I'm reminded of a how-to-use-your-computer manual, waaay back in the days of 5.25" floppies that really WERE floppy, back in the days of DOS and the A:> prompt, back when you had to load any wordprocessor you might have before you could use it. The manual gave a step-by-step example of writing a grocery list (seen, no doubt, in glorious green-and-grey dot matrix letters on one's CRT monitor) that you could then use a PRINT command to send the text file to the dot-matrix printer. (and you probably lost a pinfeed fanfold sheet of paper both before and after the printed paper by the time you got it out of the printer, too)
I'm not sure how many people used their $6500 XTs to write grocery lists in text files when the time-honoured method of ballpoint or pencil on the back of an envelope worked so much more easily.
the best way - as you found today - to find misplaced groceries is to walk around and look for them with your eyes.
Either that, or never let Rapunzel go away again, for fear of losing control of the inventory.
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Re: Down Here It's Kroger, or Grand Union, or Publix, or...
Date: 2007-12-17 03:32 am (UTC)Re: Down Here It's Kroger, or Grand Union, or Publix, or...
Date: 2007-12-17 04:19 am (UTC)I'm reminded of a how-to-use-your-computer manual, waaay back in the days of 5.25" floppies that really WERE floppy, back in the days of DOS and the A:> prompt, back when you had to load any wordprocessor you might have before you could use it. The manual gave a step-by-step example of writing a grocery list (seen, no doubt, in glorious green-and-grey dot matrix letters on one's CRT monitor) that you could then use a PRINT command to send the text file to the dot-matrix printer. (and you probably lost a pinfeed fanfold sheet of paper both before and after the printed paper by the time you got it out of the printer, too)
I'm not sure how many people used their $6500 XTs to write grocery lists in text files when the time-honoured method of ballpoint or pencil on the back of an envelope worked so much more easily.
the best way - as you found today - to find misplaced groceries is to walk around and look for them with your eyes.
Either that, or never let Rapunzel go away again, for fear of losing control of the inventory.