Pete & Jay's Tip O Da "Day"

When riding the bus, take care in getting on the correct bus and NEVER EVER take two wrong buses or it may take you a really LONG time to get home like the poor lady from southern Thailand, who found her way back home at 25 years. -JCo

When the weather outside is frightful or there's a chance of snow or it rained some the night before...If there is any slight possibility of getting off work/school for a snow day, make sure you check more than one news station before you get ready, bundle up, and head out into the elements. It's weird when you get all the way to work and find an empty parking lot. *disclaimer: I'm not complaining. I'm just saying.

A slightly disturbing image illustrating the concepts discussed in this article --!> So you're headed to sunny Florida for a trip, and conveniently, your first flight is late, causing you to miss you connection, and be stranded in not-at-all-sunny Cincinnati, OH in the middle of winter. To add insult to injury, the airline (not to mention any names, but they rhyme with "Bomb Bear") tells you that you'll have to stay in a hotel overnight and that you can't get your checked bags. "Graciously" they provide you with an overnight bag (which is basically a "Delta SkyTeam" t-shirt, and some overly-scented lotion). So, this becomes a two-part tip. First, if you cannot resist the urge to swim in the hotel's pool and hot tub, but don't have a bathing suit, you can easily claim that "you're European" and swim in your dark-colored boxer-briefs. Doesn't work as well with lighter-colored skivvies. But what you'll find out is

Are you sick of going to your mail box just it is just full of credit card offers? Well now there is a simple website and phonenumber you can use to get off their lists, a la the Do Not Call list. The website is: OptOutPrescreen.com or you can just call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT

A cowboy proverb says: "As a horse knows not the height of a rider on his back, so a scuba diver knows not how big he is in scuba gear." The proverb is true, y'all. If you are already a big guy (who likes to insult girls who eat muffins ), adding a large tank, fins, snorkels and other apparatus, you become REALLY big underwater. So when practicing in a confined pool area, don't be "all up in peoples' grills" like you own the place. It's just rude. And annoying.

It is very important to have a good buddy when you are scuba diving!!! What do good buddies look like? First, they remember the numerous acronyms like BWRAF and SORTD. Second, they can read and understand the complicated dive tables . Third, they remember the hand signals. Fourth, they don't try to pull off your mask or fins and protect you from those who will try such shenanigans . Fifth, they have a good understand of personal space. This keeps them from invading your space and from destroying marine life.

It's important in scuba to know a little sign language, obviously, because you can't talk. And they do make underwater tablets that work in water, but if you're with Amanda, she's probably filling it up with quotes for her quote board ! So, you should probably learn the following things to sign prior to scuba diving: I'm out of air I really, really have to pee. Can I pee in my wet suit? Is there a bathroom underwater? Some jacker just took off my face mask; I can't see; and I just realized I'll have no way of watching you respond A shark just ate my fin The fact that the shark just ate my fin is actually the least of my/our worries. Do I look fat in my non-black wetsuit? Also important to note: in scuba diving, the "thumbs up" signal does NOT mean "cool!" "awesome!" or even "all's well!" It actually means "ABORT THE DIVE AND SWIM AS FAST AS YOU CAN TO THE SURFACE!" So, be careful not to get too excited un

When you're clearing your mask for the first time underwater, it's a good idea to be in the shallow end. Then, when you freak out because you breathed in about a half gallon of water through your nose, you can just stand up.

When scuba diving, you'll encounter many an odd-fellow who will awkwardly chide on about how he took an overweight girl on a first date, told her she wasn't allowed to order herself a muffin and only share his because it was $4, then proceed to tell her she needs to go on SlimFast. In such an event, you should keenly follow rule #2 in scuba diving: always dive with a buddy. Why dive with a buddy? According to the PADI diving manual, it promotes safety and fun, but according to me and A-Ger, it also promotes a great way to ward off joke-cracking jackers who will try to steal your mask and fins and invade your personal space. If you're diving using the buddy system (which you may have thought expired after Kindergarten) you'll know to punch people like this in the face at the sign of impending attack.

Not that we actually recommend Cingular/AT&T but if you go to an actual Cingular/AT&T owned stores (not to be confused with Cingular Authorized Resellers) they are quite helpful, and will gladly give you new equipment should it be acting up. Just remember all Cingular phones have a 1 year warranty on them, so just remember to get any problems fixed early enough.

You know all those artificial sweeteners that hog up room in the sugar caddy? Yep those pastel colored packets that taste nasty. This is about the only good use for them:

Have a window with no screen that you want to open. Well check out this awesome expandable screen thing you can stick in there. It fits to however wide your window is:

We all know that there is technically no speed limit on the German Autobahn. However, before driving on it, you need to know that there is a recommended speed limit of 130 kph, or 80 mph. Sure, you won't get pulled over if you exceed that recommended speed, but if you get in an accident traveling faster, you can be held liable. Plus, American cars and tires are not made for speeds faster than 85 mph, so renting a German car (once you have your German drivers license or provisional international license which can be secured from AAA), or getting new tires is recommended.

