Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Free Food This Week

Jamba Juice
Deal: Buy any smoothie, and get another one of equal or lesser value for free.
Date: Today through April 25

Starbucks
Deal: Free cup of coffee for any customer that brings in a reusable travel mug.
Date: April 15

Jack in the Box
Deal: Free small order of fries
Date: April 16
Location: At participating restaurants. Offer not valid in Spokane, WA; Tulsa, OK.

Chick-fil-A
Deal: Free snacks all week long
Monday - 3-piece Chick-n-strips
Tuesday - Small waffle potato fries
Wednesday - Yogurt parfait
Thursday - Chicken nuggets
Friday - Fudge nut brownie
Date: Today until April 16
Location: Varies.

Looking ahead...

Jamba Juice
Deal: Feel Good Specials
Monday - Protein and fiber rich Ideal Meals for $3
Tuesday - Buy Two Tuesday (special pairing offer)
Wednesday - Steel cut oatmeal for $2
Thursday - All baked goods $1 off with drink purchase
Friday - 16 oz. All Fruit Smoothies for $3
Date: April 25 - May 31

Baskin-Robbins
Deal: 31 cent scoop night
Date: April 28 from 5pm - 10pm

Duct Tape is my Friend

So a few months ago I hear scratching in the walls of my place. I knew exactly what this was because when I was a child living in Riverside, the armpit of the world, we had rats one summer. We set poison and traps and then they died leaving us with their stench in the walls of our house. Finally my parents called the exterminators who took out the dead rats and fumigated for the smell. This time around, the owners set traps and mostly likely poison (stupid) and the rats died ---- in my walls. The stench was unbearable about 2 weeks ago but it's subsided.

Friday night there were about 8 flies in my place. With my handy rolled up magazine, I killed them all, but then, more flies. In all told, I killed 27 flies Friday night. Saturday morning, there was even more! I felt like I should be finding some chopsticks a la Karate Kid style.

Saturday night, while walking through my hallway, I heard a buzzing and looked up to see my hallway lamp filled with buzzing flies. At least 50 buzzing around and another 10-20 dead on the bottom. Yes, there was a huge freak out on my part. I didn't know what to do and thought about spraying with raid and then thought that I didn't want to smell that either.

Duct tape is my friend. Armed with a fresh roll, I taped up the lamp, the crack between lamp and ceiling, smoke dector, mirror in bathroom that often has termites escaping out and anything else I could find that even remotely had an opening to the walls.

By Sunday night, the rain and cold came. Monday morning when someone came to look at my Lord of the Flies, there was 40+ dead flies and no flying ones in the lamp. Gross is not adequate. YEESH. YUCK. DISGUSTING... there's more but you get it.

The plan is to cut the ceiling out and fumigate and then replace the lamp/ceiling back.

This is not Ethiopia but it felt like it and I've been there.

All told, I killed 62 flies this weekend. Not my idea of fun in the city.

Here's some more fun:

Slashfood review the new KFC death burger/thingy:
http://www.slashfood.com/2010/04/12/kfc-double-down-sandwich-taste-test/

Gross Factor Foods from around the world
http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_Foods/Photos/Slideshow_Gross_Factor_Photos

How to win a hot dog eating contest:
http://health.msn.com/health-topics/video.aspx?vid=1b7ca9c6-2f7c-468d-9e0a-ff9e864a527d

I love you Tina Fey --- Brownie Husband from SNL
http://eater.com/archives/2010/04/11/brownie-husband-with-tina-fey-on-saturday-night-live.php

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Been a long time

Some random cool stuff --
Amazing flash sites:
http://www.flashmoto.com/blog/flash-news/the-most-fascinating-flash-websites-youve-ever-seen/

It's not what you think but it sure is cool:
http://www.youtube.com/nissancanada

That's all for now. Just working through life.