The things in my head go 'round and 'round

I got this announcement from Derek Rosenzweig of Philly Norml last night:

I’m writing to you tonight to give you some excellent news! I have just heard from the sponsor of our bill, PA State Rep. Mark Cohen, that our bill will be introduced this Wednesday, April 29.

This is great news, and it marks a significant milestone in our fight to give patients the right to use medical marijuana. Currently, the following State Reps. have signed on as co-sponsors:

Delaware County
Greg Vitali
Philadelphia County

Vanessa Brown
Mike McGeehan
John Sabatina
Michael O’Brien

We still need more co-sponsors if this bill is to get past the first committee which hears it – either Health and Human Services, or Judiciary.

About the bill

Patients cannot get arrested for possession or personal cultivation
Patients and caregivers will have cards identifying them as such
Doctors can not lose their license for recommending cannabis in a valid doctor-patient relationship
A comprehensive list of ailments for which smoked, vaporized, or orally consumed cannabis or cannabis extract (hashish or hash oil) is found to be beneficial to the patient by either curing or easing symptoms
A procedure for adding ailments and diseases to that list

This is an important bill for folks in Pennsylvania. Please support it through your assemblymen.

Namaste.

I have been doing a lot of nothing lately. And the title lines continue to go through my head. They are from a song by “Toad the Wet Sprocket.” The song is “Something’s always wrong.”

I started this blog a little over a year ago just as a place to archive the crap that goes on in my head. It was a lark, an amusement. And then Flo-rida decided to sample that damned Dead or Alive song from the 80′s. Now I am getting hits from people looking for that stinking song, and nothing else. Thanks Flor-ida.

Anyway. I have been writing back and forth with people I graduated with and have had to tell them what I have been through over the past 30 odd years that we have been out of High School. Lots of memories that had been hidden have resurfaced. I have had to talk about the things that have lead me to being the person that I am now. I don’t know that I really like that, but I do understand that it all had to be done. Our lives always bring us back to those things that we need to clean up. Funny how it does that isn’t it?

I have a son who lives in the Detroit area. A not so young anymore son. He is now twenty. The drinking age in Michigan is 21. The legal drinking age in Canada, you guessed it. Not 18. The drinking age in the majority of the Canadian provinces is 19.

You do the math.

So, of course, last year he had to travel to Canada to spend the weekend drinking with a group of friends. I was not happy. They drove across from the US, checked into a hotel, and started the weekend. That part, I was happy with, that they were not going to be driving. Of course since they had a vehicle with them, I did give the the name of an auto body shop ontario just in case. I try to cover all of my bases when it comes to the kids.

In a wild, and wacky move that has the financial, and automotive worlds freaked out Walmart has announced that it will be buying General Motors.

Supposedly, once the deal has gone through, Walmart will be shutting down all of the assembly plants for a period of time. When the shops are opened back up, the jobs in them will be on the income level of a greeter at a Walmart store. No union, as per Walmarts policy of not wanting unions in any of their stores.

This very cool news. Now you will be able to buy a car out in the garden center. Wonder if they will be having some really good deals?

In a surprising announcement that has both the Financial, and Automotive worlds stunned, super retailer Walmart has stated that they will be buying General Motors.

When asked why this sudden decision, an unidentified Walmart source stated, “This just makes sense. We advertise American products, what is more American than GM?”

But what about the unions? Walmart has been in the news many times concerning the corporate position of their stores being non-union. When this questions was asked of our unidentified source, they answered, “Once the sale is complete we will shut down all of the plants for 60 days, and re-open with non-union labor. We can hire 4 people for the amount of money most of the autoworkers are currently earning. With not having the union driving up our payroll percent, we can drive car prices right down there.”

Walmart/Gm. Kind of makes you wonder, eh?

That is the search the bring most people here: Make my head spin round right round.

First penned and sung in the 80′s by the band Dead or alive. And then sampled by a rapper named Flor-Ida. And people are looking for it like there was no tomorrow.

