Ice Cream and Thanksgiving

I received a coupon yesterday for some free ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery. I hadn't been to one since I left Iowa. I now know that there is one in Franlin, TN and one in Brentwood, TN.

I also went to Cracker Barrel yesterday for Thanksgiving. I was surprised that they even included the price of a Coke in with the meal as well as the pie. Overall, the meal was very good. We ended up taking about half of it home.

Tires

My husband and I just got our front tires replace on both of our vehicles. I'm hopefully going to be driving back to Iowa in a few weeks to visit with family and friends. I didn't want to change hitting a snow storm with bad tires!

The man at the tire store showed me how to tell when my tires need to be replaced. There is a raised notch inside the inside of the main tread of the tire. When the space between top of the notch and the edge of the tire is a around 4 mm it is getting close to need replacing.

I don't drive a Subaru, but the tire guy said that in all wheel drive Subarus if a person replaces two of the tires and doesn't get the same tread design on the front and back tires that it will void the warranty because the all wheel drive in a Subaru is sensitive enough to be thrown all out of whack by the lack of consistency in all four tires.

Interview

I recently had a face to face job interview in which I was asked one question before I was told that I wasn't qualified and the interview was over. The whole thing lasted less than three minutes. Before the interview I had gone back and forth with this company in 6 emails to discuss the time of the interview and location. The interviewer could have put the particular job requirement in the email or in the job description that he was looking for but did not do so.

With the economy being what it is, I assumed that companies are being picky. I wasn't sure they would be quite that picky, however.

The moral of the story: I'm not taking much for granted these days.