Anyway when we pulled into the parking lot there were an unusual number of cars jamming the parking lot. We thought “what is going on? It’s a Wednesday at noon why is everyone shopping?”…

We go about our business gathering our necessity items as we dodge the people wandering aimlessly through the store. It seems as if they are moving in slow motion or we are moving very quickly, I am not sure which is more accurate but either way we are weaving & dodging people like crazy just trying to get our items and get home.

To make matters worse Sam’s club has now started putting up regular sample stations throughout the store so not only are people moving slow but they are also gathering at the sample stations in large numbers to scarf the free food or they are trying to walk through the store while scarfing their samples. They already weren’t doing well with the walking part and now they are trying to eat at the same time?

We politely navigate our way through the obstacle course of displays, shelves and idiots pushing carts, scarfing free food and wandering about the store. We get everything we need and head to the cashier area to check out and we find ourselves in a massive cattle call type situation.

It appears there are only 2 cashiers working and there are about 20-30 people waiting to check out. People with their carts and bad attitudes are standing everywhere and there seems to be no order to the mess! Where does one line start? Which people are in which lines? Ahhhh!

It’s like shopping days in December but it’s February and in the middle of the week! One charming guy even started yelling at people to get behind him cause “this is where the line starts!”

It was craziness and I snapped a few photos on my camera phone to share with ya! N said he mumbled some profanities at someone while we waited in line to pay. People were being ridiculous!

Finally we get out of the store, groceries are loaded into the car, we get in and the car wont start! It seems like the battery is dead. Probably bad karma for N for mumbling profanities at people huh?

Luckily we pay for roadside assistance through our Chevron/ Texaco gas card so we just called them up and an hour later they came out to give us a jump start. In the meantime we sat in the car eating our newly purchased chips, pears and fruit snacks while we waited for the roadside assistance guy to show up. Thank goodness for the roadside assistance coverage! It’s great and we are so glad we have it!

Now we are home safe and the car wont start again, it’s maybe (he he not may be) the alternator or something huh? I am just glad to be in the comfort of my own home now!

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Spock returns photos, tags that relate to the person, links to places like myspace profiles and other sites that they are showing up on. You can connect to people on spock.com, add, edit and view search results.

It’s kind of cool to search for a person and have spock.com return all the results from the web in a logical and easy to navigate page. This is a great way to find out where that long lost friend is and to find a way to contact him or her.

I have searched for people via the search engines, finding people this way is very hard and convoluted and if you are looking to reach the person via the web you will have a rough time. Spock.com is perfect for finding someone via the web. I didn’t see any phone numbers or addresses listed in the people results at spock.com so don’t expect to get those.

If you were ever wondering what is on the internet about you or someone you know head over to spock.com where you can see what possible employers, friends and family will see when searching for you. Next time you are wondering about someone check out spock and see what they can dig up for you! Oh, spock.com is free too!

I made my first ever video today it is about spock.com. I was worried that it would be super hard but it was actually lots of fun, much easier than I thought it would be too!! Here it is:

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… and I believe it is true. The thing that bothers me most is people who are bitter or angry and insist on trying to ruin everybody else’s day.

Yesterday was my day off and I was set on trying to enjoy it despite all the things that weigh on me. I garden when I want to relax or to have some personal time so when I got home from teaching I went to check on my garden. I and was starting to clean the kitchen with the back door open. The cats were laying outside in the sun and then I heard these rustling bags outside. I have to keep an eye on my cats because sometimes they jump the fence, so I poke my head outside to see if the cats are planning an escape..

I am expecting to see the cats hopping the fence but instead I find my next door neighbor tossing plastic grocery bags over our fence and into our yard. I was shocked and angered by this rude act so I told our our neighbor she could have her bags back while handing them back over the fence. She then begins calling me names and saying I threw the bags into her yard first and that I am rude and immature and that I don’t even own the place I am living in…

This shocks me even more and I am trying to keep my cool. I said something to the effect of “you are crazy” while I gathered the plastic bags up and took them inside. Once inside I called N and told him what had just happened.

This is not one freak incident between us and our neighbor. From the time we moved in we had had issues. Our landlords warned us about the assigned parking situation in our town-home complex and we have always been courteous of our neighbors by NOT parking in their spots. Our neighbor has not done the same.

I would come home from work pretty late some night to find her car or her guests cars parked in our assigned spots. We had to knock on her door to get the car moved and a few times she would not answer her door at all so we had to leave a note on the windshield of the car and park directly behind it.

We called the cops on her once over the parking situation but they could not help us. The parking situation irritated us but we never did anything nasty to her town-home.

However, recently she has been doing everything she can to annoy us. One morning at around 6 or 7 am she set out to wake us up. First she dumped her trash on the sidewalk outside our front door, she kicked and scattered the trash noisily in an attempt to pick it all up, then she got to the trash can and slammed the lid 7 or 8 times before emptying her trash, next she went to scraping the ice off her sidewalk with her aluminum shovel and last she went inside to bang up and down our shared wall.

Some days it seems she just freaks out, yesterday was no exception. After our verbal confrontation a cop comes knocking on my door about a barking dog complaint. The cop could not contact out neighbor who placed the call and he joked with me about the situation. He recommended we try to document all that is happening either on video or through an audio tape recording… We are just not that interested in spending that much energy on something so negative.

I feel bad for the lady next door, she is alone and is angry quite often. I just don’t want to encounter the negativity anymore..

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