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Costco and BBQ
2003-05-09 - 1:43 p.m.

For those adults on Diaryland:

10 Ways to get through Costco in an hour or less:

1. Don't get trapped by the items you see when you first walk in the door. Show your card and keep on moving.
2. Only impulse buy one chocolate item per trip. Once you pick up your one chocolate item, don't deliberate, don't think, don't pick up any more.
3. Make a list, stick to it, except for the impulse chocolate item of course.
4. Skip the books, movies, and clothing sections. You only get sucked in and spend way to much time looking for something that's not there.
5. Avoid the samplers unless they are of something on your list, then by all means taste test the food to ensure that what you are buying is good. :)
6. Buy refrigerated or frozen goods, they give you more motivation to get out sooner.
7. Move quickly and with a determined look on your face (furrowed brow, polite but restrained postal smile), folks will get out of your way, if they are paying any attention.
8. Have your cards ready in your back pocket. For god's sake, don't write a check, or if you do, have everything but the amount filled out by the time you reach checkout. Writing the check slowly and painfully only irritates the folks behind you with frozen goods.
9. Load the belt with heavy things first, light things last so the cashier has less shuffling of stuff to do to make everything fit back in your cart.
10. Politely offer your cart to someone going in the store, you look like a nice person, you save the time to turn it back in yourself, but you aren't one of the many assholes who clog up the parking lot with loose carts.

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Only by planning a BBQ for tonight could I have ensured that we'd receive so much rain. sigh. Thanks to TWC, it looks like we are in for the long haul too. bastards. Once again, Mother Nature proving that no matter how advanced we little hairless monkeys become, she's still got the upper hand. I think Alan hopes to put up the small dayshade so that we can still cook outside even if we end up admiring the cook from within. But the carpets are vacuumed, the floors are swept, the counters are cleaned, the bathrooms are decent and food has already been bought. Perhaps I'll get marshmellows, graham crackers and chocolate and we'll do s'mores in the fireplace instead of outside. It's still fire, right?

I recently updated my home page, found under the Lust link to the left. I updated the calendar of where I'll be (Don't nobody say they can't find me.) and also made some additions to my SCA Page. I added links to some more recent costumes, gifts for others, direct links to glassblowing pictures, and a link to the Interlocking PDF file. I actually found the link for the museum that the pamphlet came from, but can't read a word of the site. Skoletjenesten: Vikingeskibsmuseet. I even tried Babelfish, and others and even the Danish to English Translation was off and odd. Anyone got any better ideas? I didn't see an English translation link anywhere. :( And of course the one translation site than came the closest I can't find anymore.

Oh well, stay dry childrens!

Hmmm... more quiz...

Which Princess Bride Character are You?
this quiz was made by mysti

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