Monday 26 February 2007
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Kan't sub Fish for Chicken
The Shoemaker and the Brownies is probably what inspired Hermione to create S.P.E.W.
Our parish always sends us little gift booklets at the start of each Advent and Lent. This Lent we recieved Lent 2007: A Time for Mending: Daily Scripture Meditations and Prayers. The entry from Thursday After Ash Wednesday reads, "Imagine a life where we can peel away our many disguises and let the world see us as we truly are: vulnerable, valuable, hurting, hoping, dreaming, believing, yearning for love and acceptance. Finally, we can be honest about our shortcomings, transparent in our motives, and genuine in our love." That totally sums up why I switched from a hard drive journal to a web journal.
Then the entry for Sunday of the First Week reads, "When you're in the midst of troublesome times, write down your wake-up calls in a journal. What truths are they telling you about yourself? How are they renewing and reviving your spirit?" Awesome blogging material to be sure. Hopefully I have done and will continue to do as such.
Friday I had an inspiration while riding past a KFC. They have these commericals about a Fish Snacker. So I turn in, lock up my bicycle, go inside, and wait in line. I asked the lady in the line if they stocked fish snackers, as they had nothing about fish anywhere inside the restaurant. She confirmed the hidden menu selection. So I asked if I could order a fish-based KFC bowl. No. So I left.If they have the fish in stock, why not offer it as a fish bowl? Because KFC doesn't want my money, that's why. Silly KFC. Why turn down good $US?
Saturday night after work I stopped by Metrocenter to pick up some February and March cards from The Card Shoppe. Afterwards, I dropped by Game Nightz to find out why they never called me back last year. The owner's lame excuse: he wasn't able to find a distributor which carries Shadowfist, so he had no reason to call me back. Lame. He couldn't be bothered to call and tell me even that? He obviously doesn't want my business. He and the people at KFC must have gone to the same school for bad buisness.
So, I told him that Shadowfist Games sells direct, but that if he needed a distributor that he should try Potomac. He was so obviously disinterested, he didn't even bother to write anything down. I've offered to run demos in his store, but he claims that there's no room in his schedule. That night there was no one in the gaming area, but he still turned down Shadowfist demos in his store. I bought Shadowfist from him when he was still an employee of Game Daze. I just don't see his current resistance.
Ugh. I'm tired. Time to go to bed.What Your Bathroom Habits Say About You 
Your idea of fashion is jeans and a t-shirt. Clean, if you're lucky.
You are a little shy and easily embarrassed. You often wonder if you are normal.
In relationships, you are practical and realistic. You have a romantic side, but you only let it out when it's appropriate."There is plenty of room at the top, but no place to sit down." ~Unknown
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ryc: I was more "amused' by the plural and singular usages of the language expressed by the demon. If I could say this without being a nerd, in transcripts of exocrisms, the demon often switches between singular and plural such as "we" and "I." It's an interesting development that I'd like to understand better.
What's a t-shirt and jeans have to do with bathroom habits??
Fast food places lose a lot of money during lent when they don't offer fish of any kind. There is a chinese wok place on campus that only offers seafood (shrimp) on mondays, and the other places price fish above 6 dollars. For that price, I'll fast and save my money instead. In California it's kind of stupid when you have culturally/technically Catholic population of Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Philippinos, etc.
The goofiest part is that KFC obviously already has the fish in stock for their fish snacker. Why they can't replace the chicken with fish on one of their bowls is beyond stupid.
I used to live in Long Beach, California, and I loved going to the warfs and getting all you can eat king crab legs. Mmmmm...
I'd suggest doing what I do, actually ask for something and then leave when they won't provide. Ask often enough, and someone might get the idea to offer a change. Businesses shouldn't be happy to see customers leaving unsatisfied, especially if it's something easily within their power to offer. I plan on going into KFC each Friday this Lent until someone sees reason.
Sorry to be commenting so much, I drive up your comment counter but not the eprop counter.
It's especially interesting to read old transcripts of the exorcisms before there existed tape recorders, like first hand accounts of those 100s of years ago; the demons tend to proclaim Mary Ever Virgin, as just that, "ever virgin" or "immaculate" or "bodily assumed." It's just neat to read these things and see how contested points today of the CatholicChurch between the Orthodox or Protestant split offs have been borne out in the solemn exorcisms.
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You are a giving soul. Way too giving in fact. You often get stuck doing the dirty work that no one else will do.
You spend a lot on clothes, and you tend to be a very dresser. However, it's hard for you to throw away trendy clothes when they go out of style.
You are a very outgoing person. You are true to yourself, and you never hold back.
In relationships, you are practical and realistic. You have a romantic side, but you only let it out when it's appropriate.
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Darnit! I did edit html and it didn't print it.
I don't think you can use tables in Comments on Xanga.
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