We travel often with our dog, and took a recent 4 Corners Area/SE UT trip with him. Here's the deal with National Parks: I don't think any of them allow pets in undeveloped areas, and the areas being mentioned are pretty much all too hot to leave the dog in the car. The North Rim, for example, has USFS land north of the NPS entrance station, so we could take him anywhere on the forestland, but once we entered the park and at the North Rim we were limited to just one trail and not much of the Rim itself. It was cool enough that we coudl leave him in the car back then, I think the weather now is prohibitive, and they may even restrict that. We didn't even bother going to Zion bc of the pet restrictions on the trails. In some Parks that I really wanted to hit, esp those with cultural attractions, we'd have to switch off who would stay in the car with the dog because of the parks' pet restrictions. In general, national parks/lands are the most restrictive, seems like state parks are less so, municipal even less. So you have to plan accordingly. Lodging wise, as far as chain motels, I think there's more and more chains that allow pets..like I think all La Quintas do. In the desert and the SW, it's definitely do-able to spend most of the time driving and carsightseeing, or taking turns staying with the dog in the car for certain sights. In AZ, I'd advise taking 40 across and escaping the heat. Flagstaff and the area is an awesome town and great for doggies. If you're really attached to sightseeing in Phoenix, or other SW cities, you could try and find temporary lodging for the day in the area, depending on how boardable your dog is.
PS: The above advice depends on the dog too. Our dog is high energy, but as long as we can get him out for 1-2 hours of running or offleash time, he's manageable. With a dog that's prone to carsickness, or hyper, or averse to strangers, can't be left alone in the hotel room (most hotels say you can't anyway, but it's definitely not doable if he'll bark the whole time) etc, the trip wouldn't be as fun, obviously. Plus, we're long time pet owners used to being inconvenienced by our dog, so I'd be up for the trip you're proposing. Just know that events like lunch will look like: go thru drivethrough and eat in the car, or get takeout and picnic at a park in staggering heat, or take turns going in somewhere to eat, etc.
Nicole, that was just the info I needed about traveling with a pet. Our dog is really low energy (he gets a sort of doggie hangover if we do two running/fun days in a row) and loves the absolute hell out of car rides, so that part I am not worried about. I am also not set on going through Phoenix, it just happened to be on the original route I looked at. I guess, knowing the stuff you talked about, all we can do is try to plan ahead as much as possible for pet friendly destinations. I suppose another option would be to ship him through to Alabama to stay with my parents. He is sort of neurotic when I am gone and even worse when both my husband and I are gone. I probably baby him too much but aside from that, I really would like to include him in our trip if at all possible.
You know how when you are trying to call into a radio show to win tickets and the line is busy and you keep trying back in the hopes that you'll catch one of the lines when it isn't busy - well, is a website like that when it comes to ordering tickets online? My kid and I are going to LA in a month and I thought it would be cool to try and get tickets to be in a studio audience for one of the Disney shows. They open up the ordering for a show date 30 days in advance and update the site at 8:30 AM PST. The show date I want is 8/23 (Austin and Ally), but I was curious about how "crowded" the site would be when sooner dates open up. I lurked this morning and sure enough I kept getting the "busy signal" for the ticket ordering page and then finally when things calmed down the show date for Jessie they had just put up sold out within the hour. So I'm curious how it works and if there is any way I could improve my chances when I try next week. For instance, with the phone thing, if you use speed dial you can increase the frequency of tries and have a better chance of hitting one of the lines when it opens. But what would work for the internet? Would having a faster connection speed matter? PS - the site is: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.tvtickets.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.tvtickets.com/</a>
Short answer: yes, it works the same way for websites. The more technically proficient guys could tell you the why, but essentially there are only so many people that can connect to a site at a given time. Unfortunately there's not a whole lot you can do on your end except use the fastest connection you've got, and rope in a couple of other people to try with you. When I want concert tickets that are going to sell out, I get my brother to try as well and whichever of us gets in first orders the tickets then calls the other person to tell them not to bother. One other possibility is that some places will sell you membership to gain access to presales - it's a pricey way of doing things, but it's how I got good UFC tickets, for example.
Anyone who has cut out their cable subscription and can comment on whether this is feasible/financially helpful if you are a sports fan (primarily basketball and football)? It seems like the NFL is a big black hole in current cable-cutting schemes.
