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...complaint:
Ugh, the Safeway in my neighbourood really needs new management.
On my way home after enjoying a day out in the sun, I stopped by to get something to warm up for dinner. When I entered I saw these terribly long lines for the checkouts, so I grabbed the item I wanted and headed to the self scan area. That was when I learned why the lines were so long (going all the way to the back of the store) as it was closed off. One would think they'd get all hands on deck to man the standard checkout aisles however, only two of the six were open, but on top of that, there was nobody pulled to do bagging so the cashier had to do so her/himself slowing the process down even more.
I don't know how this place manages to stay in business given their lack of customer service even before the pandemic.
I ended up putting the item back and left in disgust after which went to the Subway by my building to get a sandwich. Unfortunately, as subway is a restaurant, that had to come off my regular bankcard instead of the EBT one.
the shopping cart "page" seems to be a bit slow tonight.
edit: Kyoto Kid, I know how you feel. i've been to stores in the suburbs where only two checkout lines were opened too. It was 3 PM on a Saturday.
dunno that its complaint worthy, there nothing in FG i want to buy.
too soon to see if anything on my wishlist lit up
You have people bagging your purchases?
...at the regular checkouts here, usually yes. It's not like those "warehouse" type grocery marts.
They even have "express" lane but in all the years I've been living in this area of town, I've never, ever seen it open once.
Most of the time there is only one of the 6 staffed checkouts open because they try to force everyone to use the self checkouts. I usually don't like using them when I have a lot of items as somewhere along the line, the automated system screams at me I'm doing something wrong. With only one item, (particularly with an easily scanable barcode) I am usually safe. What is worse, they tend to be fairly expensive (more so than the other market I usually go to) particularly if you are not a member of their "club". I only stop there if I need something in a pinch even though they are much closer to my place than my usual market.
This was a fairly serious situation and there was no contingency at all particularly since there was a large number of shoppers. Would have hated to have something like ice creme and been stuck at the back of one of those lines as their checkout staff are also very slow. At the other market I usually go to, I'm through the checkout quickly, even with a lot of items.
when did flower power end?
did people decide over night it was boring or something?
did it become illegal or something?
are hippies and hipsters the same thing?
Hipsters are "cool" (or annoying, depending on who you ask) because they like obscure bands (or obscure anything), and got into stuff before it was trendy. They wear skinny jeans and thick glasses and drink coffee. A lot of times they will stop liking something if it becomes really popular. Hipsters were a thing in the last decade or so. I haven't heard anyone talk about them recently, though.
Hippies wear bell bottoms and smoke pot and have long hair. They believe in peace, love and happiness. They like to say groovy and far out. They dig earth tones, peasant tops, and tye die. They were a big thing in the 60s and 70s.
No idea about flower power.
Pseudo-Complaint: I went grocery shopping in this little town a few days ago. The checkout was really crowded, they had to open the other checkout lane because there were two people in front of me. Wheee... small town perks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_power ;
Having been involved somewhat in that trend in that era, my observation was that it was a "Paradise Lost" syndrome. Interesting idea, idealistic, grew uncontrollably, people are not perfect, drugs don't always help, violence creeps in, squalor, apathy, too many miss the point of it all, it becomes an excuse to overindulge. A few made it through intact, and even improved, but many died, however, many learned and adapted and are hiding amongst us still.
The '70s were a terrible fashion statement. I'm embarrassed to think that I used to dress in paisley satin & rayon fire traps, with wild frizzy very flammable afro-type hair while lighting pipes near my face with big flamed lighters.
Silly rabbit!
"
Gimme a head with hair
Long, beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming
Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there (Hair!)
Shoulder length or longer hair (Hair!)
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy
Hair (Hair! Hair! Hair! Hair! Hair! Hair!)
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair
I let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for the buzzin' bees (buzzin' beeeeeeeesssss)
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair (Hair! Hair!…
"
But regarding "hippies" and "hipsters". My impression is that hipsters were the Beat Generation, during the '50s. Coffee houses, folk songs, unintelligble poems. Finger clicking instead of clapping.
Hippies came during the late '60s into the '70s. Long hair, outlandishly creative clothing, love/peace/flowers/drugs until it evolved away. Partially because of the strict laws that arose to curb the drug use. As a college student I remember often and fearlessly walking the tiny boardwalk at the ocean shore in Melbourne, FL and buying LSD and marijuana openly from the local teens. while watching the waves roll in in the late '60s. Then the cops caught on and started arresting people.
But all in all, hippieism was a trend, a fad, that was too unstructured to survive in its pure sense. It morphed away into dark corners but exists in the minds of a few who nurse a few glimmers of hope.
They were.
But I also remember the term "hip" and "being hip" and "hipsters" before hippies blossomed. Perhaps the "hippies" grew into the appellation "hip" that already existed. Don''t ask me, I'm no expert I just lived through those times much of which is obscured in smoke, or earlier yet, scrambled by highschool angst.
I thought hippies were like ribbies and toesies...?
I didn't know this. Hipsters (as I know them) were huge a few years back (maybe 2013 or therabouts?), and it seemed like they annoyed almost everyone but themselves. My friends used to have hipster moments, but thankfully that faded when the trend did. It's fine if someone likes something obscure, but I don't agree with the notion that everything popular automatically sucks. It's funny, because it was pretty trendy for a while, so they must have felt pressured to abandon ship and stop being hipsters when that happened.
