Last night, after coming home from the UMD women's hockey game I stopped at Wal-Mart to buy a few things. They had 4 'lanes' open and a ton of people trying to get checked out. I got in one line at 9:45 as did 3 other people behind me, one was a lady with a large cart full of groceries. As soon as it was MY turn to get my stuff checked out, it turned 10 pm.
The "cashier"(whatever Wal-Mart calls the girls they hire) tells the lady with all the groceries, "umm, excuse me, this lane is closed." She checks my stuff that was already on the belt, I pay, and she just walks away from the now 5 people in her line. So after waiting over 15 minutes to get to the front of a line, she now has to get to the back of one of the other lines and wait all over again.
At the least, I go to Wal-Mart twice a week. 99% of the time I go there I use the self-checkout lanes, but they close those things before 9 pm so I had to go through a lane with a person "working." Maybe the word person should be in italics also?
I was looking around a store the other day and found these Grandmaster of Wrestling dvd's that had the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, Classy Freddie Blassy, and other stuff on it and had to make the purchase, since I've been a wrestling fan forever.
The dvd is great, though it's only an hour long.
Classy Freddie Blassy sings a song he made popular (I guess) 30 years ago on the Dr Dimento show (they mention Dr. Dimento a bunch) called 'Pencil Necked Geek.'
Nikolai Volkoff wrestles Bam Bam Bigelow, who everyone knows for the flames tattooed on his fat bald head.
The Iron Sheik is the highlight of the video, he does a weight strength exercise with some heavy bars, then wrestles against The Great Maccabe for something they called The Maccabian Title I believe.
Anyway, I bought 6 of the DVD's and have listed 5 on of them on eBay for people to buy. I've seen the dvd on eBay before but not as cheap. CLICK HERE to see the DVD listing and make the purchase. It's only $4.75 including shipping/handling if you live in the US.
WOW.. Aerosmith and Motley Crue are getting together for a concert tour...and its' coming to Minneapolis at Target Center December 7th. It would be a great concert to go to but the only way I'm going is if I win tickets, because Target Center isn't the best place to listen to concerts. The acoustics aren't that complementary to rock concerts. It does sound like a great time.
If you're from Minnesota, like a lot of the people who've found this blog, AND you fish or hunt, come visit MyFishingPals.com
This website, made for those of us in Minnesota to have a place to talk and message with other people intersted in fishing mostly, is great. The message boards are always filled with good information about fishing. You don't neccessarily have to be fishing IN Minnesota to learn something from the site.
There's also a great photo gallery where you can send 'Webdude,' the site creator your pictures from fishing and get them posted for the world to see :)
Well, it's *STILL* raining out today... oh boy... I think I'd rather have snow than rain now.. the rain makes it look miserable and drab.
I actually ate a whole f'ing box of the mike & ike's in one night last night BURP. Tomorrow I'll actually get more beanie babies listed.. today I just decided to wait a day rather than list more. At least that's my plan as of right now :)
Ok, the Beanie Baby listings continue, though today being Monday I didn't exactly feel like listing a ton, so I got 4 listings on ;)
You can CLICK HERE to see the Beanie Babies that are listed today. I'll have more to list during the week and then I'll finally be done with the majority of them :)
I took a short trip through the Dollar store to see what they had this week that might be profitable to buy for $1.00 and resell for a $2 or more on eBay. I didn't find anything of value, but I always go in there once a month or sometimes twice, to buy bubble mailers when I have stuff to ship. They sell the small ones 3/$1 so that's a better price than Wal-Mart's price.
Anyway, when I was in there and didn't find anything, other than a 1 hour pro wrestling dvd that I bought for myself(and yes, watched immediately after I got home) I was going to the checkout and noticed... I haven't had these in 4 years, Mike & Ike Jolly Joes (The grape flavor candy... MMMMMMMMMM)
YUM I bought 2 of the 1 lb boxes, and the best thing is.. they're still FRESH rather than all dried out and stale. I wished they'd had the Hot Tamales also, but I'm not complaining. :) Growing up around hockey rinks I kind of grew up with Hot Tamales, and Jolly Rancher Stix. Cinnamon candy kicks ass also.
Monday isn't neccessarily a GOOD day is it... today's a boring bland grey rainy fall day in Minnesota. Have to go to the post office sometime but other than that it'll be a really boring day which is good after 3 straight days watching hockey.
WWE Raw tonight was TAPED yesterday, blah, so going to wrestling websites is out, since most will have spoilers(results) posted to make the show no fun to watch.
15 days until Halloween... last year I handed candy out to 75 separate kids... the largest Halloween I can remember ever. Hopefully this year the weather cooperates again, and I stay out of the Halloween candy beforehand.
I'm thinking about creating a 4th blog, this one for my business stuff on eBay. I'll advertise what I've got to list for consignment as well as a way to advertise myself as a consignment seller. That's my current plan but who knows. As late Fall, early Winter approach the eBay consignment business usually picks up and I get extra busy, which is **NOT** a problem.
