somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
What irritates you?
somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
somthing irking you? pissing you off? rant about it here.
(plus...I must add that I have always been very lucky on radio call-in's so I just to have that chance :wink: )
I'm 4 for 4 with letters submitted to KQRS and got prizes that way, but that's about it.
When Pink Floyd was at the Metrodome - something like 1991 - I called into KQRS for last-minute tickets. I called long-distance from St. Cloud on a touch-tone phone with no redial. Winner was caller #25 or something like that - I was caller #7, caller #18, and -
caller #27. Shit!
On hearing them ask for Princess Christina to call in, I wrongly assumed it was a contest to see who could sound the most convincingly like Princess Christina, and I actually thought they were giving away tickets to a Rod Stewart concert, so I called in, and put on my best Swedish accent.
The person answering the phone sounded pretty excited to hear from Princess Christina and asked if they could put me on the air after some other segments they had to do.
Meanwhile, waiting on hold, I grabbed the newspaper and read up on the reason the Princess was in town, and dug an old Sven and Ole joke out of memory, that I thought might make a nice addition and keep me "in character" with my Swedish accent.
I seemed to have them going, right up to the punchline, and I think we all had a pretty good time that morning!
I recorded this on tape at home, but lent the tape to a friend, whose son took it to school and it got lost.
Same friend, when I visited her in Seattle, called into a country station one morning while I was in the shower and convinced them to come and pick me up in their van and take me to some donut shop where they were going to do an interview with me. She thought it would be really funny to get me on the air to talk about working for the penile implant factory. I however, did not want to do anything that might lose me my job! Anyway, they picked me up, we went for donuts, we had a nice time, although I don't know the first thing about country music.
I dont know what I was thinking.... we could have sold them, and used the money for other stuff....
I called in 93X, one time for another contest for whatever, and missed winning by one caller, and Remy Maxwell was the DJ at the time - he had me hold on, after telling me that I didnt win... and when he came back he goes: "you wanna be on the air, anyways? I'll send you a t-shirt, or somethin, for helpin me out"...
"sure"
"when I give you the cue, I need you to request Rape Me, by Nirvana"
so I did...
he used that as part of his lead in segment, every day, for the next year or so, til he was fired.
I won one of 5 keys to start a $10k arctic cat snowmobile on the old 104.1 when it was rock. I went to the place up north to try it and was a day late. I thought it was on a Sunday and it was on that Saturday instead. I'll never know if my key would have started that damn thing. :coolfrown:
I called her and she said yea I could have them, but I needed to wait a minute. She then said she would record me as if I just won. So we recorded the conversation and a few minutes later she announced on air that caller 15 would win the tickets so call in now, then played a song. Right after the song ended she played my prerecorded "winning" of the tickets.
Set up. Glad I "won", but never trusted them giveaways again.
She wanted an "alone" talk so I went over to an old friends house. I hadn't seen my friend for quite a while so thought I would stop over with a 6pk of beer. During the 1st beer he tells me he has just been diagnosed with stage 3 Non=Hodgkin lymphoma. He's younger than I am. Not fair!
CANCER SUCKS!! :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying: :crying:
thats why i had a shirt made, that says "F**K CANCER" (un-sensored, ofcourse), on the front, in big white letters.
Cancer sucks.
on the bright side, there's a lot of promising research going on out there into cancer. in just the past year i've seen stories involving a lot of nano medicine. as a couple of examples, there was a story about gold nanotubes, when exposed to white light, destroying a ridiculous percentage of a particular type of brain tumor within 5 minutes. not days like chemo takes these days, minutes.
another story talked about coating nanotubes with the antigens specific to a person's tumors. being that they are effectively "the patient" the body's immune system doesn't normally attack tumors. by introducing the tumor specific antigens on a foreign body, the nanotube, it trains the immune system to attack the tumors, turning a patient's immune system against the tumor.
