I am on vacation.

I have been fed, roast beef and home fries. Meat and potatoes, very very hard to beat. I've had a drink. I"m hanging out with SonofV, we'll be watching MST3K shortly.

Life is good.

Manos Hands of Fate!!!

Got my daughter a ticket for the Redwings game tonight! It won't be in my grubby hands until this afternoon, but no reason to believe this won't happen.....

sob story here

The first website of my new small biz try is up. This site took about one hour to create and that's the whole point. $299 for a single page with a menu JPG or PDF. It's all that small pizzerias need, so the search engines pick up with phone number and address as authoritative. Search is local now!

charlie's pizzeria

look great!

I'll take one large pizza, thin crust, extra sauce,cheese, mushrooms,olives and onions. Delivered please.

Very good, UT, but I couldn't find the free sample button.

The black and white photo with RED SIGN is very effective.

Is that just for "Charlies" or can it be a default for your sites ?

I want to personalize each site, even if it takes only an hour to put together.

Having a photo of the actual storefront is part of the idea -- something I'll try to do on every site with a business that has such a storefront. You want people to recognize them.

Now, in the case of Charlie's, after I looked at the photos I took, it occurred to me that their location is their biggest asset. They are right on Philadelphia's very heavily-traveled Roosevelt Boulevard. People who drive the Boulevard see Charlie's every day. And if they drive it at night, that neon will be the thing they remember. In fact Charlie's does all of its business at night -- they open at 4PM.

And they're a tradition -- they've been open since 1946. People's families have eaten here for generations. Families that go so far back, their kids only have black and white photos of them.

So, now, look at it again with ALL that in mind -- where can you get traditional pizza on Roosevelt Boulevard at night?

It's good. Simple and elegant, and covers all the important details.

If you have a place with a bigger menu that you want to be searchable, so people can find a buffalo chicken stromboli on rising sun avenue... it takes a little longer to build that site.

http://tokeninternet.com/risingsunpizza.com

Being mostly ready for Christmas. Just finished the cake yesterday and only have one more present to buy and I'm done. I might even get to the post office today! Also, I've got everything ready (except for my personal clothes) for our camping holiday which starts next Wednesday.

Footlong cheese steaks for only $5! That's a good deal.

You might have to explain what popperonis are. I don't think we have those in Colorado.

Do you have any way to determine if they have any increase in business as a result of the website? That would be a useful tool, for you and for the business.

transmission replaced. total cost? 425 bux. 350 for the tranny, however much for the filter and 35 bucks for the 2 gallon 1-1/2 pints of fluid. i'm mobile again!!

plthijinx - have you read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah?

You might want find it useful.

The rest of my family are playing with their indoor RC flying things. They are happy and not squabbling. Some of them should be in bed. tough! They squabble in their sleep, I prefer this, white noise and all.

I'm not sure the pricing is done. When I looked, everything past the first page was 5 dollars. :D

