Bucket O' Bulletz

I have a running list of places I would like to visit before I die. One of those places is Rome. I have been taking a long look at the attractions of Rome. They have so much culture and history there. You can go to the museums and see great art.

Then there are the hotels that stay within the style of Rome. I would adore staying in one of the state rooms fashioned like one of a Roman emperor’s bed chamber. That would just make my day. I might never leave the room! The next best thing would be to have a luxuriously decorated hotel with plain rooms. HAHA. Who knows what one would find in the very place they are staying? Rome has always fascinated me, as does anything of the era of Cleopatra.

When I left you I thought everything was going well with my day until…

I picked up everything that I needed from the store and decided to hurry up through the self checkout. Is it any surprise that it wasn’t so fast?

I had picked up some Nesquick powder that was on sale without the card. Lo and behold, the 2nd package rings up at the regular price. The girl behind the counter who is there to help customers in situations like this came over to pretty much tell me I was the idiot. She was all ” well you have to swipe your card, do you have it on you? ” and I said NO. I purposely chose things that were on sale without the card because of this. Now she wants to see where I got it from… HA It was right down the aisle across from the checkout so I took her there. Then she felt stupid and is asking me what the difference was between the ones on sale and the ones not on sale. There was NO difference, so we had to go back to the checkout and she fixed the problem for me.

FINALLY I was on my way home, praying that nothing else would hinder me getting back quickly. Thank GOD nothing else did…but when I got home…

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What is the prize? How can we attain it? Where do we find the prize?

I was just reading about the 25 Million Future Travel Reward. There is a call going out to the airplane manufacturers to find better ways to fuel the planes that pollute the atmosphere. It is a simple call, but not so simple to employ. The world is dying from the use of all the fossil fuels, and we aren’t helping much with the technology that is being utilized. We have the resources to do better for our environment, but we still seem to be refusing to do anything that will have a global positive impact.

There is a $25 million prize for the person who comes up with the first Green Trans Oceanic Airplane…but isn’t the bigger prize really the effect of this awesome technology?

If the manufacturers and developers would band together to find better solutions for the environment and then DEMAND that these technologies be put en force, there is nothing that would stop us from healing the world. Take a read through the prize proposal and you will see exactly what I mean.

When last we talked about this, I had just had a fiasco with the gas station… now we have left the gas station and found our way to ACME.

I found a decent parking space, although people were near running me over as I picked my way through the small amount of traffic to the door. All my gallon jugs were in the cart with me, and I thought that all would be well. I filled the water jugs systematically as I always do, two hands to two jugs to two filler machines. Everything is going well until *after I have counted the money out 3 times to make sure I had enough* the money that I had left for the 11th and 12th jugs goes spilling into the water reservoir which is covered by a grill of sorts. I was amazed to find that I only had 4 nickels left to fill the final jug. I was flabbergasted! How in the world do I NOT count correctly when I made sure to count by jug 40cents each?

I have to change my fingers to those of a contortionist to get the money out because, lo and behold, the grill is STUCK on so I can’t get it off. GREAT. Now there is a person behind me waiting patiently to fill their own jug and I am still standing there like a cat trying to get a mouse out of a hole. UGH. I finally get all my 4 nickels together and notice that my water jug is suddenly less full than it was when I started fishing for my change.

I guess it’s just divine providence… if I had filled the final jug I would have had to deal with the leaky jug and lose money that way. I was able to switch from the faulty jug to the perfect one without hassle. YAY

I thought things were looking up…

to be continued