I ended up playing bouncer during the Battle of the Garage Bands and only heard, but didn't see, the bands. Only one band sounded horrible. The rest were pretty good.

Which band featured your daughter? (I couldn't vote anyway, but still...)

Fair enough... Late is great, especially the final half-hour at Wal-Mart. Sometimes it is quiet (too quiet...)...

Militias Mischef

Or is it Malicious Mischef?

They have some strange spelling but I don't recall just what.

Are they good? Heck, I don't know. Some good rythyms if you ignore all the screaming.

I actually remember them. Yeah, they were pretty good. You can tell they practiced and there was some talent there.

The screaming? Apparently, that's the thing with bands today. I think Beavis is more used to it, but I found myself trying to focus more on the music than the lyrics/singing.

The one thing about the Battle, as with other Battle of the Bands - the more people you bring, the better chance you get to win it. In a way, it is like a school election - popularity, baby.

Yeah, well...I've only heard them twice. I was going to go that night but then couldn't bring myself to sit through however many bands we would have needed to sit through in order to hear 'em.

Oy veh! Do I sound like an old lady, or what?

I actually enjoy the songs they've written more when they are fooling around singing them while playing them on acoustic guitar because then they don't scream.

I tend to go to Wally World @ around 2-3AM

(yes.. a supercenter not the aberdeen location)

Why go at all?

Golf (Rabbit) or Jetta?

My best car ever...78 Scirocco SE, Recaro seats. Mine had red pinstriping and red/black plaid seats. Stylin'

I still miss that car!

It is hard to pass-up the large box stores. Looks like both WalMart and Cosco's financials show that that is the case with customers new and old.

I read a WSJ article, oh, about a month and a half ago now about the prices at WalMart, opposed to 'normal' grocery stores. In it they claimed their prices were, essentially, staying the same while other grocery stores are on the rise.

I avoid WalMart as much as I can, but it has relatively little to do with WalMart's business model/practices... and almost everything to do with it's 'select' clientèle.

I do most of my shopping out of town (and not at WalMart).

We are always admonished to shop locally, but when confronted with the choices, they are not always viable; i.e, when I learned a local garden & pet store carried a certain product I had been buying on the internet, I decided to give the local store a try. They had exactly one each of the product I was looking for at MORE THAN TWICE THE PRICE THAT I PAID. Even figuring in shipping, it still was way cheaper to buy off the 'net.

Every time I hear Leroy Tipton on the radio telling everyone to shop local it just bugs me. Sometimes you just have to do the math.