On a walk with the dogs, I noticed that Palmetto Paws and The Good Dog Bakery have joined forces to open up a new location in the James Island Center at the corner of Folly and Maybank (the little strip mall where the Piggly Wiggly, J’Paulz and Barberitos is located). The store is located underneath the big yellow NEXTEL sign, so presumably it’s taken over the spot of a former NEXTEL store.
GDB is a perennial favourite with the dogs whenever we’re at the Farmer’s Market with all kinds of tasty treats and snazzy bandannas for the dogs. Their new location puts it a nice walking distance from us, so now the dogs can get a nice little snack and catch a break before heading back. Palmetto Paws always has great doggie stuff and is always a fun place to go with the dogs.
Now if only that sidewalk along Maybank was a little wider…
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Coinage haul -> satellite radio
While the haul from my little box of coins wasn’t nearly as big as Mike’s, I did manage to net about $120, which was about twice what I was expecting. Taking a cue from Mike, I also decided to take the dough in the form of an Amazon.com gift certificate from the Coinstar machine. Getting all that change counted took me about 15 minutes or so feeding it through the little slot. I can’t imagine how long it took Mike to get his haul counted.
With the dough and a couple more Amazon.com gift certificates received courtesy of my sister, we got the wife a pink Pioneer Inno XM radio receiver. Just waiting for it to arrive now.
Mystery callers
The home phone still gets a lot of telemarketing calls, mostly from the phone company and the credit card companies we deal with. On the caller ID they usually show up as a toll free number without any name associated with it. We hardly ever answer the home phone anymore anyway.
Today I thought I’d run a few of the numbers through Google to see what came up. Stumbled on a very interesting site, whocalled.us, that tracks all kinds of numbers that people submit, and allows people to comment on the numbers. The top of the web page says
The phone is ringing, and I don’t recognize the number,
All Caller ID says is, “NAME UNAVAILABLE”.
Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want
The home page has a list of phone numbers ranked by the number of calls, number of comments and the states that were called most. You just enter the phone number and up comes a list of dates that people reported a call from that number. Usually one of the comments will provide a clue as to who the caller might have been. There’s also a Google Map showing where calls were reported from.
Kind of an interesting site, but there’s no indication of who’s behind it or any other ‘About Us’/’About this’ type of information.
IOP sunset
Institute of Psychiatry IOP, not Isle of Palms IOP
Caught this view on the way to the car a couple of weeks ago. Turned out a little different than I thought it would.