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Self-Checkout

I saw a post on Anandtech and I answered with this story. ..

I like the self-checkout since you only have to check out yourself not anyone else.
If you consider time saved depending on the regular lines versus checking yourself out that may be incentive enough.

Of course there are times like yesterday when my wife strolled into Albertson’s at a quarter till 7:00. She merrily went to shopping for the few quick items we needed to pickup for a meeting at 7:00, but when she goes to check out. The lines are outrageously long down the aisles and around the corner. . . What happened? . . .

(Well about 5 months ago Albertson’s decided to save some money) They installed 8 used self cashier stations they moved from the D/FW area. . . (The welcome screens had local info to the DFW metroplex untill a few weeks later) But yesterday something happened. . . guess what the self check out lanes called in sick! ha ha, well something technical happened and they were all broken at the same time. . . Genius. . .Well Albertson’s now had 2 cashiers to deal with an regular evening rush when they would have 6 to 8 cashiers before the automated checkouts were installed (sorry human cashiers) I guess they were moved to other positions or lost their jobs. . .

Long Story Short, my wife walked out without any of the snacks for the meeting our group had to go hungry last night and Albertson’s lost $10 to $15 sale. .. not much, but that was just us.

Our local Wal Mart’s don’t seem to function under this same assumption (Albertson’s Management used). . . I think all 16 of the Wal Mart Self Checking stations could be broken and they would still have plenty of cashiers. . . but they just opened 2 more SuperCenter’s so maybe that’s helped alleviate the rush of customers. . .

C

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Connections

It’s interesting how connections work. . .

like I was browsing brazospointe.com cause Greg, was Misty’s youth minister in Texas and he officiated at our wedding . . . from their I linked to www.picksblog.blogspot.com and www.stunz.blogspot.com which are Greg’s blog and Tommy Stunz a man I’ve never met. . . but since Misty is my wife and Greg was her Youth minister, here I am writing about and reading someone’s blog I never met. . . and you know what it was good. . .

“Sometimes this feels like a narcissistic pursuit. Who in the world would want to read anything I write, especially when it’s about me or what I think.”

Okay I know this is simplistic, but ditto . . .

later,
C

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Totally Stolen Movie Questionaire!

(This is My #1 spammed Post) I think it has to do with my title. . .
😉 But good old Word Press allows comment moderation so no spam posted just deleted before it ever sees the light of the digital world wide web. . . ;))

How many have you seen? If it’s over 70, you’re a cinema JUNKIE.
Copy and repaste if you want.

