 Courtesy Google Images Got an email today from Best Buy. Awhile ago, I signed up for their Rewards Zone program — well before I started my boycott of Best Buy after an experience with crappy customer service awhile back. Today’s email comes a couple weeks in advance of my birthday, titled “A special birthday offer for a valued Reward Zone member.” Oh boy, I thought, maybe a deep discount or something for free! Not so fast… [More »] I just posted the following review on Google Maps, regarding my experience today with Dick & Bert’s Hometown Diner on Main Street in Canastota, NY: [More »]
For example, a one-day lift ticket at Woods Valley in Westernville is $30 this year. They have 3 lifts, so that’s $10 per lift. But at Killington in Vermont, your $79 pass gets you onto 32 lifts, so you’re only paying $2.47 per lift! Check out the rest of my research and see for yourself… [More »]
I live in Madison County. So when I’ve got something coming to me via UPS, it usually goes through their East Syracuse warehouse. But why, does it then go to Rome — passing within minutes of my house en route — only to wind up just as far away from me as it was in East Syracuse? Brown’s wasting a lot of gas, and I have to wait longer to get my stuff!
Came across a USA Today article about a home building company that’s so desperate for sales, they’re starting to offer homes with rooms, fixtures and so on, themed after various Disney characters and movies. Are you kidding me?! In the article, a representative of “KB Homes” says most of their customers “are families with children.” OK, but what happens when those kids grow up? [More »]
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Skiing… perhaps the only thing I like about winter. But boy, is it expensive!! Seems like most of the mediocre ski areas here in Central New York have hiked their lift ticket rates for the season. 
And I hate to pay those rates, when I know the major mountains in the high Adirondacks or Vermont are a much better value for the money. It’s something I’ve always wondered about… and I finally tracked down the numbers to prove myself right. 
As a somewhat picky eater, I think it’s great that Burger King prides itself on letting you “have it your way” and McDonald’s will make items “just for you” if you ask. Rather than holding one or two items from a sandwich, I’m more likely to ask for it “plain with just” one thing, rather than five. But, God forbid I ask them to clear the sandwich, then add an item that’s usually not there! 
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There’s a wonderful website I like to visit once in awhile when I get bored… it’s called 
Rant: Syracuse Airport Parking Rate Increase
According to NewsChannel 9, the ABC affiliate in Syracuse, parking rates at Syracuse Hancock International Airport are set to go up on July 1st. As if airfares themselves aren’t already expensive enough, the wonderful tax-happy government of Syracuse wants to squeeze even more blood from a stone. Let’s compare Syracuse’s rates to two other nearby airports: Rochester and Albany. [More »]