I didn't know why the dough was so sticky and I was using a different recipe. Left mine at home so got one off the internet. I figured I'd make them at home with my recipe and was replacing her "flour" with some I had brought and noticed that it was a different color and consistency. That's when she told me I had been using her powdered sugar. Even though the Tupperware said "Rice" on the side. :chagrin:
To Pete Saunders, it makes perfect sense - despite what his wife thinks. Saunders, a 36-year-old project manager at Ameriprise Financial, bikes 28 miles a day between his home in suburban Eagan and his office in downtown Minneapolis.
Claim: The phone number 1-800-FREE-411 offers free directory assistance service.
Status: True.
Origins: One of the many changes that has taken place in the telephone industry in the last few decades is that while phone companies once generally provided their local customers with
free directory assistance (via the 411 phone number), in most cases telephone customers are now charged a fee (typically $1.00 or more) for each directory assistance call. Despite the charges, U.S. consumers continue to avail themselves of the 411 directory assistance service, placing about 6 billion such calls per year.
Now, however, an outfit called Jingle Networks is providing an alternative directory assistance service — and it's free. Users who call the toll-free number 1-800-FREE411 (or 1-800-373-3411) can navigate a nifty automated voice recognition system that asks for a location (city and state), type of listing (business, government, or residential), and name. Once the service has located an entry for the requested number, it reads the information aloud and offers the caller the option of connecting to the number by pressing a single number on his telephone keypad.
How can Free-411 afford to offer free directory assistance service? It works sort of like commercial radio or television — businesses pay to sponsor it in exchange for presenting their advertisements to customers. The funding of Free-411 is typically explained thusly:
The service is made possible by thousands of national and local businesses who sponsor this service with brief valuable audio advertisements that are played to callers who request businesses in their yellow pages category. This advertising model allows businesses to acquire new customers over the phone, cost effectively, with little or no risk. Meanwhile callers get free directory assistance, potentially saving each of them thousand of dollars per year.
The way it works in practice is that a caller who requests a business number is first presented with a short (about 12 seconds) audio advertisement for a sponsor who operates a competing business in that area; the caller is then given the option of being connected to either that competitor or the business he originally requested. If no sponsor operates a local competing business, then the caller hears no advertisement at all. (In the latter case, if the caller accepts the option to connect to the desired number, the business receiving the call hears a short message at the beginning advising them that the call was placed via Free-411, and a Free-411 salesman may follow up with them a few days later to solicit them as a potential advertiser.)
I hit the stores hard yesterday! Left here yesterday morning about 10:30 I think and got home at 5:00. Changed into some comfy clothes and watered the tree and the phone rang. My daughter wanted to go shopping in Woodbury and wondered if I wanted to go along. Of course I did! She picked me up and we met another daughter at Dick's and shopped Woodbury until 9:00!
Did I mention I love Christmas? : :lipsealed: :sillygrin:
I think that Dawn Ave. address is the home of a guy who used to be on the IGH city council. They're very good. If you go down into Blueberry Lane or whatever it's called off of 55th between 7th and Blain, there are pretty ones there too.
Dawn Ave is still good lights but the big limo attraction is gone this year. Rodney pissed off his neighbors by taking all the credit for the lights and for saying he paid for their electric bills when interviewed on TV. That was always a big deal. I hope they do it again next year.
I'm talking about the colonial at the end of Dessa where it meets Caroline. If you drove to the end of Dessa you would have seen it.
Did you know that the street names up there were named after family members of the developer? It was originally called Oak Park, but now some people call it Tangle Town. But we "oldies" still call it Oak Park. Too many Tangle Towns already. :wink:
My son is a good friend with the owner of that house. The friend grew up there and my son has been helping since they were in high school. Now the friend has bought the house from his mother. She moved across the street! :chagrin: :sillygrin:
they're actually holly berries. we got ours at sam's club last season. they're not selling them this year, but target is. we didn't get the poinsettias out in the window boxes this year though, which is a bummer.