(1) Pirates of the Caribbean
() Boondock Saints
() The Mexican
() Fight Club
() Starsky and Hutch
(2) Neverending Story
(3) Blazing Saddles
(4) Airplane
(5) The Princess Bride
() Young Frankenstien
() AnchorMan
() Napoleon Dynamite
() Saw
() White Noise
(6) White Oleander
(7) Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
() Jason X
() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
() Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() American Pie
() American Pie 2
() American Wedding
() Harry Potter
() Harry Potter 2
() Harry Potter 3
() Resident Evil I
() Resident Evil 2
(8) The Wedding Singer
(9) The Wedding Planner
() Little Black Book
() The Village
() Donnie Darko
(11) Lilo & Stitch
(12) Finding Nemo
(13) Finding Neverland
() 13 Ghosts
(14) Signs
(15) The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
() White Chicks
() Butterfly Effect
(16) Thirteen going on 30
() I Robot
() Dodgeball
() Universal Soldier
() A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came A Spider
(17) Deep Impact
() KingPin
(18) Never Been Kissed
(19) Meet The Parents
(20) Meet the Fockers….
() Eight Crazy Nights
(21) A Cinderella Story
(22) The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
() Dumb & Dumber
() Dumb & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Halloween
() The Ring
() The Ring 2
() Harold & Kumar (white castle)
() Practical Magic
(23) Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
() Hellboy
() Secret Window
(24) I Am Sam
(25) The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards
(26) The Day After Tomorrow
() Child’s Play
() Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() Gothika
(27) Nightmare on Elm Street
(28) Sixteen Candles
(29) Bad Boys
(30) Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Seven (SE7EN)
(31) Oceans Eleven
() Oceans Twelve
() Identity
() Lone Star State of Mind
() Bedazzled
(32) Predator I
(33) Predator II
(34) Independence Day
(35) Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
(36) Christine
(37) ET
(38) Children of the Corn
(39) My Boss’ Daughter
(40) Maid in Manhattan
() Frailty
() Best Bet
(41) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She’s All That
(42) Calendar Girls
() Sideways
(43) Mars Attacks
() Event Horizon
(44) Ever After
(45) Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
(46) X-men 1
(47) X-men 2
() Jeepers Creepers….
() Jeepers Creepers 2
(48) Catch Me If You Can
() The Others
(49) Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
() Swimfan
(50) Miracle
() Old School
(51) Ray
(52) The Notebook
() K-Pax
(53) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(54) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(55) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(56) A Walk to Remember
() Boogeyman
(57) Hitch
() Back Door Sluts 9
() The Fifth Element
(58) Star Wars episode I The Phantom Menace
() Star Wars episode II Attack of The Clones
(59) Star Wars episode III Revenge of The Sith
(60) Star Wars episode IV A New Hope
(61) Star Wars episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(62) Star Wars episode VI Return of The Jedi…
() Troop Beverly Hills
() Swimming with Sharks
() Air Force One ‘Get off my plane!”
(63) For Richer or Poorer
() Trainspotting
() People under the stairs
() Blue Velvet
(64) Sound of music
(65) Parent Trap (old or new)
(66) The Burbs
(67) The Terminator
() Empire Records
() SLC Punk
(68) Meet Joe Black
() Wild girls
() A Clockwork Orange
() The Order
(69) Spiderman
(70) Spiderman 2
() Amelie
() Mean Girls
(71) Shrek
(72) Shrek 2
(73) The Incredibles
() Collateral
(74) The Fast & The Furious
() 2 Fast 2 Furious
( ) Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow
() Closer
(75) Titanic
() Saved
() Bowling For Columbine
() Farenheit 9/11
(76) The Sixth Sense
(77) Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(78) Love actually
() Shutter
() Ella Enchanted
(79) Princess diaries 1
(80) Princess diaries 2
() Constantine
() Million Dollar Baby
() Envy
() Eurotrip
() Malibu’s Most wanted
() Big Daddy
() Black Sheep
(81) The Breakfast Club
(82) West Side Story
(83) A Christmas Story
(84) Spanglish
() Pulp Fiction
() Sleepover
() The Evil Dead
() Killer Klowns From Outer Space
() The Seed of Chucky
() Vanilla Sky
(85) Nightmare Before Christmas
(86) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
(87) Interview With The Vampire
() The Crow
() Purple Rain
() Reservoir Dogs
(88) Wayne’s World
() Wayne’s World 2
() 21 Grams
() Blow
(89) Edward Scissorhands
() Clerks
(90) Beauty And The Beast
() Guess Who
() Monster In-law
() ELF
(91) Stuart Little
() Stuart Little 2
() Mall Rats
() Chasing Amy
(92) Chasing Liberty
() Dogma
() Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
(93) Beetlejuice
(94) Last Samurai
() The Amityville Horror
(95) The Aviator
(96) Romeo and Juliet
() Beauty Shop
() Legally Blonde
() Legally Blonde 2
() The Forgotten
() Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen
() The Grudge
() Wimbledon
() Bring It On
() Bring It On Again
() Flight of the Phoenix
() Johnsons Family Vaction
() Vegas Vacation
() Thirteen
(97) 2001: A Space Oddessy
() Dr. Strangelove How I Came to Love the Bomb
(98) indiana jones and the temple of doom
(99) indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark
(100) indiana jones and the last crusade
(101) animal house
(102) happy gilmore
() once upon at time in mexico

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Monday –

Blah. . .

It’s such a non descript word. . . but after the last week it is exactly how I feel. . .

Perhaps it will get better.

C

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New Site – My Blog

Hello ,

I know it’s not Xanga. . . but I was getting tired of the nag ware and stuff. . . not that I won’t dupe my posts on Xanga I probably will for a while, but I’m going to be dupeing them to Xanga not from Xanga. . .

Zechariah 11:12-13 (So cool plugin called Scripturizer) click it then it brings up Bible Gateway with the verse.

12 Then I said to them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep [them].” So they weighed my wages, 30 pieces of silver. (J)

13 “Throw it to the potter,” [d] the LORD said to me—this magnificent price I was valued by them. So I took the 30 pieces of silver and threw it into the house of the LORD, to the potter. (HCSB)

Compare this to Matthew 27:3-10

Wow . . there God goes again. . . predicting exactly something that wouldn’t take place for nearly 500 years . . .what an amazing God we serve, one who holds eternity in the palm of His hand and still cares enough to know exactly how many hairs are on our head. . .
Luke 12:7

Later
C