it. Now.... again out of the blue, I hear from this guy, and once again he HAS to know exactly where I am at the time he's calling, even though I've not heard from him in MONTHS!

This is too weird for me.... who needs this crap?

Toyota.... What ARE you thinking? Sticking gas pedals & you won't admit it's a dangerous defect?

I've been hearing on the news that Toyota was reluctant to even ADMIT there was a problem wiht their accelerator pedals on some of their new cars!

Wow.. how irresponsible and negligent of you! They even had a family who lost their LIFE b/c their gas pedal stuck and they couldn't stop and got into a fatal crash!

And THAT wouldn't induce you, Toyota, to call for a recall on those vehicles? WHY??? Are you trying to take after Subaru? They are another lousy Asian car mfr who are so very negligent about taking care of their customers when they buy new cars. I had even heard of one poor lady who ran her own dog over with her new Subaru when its brakes had failed in her own driveway!

Well, shame on you! You ought to be put out of business if that's the way you run a car manufacturing company! Got, what is worse than a stuck accelerator pedal? That car becomes a killing machine then!

I'm amazed but at the same time, I'm kinda not! If you DO have a Toyota, a newer model.. like the Lexxus or some other of the models DO go to your dealer RIGHT AWAY and get it fixed!

Don't put it off! You are only putting yourself and others in danger to stall getting this thing fixed!

Geez... remind me to start buying American cars instead! I know people would have a HISSY FIT if Ford, or Dodge or Chevy tried to pull such a stunt!

They moved to a new location, but it is even harder to park here

They moved.. The Dripolator. I know that they had a problem with towing in their old location, but I'm thinking they did not do a good thing moving to THAT place!

Yesterday I tried to get up in the garage next to their store, and found there was NO place to park, and NO WHERE to turn around once you go up into the garage either! Gosh! How scary!

I didn't know what to do.... as I'm not great at parking period, and I had to back out of there to get out of the parking garage, but I see there's really NO good place to park near their coffee shop!

And it's such a small place now, there nowhere to even sit! Oh, man..I definitely LIKED the old place better, much more space.. I bet they don't have a kitchen anymore either to cook or bake their stuff! :(

There's no free computer anymore to go check your e-mail which was a great thing at the old store... I am sure this is expensive rent, but nowhere to park, no where to sit.... and having to bring your OWN laptop doesn't make this place more attractive, it makes it worse!

I noticed the prices are alot higher, which I bet is cuz they got high rent, but honestly I'm not doing well either. Paying $1.45 for a mug of coffee... They didn't even have a choice of milk, only half&half and that's not so either....

The place was so packed that this guy with a laptop came into the lobby next to the shop and ended up sitting on the floor! That's awful......if you are a customer you shouldn't be forced to sit on a floor cuz there's not enough space!

I really don't feel comfortable there anymore..... it's too crowded.... it was cold out yesterday and to have to walk a couple of blocks just to cross over a busy street to get a cup of coffee hardly seemed worth it!

I don't know... I don't feel comfy there anymore.....there are other coffee shops open... I think I may not go there anymore..... just the atmosphere is not my cup of tea, no pun intended.

Another Nice store, but not so great service

There was a cloth store that was great! Used to be on CLT street, but they changed owners and moved to another location! Now.. I had always liked their choice of goods there. Beautiful vietnamese silks, batiks, nice cottons, a TON of different, interesting buttons.

That was one of the leading choices they used to advertise, their buttons, and I'm a fan of unusual buttons.... But... the new owner, well, let's just say she could DEFINITELY be friendlier!

I remember before I found out the store had been bought out by a new owner, thinking, "why did the owner hire such a mean, not polite sales person?" I later found out it was the new owner who was the mean salesperson!

And just HOW does that encourage people to spend money in your store? What gets me the MOST about this woman, is her attitude that EVERY time I go into her store, she acts like I MUST buy something!

Well, I've spent hundreds of dollars in that store over the years, even a good amount when it changed hands and I sure don't feel OBLIGATED to spend money I don't have to spend on fabric

when I got enough of it already! lol... I even remember asking her if there were any jobs available there, as I've been sewing since I was 5 years old, but she always told me NO, even though a few weeks after I asked that, I recall, going in there and there being a new sales person in her store!

So, she lied to me! And she's always disrespectful to me when I come into her store anyway!

There used to be nice salespeople in that store when the old owner had it. I do remember even taking a class there, and the lady who taught it was so kind and helpful. It was a treat to be taught by her. But, this woman, it's rather traumatic going in there now.. which is a real shame.... I always leave that store now, feeling bad.... not happy anymore.

I asked about classes there recently cuz they always had good sewing classes at the other location... and the owner said they had NONE cuz no one signed up for them!

Well, ummm.. ma'am.. I wonder why? Could it be the economy is THAT bad? Or could it be your bad attitude towards many of the long-time customers? Reason I saw that is cuz I was talking to another sewing store, and happened to mention, I was not that happy with the new owners of this store I'm blogging about. I was shocked to find out the salesperson told me that customers told her the exact same thing EVERY day! Wow! I thought it was just ME that they were not so nice to.......

