New Cool Idea by Wal-Mart

So I got back from my trip a few days ago. My family and I went to Connecticut to attend my cousin’s wedding. We drove down there, and let me tell you, the drive has it’s good points and it’s bad points. One good point is driving on the I-90, there are lots of rest stations, so I can go the washroom frequently. It does not have too much traffic either, but once yo get into Connecticut, and go on the city highways, oh man, those are horrible. Like every 500m there is an exit, and the signs are so confusing. So we were there for about 48 hours, and we got nothing, no return items. We did not have time.

But one thing I did see that was cool was in Wal-Mart. In the CD section, they have these machines that you place the CD barcode underneath it. The machine scans the CD and supposedly plays whichever song you desire to hear from the CD. This was an amazing concept I thought, it goes into a database and plays any song you want. However, I could not get the machine to work, and I did not want to look like a fool whose never seen it (even though that is the case) standing in front trying to get it to work.

One of the mot awkward things I saw down there was once a certain time at night hit, many of the streetlights start flashing. I was in total confusion of what this meant. We were following another car, so they were from Canada as well. So they ended up stopping at the light, and treating it as a four way stop sign. Meanwhile, we stopped too, and then we see all these cars go straight through. I guess it’s a good way to keep traffic moving, and treat it as a caution. This way nobody has to stop at lights when there are obviously not cars going the other way. When I told a co-worker of mine today, she told me many of the smaller towns do the same thing, flash yellow on direction, and red the other direction. Of course she’d know cause she lives in a small town up north.

The beginning of the basketball season has started, my teams seem to be doing pretty well so far tonight. I have been anxious about this season, more fantasy basketball teams. And, I will get to go to my first basketball game this year, waiting for that day to come.

You know I don’t know what is happening this past year with my clothes. It seems things I usually put in the wash and no harm is done, I do it now and everything is shrinking like mad. I have lost the use of many articles of clothing this past year, and it’s making me mad. Cause that means I have to buy more cause I lose an article. It also means ones I like a lot are now too small. What is with this, do I have to wash everything by hand now? I think there is something to do with the water.

Speaking of water. Coming home in the car today I listen to 680 News and it told me Ernie Eves plans to pass a new law that will make Ontario’s water the safest in the world. However, this comes at an expense, and that means a raise in water prices. As of today, we pay about 1/10th of a cent for every litre of water we use. However, thinking of raise, what if they raise it to 1/5th of a cent for every dollar. Now that rate does not seem so bad because it’s like 1/5th of a cent, but if you think about it, that’s double what you pay now, so it means your water bill will double. Now I doubt they will double the water bill, but this put some hindsight into the rates.