Home Despot

Since I've been dealing with Home Despot lately I've decided to repost what happened to me several years ago.




My trip to Home Depot where multiplication isn't their thing.

Well I went to Home Depot on the night of 3-17-04 looking for materials to make shelving with my mom. And things were going well; I found a good parking spot close to the entrance.
I walked in, went to the lumber section and found the wood I was looking for.
I got 5 pieces of board 16? x 42? x ?? board for 4 dollars a board. Plus some wood to hold up the boards 12 pieces of 16? and 4 pieces of 24? long wood at 80 cents a foot.
I even met Oscar who nice enough to cut all my lumber to the size I specified. Plus he even wrote down on a little piece of paper all the wood lengths for the person at the register.
I also met a very helpful guy that helped me get dry wall anchors, 2? screws and a level.

Now up to this point things are going swimmingly well and the only hurdle left is the register. Of course this is where all my problems start.
So I get to the register I hand the girl there (Catherine?s her name) the level which she scans. No problem.
I hand her the screws, dry wall anchors and some other small items. Still cool at this point.
Now we get to the wood. She looks at the boards rummages around for the UPC code and finds it. Ok still good.
Now here is where things get interesting. The small pieces of wood seem to baffle the register girl.

Before moving along just to clarify things. This wood costs 80 cents per foot. I have 12 pieces of wood that are 16? long and 4 pieces of wood that are 26? long and the measurements and quantities conveniently written down by Oscar to help facilitate the person at the register. Ya?ll with me? Good.

Ok so at this point Catherine starts to get agitated. She seems to be having a problem trying to figure out how much she should be charging me.
She looks at me and asks me who cut this wood for her? Oscar I tell her. She then grabs the phone and pages for Oscar. Oscar calls her and she has a short conversation with him.
At this point I just know that I?m in for at least a 10 min wait.
I look behind me and see this poor guy in line. I?m like better find another line this is going to take a while.
So I turn back and Catherine is now complaining to herself about how the person who cut the lumber should have put down how many feet of wood I am getting. Since of course the wood is sold by the foot.
Catherine is now thoroughly frustrated with this weighty problem. She can?t seem to figure out how many feet of wood is in my shopping cart. Even though Oscar wrote everything down for her. Giving up she starts to look for help and calls over a supervisor.

At this point I?m beginning to get annoyed and start stroking my beard. But I keep the faith and hope that the person coming will solve my wood issue.
Unfortunately Kelly didn?t seem to have a clue either about how to find out how many feet of wood I should be charged for.

Finally I?ve had enough and I ask Catherine what?s the problem. She starts to complain about how Oscar didn?t write down how many feet of wood I should be charged for.
So I look at the paper Oscar gave me and I say ?What do you mean? The answer to your question is right here. You just have to do a little math to figure it out.?
BLINK BLINK
?Oh that?s too complicated?, says Catherine .
?No it?s not.?, I say.
?Yeah it is. It?s too complicated to figure out.?, says Catherine .
Ok so now I?m started to get agitated myself.
So I give Catherine the Greg Sherwood look that says, are you really that stupid?
?What do you mean it?s too complicated to figure out? This is third grade math here.? I say rather loudly.
Now both Catherine and Kelly look at me. And I don?t give a fuck what they think I just want to go home already.
So I ask Kelly for a calculator and Catherine for the paper from Oscar. I then begin to show them how you figure this out with a calculator.
I?m like. Ok we got 12 pieces of wood that are 16? long that?s 192 inches. And we have 4 pieces of wood that are 26? long that?s 104 inches. Now we take 192 and 104 and add them giving us a total of 296 inches. Now we take that amount and divide it by 12 why? Well because there are 12 inches in a foot. Giving us a total of 24.67 feet. So you need to charge me for 25 feet of wood.
So problem now solved in less than a minute I might add Catherine starts ringing me up.
My mom looks at me and says, ?Are you sure you did that right??
And I say ?Sure I did mom, this is like 3rd grade math it isn?t complicated at all.?
So with that we pay and get out of there. But not before I get Catherine and Kelly?s name for this story.

end of week function for the previous week

I needed a PHP function that would give the date for the end of the week for the previous week.
Here's what i came up with.

function endofweek(){

$thisdate = date('Y-m-d');
$dayofweek = date('w', strtotime($thisdate));
$sunday = date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-$dayofweek days"));
return $sunday;

}

Leave a comment if you find this useful. :)

Do not ever go to wendy's on biscayne and 79th street in miami

Holy crap does this wendy's suck the big one.

normally I'm very fond of wendy's restaurants. however this wendy's was horrible.
it took about 10 minutes for them to help each customer. each!
and there was this one lady that asked for coffee and kept on getting the same nasty ass coffee that was sitting there for like the past 5 hours.
apparently that's a flaw with wendy's don't ever buy coffee there unless you absolutely sure it's fresh. that and for some reason they mix their coffee and tea sometimes and you get cofftea. pretty nasty shit.

so in any case stay away from wendy's on 79th and biscayne. lousy service and horrific coffee.

Crappy service

Well looks like this weekend service in miami was crappy as usual.

I went with my girlfriend to have breakfast at the Latin American cafeteria on Lejune road by hialeah hospital in hialeah.
The people were nice there and the food was good however a few things sucked. Don't ever order the orange juice there. They use a juicer that smashes the oranges and the oranges aren't peeled so you get to taste the rind and it totally ruins the taste of the OJ.
I also ordered my eggs with american cheese and of course I got swiss cheese in my eggs instead. It wasn't what I wanted but it tasted pretty good so I didn't send my eggs back. Also tell them to go easy on the butter when they do your cuban toast or tell them to toast your toast some more.

And also later that night I ate at the Pollo Tropical on Lejune and 36th street.
Very crappy service. I ordered a chicken tropichop & fries. The guy at the register got my order all wrong.
I asked for a tropichop with white rice and they gave me just white rice.
then i told them i wanted what was in the picture up on the board and they proceeded to add black beans. I told them uhhh... just like the picture up on the board.
they got that right but then they forgot my fries. so i just stood there looking at the chick that gave me my food and she was confused as to why i was still there. I told her you forgot my fries she gave them to me and then I asked for ketchup. OMG! she told me she didn't have any. I had to ask the manager that was right there for some ketchup. got it and left.
:(

Naaachoo!!!!!!!!!!

I saw Nacho Libre today.
Jack Black is definately one of those guys with alot of talent and no idea of where to focus it.
As expected the movie was stupidly funny.
Check it out when you get a chance.

Websafe colors

I made a script that will display websafe colors. rather than running around and looking for a color chart i made my own.

$values = array('00','33','66','99','cc','ff');

$endval = "6";
$endval2 = $endval - 1;
for($a=0;$a<$endval;$a++){
echo "<table width=\"900\"><tr>";
for($b=0;$b<$endval;$b++){

for($c=0;$c<$endval;$c++){
$bgcolor = $values[$a].$values[$b].$values[$c];

echo "<td bgcolor=\"". $bgcolor ."\">".$values[$a].$values[$b].$values[$c]."</td>";
if($c == "$endval2"){
echo "</tr>\n<tr>";

}
}
}

echo "</tr></table>\n";
}

Link cleaning

I was working on some of our sites today.
http://www.anythingboats.com/
http://www.anythingrvs.com/
http://www.anythingmotorcycles.com/
http://www.anythingplanes.com/

I was cleaning out some of the crappy sites that put links on our link pages.
I'm reading that linking to spammy sites might not be the best thing to do.
and I removed people that signed up to the forums just for the links to their websites.
alot of russians seem to be looking for places to put their links.