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From the “Making a Withdrawal” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “Making a Withdrawal” Dept:

After celebrating Nicholas' birthday at Tupelo Honey in the Village District, we ducked through the drive-through at the Chick Fil-A just down the way to redeem our free bird courtesy of another Carolina Hurricanes win! This location is one of the more unusual designs I've ever seen. The building itself looks normal enough but it's the drive through queue that has this weird look like the building was previously a bank. Here we go! 2031…

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11 May 2022
From “Just When You Thought the D850 Couldn’t Get Cooler…” Dept:
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From “Just When You Thought the D850 Couldn’t Get Cooler…” Dept:

I've had the D850 for a year now and finally got to play with a feature I knew the camera had but had never used...the WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity. Up to this point, I hadn't needed to mess with that built-in networking functionality because the workflow to get the images off the camera's memory card always started with loading the pictures into Lightroom using a card reader. It's so fast loading directly off the card…

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08 May 2022
From the “It’s Not Where You Start But Where You Finish That Matters!” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “It’s Not Where You Start But Where You Finish That Matters!” Dept:

It's certainly been a heck of a birthday and even as tempest-tossed as it felt at various points, I'm thoroughly happy to be able to finally relax and let the day end far more peacefully than it had started. Mind you, the first part of the day was truly lovely...it was quite the treat to have all three of the kids stay over last night and be here in the morning to give me the…

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06 May 2022
From the “Best Birthday Gift Ever!” Dept:
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From the “Best Birthday Gift Ever!” Dept:

On 06 Jan 2022, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt what memory was going to be at the heart of the birthday message I'd be writing today. Like many things in this world we live in that dredge up memories we'd thought long forgotten, the inspiration for this story comes from something that would lead to an unspeakable tragedy for a friend who has seen and endured so much these past few years…

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06 May 2022
From the “Lord’s Bird, Part Deux” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “Lord’s Bird, Part Deux” Dept:

Katie and I visit the Garner store on Timber Drive at US-70 to redeem our free sandwiches from the Hurricanes win in Game 2. I'd already visited Chick Fil-A with Julia earlier in the day but this excursion is after school and a trip to Sam's to get some materials for tacos that Katie had requested for dinner this evening. I know, I know...tacos on Cinco de Mayo. Gringo move! But she asked for them…

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05 May 2022
From the “It’s A Chick Fil-Audit, Kind Of” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “It’s A Chick Fil-Audit, Kind Of” Dept:

Julia was my co-pilot for this trip through the queues at White Oak for her free Lord's Bird thanks to the Hurricanes taking a 2-nil lead in their series with the Boston Bruins. I'll have a more standard Chick Fil-Audit for later in the day but now it's a quick trip to redeem her free sandwich and then get her back home so she can rest. 1136 - Mobile order placed via the app for…

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05 May 2022
From the “Next Stop, The Twilight Zone!” Dept:
Harrowing Tales of Customer Service

From the “Next Stop, The Twilight Zone!” Dept:

First game of the playoffs is in the books between the Hurricanes and Bruins and it's a 5-1 win for the good guys and time to go grab that Lord's Bird! Katie had some homework and Alex was training on the track so I figured I'd take a shot at redeeming the reward at the Knightdale store which is not usually my favourite in terms of time or quality. Will I make it through the…

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03 May 2022
From the “Hammond! You Blithering Idiot!” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Hammond! You Blithering Idiot!” Dept:

Today's bit of misfortune isn't quite to the level of Hamster binning a Rimac Concept One off the side of the mountain during a hill climb competition but given where this Ford Explorer ended up, one has to imagine that the wreck was still rather impressive. They appeared to go straight into the crossing light pole from the opposite side of the intersection of New Hope Road and Rogers Lane. My guess was that someone…

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03 May 2022
From the “Internet Scumbags Are Getting Much Better” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Internet Scumbags Are Getting Much Better” Dept:

I was going to start off today's writing session with the latest Chick Fil-Audit but this story goes straight to the head of the queue. It looks like the hoary old NIH scam is making the rounds again, this time with a twist of COVID-19 and exploiting Facebook's lovely cross-app messaging feature with a fake Instagram profile. Mind you, that profile looked pretty convincing with the image as long as you didn't actually click on…

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01 May 2022
From the “Won’t Be Seeing Those Prices Anytime Soon!” Dept:
Doing the News

From the “Won’t Be Seeing Those Prices Anytime Soon!” Dept:

In this era of horrible inflation (*cough* PRICE GOUGING *cough*) when it comes to petrol prices, I have to say it was kind of neat seeing these classic beauties rolling down the road when prices weren't quite so insane. Mind you, 1973 was no picnic with the OPEC oil embargo and the resulting queues at the petrol stations and rationing of available fuel but those seem idyllic times compared to today's insanity at the pumps!…

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30 Apr 2022
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