Mrs. Mia Wallace: A five dollar shake.
Buddy Holly: How do you want that shake: Martin and Lewis or Amos and Andy?
Mrs. Mia Wallace: Martin and Lewis.
Vincent Vega: Did you just order a five dollar shake?
Mrs. Mia Wallace: Ummhh.
Vincent Vega: That's a shake . . . that's milk and ice cream.
Mrs. Mia Wallace: Last I heard.
Vincent Vega: That's five dollars? You don't put bourbon in it or nothin'?
Buddy Holly: No.
Vincent Vega: Just checking.

~~~~~

Vincent Vega: Goddamn, this is a pretty fu**ing good milkshake.
Mrs. Mia Wallace: Told ya.
Vincent Vega: I don't know if it's worth five dollars, but it's pretty fu**ing good.

Just got back from my MRI and they gave me a disc of my images. Apparently we are filled with guts.

Yeah the pricing isn't done.

Best unintentionally sequential posts EVER.

i'll check it out....ty!

a productive day

got some computers back on the rails. fired comcast *and* got their stupid equipment back to them. freed up a couple cubic yards of space previously consumed by some boxes I'd been hoarding for a friend who's moving this month. shhh.... picked up a very hard to find surprise christmas present for s-o-n-o-f-v. *whistles innocently* hehehe... bought a case of 5W-30 and a gallon of washer fluid for my trusty steed. (last night) I got the chance to do a good deed for one of my local retailers.

easy dinner. hot buttered rum for beverage/dessert (maybe two, we'll see).

I really liked firing comcast the best.

yep. Two. :hic:

Vindicated. Got the report from the doc re: MRI.
full thickness tear in one of the ligaments and some cysts on the bone head.
So stuff your PT.

Ooooh! You're happy about a tear in one of your ligaments and cysts? :eek: Sounds VERY painful to me. Are they giving you any good drugs?

No, just happy that I've been vindicated. All along I've been told that it's nothing, I just need to exercise it, etc. And the chronic pain has been poo-pooed for 2 or 3 years.

No drugs, don't really like them.

Awww, if you look close you can see his widdle pee-pee.

Ooops, sorry, thought it was an ultrasound. :blush:

:lol2:

I've discovered that if you are stoic regarding your pain, then your screwed with the doctors. Unless you are crying, winching and moaning and groaning they tend to dismiss you. grr doctors. Sometimes they need a poke in the eye.

Husband got a job!

and I am done working for the day.

Congrats!

Congratulations kerosene!

Thanks :)

A lovely card from a sweet and thoughtful friend. :)

I'm glad to hear that, k-sene.

Thanks, Dear!

Merlin is sitting outside the music room, insistently singing along as Pete practices her fiddle. :)

Heated car seats! :p:

dinner. yep dinner is making me happy today. baking beer bread, a present from a co-worker. you pour the flour mix stuff in a bowl mix it with beer and bake it. then ribeye steaks and baked potatoes!

I swear I saw someone post a comment about this site on HN the other day.

We're leaving tonight for New Orleans, staying through Sunday. I've never been there, but I here there are lots of good restaurants.

Today is the last day of work for the year for me!

well, paid work.

WHOA! REALLY? get this shit! bud texts me today. his dad wants me to call him. his dad fly's a famous singer around the nation and world. i get home from work and we talk a little. he wants me to call him tomorrow morning so we can sit and chat "extensively and see what we can do". niiiiiice. but that's not all. customer today comes to the track and it's an old co-worker from my engineering days! the company he works for is hiring! both career fields? job opps in both? in the same day?? yeah i bought a lottery ticket too!

Right the fuck on. :thumb:

well right the fuck on into chat!!! c'mon me and zip are choppin it up!

okok zip tol me u don't chat....keh. sigh.

Well hot damn! Merry Christmas to you, plt.

ty hun. just saying in chat that even if nothing comes from it...the lift i got...damn! :D

been down way too long and put up with too much bullshit. glad things are starting to turn around!

New year, new deal, knock 'em dead, man. :D

Cool man! Good times are coming.

Yes, maybe it's too late for this year's man cave, but next Christmas... :D


The TV Watch
Ye Olde Yule Log Now Blazes in 3-D
By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Published: December 23, 2010

So happy for you plt! You deserve it!

Today: great family, mom and dad and brothers and sisses-in-law and grown kids and little kids and other family members and friends and neighbors.

It can be a wonderful life, if you only know how to look at it.

thx need it! today: day off....ahhhhhhhhh!!!!

today i received a xmas card from a cellarite. definitely made me smile, and almost cry. wasn't expecting what was sent. ty sir.

Hockey! :)

Last week, worked mon., tues., 1/2 day wed., gone for weekend. This week, mon. was a paid snow day off, work tues., wed, 1/2 day thurs., gone for weekend. Doctor coverage only mornings.

Had my other MRI today (on my really f/u shoulder)

When Dad came home from football (part of his Christmas present from my sister) I left a cup of tea for him and Mum in the kitchen. I was in there anyway, making a sandwich to sneak up to my room and eat alone.

When Dad came up to swap over the cats two hours later he thanked me.
It's a small thing, but it's the first we've spoken since Christmas Day.
He's the less intractable of the two, but I'm glad to have this first sign of a thaw anyway.

Oh and my Secret Santa FINALLY arrived. Which makes me feel like I've swallowed the sun.

replaced the front rotors, brakes and the engine cam position sensor on the Fixed Or Repaired Daily today. have pics to post just not sure where to put them with the narrative when i'm done editing.....