Morning meme!
It's Monday, and before the coherent posting begins, I must post a meme!
2005-06-13
Fear and loathing at Safeway
Last night, after finishing my shift as a register monkey, my wife and I headed to our local Safeway supermarket for a weekly shopping trip. It was about 2030 when we arrived. We got our groceries quickly enough, and went to pay.
There were huge line at the three open registers. We found the shortest and got in it. The only signage over the register was a large handicapped symbol, indicating that the line was disabled-accesaable. Nothing else. We stood there for about ten minutes and the cashier slowly rang out a customer. By now, the lines for all the registers were insane. At that point, the cashier looked up and announced that his line was 15 items or less. Since when? No sign, and we had wasted a lot of time waiting for this register! And when you have that kind of line (and no one with a small basket in sight) you open up everything.
Grumbling, we moved to another line, and I just before I went to track down a manager, another lady came back to where we were waiting and told us that the manager wasn't going to open anymore registers, and that the first aisle was "supposed" to be Express, but the sign had been moved.
Eventually, they managed to find another cashier, and we got out of there, but that was the fourth or fifth bad experience we've had at that Safeway. I'm writing a letter to the store manager explaining why we are taking our business to Albertsons from now on.
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There were huge line at the three open registers. We found the shortest and got in it. The only signage over the register was a large handicapped symbol, indicating that the line was disabled-accesaable. Nothing else. We stood there for about ten minutes and the cashier slowly rang out a customer. By now, the lines for all the registers were insane. At that point, the cashier looked up and announced that his line was 15 items or less. Since when? No sign, and we had wasted a lot of time waiting for this register! And when you have that kind of line (and no one with a small basket in sight) you open up everything.
Grumbling, we moved to another line, and I just before I went to track down a manager, another lady came back to where we were waiting and told us that the manager wasn't going to open anymore registers, and that the first aisle was "supposed" to be Express, but the sign had been moved.
Eventually, they managed to find another cashier, and we got out of there, but that was the fourth or fifth bad experience we've had at that Safeway. I'm writing a letter to the store manager explaining why we are taking our business to Albertsons from now on.
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A question for y'all...
Anybody have an old copy of SimEarth and/or SimCity 2000/3000 they don't want anymore? I've been jonesing for my Sim fix.
Getting back on the painting horse...
At the party Kirsten went to Saturday, she got a box of WH40K pieces from one of the party goers.. vehicles, scenery, some really nice stuff. Since my issues with tremors have vanished, I'm in a mood to get back into painting figs.
I've always enjoyed Warhammer's Space Marines. I like the idea of monastic warriors who are actually part of their armor. I've even written a slightly less dark and gloomy setting based on the WH40K universe featuring the beginnings of a rebellion against Church and Regency.
So, what I'd need to do is buy a complete set of paints and brushes, along with a Space Marine Tactical Squad and a couple of specialty figures for variety. To do the vehicles and scenery I'd need to invest in an airbrush.
All this requires either getting a better job or winning the lottery.
I've always enjoyed Warhammer's Space Marines. I like the idea of monastic warriors who are actually part of their armor. I've even written a slightly less dark and gloomy setting based on the WH40K universe featuring the beginnings of a rebellion against Church and Regency.
So, what I'd need to do is buy a complete set of paints and brushes, along with a Space Marine Tactical Squad and a couple of specialty figures for variety. To do the vehicles and scenery I'd need to invest in an airbrush.
All this requires either getting a better job or winning the lottery.
Southern California juries are morons.
Michael Jackson walks.
Robert Blake walks.
OJ walks.
Are you idiots capable of understanding that being famous is not a defense?
Robert Blake walks.
OJ walks.
Are you idiots capable of understanding that being famous is not a defense?
Well, it's a start.
Got a few hundred words down, good ones, on the planet I'm currently designing. But between the Michael Jackson idiocy and it being 96 degrees, my brain has melted.
Try again tomorrow.
Try again tomorrow.
OH, give me a break!
Creating a Christian flag for God and country
Inspiration: With publicity from 'The 700 Club,' the designer of a religious and patriotic banner prepares for a busy Flag Day.
Evidently, the First Amendment and the Treaty of Tripoli don't exist in her world.
So, when your flag-selling scheme gets knocked out by a thunderstorm (traditionally the provence of God in the Bible) it's Satan. Maybe he's upset at her violation of Exodus 20:4
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
( Here it is. )
Inspiration: With publicity from 'The 700 Club,' the designer of a religious and patriotic banner prepares for a busy Flag Day.
COLORA - Marcia Thompson Eldreth sees in the United States a Christian nation, inspired by Scripture and dedicated to propositions conveyed in biblical prophesy. She asks: Why not a U.S. national Christian flag?
"Our nation was based on Judeo-Christian principles," Eldreth said. "Blessed is the country whose God is Lord."
She was sitting in her Cecil County kitchen here the other day, sharing the story of how she came to design and arrange for manufacturing and selling a national Christian flag that since last year has gained national attention on The 700 Club, a religious news magazine television show hosted by, among others, the Rev. Pat Robertson. The taped segment is scheduled to appear on the program for a second time Tuesday, Flag Day.
Eldreth figures this year's show will again inspire a rush of orders for the flag, which shows an American bald eagle in flight, holding in its beak a quote from the New Testament, in its talons a bloody crucifix.
Evidently, the First Amendment and the Treaty of Tripoli don't exist in her world.
She figures on setting up a makeshift call center in the living room and kitchen, just as she did last Flag Day. What a day that was.
Phones were ringing steadily on six lines, Eldreth said, when a thunderstorm rolled in over the house.
"I turned on the prayer and worship music because it started to feel like a spiritual attack," Eldreth said. She recalled stepping to the front door in time to see lightning strike a utility pole across the road: "I saw a ball of blue fire come off that telephone pole."
The bolt knocked out the phones until the next morning. Eldreth understood it as a sign.
"I took it as spiritual warfare," Eldreth said. "I grinned when the fire come off the pole." She said she thought, "Thanks for the affirmation, Satan."
So, when your flag-selling scheme gets knocked out by a thunderstorm (traditionally the provence of God in the Bible) it's Satan. Maybe he's upset at her violation of Exodus 20:4
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."
( Here it is. )