…well, only unofficially; I picked up a nice little item for Jane at Safeway, down the row, and they didn’t deactivate it; I put it in my purse, and went into Walmart to pick up Jane at the optometry area; and the darned thing went off. Fortunately I do not tend to meltdowns, so I handed the guard the item, said receipt’s in the car, and surprised the daylights out of the person by actually coming back with the receipt. They probably didn’t expect to see me again…
Hey, I worked the register in the ‘gifts and flowers’ department at GEX where the nicest-looking ladies would switch tags on the merchandise and try to convince you a huge silk rose with bud and leaves was 49 cents. And if you maintained the price was switched they’d try to maintain the law said you had to sell it as marked. Standing guard over fast-moving merchandise is a really stressful job, worse than cafeteria monitor. So I didn’t take any offense at all.
I now have all the pie fixings. And am feeling much better.
It’s your honest face. Little do they know…. 😉
Heh.
Sounds like the time I was stopped by the police while walking my dog at 10:00 at night. (something you don’t want to do in the day in Vegas!) It seems someone had tried to break into a house just prior to my arrival and the police thought I had done it! Believe me, my dog was happy the police didn’t slam me onto the hood. They’d have had to taze the poor dog!
Once when I was a kid I was accused of shoplifting a packet of rubber bands – for hair. I had been comparing two kinds to decide which would snarl my hair the least and carefully put back the reject. What got me was the attitude after I had explained AND turned my purse and pockets out. They were grumpy to say the least, and refused to admit any mistake. Needless to say no one in my family ever darkened the doors of that shop again.
There are very few things, including insults, that a good pie cannot fix.
I’ve been jonesing for a Filipino dish called pinakbet; it’s a vegetable stew with flavoring added from shrimp paste or fish sauce and a small piece of fatty pork. The types of vegetables are pretty flexible, and you can go vegan by substituting Japanese shoyu for the fish sauce and omitting the pork, if that sort of thing gives you the pip. Most recipes use onions, but I’m reasonably sure you can leave those out as desired. Other things I’ve seen called for are garlic, wing beans, long green beans, kabocha squash, tomatoes, okra, and bitter melon. Cut them up into medium sized chunks and simmer slowly in a pot until tender. I think it would even make a good crockpot dish, with the weather cooling and all. Use your pumpkin after Halloween!
BTW, go light on the bitter melon; it can be intensely bitter if you aren’t familiar with it!
oooh, look at this! http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/20/youngest-planet-ever-found-lkca15b
looks like a certain system the Pride of Chanur once hid in, only thing is, I can’t just remember the name of it, dammit!
That would be [i]Urtur[/i]. I re-read that series only last month so it’s fresh in my mind 🙂
W00t! I actually remembered it! Full of dust and played billy-oh with ship hulls, asa I recall…
I love the moment when Py shows it to Tully – like a fried egg, CJ says ….
Urtur, the “fried egg” of Compact Space.
yes, Urtur … an early morning senior moment … 😀
People go on about “oldies” not being able to remember things, but what they don’t take into account is that by the time someone reaches that “certain age” they have accumulated quite a sizable database, and it only stands to reason that the larger the database the longer it’s going to take you to come up with the particular datum you’re looking for.
Yeah, it takes longer for the right synapse sequences to trip. And then you’re pulling up twenty-year-old data that’s relevant (you hope!) to whatever you’re actually doing.
When I was managing a craft/art dept of (unnamed) a Walmart wannabee, the worst days were the senior discount days. It always amazed me how sweet little old ladies would buy something like fabric or art supplies and then feel that gave them a dispensation to take items like needles , pins. It got so bad I had to put extra staff on. One of the many reasons I left the wonderful world of retailing.
I had a calculator that set off an alarm in a very up scale little shop. I was perfectly willing to figure out what it was. They started checking and found that in addition to mine some of their employees little calculators would set alarms off, when on. I suggested that with summer coming they should recalibrate their detectors as their very chi-chi clientele might not appreciate being accused of shop lifting. 😀
Gosh, hanging out with all these fast people, my reputation will be sullied. Why, they even have dirty star systems! It is scandalous. Scandalous, I tell you!
Heheh.
There’s word out that amazon is dropping the .mobi format in favor of HTML5.
This does not mean an end of .mobi or .prc, imho, but I think the longterm trend will be toward fewer, not more, formats. And I think amazon was not finding Europe jumping on the bandwagon.
If you search HTML5, it does give you kind of an overview on the differences between HTLM4 and 5.