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Folks, check this out! Alan, this one is for you. For those of you who “know” me, you know my love, need, infatuation, etc.. of coffee. I’m a regular at all my local Starbucks coffee houses. I’ve got 3 near my home and 103 near my work (I work downtown and there is one on just about every corner). The other day I was standing in line and the lady ahead of me was holding an empty paper Starbucks cup . Hmmm I thought. When it was her turn to order, she requested a refill. “Sure” the Barista responded, “That will be fifty cents, please”. Apparently refills (same day not sure how they even check that) are 50 cents regardless of size.

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Online stores send out discount codes to SELECT groups of customers, leaving the rest of us to pay full price! To that we say, NO! We find and list ALL of the coupon codes and promotional codes that can be found. If it’s out there, we have it! Be naughty with us by using these codes for added discounts when shopping online.

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Many ask why we don’t list deals and sales for the stores in our database. We choose to focus our attention on codes only, because our mission is to have absolutely the best database on the Internet. If you’re looking for a site with up to the minute deals, bargains and forums, check out DealHunting.com. But if coupon codes or secret discount links are what you are looking for, you’ve come to the right place.

Toilet Paper……….check
Bud Light……….check
Keystone Ice……….check
Budweiser……….check
Red Dog……….check
Misc. other bottles of alcohol……….check 
Piece of plywood to float your old lady, food and booze ….check

I’ve just started using the DNS (directory name service) services from opendns.com. So far so good. For those of you who don’t know what DNS is, it is the way you get around on the Internet. Kind of the same way a letter gets delivered to your house via the postal service. When you type www.erikcurtis.com in to your browser, DNS looks up the “address” of the server(s) that contain the pages/site that you are looking for.

Some of the great perks to using opendns.com is:

• it’s free.
• it’s fast
• it filters out all of the “junk’

The setup was very easy and took about 15 minutes to switch over all of our computers.

After a bunch of heavy lifting and a lot of him’n and haw’n, I have moved from erikcurtis.wordpress.com to www.erikcurtis.com. It may be a while till the dust clears but it’s home.

This google map thing is sucking up all my time. I just can’t let it be.

Well in short, we caved! We were at Petsmart getting dog food and some chew toys for ol’ Megaspot and as fate would have it, they were hosting a kitten/cat adoption event. I knew I was doomed. So the kids played with the kittens for about 30 minutes while Shannon got the dog stuff. These felines should work for a time share sales company, they could sell snow to Eskimo’s. So I say in my firm, fatherly voice “Time to go…” no response   “TIME TO GO”. partial response. So now we’re in the car on the way home and there is this strange silence coming from the back seats. Shannon and I turn around at the same time only to see both kids with the most pitiful look on their faces (picture the pitiful face of Puss’n Boots from Shrek). A little preface, we had talked about getting a cat but never really decided one way or another. We’re home now and the kids are kinda mopping around. I ask Shannon what she thinks. “Well…..I don’t know.What do you think”, she says. I say I’m good with the idea. The next minute I’m on craigslist.com looking for kittens. I found one! The next minute we’re all in the car on our way to pick him up. Say hello to 9 week old Coco-Moo (That’s what Draken on Kim Possible calls chocolate milk).

 The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession:I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a cross, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away. Read the rest of this entry »

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend,Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birthrecords were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.He will be remembered as having cultivated suchvaluable lessons as:Knowing when to come in out of the rain; Why the earlybird gets the worm; Life isn’t always fair; and Maybeit was my fault.Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies(don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliablestrategies (adults, not children, are in charge).His health began to deteriorate rapidly whenwell-intentioned but overbearing regulations were setin place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged withsexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teenssuspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch;and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unrulystudent, only worsened his condition.Common Sense lost ground when parents attackedteachers for doing the job that they themselves hadfailed to do in disciplining their unruly children. Itdeclined even further when schools were required toget parental consent to administer Tylenol, sun lotionor a Band-Aid to a student.Common Sense lost the will to live as the TenCommandments became contraband; churches becamebusinesses; and criminals received better treatmentthan their victims.Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defendyourself from a burglar in your own home and theburglar could sue you for assault.Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after awoman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffeewas hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and waspromptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense waspreceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust; hiswife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; andhis son, Reason.He is survived by his 3 stepbrothers; I Know MyRights, Someone Else Is To Blame, and I’m A Victim.Not many attended his funeral because so few realizedhe was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. 

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