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2 days until my DAYTONA BEACH VACATION!!

So me my mom (tinarenee) and my grandma a.k.a nana r goin to the truck races tomorrow, Saturday June 28!!!! It’s a nite race and we go every year. Its at the Memphis Motorsports Speedway. We have a tent and we usually cook out. We bring bandanas, a cooler and those handphone thingy majiggs don’t remember what there called. I have a blast and we have the same seats every the row at the very top of a section so all I have to do is climb backwards over the seat to go pee. /the concessions have the BEST funnel cakes!!!! Last year Jack Spragg won!! He drives or did drive for Conway. (were my dad works) We also got to a bush race in October! Usually the day before my moms birthday. I love goin to the races except for parking!! It takes FOREVER to get out of there I promise u! So next year if u get a chance u should come to one!!!!!!!

On June 7, I had the chance to attend a Vince Neil concert in Newport, AR. Ironically, I was on the last few chapters of The Dirt, so I considered it apropos to tag along with some friends and check it out. (Just noticed on Vince’s site - there is talk of making the book into a feature film!)

The annual music fest is held at Jacksonport State Park, at the water’s edge (White River). Can’t say I’d ever heard of it before, but it seemed a pretty good deal - advance tickets were only $7.

Our spot on the beach was a good distance from the stage so I couldn’t completely see how bad or good years had been to Vince. (I must interject, I was a complete Motley Crue freak back in the day. I have a copy of their EP “Too Fast for Love”. I have fond memories of the “Theatre of Pain” and “Girls, Girls, Girls” tours.)

Crue’s latest tour starts in July, so evidently Vince was touring around here and there, drumming up some interest for it. I was delighted that most of the songs played were Crue - there were a couple of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath tunes tossed in. Since the Music Fest was a family affair, Vince kindly censored himself - no ‘F’ bombs that night.

Backing him up were Dana Strum (bass) and Jeff Blando (guitar) of Slaughter and Zoltan Chaney on drums. That Zoltan was a maniac! The guy was like a flea on speed behind the drum kit!

I was on cloud nine when they played “Don’t Go Away Mad”, which has some personal meaning to me. Working up to the final song, Vince asked the crowd, “How many of you remember this one?!” before the intro licks to “Looks that Kill” blared into the night air. All us old folks stood up with our fists in the air and screamed.

I urge anyone who was/is a Motley Crue fan or is interested in 80’s hair band music to check out “The Dirt’. You’ll be surprised to know that the most *normal* person in the band is Tommy. Nikki has been my love since I first heard “Live Wire”… until I started this book. Love went to hate, then disgust, then pity - by the final pages I had decided to buy his autobiography.

At 37, you’d think I’d be responsible enough to know not to count my chickens before they hatched.

*Sigh* Evidently not.

Hubs and I were looking for our Stimulus Payment on Friday, direct deposited into the bank account -ready to S-P-E-N-D.

*crickets chirping. tumbleweeds blowing across the great emptiness that is our bank account*

I spent approx. 45 minutes on hold to the IRS (Stimulus Payment Hotline 1-866-234-2942). While listening to the nutcracker music over and over, I surfed the net looking for information. Based on the IRS website and other news sources, you will receive your payment as a paper check if:

1. you filed your return through a rapid refund company.
2. you paid for your tax return filing fee with your return $$$ (turbotax).
3. you filed your return after April 15.

Other interesting news included the fact that 15,000 direct deposits went to the wrong bank accounts.

Here’s a new one I haven’t seen listed anywhere else on the net yet.

If you chose to have your 2007 refund amount split between two accounts when direct deposited, you will be getting a paper check. (Sounds a little like Jeff Foxworthy - if you blahblahblah, you might be a redneck getting a paper check.)

The gentleman I spoke to at the IRS was courteous and patient. Although, he wouldn’t have had to talk to me if the IRS had listed this as a reason on their FAQs!

