The Set-up

On the way back from a day at the in-laws’ house we stopped at Savemart (our local grocery chain for those not in the area). Rebekah ran in for just a couple of things and I stayed in the car with Connor, our son, and Nike (pronounced neekay like it should be), our dog.

So, as can be expected, I was people watching to pass the time. What else are you going to do at 10:45 on a Sunday night in a grocery store parking lot while your kid is sleeping and your dog is vegging out?

This guy walks out of the store with his bags of stuff and two 1 Gallon jugs of Crystal Geyser Drinking Water. I read the sale paper every week to shop strategically, so I know these are on sale for a buck a piece.

WTF!?

After loading his groceries into the car, he proceeds to carry his new Crystal Geyser water over to the “Refreshing Aqua Fill.” It’s one of those water dispensing machines. Now, I don’t know if this water is actually “purified” or just comes out of the tap from the store or what. It looks like a pretty small machine to house a full Reverse Osmosis system capable of keeping up with demand.

Anyway, back to the “WTF!?” moment. After walking over to the machine, he cracks open the first water jug. HE POURS IT OUT! Drops in his change and gets a gallon of water from the machine. Then he proceeds to DO THE WHOLE THING AGAIN with the other gallon.

Seriously. I just sat there mouth agape. I just can’t fathom why he did that.

So, I ask, does anyone know why on earth someone would do this? If you know the reason why, please let me know.

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So, I’ve been vomiting for the last couple days now. It pretty much sucks. Although, at this moment I’m feeling a little “up.” It might have something to do with keeping foodlike materials down for more than 15 minutes. It feels like they are going to work their way up here in a little bit, but hopefully it’ll stay down. Saltines and vegetable broth, with a slowly sipped water chaser.

I was looking across the intarwebnets for “sick food;” stuff that’s least likely to come back up or stuff that doesn’t hurt your throat if it does. (FYI, grilled chicken and squash is painful going the wrong way.)

Anyway, all that did was make me feel my hunger more. Sure, there are the sites that I was looking for, but Bulgur Cranberry salad, Coffee Jello with a coconut sauce, and Carnitas all sound so much more interesting than some special tasteless broth or carbonated beverages.

So, I can only keep down teaspoons while my hunger is ready for a big platter of Gyros and rice, or Carnitas. I also have a hankering for barley.

Many of the sites that I’ve been to over the last couple of days have had feed back or comment sections like most of the intarwebnets do these days. And this is the source of my non-sick-related rant… $15 bucks. Seriously. How can anyone let that pass? Dollarbucks. It just makes my skin crawl. I thought for a while that maybe it’s like some people saying “6am in the morning” for redundant emphasis or just to grate on the nerves of sticklers. But I’ve seen it too often and where the redundancy thing is mostly un-needed or would just be wrong. So, I think it’s people that are just trying to sound cool by adding bucks after they enumerate an amount of money. And therefore it’s just stupid. Pick one people. Dollars via the “$” or bucks. Please spare me from the evil that is the dollarbucks.

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The store is complete, and ready to go.

Payments are handled by PayPal.

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In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a new link in the sidebar. CyberSuicide.com’s very own online store!

It doesn’t exactly work right now, so please don’t go trying to order stuff.

Once I get the shipping situation figured out, then I’ll make it work for real, and you can get your grubby little hands on some wonderful limited edition prints.

I’m off to look up shipping!

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So, I’ve been quite neglectful of the site the last week or so. If you frequent here, or whatever, sorry for that. We’re in the middle of a big change for our newspaper’s web site. We are switching over to the host I use for this site. Since CyberSuicide.com is currently such a small thing, I think it reflects well upon them that they have been so awesome to me and handled everything quickly and courteously. Not that I’ve run into any big problems, really. As with anything there have been a couple of bumps here and there over the last, 4 or 5 years, all handled to my satisfaction.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve been doing. The news site will run on WordPress, like this one; and compared to our old host and service, it is very fast. We’re also going to run bbPress for the community fora. If you aren’t familiar with bbPress, it’s a forum/bulletin board script from the folks at WordPress. It’s pretty slick and offers nice integration with WordPress.

Our print edition also comes out this week, so it’s kind of a “double tap” on the time front. But, the new site is in a state where it can sit for a couple days while I get the print edition put together, and wait for the domain name transfer to kick in and propagate throughout the intarwebtubenets. I’m really excited about the move, and hope to have much more fun in the future putting all the pieces we have in mind together.

On a different note, I had a Logitech G7 Wireless Laser mouse go on the fritz a while back. The left button was acting haywire and doing things of its own accord. I got the RMA and shipped it back to them. Got an e-mail today that the replacement shipped out today via DHL. I’ve never really used DHL or had things come via DHL, but I may start to think of using them more often. In the quest for some type of constant connection with a package sent or awaited, I would find myself checking the UPS or FedEx tracking info almost constantly. Checking the tracking info today on my incoming shipment from Logitech, I noticed that DHL had some nifty tracking options. You can request e-mail notifications throughout the shipping process. So, I chose to be notified of when it goes out for delivery, so I can be on the look-out without having to check the site all the time. I also elected to be notified of any exceptions during shipping, and delivery notification just in case it gets dropped at the wrong location.

I don’t get packages very often, so it’s kind of like Christmas in whatever month. Hopefully DHL becomes an option for more of my shipping needs; I like the features.

Also, I recently got in some shirts from the Printfection store I have. I’m very impressed with the quality. It’s almost as good as a true screen print run, but all done digitally. Shipping and general order fulfillment was much faster than advertised or expected. The shirts we ordered were of my design. Got a few “Think Delhi” shirts (One for a local business owner, one for my nephew, and one for the wife), a “Shirt of Lurking” for myself, and a “Baby Chug” for my mom.

The shirts all came out awesome. I’m very pleased and think you or anyone without access to their own screen printing shop would be very pleased. It’s really hard to beat a real screen printed item; but, to be economical you need to make runs in the hundreds or better and handle all that stock. Printfection’s product is very high quality, printed on demand, and no stock to handle. It’s just great.

Well, hopefully I’ll have time to make more frequent updates in the near future.

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