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As a few of you know, my family loves Holiday World. HW is an amusement park in the southern part of our state. This year they put in a new steel roller coaster called "The Thunderbird." It is incredible. The ride is so smooth its like you are sitting still and the world is moving around you. The coaster is launched, so no slow clanky-clanky-clanky up a hill, you stay at a pretty steady speed throughout the ride. It's a short ride, but sooo much fun. I'm not even a big roller coaster fan and I liked this a lot. Wooden roller coasters leave me feeling like I was in a boxing match and not doing real well, but the steel is smoooth. I ended up riding twice, once on the left wing and once on the right. My wife rode and liked it. My son rode and it was too much for him. I was proud of him for trying, very brave of him at 9, but it was not his thing at all. I'm pretty well bushed after nearly 3 hour drive each way and 7 hours in the park, but I'll put pictures up in a bit. Suffice it to say everyone had a great time, ate good food, and we got to visit our favorite Santa.
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A guy on another forum said he took the money he normally spent on cigs and put it in a jar for a year. At the 1st smoke free anniversary he bought something he'd lusted after for years as a reward for himself, a particular S&W revolver. Sounded like good motivation to me.
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There are a metric butt ton of options. It's very difficult to choose who to do business with. It seems like the cycle is: 1) Start with a quality product. 2) Build name recognition. 3) Get a backlog of work. Choose your own adventure! Path A: Become an egotistical asshole who thinks you are doing a favor for the customer to take their money. The Artist. Path B: Become scattered and disorganized, creating snarls for your customers and further increasing wait times as you are a skilled tradesman but horrid businessman. The Craftsman. Path C: Cheap out. Use cheaper materials, move to labor saving steps that result in inferior products, do less hand boning, etc and ride on your name. The Laurel rester. Path D: Run an efficient business and keep making a quality product. The Unicorn. I'm in talks with someone I hope is a unicorn. I've contacted two Craftsman and can't get them to take my money. One has a 6 month backlog. The other is sending very few holsters to the US (American currently living abroad). I just dealt with a combination of A+B who took my money but didn't send what I'd asked for. A friend of mine has 3 used custom holsters made for a S&W that is nearly the same dimensions as the Ruger I'm trying to buy for. So close that mass produced holsters are for either/or. The amount of hand boning may matter. I'm going to try and get with him next week and see if any of them fit. If not, I'll give my new Unicorn a try.
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I got an email that the refund was being applied to my credit card, and they didn't try to dick me on shipping charges. Who knows if it was because it was the right thing to do or because they knew they'd lose with a credit card dispute.
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Needs more racism. Otherwise, spot on.
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I read nearly anything as far as setting goes. I've read some of Asimov's stuff years ago, and more recently Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead in the Sci Fi realm.
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Yup, that's what took me from "I'll just keep what I got and remember this treatment when it comes time to order another" into "I'm done with you, refund my order or I'll dispute it with the credit card." I'm waiting to see if they try to withhold the shipping charge.
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About 20% though the first one, and I'm enjoying it.
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Beat me to it. Fantastic work!
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It's a small operation. I'm finding out the world of custom leather is full of assholes and egos.
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That's funny. I don't expect entry level retail to know their ass from a muddy hole in the ground. It's on me to tell them what I want. In this case, I spoke with them on the phone, ordered a specific item, and did not get it. It's like ordering a red shirt and getting a blue shirt. Both shirts, just not what you ordered.
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That's what I asked them to do, other than I was willing to drop the item off at the post office. That's when I got this response: A copy of the order was emailed to you when you placed a phone order with XXXXX. Our mistake should have been rectified at that time. I have apologized for our error and have offered to process a second...
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So I order a custom item for one of my firearms. I get it and its not what I ordered. The finish is the plain and not the upgraded one I'd asked for. The company acknowledges they sent me the wrong thing and here's what follows: Them: We'll make you a new one, charge you the full difference between what you got and what you ordered, and send you a return label. Me: That seems like a bother for me. I have to make time to go return your item and receive no compensation for my time or bother to correct this issue. I think it would be more fair to due the upgrade at no charge. Them: We sent you an invoice. You should have corrected it then. This is the best we're going to do. Me: So its my fault you sent me the wrong item? I should have corrected YOUR error before YOU shipped me the wrong item? Them: (No response.) Me: Forget it. Send me the return label, refund ALL of my money including shipping, or I'll dispute it with the credit card and its up to you to get your items back. Them: Here's a return label. The amount in dispute? $30. They'd rather put the burden on me with no compensation, blame me for their mistake, and then burn a customer relationship instead of even offering to go half on a $30 difference. Absolutely ridiculous.
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Ok, ok, I ordered it on Kindle. I finally finished the "Thinking Fast and Slow" book. That's a great book and the information is well worth the read...but its not a terribly fast paced book and is about 75% textbook in feeling. Fascinating but dry, I suppose. I can use a fun read after that. Then back into behavioral economics.
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I'm going to guess the bumper is the same. The horizontal things across the front and the back to reduce or eliminate damage in crashes. They used to commonly be chromed steel but are more likely plastic of some type today. Fenders are the body panels over your front tires. Quarter panels are the same thing but over your back tires. Since you probably call them "flib-jimmies" or something equally Monty Python-esque, the doo-dads that let you in and out are "doors".
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Fender. Got it.
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Well, everything is paid for. I just picked up travel insurance today and that was the last thing I needed to buy. Here we gooooo! (Well, in October.)
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We booked an apartment through airbnb for $504 for the week. It's a small attic apartment but has a nice terrace and everything we need. We like having a kitchen so we can eat breakfast and the occasional lunch in our own place. My wife will boil eggs and we'll have an Arabic style breakfast. Boiled egg, cheese, and bread...maybe hummus. It beats having to eat out every meal and leaves us more cash for nice dinners out.
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Your what now?
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I'm sure. I've been there before, but my son has never seen it. It is really cool. We're going in the fall to coincide with my son's Fall Break.
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Flight booked, just waiting on Expedia to confirm with the airlines before we book our apartment in Barcelona. 1 week in Jordan, 6 days in Barcelona, then home. Won't be going until later in the year, but we're excited.
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Ah. I was considering a liquor store as a possibility. Uber, glad its getting sorted for you. Just remember "regression to mean." The shittier any given time period is, the more likely the next time period will be better.
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I think I've translated most of that to English - American. WTF is a "bottle bank?"
