• Home Improvement

    Walgreens: Locking up the competition?

    August 11, 2008 - By 

    Here’s something odd. I went to Walgreens to pick up my favored brand of antacid/acid reducer. I found it in a locked cabinet, along with several other name brands each in their own locked cabinets. There was a notice saying the rather pricy name brands were secured for the protection of Walgreens’ customers. The “house brands” were all displayed nearby, unlocked. They were lower in price but the highest-quantity packages were in the same price ranges as the lower-quantity name brand products. Stymied, since my particular brand didn’t have a Wal-clone, I wandered off looking for someone to open the…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Every one needs one

    August 9, 2008 - By 

    A giant decorative poseable spider from Costco. Plushy fur, not for outdoor display. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Every one needs one By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 9 Aug ’08, 12.51pm CDT PST A giant decorative poseable spider from Costco. Plushy fur, not for outdoor display. Ginny I can has iPhone?

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Stately Moans: Successful Event Planning (Except For Ducks)

    August 7, 2008 - By 

    Thank goodness Doris is back on the blogbeat, recounting the triumphs and challenges of stately manor management… and the possibility of committing nursery crimes, encountering ducks bent on debauchery, and the utter indispensability of a Lovely Warden. Stately Moans: Successful Event Planning, the Stately Moans Way I hastened to reassure bemused visitors and volunteers alike that we did not actually erect the marquee in the moat and that it must have blown in. After the tenth repetition I got bored with that and started telling people it was for a duck wedding instead. Well, it was a lovely party, except…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Hot Off The Presses

    The Economist Covers The Anglican Angle

    August 7, 2008 - By 

    The Anglican Communion | The high price of togetherness | Economist.com On the brighter side from the Communion’s viewpoint, some Americans who went to Lambeth do now have a better sense of the social and political constraints on bishops in traditional societies. One African bishop recalls that after news reached his country of the gay-friendly stance of America’s bishops, a senior Muslim asked him, in bewilderment, whether he too had ceased to be Christian. “I came to understand as never before that there are places and cultures where it is not possible to discuss [homosexuality],” said Bishop Jeff Lee of…

  • Flickr - Moblog - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Dis mai brane on kafeen

    August 5, 2008 - By 

    Breaktime! This is my work mug, bought from a little pottery shop near Starved Rock State Park IL – I think in a town called Dixon. Cute place, making a good recovery from a tornado a few years ago. Mai brane needz dis in teh mourningz Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Dis mai brane on kafeen By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Aug ’08, 10.38am CDT PST Breaktime! This is my work mug, bought from a little pottery shop near Starved Rock State Park IL – I think in a town called Dixon. Cute place, making a good…