The day the polls opened for early voting, i was their. I was number #31 on the list. I just couldn’t stand another news report, commercial, yard sign or email defaming one of the candidates. So i made up my mind, i pushed the button. They can’t sway me any longer.
I guess i’m a sucker for punishment but it’s so close to church, when i need a quick meal it’s convenient. And the food isn’t bad at all. It’s just the service. and not just this burgerking, just about any burgerking i visit has the same results. I love the “Frozen Cokes (ICEE)” and the onion rings with the zesty sauce. But most of the time, the forzen coke doesn’t work, they don’t include the sauce, they include onions in the burger when i ask for none. Recently they began a national thing on the back of the receipts you could call a number and do an electronic survey. great! Now i finally have a chance to tell them how much the valley restaurants suck in service. (You can’t do it online, i’ve tried.) The first question in the survey is “what is the store number of the restaurant you visited” I turned over the receipt, found Store # but after that was blank! What, they new how much they sucked and so people couldn’t complain they took that off the receipt? So.. back online, looked up the location and it revealed the store number. So.. when you call to complain on the survey line about the BK next to church, it’s store# 12431
i just came back from lunch, stopped by BK here in weslaco (store# 13003) and of course they got the order wrong. Big surprise.
The survey phone number is 1-866-425-4745 and takes about 4 minutes.
back at the ranch, the water source for our community of houses was back at the ranch, about a mile from the houses. The well had it’s own sump pump that would pump the water up to a mini water tower. The pressure from the water tower would then force the water down the 2″ pipe to the houses 1 mile away. Did you know that for ever 2.31 feet of elevation, 1 PSI (pound per square inch) is produced. So if you have a water tower that’s 100 feet in the air, 43.3 PSI is produced, usualy more than enough for any city to run on. Ours was maybe 10 feet up. never actually measured it. An important part of keeping the preasure was the use of a check valve. Several were placed along the road where the water pipe was laid all the way to the houses. These would keep the water from flowing backwards reversing the flow of presure. Once one of those went squirly and woudln’t let water flow in either direction. My dad had to go down the road finding all of them checking each of them. Soon after that, they were all clearly marked along the road. You’d be suprised how long a mile is when your digging up check valves.
I’m greatful for the built in check valve’s we have. So many times i want to respond to someone’s smart email with a quick relpy to all with some sarcastic responce. Just this past sunday morning. Mark (with a K) was running the projection computer. He can do a great job when everything is setup properly. but pricilla sent the list.. which meant that she didn’t use a formal song name, or ccli number or author, or any way of properly matching what her list says to what she actually wants. So the system is preset with the titles she uses.. and quickly into the service it’s obvious that the songs preloaded are wrong. he’s not skilled enough to find the proper songs to match. i was able to run in their mid song a few times to load up the proper one but it was a very rough service. mona took no hesitation to come up to me in the boot and make a remark something like “was I that bad when i ran the computer?” now.. my first responce would not have been very nice. Fortuantly for me.. my built in checkvalve saved me from saying something i would have regretted.
Other times i wish it had kicked in sooner.. right about the time i’m scrambling looking for the “unsend” button.. quickly followed by abusing my rights as an email administrator.
I don’t know how this story got past me. Don LaFontaine died on the 1st of this month.
Don’t know the name? This post may remind you. He was 68.
Some friends were bragging about the taskbar on mac’s. I happen to belive anything a mac can do, a pc can do better. Here’s a program that will add the mac taskbar to windows.