Gotta get working on Beanie Babies again tonight since there's still a bunch to be listed before I do the one big listing of all that didn't sell.
Spent nearly 6 hours watching hockey tonight, between the UMD men's and women's hockey games, and gonna spend another 2 and half hour or so tomorrow again. Both teams won today/tonight so, GO DOGS!
Got home just in time to see the last 20 NASCAR laps...Dale Jr finished 4th and Jeff Gordon's engine quit just before I got home. Kasey Khane won the race in Charlotte.
Nice sunny day today after a couple days of snow and rain :) The temperature wasn't bad at all and the snow's melted.... for now.
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The wind's kicked up tonight now and I decided to take a couple pictures in the dark just for the hell of it. Only one turned out but it's a good one for a night time picture with only the camera flash. You can right click the picture and choose 'view image' to see it full sized.
While I'm not someone that uses a bunch of "cool" weather channel type words to describe the weather, I would assume that today is a blustery day to say the least. Dictionary.com defines blustery as "to roar and be tumultuous, as wind" so I guess that's definitely what today and what is forecasted as tomorrow is like. Luckily we never got the 8 inches of snow they had first predicted, and maybe only received half an inch at best(or worst?)
26 Hours from now the UMD men's hockey season starts against U-Mass Lowell so it's that time of year again. The women (see the umd women's blog in my profile) play the North Dakota 'fighting' Sioux Saturday and Sunday afternoon's of course.
The Vikings are off this weekend, and so is Notre Dame so there's not that much good football to watch. Ok.. the Vikings aren't fun to watch right now but still I'd watch at least hte beginning. I'll miss watching the Nascar race while at the women's hockey game but that's what happens during hockey season.
Kerry Rodd's making his return to the Northland airwaves Friday morning at 6 am with a NEW show on Cloquet's radio station WKLK (AM 1230 and FM 96.5) His no compete clause finally ends and we can hear the best area broadcaster again. There's been funny commercials on the air about the show's coming, but he can't talk on them so it's even funnier.
Today there's a funny commercial talking about a character from Scanlon who was part of the station's past for Friday's show so we'll see what happens Friday morning.
Kerry's also got a Saturday morning show advertised from 7-9 with Tracy Lundeen who he's done plenty of radio with over the years.
The weather forecast is calling for 8 inches of snow here by Thursday sometime. YUCK.. This is the most snow this early I'm sure since the 1991 Halloween snowstorm. That halloween snowstorm is legendary for northern Minnesota. Hopefully it doesn't snow *THAT* much, but it does tend to melt the first snow every year. It's definitely going to feel like hockey season though this weekend with the cold weather.
I've gotten myself hooked on playing Literati on yahoo again.. mostly play at night when there's nothing else to do. Literati is Yahoo's taken on SCRABBLE, but without a set number of each letter and with a little different board than SCRABBLE ever had. The game is great and last night I re-achieved my 1800 rating :)
Testing a yahoo messenger button
THIS blog entry, I just want to promote a couple new things I've found, including a totally FREE email service called breakthrough.com that has an anti spam in-box for you.
Another great site is 'nicecards.com' where you send E-greeting (or online greeting cards) cards. There's always been these sites where you send them to your friends email addresses of course. THIS site only does PG rated cards by the way.
Click on the banners to go to the sites, if you find them interesting, they're free to join of course.
The Family Reunion show wasn't too bad, especially when they made the main event Undertaker vs John Cena. Obviously they weren't going to FINISH that match and it had the expected run-ins at the end, but still it was the Undertaker on RAW live. They're setting the 'stories' for the Cyber Sunday PPV coming November 5th.
I added a search box to this blog at the bottom of the page, it should be working already since google's already got this blog in it's search engine. I like finding little "toys" online for websites and stuff.
Dale Jr got wrecked with the race almost over when Jimmie Johnson got spun by Brian Vickers, so he basically got ripped off at the end of the race, where he could have made up huge points in the chase for the cup.
WWE Raw Family Reunion is tonight.... "huge" 3 hour show with all the stars from over the years and the 3 "brands." They've been hyping this show for a few weeks now so they better make a great show.
Watched the WWE 'Smackdown' ppv on Paltalk last night. It wasn't that bad.. but I don't normally watch Smackdown since there's always other stuff to do Friday nights. They really didn't accomplish much with that show, at least to me.
I've got a nice page that lists a bunch of pro wrestling websites. Go here and you can find a bunch of links to pro wrestling news sites.
Don't forget to click on a google ad or two if you like reading my 'Random Thoughts' since the google ads support the blogs (this and my umd women's hockey blog.)
Soon as I mention the VIkings playing like crap, they come back and score 2 quick touchdowns. It reminds me of the Notre Dame game that I posted about a couple weeks ago when they made a huge comeback. They just kicked a field goal to lead 19-17 but there's close to 3 minutes left and Detroit has the ball.
