Business – Page 16 – Todd Bennetar

November 29, 2012

Basket Fillers

Stopped by Wal-Mart this afternoon to see if they had any early gardening supplies, but they are a little slow to stick their garden center and I came away empty handed. However, I decided to check out a few other items while I was there, and I found a few things to add to my basket. They have a new aisle of cheap crap that sells for $1 or $2 and they called “Basket Fillers.” That made me laugh – these poor Wal-Mart shoppers are so in need of direction that the Evil Wally Empire has started labeling things with suggestive names. Think you’re finished shopping? No – your basket is not full enough. You need some basket fillers – go over there and get you some.

I did pick up a pair of pajamas for my nephew. He is a Star Wars fan thanks to Uncle Adam, and there were some new PJs with Start Wars characters on them. My nephew is 6 years old, so I guess he’ll wear a six 6. I don’t know – how am I supposed to keep up with what size clothes everyone wears? At the checkout lane, the cashier looked a little frazzled, so I tried to cheer her up. Fridays and Saturdays have got to be the busiest days at Wally’s World of Wonder. I made a couple little jokes while she was ringing up my items and couldn’t get a smile out of her. Then she picked up the size 6T PJs to find the price tag and I asked her if she thought those PJs were the right size to fit me. That made her laugh – finally.

November 23, 2012

Webhosting Options For Blogging

My 12 year old niece is pestering me to help her get her own blog up and running. She is always checking this blog when she has time on her laptop and really likes the idea of having a blog, so I’ve been spending a little bit of time here and there with her on this issue. We have both been reading up on the web hosting sites that are available out there for folks like us. We don’t need anything fancy or frilly, but when it comes to webhosting it pays to do your homework a bit before diving in.

One article that we both read was regarding the Top Five Affordable Registrars, I was glad to see that Go Daddy and Yahoo were on their list as those are the two that I tend to lean towards to. Both are affordable, well known, well established and dependable, which are all good points to go on. I really had no idea that there were so many out there these days, things have gotten a bit more complicated than I remember, but we are still researching and will come to a decision by the end of next week. Then I’ll be busy teaching her all the ins and outs of blogging, sigh……..

November 21, 2012

Dollar Stores

Of all of the stores that have the “Dollar” included in their name such as: The Dollar Store, General Dollar, and The Dollar Tree, I have to say that The Dollar Tree is the best by far. You can count on only finding items that are really $1, if the price is any different it is because it is 2 or 3 for $1, not anything over the $1 and that is that. The other stores have so many items that are more than the $1 and it just gets on my nerves, it is almost like false advertising in my mind anyways.

I find it interesting how by watching The Tonight Show, I hear Jay Leno mentioning their 99 cent stores that they have on the west coast, comparable to our $1 stores, how come theirs is one cent cheaper? That is the only thing that I have ever heard of that is cheaper in California!

November 19, 2012

Dreaming about Mardi Gras Fun

One day I would love to go to New Orleans and attend the Mardi Gras festivities that I have always heard so much about. I have been lucky enough to have done some traveling in the past, but never made it to New Orleans, unfortunately. But one day I hope to find my way there and see what all the hoopla is about!

Costumes are not only limited to Halloween costumes any more, there are many other usages for dressing up these days. I have seen some pretty nice Mr & Mrs Santa Claus suites, along with many elf costumes as well, for the Christmas Holiday Season, and Mardi Cras costumes are becoming much more readily available with the Internet and all.

I’ve seen some pretty Halloween Costumes in my day, and the variety of Kids Halloween Costumes has become extremely specialized through out the years, what with all of the cartoon characters that have come out through out the years. I used to always want to dress up as Superman for Halloween and did for several years in a row. I remember dressing up in that costume through out the year, while my friends dressed in their super hero costumes as well, man did we have a blast with those inexpensive costumes that were sold back in the day.

November 7, 2012

A Ford Man

There is something about a New Ford that just excites me, my father was always a Ford man, he was proud to announce to anyone who would care to listen that he had only bought Ford vehicles all his life and I have followed in his footsteps as far as I’m concerned. The Ford Dealership and Maintenance Shop in town knows the family very well, we have been receiving Christmas Cards from them for as long as I can remember and am on a first name basis with the majority of employees that have worked there through out the years.

You can keep your Chevy thank you very much. I’ll just keep on buying and driving Fords and make my father proud of me while he watches me from up above, along side of my dear mother who didn’t care kind of vehicle it was as long as it got her to the grocery store and back as well as to church every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning.

October 27, 2012

Beach Weather

Well I’m glad that we all survived the Super Storm Hurricane Sandy and that my sister and her family were able to enjoy the beach house rentals destin fl that they had been planning for long and were threatened to have to call off because of the weather. I know that New York and New Jersey were hit the worst, what a mess that have to clean up.

So far sis tells me that the weather is fine down in Florida and the kids really wished that I had come along, but there is no way I could leave the farm for that long.

October 20, 2012

Online Relationships

We have all heard the horror stories by people, or about people that have found someone on the Internet, and things went sour. To be honest, meeting some one anywhere can be disastrous and can lead to problems, and more people are turning to the Internet for companionship and possible love interests.

My sister has been after me, for some time, to sign up at some of the singles sites, she seems to think that I need a wife to help with the running of the farm and the house, and is always emailing me with information regarding online chat rooms and dating sites.

I’ve spent the last few evenings checking out some of the sites that she has been talking about, so far I like what I read at Great Expectations, which offers a safe and secure online dating community with over 30 years in the making, that in it’s self says something about their company. Right now I’m still a bit gun shy, but it’s nice to know that there are some dating sites that might interesting to check out when the time comes.

October 13, 2012

Workforce Management Software

The task of Employee Time Tracking has now become much easier and can now become paperless, thus saving money, by going online and checking out Iemployee.com. You will see that Iemployee is a Human Resource dream come true, a self service HR management solution, a software that will make the use of a pencil obsolete.

The tracking of employee’s attendance and hours can be a challenge and take valuable time, so it only makes sense to take advantage of this type of program. Workforce management is a full time job, so the less paper work involved, the better for all concerned. Making this task easier and faster, can free up valuable time that can certainly be better spent else where.

I have never worked in and HR environment, but I have a good friend that works in a fairly large HR Department of a major retail chain, and she can tell some stories, that one can. She really has her hands full with all that is involved with all the duties in her HR “job description” I can only hope that they use some type of software program, such as this. I haven’t talked with her in quite some time, this may be a good time to check in with the ol’ gal.

October 9, 2012

WoW Accounts

BuyMMOAccounts.com is the perfect place to sell or buy cheap wow accounts, which is a high end secured company with World of Warcraft accounts since 2007, that has a good website to visit if you are into these types of products, and are located in Alberta, Canada.

They are one of a very few account retailing companies that provide live phone support 7 days a week for your convenience.

September 25, 2012

Not Christmas All Ready!

Last night I had to go into town to pick up some groceries and other minor supplies that I don’t find good deals for online. Honestly if they had a grocery store that would deliver my groceries (I know they do that type of delivery service in the larger cities) they wouldn’t see me anyway near any of the surrounding towns but a few times a year.

I was dismayed to see that they are all ready putting up holiday decorations around town and in several of the stores that I went into. It really turned me sour on the whole trip that I wasn’t all that thrilled about going in the first place.