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Oct. 18th, 2004 12:18 pmHorse things. Mezcal can now pick up her front feet usefully and hold them there long enough for me to pick 'em out. Yay. Back feet still need work. Her patience is improving considerably. I undid the braids in Nick's mane as I'm interested in seeing if the mane relocation project is finished or not. We also worked on stepping the forehand around the hindquarters, as that's the area that needs work judging from the results of the circle test. Also worked on sidepass to both sides, got a lovely couple of steps each way, so that was nice.
It was 32 this morning when I got up, hard frost everywhere. Looks like winter's coming. *sigh*
Our local Weis finally has self-checkout lines. I'd seen these in the city years ago, but we still had 100% human grocery checkout until last week. Last week, the self-checkout lines opened. I'm not sure how I feel about the concept. Hell, I still can't get behind the idea of a Weis Club Card. I'm not in favor of such things and I won't have one, even though it costs nothing and would save me money. I have VIEWS on the concept of letting the grocery store track my purchases for any reason. It is none of their business what sorts of things I buy or how frequently I visit their store. They claim that the "club card" is to help their inventory tracking. Bullshit. Their inventory tracking is already done by the scanner thingies. The only thing that the "club card" does is track purchases per family... and I'm opposed to that.
The checkout girls (endangered species that they are) try to interest me in a Weis Club Card because it comes with free coupons. I've seen the free coupons it provides. They are for bullshit items that I do not eat. The register never prints out coupons for skim milk or kale or dried beans or cauliflower. They never have coupons for turmeric, for garlic, for apples. They have coupons for things like Sopwith Camel Breakfast Pizza Bites, No Way Jose Beef and Bean Burrito Snacks, Hungry Steve Frozen Chicken Potpie Dinner, Communist Manifesto Black Bean Soup, Chunky Little Waif Snack-Cakes, and so forth. I do not eat these things. Ever. For any reason. If I were starving, I would not eat these things.
Also, Weis has raised my ire because they do not have a sufficient selection of ingredients. They have endless aisles of ready-to-go food but they have jack shit for ingredients. Their produce is good, but their dried beans? Sucky. Their rice choices? Limited. Kinds of flour? Puh-lease. The Weis is not particularly targetted to meeting my needs as a consumer.
There's probably something wrong with me, given that I have this dysfunctional of a relationship with one of my grocery stores.
It was 32 this morning when I got up, hard frost everywhere. Looks like winter's coming. *sigh*
Our local Weis finally has self-checkout lines. I'd seen these in the city years ago, but we still had 100% human grocery checkout until last week. Last week, the self-checkout lines opened. I'm not sure how I feel about the concept. Hell, I still can't get behind the idea of a Weis Club Card. I'm not in favor of such things and I won't have one, even though it costs nothing and would save me money. I have VIEWS on the concept of letting the grocery store track my purchases for any reason. It is none of their business what sorts of things I buy or how frequently I visit their store. They claim that the "club card" is to help their inventory tracking. Bullshit. Their inventory tracking is already done by the scanner thingies. The only thing that the "club card" does is track purchases per family... and I'm opposed to that.
The checkout girls (endangered species that they are) try to interest me in a Weis Club Card because it comes with free coupons. I've seen the free coupons it provides. They are for bullshit items that I do not eat. The register never prints out coupons for skim milk or kale or dried beans or cauliflower. They never have coupons for turmeric, for garlic, for apples. They have coupons for things like Sopwith Camel Breakfast Pizza Bites, No Way Jose Beef and Bean Burrito Snacks, Hungry Steve Frozen Chicken Potpie Dinner, Communist Manifesto Black Bean Soup, Chunky Little Waif Snack-Cakes, and so forth. I do not eat these things. Ever. For any reason. If I were starving, I would not eat these things.
Also, Weis has raised my ire because they do not have a sufficient selection of ingredients. They have endless aisles of ready-to-go food but they have jack shit for ingredients. Their produce is good, but their dried beans? Sucky. Their rice choices? Limited. Kinds of flour? Puh-lease. The Weis is not particularly targetted to meeting my needs as a consumer.
There's probably something wrong with me, given that I have this dysfunctional of a relationship with one of my grocery stores.
