saturday evening…

I went to Costco this afternoon to get some cat litter and misc groceries. I had a rebate check for $170.00 so I looked around for something interesting to buy. I had been considering buying a Zune for a while now, but had always decided against it mostly because I didn’t want to spend $240.00 on it; so today I kept debating whether to buy one with the rebate check or not. I finally decided against buying one; they are interesting gadgets but I remember back in the early 80’s I had a cassette walkman. The walkman was also a cool gadget for it’s time but I never liked walking around with an apparatus attached to my body. I still don’t because I carry my phone in my pocket or backpack rather than clip it to my pants and use headphones. So, my aversion to being attached to an apparatus was the deciding factor against buying a Zune.

So, I used my coupon to buy the groceries instead and got back $70.00 in change !

My next stop was the Lube Center to have my PT Cruiser serviced. That took about two hours because I had to wait in line and then they did a lot of work on the car. I like the Lube Center because they do good work, you don’t need an appointment, and it’s relatively fast.

So, if you clicked my links in this post, you can see that I like the wikipedia; a good source for a wide variety of subject areas. Some people look down on Wikipedia, but it is one of my favorite web resources. Of course, as with anything, one should not use the Wikipedia as the sole source of information for an important project or a major decision.