Yesterday, the Morgan hill Times ran a feature article on water safety. While always an excellent reminder, it seemed pretty slim on details, in my opinion. If you’re planning on visiting any body of water this summer may I recommend you look into some Boating Education Online?
A startlingly high number of people are injured or killed each year due to boating accidents. Unfortunately, the vast majority of these accidents were entirely preventable, had the people on board not been drinking. With that in mind, let me share this great little PSA I recently came across-
This is my third entry on the Mervyns on Cochrane Road in Morgan Hill. Neither of the previous posts were very flattering, but things were looking up today, for the most part.
The only problem we had occurred immediately upon our arrival at around 11:30am. The single handicap parking spot was occupied as were the two nearby spots that used to be handicap parking. Cochrane Plaza is a fairly large shopping center, and even the handicap parking spot is roughly 50 yards from Mervyns front door, not to mention it’s another 75 yards or so inside to get to the men’s clothing areawhere my client was shopping. of course, since there is only a single handicap spot and all of the other nearby spots were already occupied we ended up parking more than 100 yards from the frint doors. My client was exhausted from the walk before he even entered the front doors.
However, after we made it over to the men’s clothing area (after taking a 10 minute rest break) we found it to be much cleaner and more well organized than on our last visit. Still not up to corporate standards in any retail store I ever worked, but at least it’s improving. Unlike our previous visits there was actually a cashier ready and waiting at the register when we arrived. Her name was Teri and she was great. Although she offered the current “get a credit card to get a discount” spiel that all employees are required to greet people with she quickly let the matter drop and moved on with our transaction. She was patient with my clientas he struggled to complete his end of the transaction, but always aware of the customer who had lined up behind us, acknowledging her and handling the transaction as quickly and smoothly as possible.
I ran into an old friend while running errands today. It turns out he’s been working as a waiter at a courchevel chalet in Courchevel, France, and occasionally in Meribel, France as well. If you enjoy snow skiing, he tells me, then there’s nothing like skiing the alps. Apparently it’s the ultimate in snow skiing vacations. The only place that even comes close to the French luxury ski chalets is those in St Anton, Austria.
So, why am I talking about luxury skiing holidays in the middle of July, when there’s no snow on the ground? Because apparently these chalets are booking up in their entirety now. If yo have been considering skiing the Alps this winter then you need to call your travel agent immediately. Or, better yet, visit one of our sponsors, SuperTravel.co.uk.
It seems we’re finally getting a little (emphasis on little) relief from high gas prices here in Morgan Hill. The World gas station (Monterey & San Pedro) has finally dropped back down to $4.39 per gallon. I was starting to think they had permanently installed that $4.46 price on their signage
The World station is my favorite gas station in Morgan hill. Not only is it convenient to me, but it frequently has some of the lowest prices and it is a locally owned franchise, unlike its closest competitor: Safeway.
The benefit of buying gasoline at Safeway is that if you buy your groceries there you get a $0.10 per gallon discount every time you spend more than $50 on groceries. The drawbacks at Safeway: long lines and profits being sent off to corporate headquarters in Pleasanton where they fund over-paid executives and wealthy stockholders.
Here’s hoping the trend continues and we keep moving closer to $4.00 gas instead of the $5 gas that was predicted.
Since the government loves crushing the free market by granting monopolies to their pals we only have one choice of a cable provider here in Morgan Hill: Charter internet. And right now they have what looks to be a pretty good offer-
5Mbps downstream
Only $14.9p per month for six months
Plus a $25 gas card when you sign-up online
30-day money back guarantee
I must admit it looks pretty good given the problems with my DSL I mentioned earlier today. However, the offer has some serious flaws-
Their advertisement states, in part, “Get the fastest and most reliable Internet speeds available“, but I currently have 8Mbps downstream with Earthlink, so that’s just misleading.
They don’t mention that their 0.5Mbps upstream is only a quarter of the 2Mbps upstream I receive from my current DSL provider.
The $14.99 per month price is for six months, but nowhere does the offer say what the price is after those six months or how long a contract one must sign in order to receive the offer.
The standard $3/month cable modem leasing fee is not mentioned anywhere in the ad or the “complete offer details” link.
Neither is the standard $50 installation fee.
So, I’m left wondering, just how much am I supposed to be paying? And for how long? Considering Charter’s been in the cable business for a few decades now they’re clearly hiding this information for some reason. And that makes me exceedingly uncomfortable. Why hide the actual contract until I’ve already signed up? Sorry folx, but I’m not biting.
Get some full disclosure and I’ll be happy to take another look.
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