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Poor Customer Service Experience at JCPenney Online

I placed an order with JCPenney, Wednesday, February, 24th. After ordering, I realized that I needed to have the order shipped to my home address instead of the store. JCPenney doesn’t let you to modify an order after it’s placed like Amazon does. So, I emailed customer service and asked them to ship it to [...]

VA Beach earlier today

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testing the P2 theme

testing the P2 theme

United Tastes: Pig, Smoke, Pit: This Food Is Seriously Slow

Scott’s Variety Store and Bar-B-Q in Hemingway, S.C., slow-smokes whole hogs over hardwood coals — a way of cooking that is disappearing. For aficionados in search of ever-elusive authenticity, Scott’s offers all the rural tropes of a signal American barbecue joint. The main building is tin-roofed and time-worn. Dogs loll in the parking lot, where [...]

Fear returns to Northern Ireland After 2 British Soldiers are Killed

For the first time in 12 years, two British soldiers have been killed in Northern Island. The news that two soldiers had been shot dead at the Massereene military base in County Antrim on Saturday night came as a shocking reminder that the peace process, in which the British, Irish and U.S. governments have invested [...]

The Gourds’ Jimmy Smith’s TV Cooking Spot

What Was in the Mailbox Tuesday, 07.01.2008?

The mailbox contained: July 2008 issue of SQL Server Magazine (10 Common Performance Problems To Avoid) T.O.C. July/August 2008 issue of The Family Handyman (Streamlined Shed – Spacious, bright and easy – no concrete work!) July/August 2008 issue of Sound & Vision (Top 50 DVDs of All Time) July 7-14 2008 issue U.S. News & [...]

Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels

Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials. The collapse of the Cole investigation offers a revealing case study of the U.S. government’s failure to bring al-Qaeda operatives and [...]

Lawn Mower’s Broken

The Yard-Man lawn mower that I bought 2 years ago broke when I tried to mow the grass yesterday.  It worked great when I mowed grass on April 5th, but this time the blade fell off.  The bolt that secures the blade to the mower broke off inside the shaft that comes from the motor.  [...]

Call From 877-372-4388

I just received a call from (877)372-4388, and the callerid showed “Unavailable.” It was DirecTV trying to sell the Starz package. At least the rep didn’t complain when I interrupted her in mid sentence and told her I wasn’t interested.

Call From 571-431-1940

We’ve received a couple of calls from (540) 431-1940 in the last week. The callerid listed the name as Medallion. When I answered, the representative asked for someone who hasn’t lived here in 7 years. When I told them he had the wrong number, the representative went into solicitation mode and said he was calling [...]

Goodbye Stan

My buddy Stan died early Saturday morning after a short bout with pancreatic cancer. He was only 47. He left behind his wife and two children. Stan was a family man. He was involved in his church and his community and excelled in his career. He was a good friend, too. Stan dealt with cancer [...]

What’s Good About JMU? Food, Booze, Service

James Madison University scored big numbers in several flattering -and some not-so-flattering – rankings in this year’s Princeton Review survey of the nation’s universities. JMU placed 7th on the best campus food list, 15th on the students dissatisfied financial aid list, and 16th on the schools with lots of beer list. Read (Harrisonburg Daily News [...]

How Buddhism Got to Russia

Despite the best efforts of Stalin and Catherine the Great.

Marine Corps Moms: New addition to a field first aid kit

Marine Corps Moms: New addition to a field first aid kit It looks like I need to add tampons to my first aid kit.

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