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Once again we had to go to the Fry's store out by LAX.  Ok, so Fry's stores in general tend to be busy, etc.  But this one seriously makes me want to have major panic attacks.  I get so claustrophobic there.   Fellow customers also apparently  stressed by the so very un-customer friendly store, or perhaps just rude begin to ignore other customers like me.  They walk in straight lines.  If you're in their way they shove you, even if all of the area around you was open to walk around you.  It makes me want to go Michael Douglas circa Falling Down on them or alternatively just crawl into a cave and never see another person again as long as I live.  At least 4 people shoved me with no reason to.  Plenty of room to walk around me, me standing out of the way, not in the center of aisles, etc. I HATE PEOPLE BEING RUDE.  I mean if I see you wanting to look at stuff I'm also looking at, I move out of the way.  If I see you walking by, I make sure I'm not in your way.  If you smack into me say sorry or at least look at me with an oops look on your face.  Assholes. 

And Fry's.  Oh Fry's.  Your set up is so unfriendly.  If we want something from the shelf, no prob.  If we want something that is well controlled like RAM, big mess.  Last time Brian got charged for a more expensive MB that he wanted but was given a cheaper and slower one that happened to come in a very similar box etc.  Didn't realize til he got it home. By then you were closed and it was a holiday weekend so you wouldn't be open again until he was back at work.  Meant he'd have to take time off of work to return it during the week and couldn't as he had no working desktop machine and a freelance project he had to start.  So you screwed him and he took it and lost about $20 as that was the difference in what he paid for and got. 

This time he said he needed two sticks of this RAM.  You said ok.  You sent him to the front with paperwork for 1.  They can't edit it at the register.  Back to the back for edited paperwork.  They don't have to EDIT THE PAPERWORK.  They just have to ask them to send another stick up front.  WTF?  And if you buy something like RAM that requires paperwork you can't go buy anything else in the store because once you have a piece of paper thats an order for the check out people to use and they can't add to it, even if it's the stuff from by the register.  But if you buy just normal stuff from the shelves that doesn't require that inventory control type of paperwork, no worries you can keep shopping  but no one tells you this (we happen to know  it from previous experience).

I've ranted about this before.  Just argh.  Why must you be so convenient in SOME ways and yet such a pathetic panic inducing store in others?

My mommy posted in her LJ and her VOX...
Her blood work is in and it seems to answer why her MRI was abnormal.  And it's not MS nor is it Sarcoidosis! 

It's Pernicious Anemia so she gets to get B-12 injections.  Still gotta say that sounds better than MS or Sarcoid so I'm calling this good news :)

News:
Nick Bollea aka Nick Hogan was sentenced to 8 months in jail + 5 years probation + lost his license for 3 years for the accident that left his friend John Graziano brain damaged.  Good.  He's lucky he didn't kill him or himself.  Hopefully he learns something and stops driving like he's on the track when on the road.

Sleep:
Couldn't sleep until 1.  Slept til 8 which is good I guess.  Hate though hours for sleep but nice amount since I haven't been sleeping straight through and it's only been 5 or 6 hours tops lately.  Lister was laying on my chest when I was falling asleep and I pissed him off because my head was some mutant form of pain alien just stabbing in pain almost causing me to twitch when I reacted he looked at me like stop it, I'm trying to sleep here.  Rude cat :P 

Brian/Plans:
Brian was talking about picking up dinner after work, then after we eat going to a 10 o'clock show of Iron Man.  I'm not usually a comic book super hero kind of girl believe it or not.  Just ther Superman ones and now SuperGirl and Batman.  Still haven't seen Spiderman, Fantastic 4, etc and no interest  But Iron Man looks good and well Robert Downey Jr. can usually make even the worst role seem good.  But it's 9:40 and Brian still not home from work with dinner so think that will be tomorrow.

We had talked about Disneyland this weekend as they have the 2fer deal going on and it's only good if you use one by the 22nd and Brian wants to force me to see the Whoopi California thing before they remove it for the park makeover  (if it's not gone already).  So I suspect we'll go next weekend maybe because I'm pretty sure we'll never pay for CA Adventure (unless the makeover is really good, but that will be years from now).  And with the 2fer specials we pay for Disneyland and then during the next month can go to CA Adventure once for free.

Hmm so that means this weekend is dentist (1 filling scheduled, still gotta figure out the others), Fry's,  Iron Man, refill Topamax, and really finish Misi's mail I hope.

Dunno why my brain aliens are so busy lately.  The one that controls sleep is a mess.  Pain  alien a mess.  General brain alien too my thoughts keep getting all muddled up and I type wrong words and yeah... argh.

John Edwards was just on Morning Joe.  *sigh*  We really missed out not having him as our president.  But, he's been working with organizations that do various things related to the issues of poverty since dropping out.  I admire him greatly.  He didn't say who he's endorsing but did say basically who he just voted for will be who he endorses and implied that he and Elizabeth voted for different candidates.  I'm betting he's endorsing Obama if he endorses at all.  He also pretty much said whoever wins better be tacking issues related to poverty and he doesn't care if he's in a political office or not he'll be fighting to be sure those issues are getting attention, and I believe him.

Hillary needs to shut the.... up...

 "Senator Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Yeah there's a pattern emerging that you're now sounding racist.

