I frequently feel like getting out and pushing the progress bar myself.

They certainly needed to do something after launching the worst ad campaign in recent memory.

1. Goodwill has a discount policy. Only managers can give a discount but do it frequently.

2. Much of the merchandise is not "free". It is donated and a donation receipt is given to the donor. If the merchandise is sold for less than the donation receipt, Goodwill is in violation of tax laws. In some circumstances, companies give items to good will for a tax deduction and those items will never be discounted. (Around here they have pink tags.)

3. That being said, my cynical belief is that the employee was no modern day Robin Hood and was likely funneling expensive items to cohorts for little or no payment.

What? There are different types of cinnamon? Learn something new every day.

A friend wrote an almost true-to-life Western novel ("Wide Open" by Larry Bjornson, by the way). Even though it has won almost every literary award in the genre, some people do not like it because it is "kind of slow". That is code for, "Not enough people getting shot."

Ah, yes! I remember "Horse with No Name" as the biggest hit with the stupidest lyrics. Later on in life I learned that pop lyrics need to be evocative (and occasionally provocative). Poetry is optional.

Hey, Stop That!

I get paid by clueless individuals to teach them how to use the over-powered, clumsily-programmed grandpa-boxes that computer salesmen like to push.

I watched for three minutes, and might have missed something, but did not hear or see anyone play anything but guitar strings.

I grew up in central Illinois. The business owner of my high school job said that he knew George's sister. I thought he was kidding me, but it might have been true.

I had guessed it was Sam, but for that to have been the case both the blue and the red box would have been opened but the green one left untouched.

When I was in school, homework did not count much towards the final grade. While lots of it was assigned, if one did well on the test then it did not need to be finished. Has this changed?

That is one heck of a yeast infection!