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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, April 19, 2010 - 6:33 pm
Pamy, last year I sent in for two of those $40 government coupons for digital converter boxes, even though I only needed one for the kitchen TV since I have cable everywhere else in the house. I wanted a spare in case cable went out so I could watch antenna tv on one of the big tvs, too. I hooked up a cheap $6 antenna to it I have to say the kitchen TV never looked better. I get about 22 channels, including the one 60 miles away in St. Joe. I'm only about 15-20 miles away from the signals of a major city, that may be why all my local channels come in so well, but I have to say those digital converter boxes with an antenna really work well. I ended up paying about 19 bucks per converter box with the coupon.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 8:23 pm
hmmmm I dont know if it was a converter he got. Good for you thinking ahead and getting a good deal! We are up and running as of 3:15 today! wahhoooo problem was......over the year foster pups had chewed on the cable outside and it finally gave way, we had no clue! lol Bill got some protectors so any future pups dont destroy this one.
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 9:34 pm
ooh amy, I was loking at getting a dish...maybeeeee not sorry you are having such trouble!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 11:29 pm
Pamy, Boomer and Bomba did the same thing. The cable guy that fixed it was just laughing. He said Labs are the worst. One of his clients had a lab that literally ate the tires off the RV they had parked in the back yard! We had to cover up our "dog height" cables too. Glad to hear you are up and running again.
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 9:17 am
I meant Pamy,,not Amy...I have a sticky P
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 12:20 pm
Looks like you have a sticky O and a very loose E too. I have keys that stick from time to time on this thing too. It seems to travel around the keyboard and surprise me with what key is going to stick this time. 
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 5:30 pm
Ok so here is my gripe today. This is not the first time this has happend but I was not expecting it. We own our own company and work in finance. We have about 10 employees and 6 of them work on site. It is a lot of fun working with us. We take the staff on trips and give bonuses all the time. We also pay the staff really well, we like people to be happy and to work. Not to worry if they can afford the rent or food. My assistant would run the office if I was in a meeting or away. (We travel 1 to 2 weeks a month). My assistant was so valuable to me that we paid her 10% of our income about half the time. So in the 2 years she worked for me she made over 1 000 000$. Yes 6 zeros. Today she asked for a breakfast meeting, never good news, she told us that she wanted to still work for us but while she was working for us establish herself to compete against us. I was so shocked I could not speak. We told her that was fine and left the meeting. Went right to our lawyer and asked him how to fire her without her damaging the company. I called the three other employees to a pub for lunch and told them the story. They were shocked. Not only had I hired this girl as my assistant but also her brother in law and sister in law. During the meeting my assistant called and invited one of the people I was with for lunch with her and her relatives. I told him to go and to keep them out of the office for as long as he could. We then had our lawyer show up at our office and lock the doors. When they returned from lunch they were all told they were fired and to return tomorrow for anything left in the office. They were also told where we were and come talk to us if they wanted. My husband and our driver waited at the pub. The employees and I went back to the office to do interviews. When they arrived to speak to my husband they told him we were really awful people and what we did to the was worng. btw she was working on the side with her relatives. I will never think I was wrong in firing these people. They think otherwise. I feel better thanks for letting me complain.
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 5:42 pm
Pippin I think firing was too good for them. Firing squad maybe... Ok, taking sick phsyco witch off to bed. No, really.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 6:12 pm
Christii, LOL on your sticky P situation! hahaaa Pippin, you were smart to call your attny right away. I hope your X ass. new business isnt successful, sounds like a real piece of work.
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 6:24 pm
hehe Pamy!! Hey, did you go vote for me?? you actually HAVE stuff from my shoppe, so go vote!! You can vote once per address, so go get about a million addresses, hehe Are you on Facebook??
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 6:54 pm
Pippin, I will come work for you!!!!
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 7:10 pm
Me too Pippin! Or you can just adopt me! 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 8:57 pm
no Christii but I will go vote for ya!!!
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 9:17 pm
thanks Pamy!! you have no idea how much I appreciate it!!
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Christiii
Member
07-07-2005
| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 9:21 pm
me three Pippin!! Ill move to Canada, eh? that sucks..Im so sorry that happened!
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Southern_grits
Member
10-08-2009
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:02 pm
Sorry to change the subject, my big gripe... GARMIN! And the kin that live with me that are so addicted to technology they believe anything a $2.00 salesman feeds them. I have other gripes about Garmin I'll keep to myself for now but does anyone remember the couple getting stuck for days on a logging road in the middle of winter because either Garmin or TomTom neglected to inform the road was closed in winter? My son used hubby's Garmin to go visit a new (girl) friend about 30 miles away. New toy, new toy, had to feed the info there and then again coming home, when he was given a new, shorter route. Yeah, shorter, sent him through a farmer's field road, I'm guessing, where he encountered deep ruts and hidden roots... which sunk a hole in the oil pan. GGGRRRRRR
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:06 pm
I have VZ Navigator on my phone. It's amazing. Main routes, not 'shortcuts', and I have not had an issue yet. LOVE IT.
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:11 pm
Ouch. I have never had a problem with my Garmin. It usually keeps to main roads. If it looks like it is sending me on a wild goose chase I ask for an alternative route.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:11 pm
LOL A couple years ago dh and I moved his parents out here so we could keep an eye on them. We bought them a GPS because they weren't familiar with the roads. The first few months I took them to every doctor appt but finally arrived the day fil was going to go on his own. He punched in the address and started driving. Called us about 2 hours later, he was in Niagara Falls. We asked him... didn't you use the GPS? He said yes and it told him to turn off at one point but.... 'he thought it was joking'. RFLOL!! You just can't save some people from themselves.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 12:13 pm
A GPS that messes with ya for amusement, OMG, what's next??
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 6:13 pm
southern Grits, I totally understand your pain!! we have been led down closed roads before.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 4:40 am
Silly gripe but this drives me nuts. The little sparkly things sewn onto clothing is called "sequins" but I've spotted it typed out as "sequence"!!! As in: I am going to wear my sequence top to the club!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 10:57 am
LOL Panda. Maybe they meant it was the next one in their top rotation...kinda like the Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday underwear. I go nuts on a regular basis because people don't know the difference in the words your and you're. It's an epidemic, I tell you! Not sure why it makes me as crazy as it does.
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Maplsyrp
Member
02-10-2009
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 11:42 am
Mixing up there and their make me crazy.
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Panda
Member
07-15-2005
| Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 11:51 am
OMG my typing grammar is awful! I just noticed that I used "is" instead of "are"...who am I to talk about others? 
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