Later… T

Hey, my name is Kayleigh Nicole also known as the person who runs this website’s daughter. I’m sure you have heard of me a couple times. My mom is so awesome and I always read her stuff on here. I’m in band I play the prettiest instrument (flute). I live in Marion, Arkansas(Ar–Kansas ). You probably already know this to but I’m 12 and hating most of it. WARNING : MARION MIDDLE SCHOOL, TOO MUCH DRAMA. My besties and I try to stay away from it!!!!!!! I really can’t think of anything else I will probably write another one some other time I’m just doin this cuz im bored and my mom is takin a bath and of course it is Saturday so my dad is GONE!!!!! He went to Helena to a bike rally. BUH-BYE. Oh and im usually on myspace!!! LOL : P

Normally I pull for the underdog, but there have been many cases where larger companies buying small companies - or two companies merging has worked out well for me. And some that haven’t.

My opinion differs daily regarding my employer. Sometimes it’s great that Jabba the Medical Device Hutt devoured us - both most often I feel like we are treated like step-children. The medical benefits do kick some colossal ass (srsly), but getting stiffed on bonuses because we didn’t meet unattainable quotas was really crappy. Meanwhile, Jabba keeps buying companies. I’m sure I’ll get screwed out of a bonus once again this year. 90% of my daily job woes revolve around the corporate office not responding to our needs in a timely manner because we don’t seem to be important to them.

Suncom AT&T Cingular AT&T Wireless. They haven’t f’ed up my bill too badly. Lately.

XM Radio and Sirius. Believe it or not, we are a split household. I have Sirius, natch. Hubs has XM Radio. I hope the merger works out well for everyone.

Rhapsody and Urge, Yahoo Music everyone else. I have an ax to grind with … someone! Yahoo Music isn’t being supported any longer and who knows WHEN we’ll get the notice that the account has been migrated to Rhapsody. I wouldn’t care except Yahoo Music has been acting strangely and - you guessed it - there IS NO SUPPORT AVAILABLE.

I can’t think of any large legitimate business that doesn’t require drug screening upon hiring, subject to random drug testing afterwards… What is the big deal? I’m truly surprised that NASCAR doesn’t have a more stringent policy. While I joke sometimes that a driver occasionally acts like they are on recreational medication during a race I was really shocked about the whole deal with Hmiel and then Fike. I don’t need to go into the whole “how could you throw away an opportunity like that…” It’s more like “look at how many drivers you could have potentially killed while you were feeling no pain…”

Stupidity boggles the mind.

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What happens when server/site maintenance moves from local to corporate office:

(1) Have program code that you need to test in the development environment (different from “test” environment or production environment)

(2) Have a rather short amount of time to get the testing done (or the sky will surely fall)

(3) Try to sign into the development environment only to be given an error message.

(4) Attempt to DO THE RIGHT THING by submitting a service request to the appropriate department.

(5) Get tossed back and forth, dept to dept. Feel like a hot potato.

(6) Get asked - ‘Why are you testing in dev? You should test in test. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah”

(7) Watch everyone play pass the buck.

(8) Watch your deadline pass you by.

(9) Keep asking for an update only to be met with silence.

(10) Come into work the next Monday and begin sending a deluge of emails - to everyone - and do not stop until you get satisfaction.

(11) Get asked for the 100th time, “Why are you testing in Dev anyway? Shouldn’t you be in Test?”

(12) Some brilliant soul actually LOOKS at the problem and spends all of 3 seconds applying a fix.

(13) Get into the environment, two days late and begin testing.

Ahhhh, the story of my life lately…

I’m watching the NCAA Basketball Championship, in which my alma mater is playing. We are down at half-time so I’m hoping Coach Calipari can help them regroup! So far, the game has kept me on the edge of my seat!

Still trying to get the Scrapbook back online. I have to recopy all of my files to the server in order to access them. Was hoping to get that done tonight but I have to stop while hubs is on the other PC or he starts whining about how slow the internet is.

My web host has new owners - this is a good thing

There’s been a server move and we are still trying to get it all straighted out…

We’ll be back in the groove soon!