NFL - I get CBS, Fox, ABC and NBC over the air, so I get a decent amount of games. I do not get Monday night games on ESPN, or my choice of games if on another network (NFL Redzone or Network). I mean, unless you had the DirectTV NFL package where you could switch to any game at any time you will not notice that much difference, outside of the sports channels themselves. Sometimes the Monday night games are streamed online, and I use my parents Comcast account to access it. TNT has a lot of NBA, so I don't get that at all, other than what airs on ABC. Sports is what I miss most about having cable. I end up at my parents on my in-laws if I want to watch sports a lot.
Re: Re: Can someone help me with this? I can't watch NFL games on regular TV anymore, fucking commercials can suck my dick. If I couldn't afford Redzone I wouldn't watch NFL games.
Hey guys, I'm going to Cairns (Australia) for 4 days in a couple weeks and I'm looking for stuff to do. All I'm really set on doing is going snorkeling, so if anyone has any ideas or wants to meet up for a drink, let me know.
I spend a small fortune on Pelligrino and other assorted sissy foreign sparkling waters. I'm contemplating a SodaStream, but before I drop $100 on one I was curious if anyone has one and, if so, is it worth it?
I have one and while it works as advertised I really wish I would have just did this I am putting together the parts for it now, soda stream refills are 15 bucks a piece, I refuse to pay that anymore.
Plus, a home built carbonation system like that is the foundation for carbonating a keg of homebrew, or creating a tap system. So you really should start making your own beer, instead of sparkling water. Unless your boyfriend likes sparkling water better.
I would make my own beer but it just seems like a shit ton of work, I'd rather just go down to the corner and buy it.
And I quit drinking which is why my liquid consumption consists almost entirely of tea, vast quantities of black coffee, and water. The sparkling aspect of it makes it vaguely more interesting.
Has anyone here gone through any type of online or distance education for a graduate degree? I'm seriously considering getting my masters degree in public health and I'm having trouble deciding what schools to apply to. I don't mean like which actual named schools. But more along the lines of... Since it is an online program does the name of the school matter as much? I would prefer to go to a major university that had an online program rather than just one of those online only schools that cost a bunch. Does the name of the school matter that much for a masters degree?
Any help or direction on the following will be greatly appreciated. Rather than doing a conventional face-to-face interview for a job I'm pursuing, I've been asked to do a case study regarding a hypothetical problem facing "Company A." Company A is an online magazine that sells advertising but is having problems tracking the ads that they've sold, and thus tracking revenue from those ads. They have two types of ad contracts--viewable impression and cost per time. The cost per time part isn't what I'm worried about, because the contracts have a start and end date and revenue is fixed based on the duration of the contract. Viewable impression is different though, and it's where I'm running into a little bit of a hitch because I don't know much at all about web coding. I know there are ways to inject bits of code--similar to "utm=" for campaigns--that will allow tracking software to recognize when the ad has run on the page regardless of whether or not it was clicked (for this instance, revenue is realized when the ad is viewable, not clicked). I'd just like to know which pieces of code to reference and generally how to incorporate them into what was received from the company sending the advertisement before it's placed into the ad server. Salesforce.com is going to be used as the aggregator for all of this data, which will use the ad tracking information provided by those bits of code to establish current and projected revenue based on campaign/opportunity information already entered into the system. I'd like to know if there's a salesforce-specific app or extension that could feed from that tracking data and automatically update revenue. While I will have to show proof of concept in Salesforce during my presentation, I'm not going to be evaluated based on how correct or complete my solution is, but rather how I approached the problem and sought out resources to solve it. I've got a bunch of training materials to go through for Salesforce so I can assemble apps within the program that will do what I need them to from a reporting standpoint, it's the other pieces and that gap between tracking data and salesforce that I could use some help with. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide some tips, please PM me--and thanks in advance.
I find the grocery stores I shop will put Ozarka Sparkling water (1 liter) or Geyer Peak (1.25 liter) on sale and I stock up when they do. They taste the same to me as Pelligrino or Perrier at a fraction of the cost. The Ozarkas usually go on sale for $.50 each and the GP 5/$4. Both come in plain as well as a light fruit taste as though you ordered it with a twist.
I work in construction and about half the people I see on a daily basis only speak Spanish. I'm looking for the best way to learn the language. I have the basics down just from growing up playing soccer with a bunch of Salvadorians. I also spend about two hours a day driving so if any of the recommendations have some type of CD I can listen to or anything that would be helpful as well.
I'm currently interviewing for a new job, and their next step for me is to come up with a fifteen minute webinar where I train them on how to do something on the computer. I'm completely drawing a blank for something that will allow me to effectively show them that I'm able to perform training via webinars. Now, I am completely capable of training, but the time allotment of 15 minutes really narrows down the things I can demonstrate. Any suggestions will be graciously welcomed. Thanks!