Dear Verizon

You’ve sent people to my house and sent countless junk mails promoting the same deal. I get it. You’ve got a great Triple Play Bundle. If I was interested in it I would have contacted you after the first 40 mailings.  I guess  you’re nothing if not persistent, but I’m not interested. I have no use for home phone service, and I really have no use for 100 television channels to surf before deciding there’s nothing on. What I really want is a great deal on just Internet service, because I can use it for my home phone and television without paying you all of the extra money.  Unfortunately, you don’t offer a great deal on Internet alone. In fact, it’s more expensive than my current Comcast deal. Until you can beat Comcast’s Internet price, please leave me alone.

I’m almost to the point of mailing each of your advertisements back to your headquarters. At least that way you could recycle the advertisements instead of printing more of them, because as far as I can tell you’ve been sending me the same piece of mail every week for the last 6 months.  Maybe that would lower your overhead costs enough to provide your customers with a real deal on Internet.

Domesticating

applesauce

This weekend I made applesauce and an apple pie and they were pretty tasty – if I don’t say so myself. My grandma loaned me her sieve and so I didn’t have to worry about getting any seeds or skins in the tasty sauce.

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I like using the sieve because it reminds me of all the times my grandma used it to provide delicious applesauce for her own kids and their kids.

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Sydney spent her time slinking around the kitchen hoping that some applesauce or pie would slop onto the floor.

No such luck for that pup.

Outriding the Car

One of my goals for my 29th year is to ride more miles on my bike than I drive by myself in one of our cars.

I started tracking any car trip I take by myself on a piece of paper and logging my biking miles with dailymile.com.  I hope to build a widget into the HBadventure sidebar to display this race data a little more prominently.  Until that happens, I’ll just have to post periodic updates.  For the month of September I came out ahead on biking miles with a score of 131 miles ridden and 95 miles driven.

I was way out in front of the miles driven until I accidentally left my cell phone in Adam’s car after a day of surfing, and had to drive to Renton to pick it up again.  I guess these are the  challenges I’ll face in the next year, but I’m feeling confident I can pull it off after this first month’s tally.   Of course, the cold, dark, and wet season is starting to approach.  My hope is that my biking gear will keep me cruising right along through it.

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