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Not a peeve, just a full out WTF. We've been going round and round the past week with Wayfair. My wife decided she would like an electric fireplace after visiting family over Thanksgiving. She found what she wanted on Wayfair. OK, the price was reasonable, it's Christmas, let's do. She ordered a combination TV stand and fireplace. Two boxes were delivered around December 6. One contained the TV cabinet the other a fireplace insert. We put the cabinet together, the fireplace insert was two big. That started a whole chain of calls and texts to Wayfare. Pictures included to show the boxes and the problem. OK they shipped a second box, this was supposed to be the correct stand. Nope, its another insert, the same size as the one they sent before. Wayfare is blaming it on the manufacturer. Meanwhile I'm trying to get clarification on whether or not we need to return something since they are giving us mixed symbols. I forgot to add, I broke down the box that contained the stand, trying to be helpful, and get it ready for the recycling center. We spent the morning taking apart the stand and taping together the box that evidently they now either do or do not want depending on who we get on the phone. The stand and both inserts are now sitting in the garage either waiting to be returned or put on the next neighborhood yard sale.There is another delivery coming at an undetermined time with either a new stand or a third insert. Meanwhile the TV is sitting on the floor, waiting for someone to attach it to the wall tomorrow morning.....

Gadsden left no record of why he chose the rattlesnake, although it was already established in his home city of Charleston as a symbol of defense and vigilance. One patriot there called it a “noble and useful” animal, and it was drawn there and elsewhere on militia flags and drums. Benjamin Franklin made the snake an icon of America in his 1754 cartoon “Join, or Die,” depicting the colonies as severed segments of a serpent. This illustration was much reproduced in the years since and is elaborated upon by Franklin in the Pennsylvania Journal on Dec. 27, 1775: ”She has no eye-lids. She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders…The Rattle-Snake is solitary, and associates with her kind only when it is necessary for their preservation. “Tis curious and amazing to observe how distinct and independent of each other the rattles of this animal are, and yet how firmly they are united together, so as never to be separated but by breaking them to pieces. “The power of fascination attributed to her, by a generous construction, may be understood to mean, that those who consider the liberty and blessings which America affords, and once come over to her, never afterwards leave her, but spend their lives with her.”

December 20 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-20

My parents were members of a Moose lodge in their later years. They got into ballroom dancing and joined to go to dances. I also have a friend who works at Mooseheart, the residential school for children of Members of the Moose who's family is unable to care for them

They have lodges in Mt Clemens and St Claire Shores....

I get it. Just memories of a horrific crash in Richmond, Va in 1974 where the traffic copter lost it's rotary tail and crashed into a home killing the pilot, reporter and a young child in the home.

December 19 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-19

Interestingly enough the height aspect never really bothered me even though I'm nervous on ladders. I was a traffic reporter. The chopper pilots were veterans, the airplane guys were basically kids working to collect enough hours to get a better aviation job. We had a couple of :"incidents" that in hindsight give me pause (declaring an emergency into the old Navy Airfield north of Chicago to avoid a thunderstorm). A about a year or so ago wife and I took a trip to Las Vegas. The trip included a helicopter trip to the north side of the Grand Canyon, basically tribal territory. I enjoyed it tremendously. We landed in an area near the Canyon, and had a chance to go walk on the Glass Bridge over the Canyon. That was a bit nervy at first, looking at that big drop below (We were safe, but the illusion was interesting. Back to the flying experience. Chicago does an Air Show every Summer on the Lakefront. One year some promotion person had the bright idea to have the "Air 78 Squadron" do a flyby down the lakefront. I'm not sure how they managed to actually get that passed the FAA. They did make us fly single file only along the route (3 Cessnas and a twin engine plane from the flight crew). During this I was supposed to "chat" with the radio station anchors doing the radio "play by play" Anyway we're heading down over Lake Michigan at about 500 feet and I'm describing whai I'm seeing. One of the producers tells my wife who was managing the broadcast "he sounds good" Her reply, "he's ****less"

I spent about 6 of our 10 years in Chicago in the back seat of a Cessna 172, 6 hours a day, 5 days a week. Filled in occasionally for the guy who was the "passenger" in the Jet Ranger. Not sure which was worse, cold weather or wind gusts over Lake Shore Drive. What really scared me was flying directly thru O'Hare airspace (over the tower) when I had chopper duty. Easy work, but in hindsight 25 years later not one of my favorite experiences,

Nothing there but smoke and mirrors. Another Trump scam. TDS...Trump Delusion Systems

When your "economists" fail 4th grade math. That would be an 87% price reduction.

Sounds like a great way to celebrate the Nation's 250th founding. Replaying the Hunger Games

What's the difference between Dr OZ and the Wizard of OZ The Wizard eventually admitted he was a fraud

Reportedly NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle, his wife and son were qmong those on the plane

Just robbing Peter to payoff Paul. The way Trump has always been doing business

The Skyway prices alone are reasons not to venture there. Even for a Bears game if they actually build a stadium.

Just another reason to skip DC in the near future

Basically, I've been hearing the same old Bears song for about 35 years at least. They have the old race track in Arlington Heights. Either build it there or sell the property. The song and dance of pro teams getting the cities to build there infrastructure has got to go. Build it or sell the team

The Bears were threatening to move to Gary back in the 90s. They have basically run out of places to threaten to move. I think the only remaining option is Batavia or next to Fermi