Running Out of the Store With A Product I Did Not Pay For

subtitle:  Blood At a Low Boil

This Sunday afternoon I walked out of the CVS drugstore holding a bottle of hydrogen peroxide for which I did not pay.

Several yards out, I suddenly realized this, and made a quick U-Turn, saying outloud to a bystander, "I'm the shoplifter... oops!"

One of the contestants on Jeopardy related a story in which they saved the life of a dog who had swallowed poison by giving him hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting, after first checking the expiration date.  They mentioned that this product degrades with time.

So today, whilst in the drugstore to get a Covid booster, I thought to grab a new bottle of H-P.

A young man walked in wearing a light-colored hoodie, with a black balaclava underneath it, carrying a black backpack.  My subconscious told me immediately "thief" since it's a very hot day today.  I followed him to where he'd hurriedly walked to the refrigerated beer section.

Pulling out my phone, I didn't think quickly enough to start the video, but as I rounded the corner I witnessed him pulling two 16-cans of beer of some sort and dropping them into his backpack.

At the top of my lungs I yelled "Shoplifter!  Shoplifter" and followed him as he headed to the entrance, which was at the opposite end of the store.

People at the pharmacy heard me as I continued to shout this, and I heard a loudspeaker announcement, "Security to the front entrance".  Now the perpetrator started as I again shouted this while in a direct line of sight, and he changed from a brisk walk to a run.  He exited the store where he was joined by a companion in a white baseball shirt with vertical black pinstriping.  They took off running.  My regret is that I did not follow through with the thought of sprinting to the car, following them while calling 911, and guiding in a Sherriff deputy for a bust.  I was an eyewitness and would have testified against these punks.  They seemed to be on foot.

It's then that I realized I myself had removed a product from the store (bottle of hydrogen peroxide in my hand) and anxious to keep a good reputation, and feeling some fear of being labeled a thief, returned the store quickly.

A man inside the store who had heard my yelling and saw the perp running out said he saw him holding a short black knife in his right hand, arm straight down.  I never saw the knife, being on the other side of the thief.

So he and I agreed it was for the best that no one had tried to physically confront him.  He would have protected himself by slashing, I'm sure.

Anyway, thanks for letting me express this experience to the Universe, now I can go have some chamomile tea and calm down and let Satan's world be what Satan's world is gonna be.

But yeah don't it make the blood boil?  We got diabolical inflation to deal with, then thieves contribute the higher prices (so they say) by stealing merchandise.

Is Jeopardy Champ Daniel Moore of Pittsburgh One of Jehovah's Witnesses?

The Jeopardy champ from Friday July 14, 2023 was Daniel Moore.

Is he one of Jehovah's Witnesses?

Here are some reasons to suspect so:

ONE - looks clean in that suit

TWO - chose the Bible category

THREE - was very at ease in front of a large audience, as if he had been on the Theocratic Ministry School for years

FOUR - in the following "after the show" video, notice what he says about being teased for missing Bible questions.  Why would anyone tease him, unless he would be expected to know a lot about the Bible?

Making Momma Proud | Overheard on Set | JEOPARDY! - YouTube

UPDATED LINKS:

https://triblive.com/aande/movies-tv/pittsburghs-daniel-moore-snags-2nd-jeopardy-win/

https://factspodium.com/daniel-moore-jeopardy-wiki-age-family-job/

Excellent resource:

https://tvregular.com/daniel-moore-jeopardy-contestant-stats-bio-age-job/

My Love-Hate Relationship with Carlos Casares - 619-419-9718 - Nokiero18@hotmail.com

Carlos Casares is an installer.

To know more about him, check this page:

619-419-9718 Carlos Casares

Two lessons learned from my experience with Carlos (who does great work, by the way, let it be known this is not to trash him) are:

ONE: He's someone who even explained to me early on, "he can't really come make the trip to our place unless there's enough work to warrant it" - meaning if he won't be picking up a check at the end of the job, he's not coming.  This is fine as long as the customer fully understands it.  The problem is that when his work fails, he's not coming back to fix it, despite his promises to do so.  Not unless there's another check to pick up.

TWO: Christy's Red Hot Blue Glue MUST be allowed to cure for 24 hours.  Also, it's even recommended that it be primed before use on PVC pipes.  Carlos used it alone (rather than the traditional and reliable purple-primer + clear-cement) to on our schedule 40 PVC irrigation pipes.  Then he "went to lunch" to allow it to cure for "an hour or more" and then tested it a full pressure.  (see video Nokiero18@hotmail.com Carlos Casares for the results).  PVC pipe repair MUST be allowed to cure for at least 24 hours per the instructions on the can for full strength.  

