Pawprints From Space

Okay. I watched the debate wherein "the boys" presumably "ganged up on" poor little Hillary. Not the way I saw it go down at all. Ms. Clinton and her hubby had been bashing Mr. Obama for some time prior to and to a lessor degree during the debate. Mr. Edwards simply came to Mr. Obama's defense. How is defending someone suddenly "ganging up on" the original offender? Once again, thanks to the media spin (and I'm not anti-media I used to work in the media) has made this exchange all about something it wasn't. The "boys" weren't ganging up on the "girl" to "pick on her" or some other lame schoolyard comparison. Ms. Clinton's camp had been out of line and she got called on it. End of story. But now the media is telling anyone who will listen (i.e. women voters) that the "boys" don't want a "girl" in their clubhouse so they are "picking on her". The reasoning being that if women...

Happy New Year (for those who don't speak Japanese and I only barely do)! My resolution? To blog more often. Today's rant: Home Depot and the Ceiling Fan Two years ago I bought a ceiling fan with light kit for the kitchen. It was a Hampton Bay which I have since learned is a company that Home Depot owns. Well just after Christmas the glass shade fell to the floor and shattered. So we'll just get a new one right? Wrong! The store doesn't carry them, the Hampton Bay AND Home Depot web sites do not have them. No lighting store in town has them. Lowe's and Menard's do not have shades that size (of course it is an odd size). Customer service at Home Depot took weeks to reply, asked for the UPC etc. which I gave them and then referred me to someone else. Found a shade online from another company but it has been two weeks now and nothing. Called. It is on backorder with no expected date of delivery posted. I am not buying a new fan - it as too much trouble to get this ...