www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKXW1zAdmrs

I wonder what other little gems I’ll find tonight.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZY0KufWao

Then there are the u-scan disaster moments. Really I think this could all be solved with a little u-scan etiquette. For example, say your local store has 8 total u-scan machines, 4 for small orders (12 items or less) and 4 for large orders (no limit). All four of the small order u-scans are functioning, while only 3 of 4 large order ones are currently working. Reading that back I realize is sounds like the start of a high school algebra problem, but I digress. Lets say it’s also about 5:30 in the afternoon on a Monday, which means the grocery store is packed with all of us trying to pick up a few things on our way home. Also available for the checkout purposes are 6 open lanes of actual checkers.

I go to wait for a large order scanner, I had about 20/25 things and while I could have snuck thru the small line I’m just not an asshole. In front of me occupying the three working scanners are- at scanner one the woman with TWO FULL SHOPPING CARTS of groceries. Now I KNOW that the scanner says unlimited but for fucks sake really? Not only that but she’s not even going with any type of speed. She literally spent 10 minutes doing nothing but talking to some friend that wandered up to her during her scanathon. At scanner two we have the teen mother her child and what appears to be her mother. they apparently have forgotten several things while shopping so the old mother wanders off several times while they’re at the scanner to get things scattered all around the store, like eggs which are the far back corner, and then bread which is the OTHER far back corner. She then finally gets all her random things, then has to scan her beer which her teen daughter of course can’t touch. then she remembers oh yeah I need smokes so she tracks down the single uscan attendant to walk to the other side of the damn store to get her cigarrettes. I do believe that I would have finished my checkout and then just walked my own happy ass over to the customer service desk to buy them. But again I apparently have common sense and courtesy which other people seem to lack. Finally at scanner three are the young couple who for whatever reason have decided to scan their items in as 3 seperate orders. Which means they scan about 10 items, pay, pull them off the scale, rescan their shopper card, scan 10 more things, pay and repeat.

It was kinda like the moron trifecta.

Then I saw Billy Mayes, the Oxyclean, orange glo, infomercial god selling health insurance. WTF? Apparently this man has the capability to sell everything I may ever need. This is why I skip commercials 98% of the time

So today I am shopping for A1’s birthday present which I bought on overstock.com. I am in one tab buying his stuff, and in another tab logged into facebook. Next thing I know Overstock has somehow magically managed to post in my facebook newsfeed that I just bought x and y from Overstock.com esentially blogging to the world exactly what I just bought from overstock when I bought it and how much it was. That my friends is a little too much for me. I even closed facebook out and logged back in before i removed it from the facebook newsfeed cause for a minute I thought I’d lost my damn mind. Yeah I hadn’t there it was for all the world to see and neither facebook nor overstock had happened to mention in any thing I saw that they were somehow linked up.

After some research using “the google” I learned that overstock uses a facebook beacon. This is from what I’ve read a little code snippet that creates an overstock cookie on my machine when I make a purchase. This cookie then gets picked up by facebook (I think cause I was using the same browser for both) and BAM there is my purchase info suddenly thrown right in to my newsfeed where all of my friends including friends of A1’s could easily read it.

Here are my thoughts- this is fucked up. I love all my friends, I love the facebook but I think it’s pretty damn shady that all of a sudden any of the sites that are partners with Facebook and use their beacon can suddenly automagically pickup and update my profile with things I may not want my friends/co-workers/former co-workers to see. The people in my facebook friends list include former bosses, and lots of former coworkers and while this time is was just a birthday present from overstock and I caught it right away, what if next time it had been a newsfeed that “spinster Emmy just purchased a 17″ double headed pull start gas powered dildo at $49.95 and a ball gag for $14.50 from monkeyfuckers.com” (this is a random site name I’ve made up so I do not know nor do I really want to know what that site may be but I’m sure it’s something that you can’t unsee). This is NOT the kind of information I just want thrown up in my damn profile for all to see. This is especially true since I hadn’t noticed anywhere on the overstock site during my searching or purchasing any relation to facebook so had I not happened to be on a screen where I promptly saw my facebook newsfeed I could have gone hours without knowing it had been done.

Now of course I plan to be uber paranoid and anytime I buy anything online I will promptly check my facebook profile to make sure it’s not been published to the world. shady Shady facebook/overstock

The subject was really what caught my attention:

GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU REPLY BACK(I WILL GIVE YOU MORE DETAILS)

How can that subject line NOT give me pause?

Dear Beloved Fellow Christian,

HaHa- ok now that’s just funny. Ok Ms Christian, lets see what you got.

Please don’t cry for me after reading my message because my spirits and my soul will rest in the bosom of the lord in the next three months.

Oh how sad, our spammer is sick.

Having known my health condition I have decided to donate a sum of $5.5million to church

Well that’s very christian of you, but I have a feeling there’s more….

or better still a Christina individual that will utilize this money according to my instructions below.

Ahhh here it comes, and again- you are barking up the wrong tree here lady.

I want a church or individual that will use $5,5million to fund churches, orphanages and widows propagating the word of GOD and to ensure that the house of GOD is maintained.

That money will buy a lot of things to build churches and such.

I don’t want a situation where this money will be used in an ungodly manner. I took this bold decision because I am not afraid of death hence I know where my soul is going. I know that I am going to be in the bosom of the lord. Exodus 14 vs. 14 says that the lord will fight my case and I shall hold my peace.
My Email: xxxxxx@yahoo.com.hk
Waiting to hear your opinion.
Mrs Rose Smith

Lady, your best bet is REALLY gonna be to donate all of this money that you have to a church and not a person, just my thoughts. Also if you’re going to send our random emails to strangers perhaps try to make both your from address and the address you want people to email you at match. Of course because this is spam for jesus I’m sure eventually they’ll hit that uncomputer savvy Christian who will email them and fall into that whole you send me money so that I can pay my lawyer to send you the larger amount of money and then something bad is going to happen and I’ll need you to send me more money so that I can get a plane/train/bus ticket to go see someone and next thing you know they’ve stolen hundreds if not thousands of dollars from someone who probably couldn’t afford it to begin with but was just trying to be a good person.

Love that both email addresses were chinese in origin. I hate people

Esentially we’re the dirtiest city out there. I giggle.

The first, very first song that ever really impacted me, that I ever really carried with me was James Taylor, Sweet Baby James, it was my lullabye when I was a baby, and one of the very first songs I can ever remember singing.

Flash forward to my very first heartbreak, my very first real love- that one is Bonnie Raitt, I can’t make you love me.. Perhaps one of the most heartbreaking, true to life songs I’ve ever known. It is in fact a song I sing nearly every day and was the song I was singing tonight in the shower. Not because there’s anything wrong, just because I’ve always had that song inside me.

Next up, Wonderful Tonight, by of course Clapton. If you don’t have a clapton song somewhere on your “list”‘ then you’re just insane.

Wish you were here, Pink Floyd, the first time in my adult life I lost a friend, this was the song that stayed with me for weeks and the song I happened to hit in shuffle while driving to his funeral. I kept that song on repeat the entire rest of the 2 hour drive and now everytime I hear it I think of him.

Fire and Rain, also James Taylor, another heartbreaking loss song.

Don’t stop believing, Journey- the first song I ever remember hearing from Journey, and crapsake it just is a song that makes you dance.

The Middle, and Your House, Jimmy Eat world. That whole album in fact represents a time in my life.

Back to you, John Mayer, another pivotal time in my life. His music always gets me though, I think it’s cause we’re the same age and happen to go thru the same random crap at the same time.

Fly - which I first heard by those fantastical Dixie Chicks, but then the original by Patty Griffin, there’s just so much truth in that song too that spoke to me.

to round out my list for now at least, Heavenly Day also by Patty Griffin, that was our first dance song at our wedding. We weren’t looking for a traditional lovey dovey song, I wanted something that spoke to the day and this one hit the nail on the head.

Sarahspace pulled in about 2 minutes after I did and we walked in together. As soon as we opened the door we heard something…. unusual. Then we saw it. The place was FULL and I mean FULL and not just full of random people all having meals, it was full of old people. Old people being loud, old people there in support of the karaoke troop that was performing. Now I’ve seen karaoke done plenty of places, mostly bars really. I have never seen it done at a restaurant, and most definitely not this kind. This wasn’t anyone in the crowd come on up and sing, this was a group of three older men, and one woman who apparently “tour” the local area performing. It was SPECTACULAR. Truly. Of course given the crowd and where in town the restaurant is located most of the songs were country, old skool country too.

It was like we were in this hick Mecca. The people performing were actually quite good, one even apparently is an Elvis impersonator as well so he has the complete Elvis hairdo which was a trip cause he looks like fat and old Elvis if Elvis was a foot shorter with bad skin and big ole glasses. These guys were just tearing it up, and the “ladies” in the crowd were just going crazy for them. I saw the rarest of rare hairstyles which you normally only catch at the state fair- the old lady mid back 2 can’s of rave grey hair mullet. It was truly a thing of beauty. She was sitting with another rarity, the old lady librarian hair cut, nautical jumpsuit woman.

In the space of a few hours we had margaritas, fantastical singing, good Mexican food and a level of redneck watching that I normally do really only get at the state fair. Oh and someone (I think one of the guys singing) had a major “issue” with the smelling, but mixed in with the smell of Mexican food it was really hard to catch unless you were paying attention.

All in all it was a great friggen girls night. we may start frequenting this place on thurs nights now since I know they’ll at least be back there next Thurs. We can become groupies too!