It's too bad, cuz in this economy you sort of want a place to go hang out, spend a few bucks and then come home and have some project to do.... I was told that they had a mid-week session that lasted for two hours and I was so psyched, until I was told it cost $20 to attend!

Oh come on now! $20, just to show up with projects you are ALREADY working on? That's stupid! You could well spend that $20 on their fabric in the store for your NEXT project! I wonder how many people show up for that affair? :(

I don't think she's doing that bad, business wise, but I'm very tired of EVERY SINGLE thing you want to attend in Asheville, having this big price tag on it, just to step in the door!

This town is becoming SUCH a rip-off! You go look at some stupid seminar and it's like $150! Or just to come to a wine tasting is $15! Is this supposed to be GOOD for business? I would much rather come to a shop, be treated pleasantly by the proprietor and then decide to buy a bottle of wine on my own, not be FORCED to spend $15 just to show up at their shop!

Well, I guess they get all the RICH people in town to do this, but seeing as we've lived here for decades we are hardly rich! We're becoming paupers living in this town! Getting $10 a hour is considered EXCELLENT and that's ridiculous.. Most of the time, you're supposed to feeel LUCKY if you get a job paying mininum wage and it gives you 20 hours with NO benefits in the town of Asheville! How stupid that is!

And this is supposed to be a PROGRESSIVE town? How so?? rotflol.....I used to make $13 an hour, 20 years ago! This is just nonsense...

Asheville is just shooting itself in the foot with the way it runs its business. It's gotten to the point, where I'm SO tired of being treated like dirt in this town by so many of the business owners or the staff of businesses, and expected to spend GOBS of money, meanwhile NONE of these businesses I've frequented and been a customer for YEARS would even CONSIDER giving ME a job, that I'm now just NOT wanting to spend a DIME in this town!

I'll give my money to another town.. one that is more pleasant to deal with! Sounds like a plan to me! I'm starting to hate just going out ANYWHERE in Asheville now.. their attitude is so unpleasant to deal with!!

Plus, Asheville is such a ripoff town! So full of phonies, and people who are SO full of themselves now! So sad, cuz it NEVER used to be like this.. People were so down-to-earth in this town several years ago....

WHERE did all those type of people go? Did they just leave town? I know many of my friends DID leave town.....and I'm starting to consider that is just what I need to do too.

Better yet, just get out of NC period! This place sucks! The whole state is a giant rip-off! I've NEVER see a state that taxes so MANY of the things you buy in my life! Gosh, they even tax NEWSPAPERS or bubble gum!

Good Store, nice Goods, Bad Service

I'm sad b/c they let go one of the most friendliest cashiers at a store I used to go to.

I used to like the store really! They have great stuff in it, even though it's a little high priced sometimes, but quality stuff. What really attracted me to it, was the way they treated you so special there! It was nice. It made you feel welcome.

There was one cashier there too, who was also so friendly to people. Sure she wasn't a teenager but who cares? Most of the teenaged cashiers in that store are rather snotty actually! To the point where I hardly even want to keep going there in the first place!

One, this blonde twerp, who's always giving me a stone cold look even time I go into their store, got all nasty cuz I wanted to return a $1 can of corn one time! I mean, come on, now.. who is going to pay $1 for a can of corn?

At that price I'd buy myself two EARS of corn, not a CAN of it! So anyway.. yesterday I just noticed I had not seen her in some time and asked the cashier, who wasn't really friendly at all, and the girl who maybe was the asst manager (though I hope not) where Sue was? I do believe that the asst manager, or this woman who claimed to be an assistant manager was the same person, whom I had told her that there was a dog out in someone's car when it was really hot out one summer day last year, in the 80s and the dog was obviously suffering!

I asked her to make an announcement over the loud speaker that the dog needed air... he had NONE, and to have the owner go out and give the dog water

I was told they let her go! I'm wondering WHY? I know she didn't have the "look" if you want to call it that, of the teenage cashiers but she made up for it in her gentle nature and her courtesy.

Now I'm just thinking maybe I will NOT frequent that store anymore! There's one in HNL, which is a bit farther to drive, but maybe it's worth it.

I know of another business I'm thinking of not frequenting anymore! My insurance co.... they have pulled a faux paus and didn't credit me for a payment I made in late fall and I was forced to pay the installment TWICE!

For some reason they ALSO let my agent go! I'm not sure why, no one will tell me, but they were definitely NICE people! That's why I signed up with that stupid company in the 1st place and they are NOT cheap, regardless of what they advertise on the media!

I went into the new office, where the new staff is, after I talked to them on the phone and they ASSURED me, they'd make me happy, and went to go pay my current bill. Explained to them I had a lot trouble with the other offices and they cheated me and credited my cash money to someone else's account!

Would you believe that the woman taking my money actually laughed in my face? :(

What kind of service is that? AND the woman who assured me on the phone that they'd make me HAPPY was also laughing at my misfortune!

I told them, then, point blank, well if this is how you are going to treat me, I'll find another office to do business with, and I shall! I've had enough of this company and their rude staff members! Time to move on.

well, time to go.... ciao