"The Cove" - have you seen it?

It doesn't take much to help our guys and gals overseas!

I sent a "Cup of Joe" overseas through Green Beans Coffee (http://www.greenbeanscoffee.com/coj/index.php) It's not that hard to do, and you can send however much you want.  Here is just one of the three thank you notes I received :)

I know, I know.

I haven't been "around."

I haven't really "posted."

Blah, blah, blah.

We've been a tad bit busy in the past couple of months:

1. Even though our wedding isn't until August 2011, we still have plenty of planning to do. We're getting married in North Georgia at a Winery so we had to jump right on all of the planning and such that needed to be completed so we weren't stuck saying, "okay. We have the venue, but we don't have the caterer. Now what?"

2. At the end of May, we moved into our new house. It's west of Atlanta by about 20 miles or so. It's a 3BD/2 (soon to be 3) BA house. I guess you'd call it a "split-ranch." Our garage, laundry room, and finished basement are downstairs, and our main living area is upstairs. The best part is the 8 ft. privacy-fenced backyard. Talk about doggie Heaven! It's a fairly quiet neighborhood. You don't really see a lot of people out and about, and it's convenient to my work, the Silver Comet Trail, and some of my friends on this side of town.

3. Andrew graduates in September and sits for his boards to be a certified EMT-I, and almost immediately after graduation, he goes into the Police Academy. Yes, I know it sounds odd, but Andrew's overall goal is to be a K-9 Officer so it actually makes sense.

4. We helped Andrew's sister move...again. "Fun" times.

Same ole, same ole except for the wedding planning. We have a few tricks up our sleeves :)

When technology FAILS.

We walked into our [new] local grocery store, and we headed straight to Customer Service to sign up for their discount card. While we waited, there was a guy in front of us waiting, doing something on his iPhone, and generally being anti-social.

The assistant manager (who looked and spoke like Delroy Lindo) came up to the desk. He asked who was next, and the guy just stood there staring at his iPhone. When I pointed to him, the Asst. Manager asked, "May I help you?"

In super slow motion, the guy pulls around his packed backpack and says, "yeah I just bought all of these items, and I was charged wrong." He proceeds to unload his backpack full of items he bought, telling the Asst. Manager he hadn't been discounted, and then he showed the Asst. Manager that he had scanned his value card onto his iPhone. The Asst. Manager looked up and asked, "you....scanned your card? Our machines can't scan barcodes that are on an iPhone."

When the Asst. Manager went to check pricing for something (the guy had taken pictures of the sale price listed on the shelves - then why didn't he open his mouth at the checkout when he was charged wrong?!) the guy turned to us and said, "this happens every single time." Okay - so let's use some common sense.

If you have issues every single time then, obviously, you knew your iPhone wouldn't work for scanning the barcode of a value card. You have had this happen before. Why not just take out your value card, and use it instead of going through all of this again?

Southern Belles for Bullies - May 1st - 8pm

Fine piece of literature

This fine masterpiece of literary genius comes from my co-worker's son, Ethan:

Inspirational

Roger Ebert's Post-It: