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Nov. 5th, 2001 12:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterWell, another odd day draws to a close.
Earlier this morning, my brother Aaron arrived pretty much exactly as he said he would. Even a half hour early, to a bit of surprise, and toting along an 8-week-old mostly-Australian-Shepherd puppy named Gandalf (who lay on my bed and made noseprints on the sheets as my brother worked and I looked on). Cute little puppy...and smart, too.
After a bit of noodling around, Aaron got X restored to functionality for me, though he couldn't figure out how to make my fvwm2 configuration start. In the end, I settled for Enlightenment as the best compromise possible under the circumstances--though I don't really like it that much, and find it causes Mozilla and Galeon to crash on me from time to time. Or perhaps that's just Guidescope, I dunno. All I know is, it didn't do that under fvwm2! Anyway, it's good to have Linux back now, because Emacs is the One True Text Editor, in which I prefer to write above all others--and the Emacs installation over on Windows didn't word wrap properly and did some other strange stuff that this Linux version does not do. I feel a lot more confident slinging these words around over here, now.
Anyway, after Aaron left, I noodled around a little, then went back to bed for a couple more hours of sleep time. Got up at about 3, to get ready to go to work at K-Mart.
On the way in, I called Sam's on my cellphone and found that they have the new Shrek DVD for $19.49. As it happens, my K-Mart also had it, for $23 but on sale to $19.99. I had been planning to go a bit out of my way to snatch up the disc at Sam's, but then I remembered that my K-Mart, as it happens, does pricematch them. So, I got the DVD--plus the book-and-record-and-movie style CD-ROM that goes along with it, and saved 50 cents to boot.
Speaking of which, I have to say--I'm impressed. The DVDs themselves already have enough stuff in them to make them extremely attractive to anyone with half an interest in the movie. Throwing in a companion CD-ROM (or, I'm given to understand, companion Christmas music CD if you buy from Wal-Mart) is just the icing on the cake. I bet they're trying to beat the record set by Phantom Menace for opening week DVD sales. I wonder if they'll succeed?
I discovered a really neat new kind of minty thing today. It's sort of like a breath mint, I guess, but mostly not. It's called "Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks" and each one contains sixteen little sheets of...well, dehydrated mouthwash. There's no other word for it. You put it on your tongue and it instantly dissolves and freshens and "kills germs" and all that. Perhaps I'm just easily impressed, but I think that's kinda neat.
As I was working my register today, I had the most amusing experience. I heard something over the intercom, blinked, sort of had to do a double-take...it was some man's voice, carefully enunciating each word as if he wasn't sure he would get through understandably, saying, "We're in the grocery section, and we can't find the chili powder. We need French's chili powder." It was a customer, who had somehow managed to figure out that the "page" buttons on our phones mean "put your voice over the loudspeaker," and hadn't found the "summon customer service" button elsewhere in the pantry section. I was amazed, and then quite amused. I've never seen a customer with quite that level of chutzpah before--though the customer service rep mentioned that it was a first for her, too, though she'd had customers call the service desk on the phones before. Wonders never cease.
After work, on the way home, I was a little startled to see that gas prices had fallen all the way to 97.9 cents per gallon--under $1 for the first time I can remember in a long time. Wow.
On to bed, to wake up tomorrow and stress some more.
Earlier this morning, my brother Aaron arrived pretty much exactly as he said he would. Even a half hour early, to a bit of surprise, and toting along an 8-week-old mostly-Australian-Shepherd puppy named Gandalf (who lay on my bed and made noseprints on the sheets as my brother worked and I looked on). Cute little puppy...and smart, too.
After a bit of noodling around, Aaron got X restored to functionality for me, though he couldn't figure out how to make my fvwm2 configuration start. In the end, I settled for Enlightenment as the best compromise possible under the circumstances--though I don't really like it that much, and find it causes Mozilla and Galeon to crash on me from time to time. Or perhaps that's just Guidescope, I dunno. All I know is, it didn't do that under fvwm2! Anyway, it's good to have Linux back now, because Emacs is the One True Text Editor, in which I prefer to write above all others--and the Emacs installation over on Windows didn't word wrap properly and did some other strange stuff that this Linux version does not do. I feel a lot more confident slinging these words around over here, now.
Anyway, after Aaron left, I noodled around a little, then went back to bed for a couple more hours of sleep time. Got up at about 3, to get ready to go to work at K-Mart.
On the way in, I called Sam's on my cellphone and found that they have the new Shrek DVD for $19.49. As it happens, my K-Mart also had it, for $23 but on sale to $19.99. I had been planning to go a bit out of my way to snatch up the disc at Sam's, but then I remembered that my K-Mart, as it happens, does pricematch them. So, I got the DVD--plus the book-and-record-and-movie style CD-ROM that goes along with it, and saved 50 cents to boot.
Speaking of which, I have to say--I'm impressed. The DVDs themselves already have enough stuff in them to make them extremely attractive to anyone with half an interest in the movie. Throwing in a companion CD-ROM (or, I'm given to understand, companion Christmas music CD if you buy from Wal-Mart) is just the icing on the cake. I bet they're trying to beat the record set by Phantom Menace for opening week DVD sales. I wonder if they'll succeed?
I discovered a really neat new kind of minty thing today. It's sort of like a breath mint, I guess, but mostly not. It's called "Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks" and each one contains sixteen little sheets of...well, dehydrated mouthwash. There's no other word for it. You put it on your tongue and it instantly dissolves and freshens and "kills germs" and all that. Perhaps I'm just easily impressed, but I think that's kinda neat.
As I was working my register today, I had the most amusing experience. I heard something over the intercom, blinked, sort of had to do a double-take...it was some man's voice, carefully enunciating each word as if he wasn't sure he would get through understandably, saying, "We're in the grocery section, and we can't find the chili powder. We need French's chili powder." It was a customer, who had somehow managed to figure out that the "page" buttons on our phones mean "put your voice over the loudspeaker," and hadn't found the "summon customer service" button elsewhere in the pantry section. I was amazed, and then quite amused. I've never seen a customer with quite that level of chutzpah before--though the customer service rep mentioned that it was a first for her, too, though she'd had customers call the service desk on the phones before. Wonders never cease.
After work, on the way home, I was a little startled to see that gas prices had fallen all the way to 97.9 cents per gallon--under $1 for the first time I can remember in a long time. Wow.
On to bed, to wake up tomorrow and stress some more.