tc's dad was doing a lot of genetic based stuff on his trips down to phoenix before losing his battle with it. that's an interesting concept itself, based on some of the stuff i've read about collies and shelties, and a particular breed specific mutation that causes an increased sensitivity to ivermectin, which is the cheaper set of pills given to prevent heartworm.
seeing the stuff that's happened over the past couple of years, i'm convinced that in 20 years we'll be looking back on cancer the way we look back at small pox and polio today: that great scourge of the 20th century (and early 21st, but a long drawn out sentence just doesn't have the same ring to it). we won't be able to prevent it like we can with the other two, but when it does occur, we'll have the technology to eliminate it.
assuming of course the fda doesn't stand too much in the way.
oh, and that's exactly what redbear and i said to each other upon hearing of mark's passing back in january.
I've won Neil Diamond tickets twice before (back in the 80's).
But we all know Diggin 4 It Again always wins...maybe a connection :wink:
j/k diggs
give Penny my thoughts too ~
geeesh the irritates thread sucks!
Had $2,500 less in deductions.
Got $1,000 less back in federal refund.
Paid $150 more in state taxes????
On the upside - husband said "honey as much as I loved having you home this past year, you need to get back out there and do what you do to get our deductions back up" :smile:
that said, i'm about to dish out my single biggest piece of tax advice, one which i've given a lot lately: you don't have to use the same w-4 withholding allowance number for both your federal and your state withholding. you can give two w-4s yo your employer, and designate one for federal purposes and one for state. i've been using 17 federal and 10 state for quite a while, considering child tax credits and college tuition benefits only apply to your federal tax, and never had a problem with employers allowing it. so look into it!
Mine are normally so simple I can do them in 15 minutes. This year, not so lucky. I never did get a w-2 from my deadbeat boss that closed the company last April (sheesh it's been a year since I've had to deal with him and I still it still comes to bite me in the butt). So now the IRS is sending him a letter which he gets 10 days to respond to (yeah, the guy who is guilty of tax evasion is going to respond to that). And yes, I know, should have done my taxes much sooner, but just didn't want to deal with it. Plus I had gotten emails "promising" he'd send them out in a week a couple weeks ago.
Anyway.. getting an extension to file now. I have everything ready to send as is, just waiting the 10 days before I do so I'm following their rules to the letter. I don't want any problems with the IRS myself.
Funny looking back. Although end of year totals are always correct, he made a lot of stupid errors (like wrong pay periods, check numbers, pay dates, etc). This is based on payroll from quickbooks, which I should assume would be pretty fool proof.
Once someone tries to cook the books, everything gets out of whack in quickbooks.
This year they are planning on treats - but I got the task today in an email to set it all up for Wednesday!!! What the...
kat, you'd think the least the boss could go would be to get someone else's admin to get it set up. of course you'd have to set up someone else's event, but you would be working on your own.
sorry for the stresses :frown:
better than anything anyone has had!
spend lots! get exactly what you want!
why buy flower? get spa packages! ha!
that'll teach em.
no voice! chest congestion :frown:
Get better soon babes
My boss then gives to manager in my department and simply writes on the report "add to the notes in the data base"...
Manager now writes on the report.. Kat enter into data base.
I go back to manager to ask "Enter what? All I see is a bunch of writing"...
He replies go ask my boss - so I do.
The 5 statements originally written as FYIs from the ex-president has now turned into a series of checks, cross checks of several records and look ups to enter into the data base!!! :angry:
I HATE MICRO-MANAGING AND PEOPLE WHO CAN'T DO ANYTHING FOR THEMSELVES!!
kids dad wanted to know the other night why my youngest was on facebook at 11 and not in bed for school... he IM'ed her through facebook asking 'why is mom letting you stay up so late?'...her comment was that 'I was yelling at her to get to bed'...he comments, 'I thought she lost her voice?!' she replies with, 'she did!'.... hense why she isn't in bed because mom isn't scary with no voice! uuuuhhhhhh!