Yesterday I went to Les Schwab in Rancho Cordova, CA to get two new tires. The guy asked me if I knew what siping was. I said no. He explained that siping creates additional cuts in the tires to give them more surface area. More surface area means better traction on wet surfaces and cooler tires when it’s hot. I thought, cool, my new tires were going to come with these additional cuts. (They damn well better because they cost me $219.33 each, their top brand Toyo. Probably another sales tactic push. I should have asked to see other tire options. Totally my own fault.)

BULLSHIT! It’s an after market service where the shop, not the manufacturer, does a Ginsu on the tires. The manner in which it was explained to me wasn’t clearly stated that it was OPTIONAL. I thought it was a feature of these very expensive tires. I ended up with not 2 siping charges, but 4 of them because they also siped my existing tires, thereby voiding any warranty on them! Total price, $58.

So, what’s my point? I’m pissed off that it was not clearly stated that it was an optional service. I’m pissed off that I was not specifically asked the question, “Now that you know what siping is, do you want us to sipe both your new and existing tires?” Please reiterate to your sales people how important it is for the customer NOT to find surprise charges on the invoice AFTER the work has been completed. I’m just sayin’.

IF THE MANUFACTURER THOUGHT SIPING WAS A GOOD IDEA TO IMPROVE TIRE PERFORMANCE, THEY WOULD ALREADY BE DOING IT TO THEIR TIRES!

This is no different than some pimple-faced geek over-clocking the CPU chip on his computer.

One other complaint, now that I think of it, they never went over the labor charge with me prior to doing any work. I was charged $140.25 for labor for mounting 2 tires. Are you fucking kidding me? I already paid for the siping, spin balance and alignment so what’s that $140 labor charge for? Tool charge? Shop rental? Or maybe the horrible singing from one of the techs out in the shop? That was real professional, by the way. The more I think about this, the more pissed off I get.

I called and spoke to the manager. He straight up told me that siping alters the structure of the tire to give it more traction. I just have to repeat myself here, but when you alter the tire, it voids the manufacturers warranty and you mofo’s did it on my existing tires! I could spit blood. The Attorney General’s office should investigate this.

Click here to read more Les Schwab siping complaints.

P.S. Other than getting siped in the ass, I’m not sure what was left to be pleased about. They could have offered free wi-fi. If they had it, they never indicated it. The chairs in the waiting room were comfortable and had awesome lumbar support. Little did I  know at the time that was going to be a good thing. Something soft to sit in for the ass raping I was about to get for over $600 and all I wanted was 2 damn tires. The waiting area was clean, newspapers to read, but the magazine selection sucked. All macho guy stuff. There was one old June 2011 issue of People magazine… Kim Kardashian got engaged. We all know how that ended.

Every time a new Apple product comes out seems there’s always an update to a problem that follows.  The iPhones have had their share of problems like the brushed aluminum on the case interfering with the antenna.  Now with the new phone, some people are having a problem with battery life.  Apple pushed out a software update to fix it.

This morning I wake up to an email from Amazon and there was a problem with the Steve Jobs Kindle book. The captions to the pictures where not under the pictures, but rather on the next page. Yes, I can attest to that. I thought it was because I have my font set slightly larger and it couldn’t get the caption on the same page. Anyhoo, guess what? Amazon pushed out an update to the Steve Jobs book to fix the problem. ROTFLMMFAO!!!!!!   Art imitating life.  Oh wow.  Oh wow.  Oh wow.

So why can’t Apple push out an update to bring Steve back to life?

Here’s how to turn it off or adjust the settings for it.

In Thunderbird, go to Tools, Options, Advanced, Network & Disk Space.  You can either increase the amount of space or uncheck the checkbox to make it stop altogether.  If you turn it off, then you can manually compact folders from File, Compact Folders.

So, is Charlie Sheen still off the hook?  Haven’t heard much about him.  Do you think Charlie Sheen is crazy?  Click the button to vote.

I have a Netflix Roku and when I don’t feel like a full-length movie, I watch a lot of documentaries.  Here are a few things I picked up today.

1. A momma sea otter blows air into her baby otter’s fir to keep it afloat while she goes hunting.  (At least she says she’s going hunting.  pfft!)  Sea otters have the densest fir of any animal. One square inch has more hairs than an entire human head.  DAMN!
2. California condors can live for 50 years.  That still doesn’t negate the fact that they are butt ugly.

However, one girl in the class immediately started in on how unfair was the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president. The class was taking it in and letting her rant and many jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating, “What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?”

Yep, these are the same kinds of 18-year-olds that are now voting in our elections!

They breed and they walk among US.

The self-appointed Adonis is livin’ large.  Would YOU crawl into bed with this freak?

“We do whatever Charlie wants us to do,” says the 22-year-old Oberlin of the threesome’s sex life. “This is the type of lifestyle I’ve always wanted, and I’m thrilled with it.”

Kenly, 24, says they share a single bed that’s big enough to fit all of them, each taking turns sleeping in the middle of a triple-decker sandwich. Epic-partying Sheen, 45, does keep a second, separate bed (in the same room) just in case someone needs “a place to sleep in peace,” Kenly adds.

Read more here…

“What are you doing?” he asks.

“I’m going to commit a suicide,” she says.

While he did not want to appear insensitive, he didn’t want to miss an opportunity he asked “Well, before you jump, why don’t you give me a kiss?”

So, she does.

After she’s finished, the biker says, “Wow! That was the best kiss I have ever had. That’s a real talent you are wasting.

You could be famous! Why are you committing suicide?”

“My parents don’t like me dressing up like a girl……”

I just logged into Caremark to check my drug prices. I about fell out of my fucking chair.Look at 2006 prices vs. 2007. 2007 is when I started the HSA account. Those muther fuckers were ass raping me.

Diltiazem was almost 6-1/2 times as much.
Lipitor was almost 4 times as much.
Omeprazole was over 5 times as much.

03/02/2007 Omeprazole , 20MG 90 Accepted Mail $112.10
12/27/2006 Omeprazole , 20MG 90 Accepted Mail $20.93
(in 2011, about 42 OTC Walmart Omeprazole is about $20ish)

03/02/2007 Lipitor , 10MG 90 Accepted Mail $191.96
12/28/2006 Lipitor , 10MG 90 Accepted Mail $49.41

03/05/2007 Dilt-cd , 240MG 90 Accepted Mail $120.27
in 2006 Diltiazem was 18.78