The goal here is to get into some kind of rhythm getting the pictures uploaded to Flickr and posts to my blog. I figure if I can add a few pictures every couple of days then I will eventually get through all of my pictures and be caught up. One can only hope!
OK, so I am a few months late. However, the very fact that you see this post means that I am taking some effort to get my pictures off my computer and out to the internet where other’s can enjoy them. I guess that is what happens when your family takes off for a month.
There are a lot more pictures on Flickr that are only available to Family and Friends, so sign up for an account (it’s free and they won’t bug you after the initial confirmation email) and let me know and I will invite you to see the rest of the pictures.
Kind of. I’m going to give Flickr a fling for posting my pictures on the web. I like all of the organization options they have and they aren’t pushing all sorts of other services at you. And, as an added bonus, I can actually post from Flickr to this weblog. Two birds at once. Awesome. So, this picture is just a teaser. You would need to get an free account with Flickr to see the rest of them. Once you do, just let me know and I can get you access.
Finally, here are some pictures from Christmas. Real December 25th Christmas, that is! Not the January 8th, Amos Christmas. We had a good time. Of course Betty was in town. Robin and her boys also came in for the weekend.
I’m actually trying out some new picture gallery display code. If you have any problems with it, please send me an email and let me know what the issues are. It is a work in progress.
If you’ve watched any TV around the first of the year, you probably saw the new BLOCKBUSTER® commercials touting “the end of late fees.” Glenna and I got into a discussion about what exactly that meant. Of course, it was prompted by the presence of two videos that I was pretty sure were overdue.
I figured that BLOCKBUSTER® was just making a semantic change. Instead of calling it a “late fee”, it would now be called a “rental extension fee.” Glenna believed that it meant that there were no more fees. Ever. And you could keep a movie as long as you wanted.
Neither of us were right. Here is what the BLOCKBUSTER® FAQ has to say:
Movie and game rentals are due back at the date and time stated on the transaction receipt. There is no additional charge if a member keeps a rental item beyond the pre-paid rental period. However, if a member chooses to keep a rental item more than a week after the end of the rental period, Blockbuster will automatically convert the rental to a sale on the eight (8th) day after the end of the rental period. Blockbuster will charge the membership account the selling price for the item in effect at the time of the rental. The selling price will be discounted by the amount of the initial rental fee paid by the member at the time of rental. If the member returns the item within 30 days of the sale date, Blockbuster will credit back to the membership account the amount previously charged to the member’s account or the member’s credit card, as applicable, for the selling price of the item, but the member will be charged a minimal restocking fee.
So, there are still fees, but they do allow you to keep a movie out for an additional seven days without getting charged. Overall, I think it is a pretty fair policy. We’ll have to see what it does to their bottom line since we had a Trivial Pursuit question the other day that went something along the lines of “What company made $800 million in late fees in 2001?”