And, as much as I appreciate you folks stopping by, I am getting a little tired of it. The song is old, and rather inane. It is time for you to move on.

Really.

This is my ear worm today. And the way things go round and round in my head, most likely for the rest of the week.

So here we are the day after all of the Second Christmas madness.

How are you? I am fine, though with all of the sugar that I have eaten over the past few days my digestive system is just a tad off. I know that you are happy that you asked. I just had to share.

With that being said, thought I would let everyone in on how the weight loss is going right now. I have a ways to go. Just like a lot of us out there. But……

lalalalalalalalala

Had the day off today and went and picked up the laptop. It was having issues that needed resolved, and so I had them resolved and now I am fully mobile again. Of course in the mean time I also picked up another tower that will end up in The Princess’ room. For all of her computing joy.

And that pretty much gets you up to speed. Glad we could talk.

L8R.

Deals on furniture are insane right now. You can pretty much find anything you want at really good prices. Of course some of the companies that are out there selling at deep discounts are going out of business.

That doesn’t give everyone a warm, fuzzy feeling when you are investing a sizable amount of money. And I can understand that thought process, and that is why I tend to shop around when I am looking to buy. And I don’t just shop around in the brick and mortar stores. The web has done very well by us in the past.

That all being said, MLW and I have been talking about new bedroom furniture for awhile now. And we have been looking everywhere, both on line and off. Her taste runs more to modern, sleek furniture where mine runs more to log furniture. Big rustic pieces that have some heft, along with style. That is what I like. I found a queen log bed the other day that I really like. Now I have to work on MLW to get her to buy into it. The look is good, the price is good. That is the easy part, the hard part is convincing her that this is the bed for us.

Wish me luck.

April 12th is Easter. For those of us in Retail is equates to a Second Christmas.

Yeah. A Second Christmas. Why? I have no clue, other than we want to sell you a whole bunch of things for your kids so that you can feel superior to your friends. Who also want to buy a bunch of things for their kids so that they can feel superior to you.

And it is all couched around Jesus of Nazareth raising from the dead after being crucified by the Romans.

Are you getting a fuzzy feeling here?

Anyway, with the madness that is going to be ensuing in the next couple of days I thought that it would be appropriate to go over some rules of the road. Retail etiquette as it were.

We have discussed this same subject in the past. As a matter of fact one of the folks who commented talked about Easter. But is seems that some of you have forgotten what we have discussed.

Such as:

When entering a store, keep walking. Do not stop right inside the door to organize your coupons, dig through your purse for something, start looking through the circular. Keep walking. It is an entry way, and others would like to enter.

Passing gas is a part of life. We all do it, no big deal. Until you rip one when I am right beside you stocking the shelves. That is just not cool.

There have been numerous discussions about not clogging up the aisles. Keep moving. The middle of the aisle is not the place to have a chat with your friends. Find someplace else to do that. There are other people who need to get through. Get out of their way.

I am sorry that prices are what they are, and I apologize that you have lost money from your retirement. It isn’t my fault. I didn’t do it. So don’t unload on me about it. I have to pay the same prices you do. Learn to economize. I have had to, so maybe you should also.

Waiting for the last minute to shop is so last year. The holidays come every freaking year. You can plan for them. There are numerous ways you can keep track of when they are coming up. If you are reading this, you obviously have a computer. Use the calendar that is on it. There are many calendar applications on the web that are free to use. Use one of them. It isn’t funny to be scurrying around just before the store closes. We want to go home too.

If you have not trained your husband/boyfriend/baby-daddy how to shop don’t send them to my store. Send them somewhere else. I don’t have the time, or the patience to deal with them. And cell phones don’t help, because they will be looking at what they think you want, I will walk up and inevitably will be handed the phone so that I can give them what you really want. I am not your personal shopper unless you want to pay me $30 an hour, with a 2 hour minimum up front.

Ok.

So there are a few things that you can work on over the next couple of days that will get you up to speed with the current Retail Etiquette. Any questions?

Keep them to yourself.