I didn't know why the dough was so sticky and I was using a different recipe. Left mine at home so got one off the internet. I figured I'd make them at home with my recipe and was replacing her "flour" with some I had brought and noticed that it was a different color and consistency. That's when she told me I had been using her powdered sugar. Even though the Tupperware said "Rice" on the side. :chagrin:
Frosti in the news paper:
To Pete Saunders, it makes perfect sense - despite what his wife thinks. Saunders, a 36-year-old project manager at Ameriprise Financial, bikes 28 miles a day between his home in suburban Eagan and his office in downtown Minneapolis.
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/13428006.htm
Claim: The phone number 1-800-FREE-411 offers free directory assistance service.
Status: True.
Origins: One of the many changes that has taken place in the telephone industry in the last few decades is that while phone companies once generally provided their local customers with
free directory assistance (via the 411 phone number), in most cases telephone customers are now charged a fee (typically $1.00 or more) for each directory assistance call. Despite the charges, U.S. consumers continue to avail themselves of the 411 directory assistance service, placing about 6 billion such calls per year.
Now, however, an outfit called Jingle Networks is providing an alternative directory assistance service — and it's free. Users who call the toll-free number 1-800-FREE411 (or 1-800-373-3411) can navigate a nifty automated voice recognition system that asks for a location (city and state), type of listing (business, government, or residential), and name. Once the service has located an entry for the requested number, it reads the information aloud and offers the caller the option of connecting to the number by pressing a single number on his telephone keypad.
How can Free-411 afford to offer free directory assistance service? It works sort of like commercial radio or television — businesses pay to sponsor it in exchange for presenting their advertisements to customers. The funding of Free-411 is typically explained thusly:
The service is made possible by thousands of national and local businesses who sponsor this service with brief valuable audio advertisements that are played to callers who request businesses in their yellow pages category. This advertising model allows businesses to acquire new customers over the phone, cost effectively, with little or no risk. Meanwhile callers get free directory assistance, potentially saving each of them thousand of dollars per year.
The way it works in practice is that a caller who requests a business number is first presented with a short (about 12 seconds) audio advertisement for a sponsor who operates a competing business in that area; the caller is then given the option of being connected to either that competitor or the business he originally requested. If no sponsor operates a local competing business, then the caller hears no advertisement at all. (In the latter case, if the caller accepts the option to connect to the desired number, the business receiving the call hears a short message at the beginning advising them that the call was placed via Free-411, and a Free-411 salesman may follow up with them a few days later to solicit them as a potential advertiser.)
not workign for me...but Cool if it works...
Frosti in the news paper: no wonder he didnt show last year - i am gonna have to pick him up and bring him to great waters with us!!
Did I mention I love Christmas? : :lipsealed: :sillygrin:
digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
Whoohoo! New Title! Sounds kind of Kung Fooish
OMG...you mean people get paid to do this???
I think MINBIN needed this...
We were thinking on bringing you on board with us Kitch but decided against it since we knew you'd be the employee of the month in no time. :wink:
How do you think I could afford to retire, Kitch? :grin:
cm?? lights good at this address??
Lights are good on Dessa Lane, South St Paul
(tour bus there every nite...15 on sat. night)
on the East side of oakdale...
hahaha get it?
It's funny because it's true :worried: :pbpt:
thanks!!!
he even has lights in his back yard that you CAN'T see from the road....
I know his neighbor that does a Really good job around the corner...(NW) which is more my taste(classy)
we also went and saw the one with the vikes/packers border battle.
Did you know that the street names up there were named after family members of the developer? It was originally called Oak Park, but now some people call it Tangle Town. But we "oldies" still call it Oak Park. Too many Tangle Towns already. :wink:
the guy that is owner or manager of the "water softner" place...starts with a c...
heh
where is the packer/viking one???
just the green and red...thats it...