I think hippies was originally a slightly contemptuous/patronising label from beat-generation hipsters to their successors
"Hipster", in the contemporary context, is one of those words that became meaningless almost immediately after it entered the zeitgeist, becoming a sort of all-purpose insult for anyone you find unbearable. When it first originated, it basically referred to white people who were into jazz and other aspects of African American culture.
Genuine complaint...
I usually have a considerable amount of lumber sitting around between larger products, so in general I have enough on hand for several smaller projects, so there is usually a bit of time between when I restock what I like to have on hand... Because of the pandemic, prices went up a lot, but not more than I expected... I've been hearing a lot about how the prices for construction materials have gone up, but realistically that's all you ever hear, so I kinda tune it out... I have a couple of big projects I'll be doing soon and I decided to give the prices at Home Depot a look to give me an idea of what the overall costs are going to be...
Holy f**k.
An 8 foot 2" x 4" is $10... The average price of a sheet of plywood is almost $60... it's pretty much a 200% price increase over the last couple of months.
I'm anticipating a lot of bubbles will be bursting soon, just like after Katrina.
makes corky's condo more precious,. wonder if his in-laws moved in
...when I lived in Olympia WA back in the 80s I attended the local college there (Evergreen State) of and on. it was one of those schools where you drafted up a contract with a faculty sponsor for a year rather than abide by a strict "classic" college curriculum. Actually learned a lot more there than the time I spent at the U of Wisconsin which was an ultra structured environment (Phys Ed was still a required class and the dorms were gender segregated). I've always been more of a self directed learner (often beyond what was supposed to be my academic level) so my second college experience was much better. There more older folks there besides myself many just into lifelong learning, so I didn't feel "out of place" as I would have at a traditional institution.
OK that said.
One of the things there that I did kind of chuckle about was the fact it had a hippie culture sort of atmosphere. However, many of the younger folks who embraced the days of peace, love, & groovy were what were referred top as "trust fund hippies" as many drove nice cars (particularly for college students) had nice Hi-Fi systems in their apartments (the student residences there were for the most part not the traditional type with individual rooms and the loo/showers down the hall, but instead, shared apartments each with their own bathrooms and kitchens), and always had the funds for what they needed. Yeah it was entertaining and sometimes amusing when they encountered those of us who were actually part of the original movement
Oh and the 70s, I hear you. Leisure Suits, shag carpets, macramé, paisley, wide collar shirts, 8-tracks, mood rings, decoupage, disco, and some of the ugliest cars on the road.
...here in Portland (the "Cradle of Craft Brewing") they were easily noticed as their beer of choice was Pabst. Before the local hipster fad, Pabst wasn't all that common here, now you see it everywhere.
...it used to be marginally OK, a long time ago (as large "industrial" beers go) when it was still brewed in Milwaukee. Since then brewing was contracted to the Stroh Brewing out of Detroit and currently, Miller/Coors. Since then it's pretty much become as the Scottish would say..."crap".
...well after picking up a couple nice sets for my Japan storylines on the last Flash Sale, back to saving money as more fantasy stuff, meh..
oh i remember the hair movie. hbo used to play it several times a day.
my buppy is giving me chores to do in my dreams.
few nights ago i dreamed i was scrubbing his food bowl clean.
last night he was running thru mud puddles, he was unhappy cuz he wanted a bath
which is weird, cuz when he was alive he didnt like baths
all that dream scrubbing is why i wake up so tired. time for a nap.
...41 years ago today one of the most noteworthy geological events occurred not far from where I live in the eruption of Mt. St Helens. I was still on a train heading to Seattle to start a new life at the time when it went off. We were at a stop in Yakima when the announcement came over the intercom that everyone had to disembark and go into the station because in the words of the conductor "Mt. St. Helen's just exploded". We were kept there most of the morning into the early afternoon as we watched morning turn to midnight (Yakima was directly under the ash plume). After scouting the tracks ahead supervisors found that the train would clear the ash cloud as it turned north so we rebounded and proceeded on to Seattle.
I remember when I got to my hotel in the University District late that evening I turned on the news to see the almost apocalyptic scenes of the massive ash plume venting form the mountain which had lost about 3,000' of its peak. Mt. St Helens was almost a sister to Mt. Fuji in Japan having a lovely 9,000' symmetric cone. Today form Portland it looks like the top was sliced off (the main opening crater actually faces to the north where the slope gave way). I keep imagining how that lovely perfect triangular peak would appear every time I looked north while crossing one of the bridges over the Willamette River.
Along I-5 south of Centralia is a group of small hills with grass and trees on them off to one side. These originally were mounds of ash and silt that was dredged from the Toutle river down which one of the primary mudflows travelled.
I'll never forget when the weather forecast later that first night as it mentioned the high, low, chance of rainfall, and chance of ashfall. What a welcome to then my new home in the Pacific Northwest.
From Portland before the eruption:
From Portland today:
The scene in Yakima before we finally departed.
Had to go to the emergency clinic because it was really hard to breathe this morning. Things started going downhill a couple of days ago, but I was hoping it would blow over. No suck luck. Anyway, I'm feeling better now (thanks to a few breathing treatments and an IV filled with I forget what). But the doctor says I have Bronchitis, so I will have to take it easy for a while. :(
There's a nice neighborhood maybe half an hour away from where I live. It's quiet but next to good shopping and closer to the city. I asked my husband if we could maybe buy a house there one day. He told me that because of it's location, if Rainier erupted, it'd be all over for us, with no time to get out. In Florida we only had to deal with hurricanes, and those give lots of notice.