In non political news:

A creative commons music site: http://www.jamendo.com/

Brian: Did you know I'm related to Bush?
Me: (looking at him funny) Huh?
Brian: Yeah I evolved from monkeys.

How does your show get ratings?  You're not insightful. Republicans who actually believe in something and who believe in what this country is supposed to stand for should be ashamed of you.   Denounce and reject... etc.

"I'm now tempted to tell superdelegates to pick Obama because I now believe he would be the weakest nominee."  Really?  Since when would superdelegates listen to YOU?  Gonna call them up are you?  Idiot.  I saw the clip of you saying it, sounding as if you're so important to American politics that even superdelegates would just blindly do anything you tell them to do.  Last I checked they're the most die hard Dems around.  They'd probably not take your call.

I wish if you voted dem or republican in the primary you had to vote for the same party in the general.  Not very American, I know.  But I think trying to sabotage an election is very UnAmerican.  It failed.  But you still make me ill. *I* vote based on what I think is important in this country.  I don't think voting is a joke or a game.  People died creating this county and making sure we'd have these rights.  If you think it's a game... well you're a jerk off.

NBC NEWS:  Obama win North Carolina and Indiana too close to call.    Err I could swear Hillary just said she won Indiana.  Maybe it just sounded like it when she asked for money and claimed that Indiana would be the tie breaker and raised her hand in the air like the winner would.  I did sleep during the day and not very awake yet.  She is leading there 53% - 48%.    I was kind of hoping I'd wake up to her losing both, then she pretty much couldn't go on.  Now she's saying she needs more money because of course he'll win states if he out spends her, blah blah.  Really, out spent or attacked him so hard he had so much negative press it was probably more coverage than his ads could have made up for and he still kicked your ass in N. Carolina, and it's because you've gone so negative I think.  STOP SOUNDING LIKE A REPUBLICAN.  You've made me, a loyal to the Clinton "brand" Democrat, become not loyal and sick of it.

PS - once again asking for a state to count where only YOU put your name on ballot, where Edwards didn't where Obama didn't because the rules you agreed to said it wouldn't count = CRAP.  Yeah every state and every voter should count.  But not like that.  Argggggggggh.  That sounds a lot like both Bush elections.  Yeah.  Sounding like a Republican!

PPS - Keith Olberrman and Tim Russert are on MSNBC pretty much making it sound like Hillary is in too much debt and is closer to ending this than we all think.  Errr... and that they think a truce could be in the making.  Umm k... I guess asking for money was her trying to pay her bills then?   They're saying she is supposed to meet with her super delegates tomorrow and the total vote count in Indiana is pretty important to how this goes.  Umm think I totally heard her speech wrong :P  Or... this is why they get paid and are the experts. heh

Ok people, do your research.
A. The gas tax holiday won't pass
B. The economic experts almost all say it's "political pandering", bad policy, will probably raise gas prices, will put people out of work, will stop road construction, etc
C. As much as gas prices suck umm yeah it could be worse, the news mentioned my Dutchies... they pay FOUR DOLLARS A GALLON IN TAXES ALONE.   We must use a hell of a lot more than they do.  So we create the demand and hurt the environment, but they're paying in taxes what we're paying total... so umm yeah we have it easy.

In summary, if you're voting and are making your decisions based on things like who CLAIMS they'll give you a few months break on gas taxes (without telling you what it will really cost you) or who has a bad former minister or who might be a Muslim (yeah I'm hearing on the news that e-mail is still going around -- I never got it, I have smart friends), then do me a favor and educate yourself before going to the polls.

When I made a video for Misi (you can see it on  my site) I decided not to add audio this time.   The last artlog thing I made I used a foreign song clip and it wasn't very long so I figured no one would care.  I suppose I could speak on them.  I hate silence.  I'd prefer music to speaking if / when I do more.  There must be a site of I dunno unsigned artists maybe who let you take their mp3s and repost them online or use in videos like that so long as you don't alter and use a link to them?   Anyone know of a site like that ?  Thing is I would want a few kinds of music to choose from.  Rock, pop, etc.  Not just a site with a few bands that all sound the same.

My mom (her Vox here or LJ here) took part in Collage Mania (her suns are on page 15 but are claimed already).  Had I realized this earlier I'd have posted earlier but I'm *cough* stealing her infor about it so you guys know about it in case interested.  It's going right now! 235 collages are available today for a minimum donation of $80 to the American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause. If that is too rich for your wallet, the ones remaining tomorrow go for $40 each. Help FFAC and Virginia Spiegel meet and exceed her goal of raising $30,000 for the American Cancer Society and add to the more that $150,000 already donated.

Also, I haven't really talked about it here, because I've primarily been using it on other blogs, but I joined SocialSpark (a blog for money site).  You know, pick an opportunity you're interesting in and qualified for, write a post, get paid.   And yeah, it works, I made a little money last month.  Well it's a little different than some sites like that, in that it's also a community and has some blog back opportunities.  I of course had to check the charity channel.  And found a woman who now blogs about her daughter that was recently diagnosed with MS.  Selected Visions, reminds me of my mom shortly after we found out we found I'd had it with her posts like the one about Vitamin D in MS.  Of course my poor mom then had to counter-research Vitamin D with Sarcoid too.  But I know there's more than a few with MS who read this on the LJ crosspost, so if you have any kind words you can offer her or just want to add another MS blogger to your feeds, go check her out.