If you look at the above web page (in the link) and the video, you may wonder, who ended up fixing the pipe?

ANSWER:  I did it myself.  First of all, I went to Dixieline and was convinced that it would be okay to go ahead and use Christy's Red Hot Blue Glue again.  Zach's reason was that "we had another situation where the repair guy used Christy's and then 'went to lunch for 2 hours'.  The pipe failed.  However, since then, the guy has used Christy's but allowed it to cure for 24 hours, and has not had a problem since."

So I purchased another can of Christy's (which by the way, was what Carlos wanted to use again for the repair.  I told him I wanted Purple Primer and Clear Cement.  He said "okay" but never showed up).

However after reading the label carefully, and seeing that "primer is still recommended" I said "WHY would I use Christy's when I really should prime it anyway?" and returned the Christy's to Dixieline and replaced it with the standard purple primer (one can) and clear cement (second can).

Then I did the repair one at a time (pipe popped off in two places) allowing each end 24 hours to cure.

So far so good!

A PVC pipe repair is supposed to form a permanent bond that cannot be pulled apart.

Carlos Casares practice of "using Christy's then going to lunch for an hour" resulted in the catastrophic failure depicted in the above links.

So there we are!

I LOVE Carlos for his fine work installing the Pressure Reducer, the Water Tank, the Expansion Tank, and the Reverse Osmosis filter system.

I LIKE Carlos for his above-average but not perfect painting job on the bedrooms (the reason we met him in the first place, through Angi).

However I'm not so fond of Carlos for his shoddy work on the irrigation box valve PVC pipe connections, which failed after exactly one month and caused a flood in my neighbor's yard and kept our landcaping "dry" for 19 days (we tried to hand-water and hose-water best we could).

Taxiing to the Gate

She is only 19 [plus seven decades].

Ready to have your butts whipped [at Scrabble]?

After a gradual descent on final approach, her plane finally touched down a few days ago.

Nurse: do you have any pain?
Trudy: I don't have pain. I give pain.

Her wit has not been dampened in the least by such a long flight.

Friend discussing her final destination: Are you going to plant a big vegetable garden?
Trudy: Yeah... [several long seconds]... no broccoli!

She is moving across the tarmac, taxiing to the gate.

Contemporary aquaintance: We are free as birds!
Trudy: ...without wings.

At her gate she'll make a quick, luggageless transfer to her high speed underground sleeper train.

She is only 19 [plus seven decades].

RCA had a Vinyl Video Disc?

So fickle... one day it is Starman driving to Mars, now it's this video:

https://youtu.be/GuCdsyCWmt8

Currently the coolest thing in history.

Still trying to grasp what I just watched... a vinyl video disc?

Orbiting Tesla: Starman Drives to Mars

https://youtu.be/aBr2kKAHN6M

If you are not watching live, please do.

The coolest thing in eons.

Star Garbage

This is actually about a movie review:   Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

First however, let me digress, and enjoy some fond memories from the distant past.

Yes, I am old enough to remember when Star Wars was first released.

Television adverts flooded the market, and I clearly remember sitting watching TV with my Dad, and after such a trailer, he pronounced it "Star Garbage".

Not much later, my best friend from High School invited me to go see the opening at a theatre in San Francisco.

If this was 1977, there was no way we could have driven over, so I'm sure we must have taken the bus and then the BART train.

So over in the theatre, as I don't really need to mention we were blown away.

This was a motion picture like no other.

Fast Forward Forty Years

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released a day or two ago.

Oh how I wish my father was still alive... I would share with him via email or phone call that his original assessment of the first film, later to to re-dubbed Eposide IV, though horrifically inaccurate, was extremely true for this latest installment.

Side note:  my father not long later did see the 1977 Star Wars film, enjoyed it as any normal sane human would, and later recommended it to others, "you'll see things you've never seen before".

Tonight, however.

The Lot at Liberty Station.  Plush, reclining seats.  Refreshments at the push of a button.  3-D glasses.

It could not by any means necessary save this dog of a film.

True, the opening was promising.  The physics of an X-wing fighter in motion.  The excellent acting of Isaac as Poe Dameron.  This looked to be a beautiful film.

It died just after an 8th of the way in.

Who gave up?  Was the script deficient from the beginning?  Did the director just want to get this over as soon as possible and grab his paycheck?  Was Abrams, executive-producing from the heavens, confused or distracted.

Horrible, bad film.

Attempts at humor... at first "I'm holding for the commander" slightly amusing, became incredibly lame, failures with no heart.

IN MY HAUGHTY OPINION:

There were only two Star Wars films:   Star Wars (later dubbed IV), and Rogue One.

For the rest... I quote my father, who in his ignorance once proclaimed:  [see title of this post]