02 September 2007
MyBlogLog Sunday 23 tomorrow
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This will involve mini reviews numbers 221 to 230, and a mighty fine group you are set to join, if your site is reviewed. From the founder of MyBlogLog, Eric, to new kids with no friends in their community, many online stars have been featured and linked to.
All you have to do is be a MyBlogLog member, and if you visit my site and are caught in the side bar widget on Sunday morning when I take a snapshot, you will be reviewed, like it or not! And if you leave a link to your best post of the week, regardless of being reviewed or not, I will Stumble the post too. How much better can it get? Episode 25 will be good!
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I don't think it is breaking news that getting satisfaction from companies in the construction industry is like finding a tooth in a chicken. They have a slick marketing machine to draw you in, endless ways to upsell and a state of the art billing system. (Read, a sign on their lawn, bullshit stories about how bad your roof is, and a hand-written invoice accompanied by a baseball bat.)
To be fair to the local guys who built our place, they do a decent job and have even been known to honor service agreements and put bad things right - eventually. Unfortunately they decided to branch out into a meeting, greeting and cleaning service for summer rentals on the homes they built less than 7 months ago. We signed up and left for the season. Yesterday we returned and yesterday they joined the list of yet another business demonstrating the malaise that seems to pervade the so-called service-oriented industry.
After 3 months, it seems they did the meeting and greeting part, but as the summer wore on, the cleaning element appears to have got lost in the billing mayhem. (Or was it lost in the translation into Spanish?) I just got back to find half a beach on the carpet, and enough food bits on the furniture to feed a small family. Yummy. Not to mention the stains of doubtful origin on the beds, a clean but broken chair and a puddle in the middle of the garage floor.
That water issue is the most galling, because 7 months ago the builders installed the offending air conditioning pump that looks like it has been leaking for 3 months straight. They built the house and everything in it is still under full warranty. Do they have no sense of responsibility, or pride, or embarrassment at such failures of essential appliances? I know I would have jumped straight on that if I were in their shoes. And did I mention the garage door was open and the front door unlocked, probably since Saturday? Thanks guys.
Oh well, today should be a fun day of clearing up the bureaucratic mess. And assuming they want the rest of their money, the cleaners will surely turn up today too? There I go again, assuming.
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MyBlogLog Sunday 22
As a tip to bloggers: if you call by next Sunday, feel free to leave a link to your best post of the week in the comments. That way, even if you don't end up being captured in the widget when I start blogging, at least you get to spread the word about your blog.
Don't be worried that The Pisstakers aren't in your genre, and somehow a link from this site to your site will be to the detriment of your PR. If you have a neat blog, I will mention it at some stage in the future in an article posted in an appropriate section of the Pisstakers.
Neither will you be seen to be associating with urine lovers!
So endeth the MyBlogLog Sunday posts for this week .
Come back next Sunday to see the next 10 featured bloggers from MyBlogLog.
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A quick trip through articles from Ed in the last 48 hours. There are more in the right sidebar, and even more if you hit Browse at the end of any article.
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If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.
If you have written about any of these topics, let me know so I can link to you.
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Beefburger eater makes history at the tower of London
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The Tower of London's genuine Yeoman warders date back to 1485 and their nickname Beefeaters is thought to derive from the daily ration of meat they received.Yesterday the first 400lb yeoman was inducted at the Tower of London visitor center and crowned Royal Beefburger Eater.
Phillip A. Smalltown topped a shortlist of 5 men who applied for the job via a contest Weightiest tourist to climb the stairs to the Crown Jewels. He is now entitled to take a £20,000 a year post at the Tower, giving special tours to heavy visitors. He will wear a special uniform so that visitors don't confuse him with traditional Beefeaters.
Phillip said it was a "great privilege" to accept the job and would agree to work and live at the historic Tower. He posed for the cameras in an adaptation of the famous blue and scarlet uniform worn by the traditional Beefeaters at the Tower since 1485. He said the red and yellow converted marquee with traditional golden arches above the E11R sponsored by MacDonalds insignia was a thing of beauty and he would wear it with pride.
Mr Smalltown started training for this position way back in 1999. Weighing in at a spritely 114lbs, he first joined the military and signed a commitment to eat 3 beef burgers a day plus assorted calory-laden bi-products for a minimum of 9 years. In 2008 he can apply for a further commission to extend his obese tour of duty, or retire with a sizable pension in the form of fast food vouchers. Should he chose to sign up for a further 9 years and maintains his weight, he will also be immortalised as a MacDonald doll.
While posing for a barrage of cameras, he admitted to carrying a tupperware container with spare burgers, just in case he was struck with severe hunger pangs in between meals. "Thank goodness for the wonderful big pockets in this new uniform. Now I don't have to look so desperate with an emergency food napsack on my back."
He described the Tower as magical, saying It's just a wonderful job and I'm very very lucky to have it. You wake up in the morning and you know you are going to have a fulfilling day.
Crown jewels
Mr Smalltown has spent 2 months undergoing intensive training to learn the different duties expected of a Beefburger Eater. He will help out visitors who are lost, and also advise young people what they need to do, in terms of diet, to end up looking like him. As a matter of full disclosure, he has to display his medical charts on his back, so visitors following him up to the Crown jewels can read all about his insulin levels, cholesterol count and advanced coronary disease symptoms. "I am here to educate," he beamed with pride over lunch.
As well as a salary, he will also have subsidised meals at any fast food joint in London. "To overcome any criticisms that Queen Elizabeth has sold out to MacDonalds, she sold out to them all."
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