You know you’re geeky when you’ve podcasted your baby’s first heartbeats…. Anyway, we’re also putting a quick link here so that you can listen to it if you want.  Kinda cool how fast the heart beats.  Right now the baby is about an inch long and is growing fast.  It’s head is way bigger than its body and it’s lost it’s little “tail.“ Most of the aspects of the baby’s physical structure such as head, arms, legs and torso are in place now. 

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What kind of a society are we living in when you can’t get top notch, five-star rated dinners at McDonalds?

The city of Maricopa has it’s own forum (http://www.85239.com/FORUM/).  Kinda cool actually.  It’s the only city I’ve ever known to have their own forum where residents can pretty much chit-chat, or lash out at others….whatever you want.  And they have all kinds of threads—something for everyone to weigh in on.  It’s beyond me, though, how some people are so ignorant when they post on these threads.  I guess ignorant is the only word I could come up with to describe their misinformed simple minds. 

There is a thread on McDonalds here in Maricopa and it just seems like the people have nothing good to say about it.  Let me preface this entry by saying IT’S FAST FOOOOOD!  Well, they’re angry because of the service they get.  A person with a screenname of “pissedparent” wrote this:

The McDonalds in Copa is really pisseing me off lately. They make me sit in the drive thru for 15 or 20 minutes and then they still get my order wrong. I am really going to compain. They are really nice there, but one link in the chain needs to be fixed. And dropping alomst $25 for a meal is bs for bad food and slow service.

 
Oh, the HORROR! *gasp*  Firstly, you didn’t wait 20 mins…. you waited 5 mins you impatient jackass.  Secondly, go home and cook a simple f***ing hamburger if McDonald’s 5 star Chefs can’t get your order right.  I mean come on, that’s why they hire Culinary Institute seasoned Chefs and not teenagers right?  Stupid!  A couple weeks ago, literally the same type of complaint from someone else. The service and quality you get while dining or carryout at McDonalds restaurants is IMPLIED.  There shouldn’t be a question or any expectation of great quality food/service here.  The same can be said for ANY fast food chain.  Some of you may remember a post on my other blog about McDonald’s food lasting forever.  The author actually said that “[a] McDonald’s [hamburger] fills an empty space in your belly. It does nothing to nourish the cell, it is not a nutritious food.“

In closing I should say, that in my opinion fast food should be kind of a stopgap when you can’t sit down and eat a good meal…  Take last weekend for instance.  I woke up, and was driving to paintball.  I knew I needed energy but didn’t have time to make a breakfast.  So I drive to Jack in the crack and order the healthiest thing I could find: their Bruschetta Chicken Ciabatta Sandwich.  Very good btw… actually looks like the commercials and tastes great. I just have this suspicion these are the same type of folks who are never happy… they are pretty much pissed about any type of service they receive.  I’m sorry am I out of line here???

I had to move our site back to the old server…God that other hosting provider’s sysadmin’s suck!!  Anyone have any experience with them?  They’re located at http://www.profusehost.net. Our email has been down for 5 days.  Now I’ve noticed I can’t even FTP into the site any longer and their back-end control panel is down.  So until they get that back up and running I won’t be back… in fact their effectiveness in fixing what would appear to be a simple email issue on the server has given me concern for any future deals with them.  I’m not so sure that I’ll ever go back to them.  In the mean time it’s been fun getting our new phones working with the moblogs.  Especially since the LG Dare has a “Blogs” feature on the phone.  You can put in email addresses and send content to your favorite social sites.  That couldn’t work better with our site.  I simply added our phones as an approved sender and now using the blogs feature we can send pics/video/blog entries to our site.  It’s damn awesome!

I figured it’s time to post our progress on our home.  So I renamed the gallery of “landscaping our yard” to “home improvement.“  The theater room has remained stagnate because the remaining items are big item purchases that we’ll have to save up for; ie projector and seating.  We painted the bar area a deep red and hung globe lights.  Since this part of the house feels seperated it was a perfect idea to make that the “fun” part of the house… a place where people can relax—like a small little retreat from the main part of the house.  Of course the bar needs more work and pictures hung on the walls but it’s a start!

The rest of the pics just kinda show how we’ve decorated since the last pictures of us barely getting paint on the walls.  Hope you like!  You can check it out in the home improvement gallery by clicking here.

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