Or, better known as: "Things 'Garnered' From Watching Alias." If one of your missions sends you to an adult theater in Zurich (and let me stand on my soap box for one second...WHY has the word "adult" become associated with all that is evil, vile and foul?) and you happen to find a human head in a box under a seat, you might want to let a manager know. I mean, they should seriously fire their janitorial staff. To "overlook" a human head in a box is pretty much grounds for instant dismissal. Plus, who would WANT to be a janitor at an adult film theater? I'm sure a human head is only one of many disturbing things that could be found.

If your mailbox is like mine its overflowing with Bed Bath and Beyond coupons. There's also that Linens 'n Things place that sells basically the same stuff, and they have lots of coupons too. The coupons have all sorts of stipulations, just start reading the 10 lines of fine print. But they are so desperate for your business that there is a lot of flexibility built in there too. The expiration dates? Ignore them! The company the coupon is actually for? They accept each others! The coupon is only good for one item? Save up your "expired" coupons and use one for every item in your basket! -Thanks JCo & Renee

Now that you're watching all sorts of TV shows online, the quality is good, but its not quite big enough for you to plop in the most comfortable chair from across the room as your computer. Well Mac users, we've got the fix for that. If you have Mac OS X 10.4.8 and a mouse with a scroll wheel, just hold down the control key and scroll up. This lets you zoom into the screen. Try it now, ain't that pretty cool! If you don't have a scroll wheel or the latest version of Mac OS X you can still zoom in! Just go to your System Preferences (under the Apple menu) and find "Universal Access" There will be an option called "Zoom" make sure that's on. Then you just have to press "Command Option =" to zoom in or "Command Option -" to zoom out! You'll notice the zoom follows the mouse pointer around. So if you're zooming into your TV show, you'll have the mouse pointer stuck right in the middle. Just hit a button on the keyboard

Never use your VCR again! TV stations has finally found a good way to embrace the internet. Most every major network lets you watch full episodes of their most popular shows online. Missed 24 or Prison Break, watch it at Fox's MySpace page . Want to watch Heros, check out NBC Rewind . A CSI or Survivor addict? CBS calls theirs Innertube . And we can't over look the original ABC who started doing this last year . They have Lost, Grey's Anatomy and six others. Count them all together and there are 39 shows with full episodes available free online! You will be subject to at least some commercials. But the other night I watched 24, and only saw 1 minute of commercials total, sure beats the 20 minutes you usually get in an hour of TV programing.

A nice hot, steamy bubble bath can do wonders for anyone, but if you intend to enjoy a book as well, please keep in mind the side effects of a bath is sleepiness and you must be mindful of your book or you may just drop it in the tub as you nod off ever so briefly. -JCo

How smart is your pet? Does he defend your home and on occasion take it to a ridiculous level? Why not test your pet...take him for a walk and return home pause at the front door and ring the doorbell. It is possible your dog will attempt to scare himself away by barking profusely! Good boy! -JCo

If you have a horrible cell phone that only lets you store 125 messages into memory keep on top of it or you may start to receive texts from people 3 days later from when they were sent.

Missed the game yesterday? Well catch the important parts. CBS has all the commercials posted on their website . Warning, their not that funny. Bet let us know in the comments which ones you like the best and hate the most.

Superbowl Sunday is the one time of the year where you'll find non-sports-entusiasts like me and Teresa halfway kinda watching the tube. This is a tip for those of you, who like us, would rather do ANYTHING than spend 4 hours of your life watching football, but find it necessary to at least feign interest because of the social gathering. In fact, at the end of this tip, you'll look like a TRUE, DIE-HARD fan who spends every Sunday and Monday watching football. Here are a few things you should know: Don't refer to the game as a "match" by saying "who's winning the match?" or "that's quite a match we've got going on here." Call it a "game" or a "bout." :-) "Strikes" don't apply in football; only baseball, bowling and the California legal system. Similarly, things like "foul balls," "batters," "dugouts," and "pucks" aren't really often used in this sport. D

Wew, it's Friday again…finally. The weekend is ahead and there are things to do. Maybe you want to go out to eat this weekend, do some home improvement or sign up for phone service. But where should you go, who should you choose? That is the hard part, and that is the newest area Tip O Da Day wants to be helpful. Today we are super proud to introduce the second new spin off site just this week. Pete & Jay proudly present: Tip O Da Day Recommends… It's a place where the Tip O Da Day staff reviews and imparts their findings using our patent pending " Recommended " or " Decommended " scale. This makes it easy to spot which businesses and products worthy of your business and which are worthy of collecting dust. (Ok, so its a shameless plug disguised as a tip, we know, and we're find with that. How else are we going to announce it?)

If you are a pirate, or a horse with only one eye, it is good to keep your hair or other obstructions out of the other (good) eye. So get a hair cut regularly, just like our little height challenged buddy, One Eye Jack here: