What irritates you?

Don't you dare! :neutral:

Big, giant, hugs to YOU, me2. I'm sorry you are having such a rough day.

picking out light - means kinda what Kitch said..

what we do, is during growing we monitor the cluster size/weights, and then right before we pick, we estimate how many tons per acre we are going to get.

Sometimes we are right on, other times we aren't (i think this may have to do with the person doing the estimating) but this year - everything is coming in about 30% lighter than estimate

could be attributed to the fact that the last 3 days were really hot, so we've had sugars spike and are bring fruit in like crazy - when the sugar spike happens, it also is an indiciation of the grape's water content evaporating a little..

when you have smaller grapes - you do have (to a point) more concentrated flavors, but you also have more concentrated tannins, as the tannins are in the seeds and skins, so your skin/see contact to juice ratio is higher.

reason I don't like picking out light.. we will scramble for more fruit to buy last minute contracts - which means triple the paperwork for me. I've already got my contracts squared away.. I don't wanna go back and have to revise stuff. I hate that.

the other thing that makes me hate picking out light (or heavy) I have to adjust what tanks I'm going to crush into at the last minute - run around and make sure everyone makes the changes to the work orders

and also make sure that the press we are using is the optimum capacity. if it picks out too light, we need to put it in the smaller presses - however if that's the case - then sometimes we need to send small bins out to the vineyard etc. it can be a nightmare.

I'm gonna go crawl in to bed now-.... wake me in about 2 years please.

not being able to find some time with Caroline talking last night :frown:

& sorry that I didn't play a better game of pool

we'll beat them next time

drank an sobe orange flavored energizer drink this morning that turned my stomach sour.

I am soooo blah.. feel like I'm going to puke, i'm shakey & have cold sweats.

no bueno. :frown:

choke gag ...cough ... HHHoly....

I went shopping with the girls a few weeks back. Went to Old Navy and they had this deal...put what you purchase on your Old Navy card and save 20% right then. (not open an account -just use your existing old navy)... We only had $70 in clothes but anything saved was a good thing! I didn't have my card with me (havn't used in a couple of years) so the lady tried to look me up...but she said they couldn't find me in their system. ok, fine, quickly open it up again....

I just opened the letter with the new card....

not only is it a VISA Old Navy Card but the credit limit is 6 grand!!!!!!!!!!! ::eyes bug out::

they REALLY want a person in debt! HELLO????

didn't you guys look at how much credit I already have???? I could max everything out and move comfortably to Italy and never be seen again!!!!!

Target did the same thing last year- thinking Im opening a Target card and I get a Target VISA!!!! came in handy one day when I had to rush the cat to the vet but damn!!!

YES, I pay off the balance in FULL when I do have to use it-

I DON"T NEED THIS MUCH CREDIT!!!!

hey kitch, could I really be caught and extridited back to the states if I maxed over $100,000 in cc's? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

that's crazy Me2.

when I was 12, my mom got me a picture ID card, cause she had me get a checking acct - (for my baby sitting money - to teach me responsibility)

by 14, i had my first credit card - she co- signed for it... she told me the limit was $100...

then about a year later, i was making out the payment for my spending on the CC, and looked at the actual statement (usually she just told me what it was..) and saw that it wasn't $100.

It was like 80k (my mom had good credit)

when i was 18 and started applying for my own, i had several platnium cards with 60 or 70k ..

it was scary. sadly - now my biggest one is like, um, 5k I think.

they can't do squat...

I know a few people who have done this on purpose...

I know a guy who bought a truck and a ton of other stuff with a trailer and moved to mexico...why even move to mexico?? why not just file banko.

Got my car back, they replaced the intermediate shaft (the part that connects the steering wheel to the steering column, err whatever). So I'm driving back to work (first mistake) and I noticed the steering wheel is off center. Meaning when I drive straight, the wheel slants to the right, as if I were making a lane adjustment or a slight right turn.

So, I get on the phone and call my dealer, and I get "Umm.. the intermediate shaft doesn't have anything to do with the alignment of the steering wheel".

Uhhh, duh! I brought the car in and the wheel was perfectly centered when driving straight. When I got the car back, it leans to the right to drive straight. Obviously something you did screwed something up....

Taking it back in the morning, and I'm sitting there until it's fixed. I'm NOT going without a car for another day this week, once is more than enough.

whered you buy your car. I want to avoid them in the future.

A car dealership - nuff said :eyeroll:

The good part of it is that it potentially could boost your credit score. If you don't use it very much... By having a low debt to credit ratio (is that the terms I am thinking?) it shows that you are responsible and don't use all of the credit that is offered to you, making you a better credit risk in the future. :smile:

13 hour work day... it was 100 degrees out too. blah.

but the OverTime is soooo gonna rock.

off to bed. gotta be back @ it @ 545

I wish I had a credit score of zero

or ... 17
for the one emergency card I would have

what credit score could I have with 1 emergency card Kitch? I know people have zero, but what could be the next number up from there ?(don't say 1 :wink: ) .... does it just jump from zero to 800 with 1 excellent rated card?

http://www.fico.org/HowScoringWorks.aspx

good luck figuring out how FICO..I've got no idea how it all really works (NOBODY REALLY DOES)...

all I know is this.....

I know that some stuff that doesn't show up on a credit bureau does effect your scoring...such as not paying your "record club contract" you know.the ones that are 13 albums for a penny...

I know they are going to put a stop to piggybacking...
http://consumerist.com/consumer/notag/fico-expanding-number-of-bad-credit-categories-overall-score-fluctuations-expected-288934.php

read the 2nd link...

interesting...I didn't know FairIssac was a minnesota company...kewl..

Stillwater Motors.

Honestly they're usually really good. Just hit me on a bad week.

Speaking of which, things are insane at work, as expected for right before back to school. I can't wait until this season is over.

Doesn't irritate, but makes me sad. There is an injured homing pigeon in my back yard. It can't fly. I've tried coaxing it to me so I can read its tag, but it won't let me pick it up. I took the bottom off an old bird cage thinking I could grab it easier if it was confined, but it waddles away into the bushes when I try that. I'm afraid one of the neighborhood cats is going to get it. :frown:

OMG!!!
http://interbug.com/pigeon/lost.html

on sunday I saw this... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/22/sunday/main3195347.shtml

well the story on "sunday morning" anyways

and than on monday I saw a car with a trailer of the "twin cities racing pigeon club"

only for me to googling it the past few days...cuz i found it interesting...

Is the lost pigeon a local pigeon? I couldn't find the info in the link. Should I call someone?

basically...

you just need to give it seed and water...it will go home when its ready...

I'm not sure it can fly. It did fly up to my porch roof when I tried to catch it, but not directly. It flew up and grabbed onto the screen on the first floor window and then up to the roof. Now it's on the ground again. It does have seed. I'll put some water out.

I just know a cat is going to get it. :worried:

what i found interesting is the sidebetting they do on this...its seems to me like a big underground betting thing..

I found a rescue site and it's current as of today. I sent the information along and should be hearing back from them soon.

Good grief! They want me to build a box trap for the pigeon! :chagrin:

Jane, thank you for reporting this bird. He does sound like he's in trouble. There is a link below on setting up a box trap, but you probably don't need to go to that extent to get this little one. You can take a look at it. Please do let me know when you've captured the bird. Once I have the complete band info, I can probably trace it. Good luck. Renee

Box trap instructions:

http://www.racingbirds.com/ptrap.html

Ahhhh, yeah. I'll get right on that. :eyeroll:

I thought they'd come out and get it!

This bird can't really be 37 years old, can it?? It's banded with the letters BJ (shut up!) and the numbers 1970. I guess the set of numbers are the year the bird was hatched! :confused:

Bird Band Info

Thanks. I don't have enough letters and numbers to use that though.

They also suggested I leave my garage door open because they roost, but I'm leaving town for the weekend and I'm sure not going to leave my garage door open.

I'm afraid this pigeon is doomed. :frown:

There used to be a guy about half a mile from me who kept pigeons, but he died. He would have helped me out.

Maybe you could round up one of his relatives to help...'course, you'll need a much bigger box to catch the relative...

I didn't realize lost pigeons were so prevalent. Now I'm receiving emails responding to every lost/found pigeon in the US and Canada. I guess it's an automatically generated thing.

Five lost/found birds since I sent my inquiry.

Ha!

Here's a bird that nobody will miss when it's gone

Haven't seen the pigeon for a couple of hours. :frown:

He must have flown home. Yeah, that's it! He flew home! :neutral:

Yeah, that's it! He flew home!

I always hated Tweety... couldnt wait for Sylvester to catch him and eat him....

never happens though... :eyeroll:

He needs to team up with Wile E. Coyote, so they can finally take down Tweety and that Roadrunner fool...

Well, didn't see any feathers or anything in the yard. The last time I saw him he was flying up on my porch roof. Also haven't seen the neighborhood cats today. So I'm hoping for the best.

He was a pretty bird.

doves and pigeons are basically one in the same...fyi

I wanna race one :wink:

When I first went out in the yard my first thought was it was a dove. Then I saw it was larger and not gray like a mourning dove. When I realized it was a pigeon I wasn't very happy. I remember when I was a little girl and there were pigeons nesting in our eaves and we had fake snakes to scare them off.

This guy was black with an iridescent neck and white tail feathers.

my friend found a baby honing pigeon like 2 years ago, and brought him in and trained him - he lives in the house, and flys around and talks to people - if they open the windows - he' fly out one - around the house and in the other.

he's cute - his name is jacques

tears

today I heard "the rose" on my way to work....

I honestly do not think i'm going to be able to listen to that song with out a breakdown...

I understand that. Sorry Kitch.

Precisely why I listen to talk radio.

Probably why I mostly listen to books on CD, unless I am trying to cry.

I had a hard enough time making it through that song just because it reminded my of the movie and Janis Joplin but it's even tougher now because of Santa Dave. I haven't heard it yet and am OK for now I guess.

crazy - daves been on my mind as well

found candy canes in a bag this morning when I got in to work

I wonder if I can get the Rose on Demand tonight - I have not seen that in a long time

Our 5Mb Internet service giving us flashbacks to dial-up...

I wonder if the modem is going out, Had to restart it 5 times to get it to find the internet. Vista diagnosed it to potentially being the modem, cable is doing well and both run on the same lines... If it is the modem, I am glad it is a rental from Charter (were not Comcastic here)

Seeing the staff members at the ecology building sitting at both entrances, counting the number of people coming in that building.

To my knowledge, no other building counts the number of attenders, and the fair just counts the tickets collected.

I know they're doing it just to have attendance numbers to justify their existence at the fair.

I think it's time for my yearly complaint to the fair, bring back the technology building, or make up a new one. I'm not saying the ecology center isn't welcome at the fair, it's just not cool with me that they gained a location by displacing one of the main reasons I enjoyed going.

I hear ya...

one of the only reasons I even go into that ecology place, is to use the bathroom, or get whatever free stuff they have.

they havent really had anything I wanted to look at, since they've been there.