Welcome to my second installment for local business reviews in the lovely town of Willmar, Mn (My first was about Dunn Bros). I am generally going to keep these light-weight and overall positive reviews, with the rare exception if I get unusually poor service. Why am I doing these? First and foremost, personal opinion matters in real life as well as the web. I commonly will Google a business to check any sort of reputation before using their services. If the business has a website rich with information, wonderful! I'll eat it up. However, I strongly value the opinion of the mighty individual. Secondly, Google picks up on personal opinion, so I figure I'll help these businesses out by spreading the good word. Without further adieu I present Accessories 4 Trucks.
If you know me, you know I don't own a truck. Instead I own a relatively fruity looking 1997 Dodge Neon. Her name is uoeu. I have owned her for five years, she is a manual tranny and has an undetermined amount of miles. Last February, due to negative 20 degree temperatures, it was quite obvious that my battery was not up to par (one time leaving me at the mercy of a client who was compassionate enough to give me a jump start). Lesson learned! I was officially on the lookout for an Interstate brand battery.
This brought me to Accessories 4 Trucks, who I believe may be the only business in Willmar, Mn to carry Interstate brand. I'm no car person. I know how to change my oil, install a batter and do other minimal maintenance, but not much past that. Because of this I usually feel alienated to the whole automobile scene, whether it's machine shops or car stores. I ask wrong questions and oftenly get the "What the hell are you talking about, get out of here, kid" look. The representative who helped me out at Accessories 4 Trucks was not like this at all. He was very friendly, extremely helpful and filled me in on not only what I needed to know to make a battery purchase, but also a few other details on the battery I was purchasing. I felt like a valued and respected customer.
I didn't really look into what other services they offer, but they seemed to have a lot of other general automobile stuff which expanded outside of the "trucks" part of their name. I'll gladly do business with them again in the future.
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Version 11, people. At least that's what I'm calling it. It's been a good few months since I've revamped the ol' site. I liked my last design, don't get me wrong, but I felt it was time to move onto something a little different. At the moment, quite frankly, the new design feels like a new pair of shoes. I already see things I need to change and tweak. I may swap the orange with the tan color as the orange feels a bit intense to read over long periods of time. Silly me. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
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I’ve been tagged! Here are my 1 word answers to 31 short questions.
1. Where is your cell phone? Desk.
2. Your significant other? Home.
3. Your hair? Long.
4. Your mother? Awesome.
5. Your father? Geek.
6. Your favorite thing? Pumas.
7. Your dream last night? Weird.
8 Your favorite drink? Yukon.
9. Your dream/goal? Farm.
10. The room you’re in? Office.
11. Your hobby? Boardgames.
12. Your fear? Blindness.
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Kids.
14. What you’re not? Worried.
15. Muffins? TASTY!
16. One of your wish list items? Motorcycle.
17. Where you grew up? Willmar.
18. The last thing you did? Mt. Dew.
19. What are you wearing? Khakis.
20. Favorite Gadget? Phone.
21. Your pets? Hate.
22. Your computer? Dell.
23. Your mood? Content.
24. Missing someone? Wifey.
25. Your car? Ueou.
26. Something you’re not wearing? Dress.
27. Favorite store? Spiros.
28. Like someone? Wifey
29. Your favorite color? None.
30. When is the last time you laughed? Recently.
31. Last time you cried? While.
Okay! Jacinda, Josh, Katrina and Cristina, I choose you!
Rules: 1 word answers and you have to tag 4 different bloggers. Go!
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Ahhhh, Summer! I can't believe it's June already. We are half done with 2008! I sometimes feel I take for granted the first half of the year and hope it rushes by for the sake of warm weather. I could almost consider it selfish as God gave me so much time and yet I wish half of the year away in order to have some warm summer months. Let's make them worth it, mmkay?
I mentioned in the previous blog that I had been working on a few raised garden beds. Lo' and behold, we have completed them, dirt, plants and all, ready for the rain and shine! This year our crop so far consists of Tomatoes (four varieties), Bell Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers, Broccoli, Spinach, a variety of Lettuce, Radishes Basil and plenty of assorted herbs!
We have already had a few casualties so far. A few of our tomato plants, grown from the seed, fried the first day we planted them and got progressively worse throughout the first week. We picked out the dead / near dead and planted some store-boughts in their place. We managed to save four out of the eight, however. I guess we were supposed to "warm them up" to the outdoors as they were used to the cushy indoor life. The same thing happened to our Egg Plants... It's a definite, "Life and Learn" experience. I've never had luck starting plants indoors, so if we got four of them to stick around, that's a great accomplishment for me.
I'm also thinking we may have another crop of pears this year. I thought the tree was biannual, but I've seen numerous tiny pears behind the flowers already. Time will tell.
I am hoping to have periodic updates throughout the season of how things are progressing, if not for my own knowlege and understanding of my garden, so I will be more prepared next year!
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WOW! Where have I been for the past month?! I'd like to say that I've been busier beyond belief, but I don't know if that is the case, really. Work has been pretty eventful lately, no doubt about that. It's been really exciting. We've had quite a few sites go up in the last month (of which we are quite proud of. Check out our website for updates in our portfolio that should happen soon). I've also been busy working as a software developer. Lately, I've begin to understand exactly how awesome being a developer really is. It's like a new puzzle everyday of which I get to solve.
Tae Kwon Do has also been a lot of fun. I've been helping teach classes lately, which is a different learning experience in itself. Adult class is a piece of cake to teach, but it's the kids classes that teach you the true meaning of patience. Coming from a large family, I'm pretty well acquainted with interacting with children. These Tae Kwon Do classes, however, really help me to fully grasp the heart of a child. They have so much energy stored up over a long day of school! What better way to release it than to kick a bit? They are all absolutely amazing people.
Home life? Well, I built two raised garden beds and planted a few tomato plants today. That was a lot of fun and I have the sunbrun to prove it. We are current with the television show "The Office", I still have a knack for board games (recently traded gangsters for Cuba), no water is running out of places it shouldn't, the basement is in progress of becoming a game room. My wife, Jacinda, is great, happy, beautiful and amazing (feel free to visit her blog for some fun and informative reading). As I write all this, I am realising exactly how blessed I am. It's all simple things, of course, but aren't the simple things what make life beautiful? It's the lessons we learn in everyday life. It's what makes us who we are.
Sappy sappy. :-) Now that we are in a different season, I am hopefully going to be blogging more. I can't make any promises, however! Have a good one!
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