Money For Nothing and Pizza For Free

I finally got around to boxing up the books that we had cleaned out. I went back to the online site where I first ran the ISBN numbers to print the packing slip and see what the total amount was that they would pay me. Well, today the site showed they would no longer buy a bunch of them. So I went to a different site and they would buy them all, and pre-pay the shipping (instead of re-imbursing me). So I got $47 for the box of books and didn't have to pay postage.

I had to take Ashleigh's field hockey uniforms to the high school because she forgot them and today was team picture day. But the office has a policy not to hold items for students and they will not call kids out of class to pick up stuff. AND you are not supposed to call or text the kids in class. So there I stood with a bag of uniforms. Not enough time to go back home and come back. So I ran to the post office and then just took a nap in the car for 40 minutes until Ashleigh could come out and get them.

The local grocery store had a great pizza deal that they modified so now you can buy one pizza for $5.99 or two for $10.oo, Saturday through Monday. So I went in and grabbed two but when I checked out, they charged me $8.99 each! Hold the anchovies! I pointed out the error to the clerk who sent me to the customer service desk. They refunded the cost so that I wound up getting one pizza for $5.99 and the other one free! Not bad.

A new TV show called "Fringe" begins tomorrow night. It is from the creator of "Alias" and "Lost" and looks a lot like one of my other favorite shows, "The X-Files." I am looking forward to that.

Speaking of favorite things, in case you were wondering how the picture above related to the title of today's blog, the picture is the cover of an old Dire Straits album (my favorite band). Their popular song on that album was "Money For Nothing." The complete line is "money for nothing, chicks for free" and is a song making fun of the perks of being a rock and roll band. Getting the money for the old books and a pizza for free made me think of that song. Here is a YouTube link if you are so inclined to listen in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNaKWXqXkhw.