OK tonight i had a flashback when i worked in the grocery industry , well it actually didn't occur to me till i got home. Here it goes.. 

So i thought i would pick up a few things at the market this evening due to it being slow today at work. Picked up a few items and when i came across a food i had never seen before .Thought why not give it a try... Had never seen this product before and in the late nineties, early 2000's i used to process data for a gourmet grocery store. You have probably seen my post's on twitter regarding my super techie computer skills. not that i have a big ego , but believe me i can get around a database ( i have to watch myself i get cocky occasionally and sometimes i offend corporations). It's not really my intent on twitter i just express my thought's as they happen , kind of like spur of the moment post's. The corporation may look at it as i am bashing their business . However that is usually not my intention.. not to be spiteful with them.However i have a inquisitive nature  and my computer skills get out of hand, i will admit. Have a addiction to the net like most of us.Try to refrain sometimes and if it is to spiteful or it offends sometimes . Will give my post a second thought and take it down (delete my tweet) so to speak. Anyway back to the Grocery story . 

          When i went to pay for my item the cashier had trouble, only with the item i had never tried or seen in a store before ( it was like a pastry dessert  w/ blueberries) Come to find out it was European. *..Bingo ...* the ever important UPC has a meaning... and European foods have one extra digit than  domestic products.. this is why the cashier did not have a price from the scanner.. someone who put the code in messed up or  not messed  up : just put it in the database the wrong way.Confusing to a American data processor ( like i used to be).  It is a new store, to the south bay of Los Angeles just opened a few weeks ago.. These kind of things will happen till the store get's on track .It's the same when a new restaurant or any small business first open's up ... My philosophy is to stay away for a few months till they work out the kinks... however i had been to this grocery store last week, and i liked the ambiance and the way the store was set up.. even drove a bit out of my way. ( i mean there was a Ralph's closer). However thought i would give the new guy in town a run for my money.( Ralph's, probably has a down payment for a small house in the mid-west from me, for the $ i have spent with them over the years). So no hard feeling's mr. Ralph's grocery(there's a example of me playing w/ corporate America , just my nature :) .. anyway that's my blog, about the ever and so important Universal Product Code   :)      signed X Data base price integrity

 for Bristol farms in So.Cal :) over and out - Kevin B. 

OK so i came up on a roadblock last night and i put a little SAD smiley face on my twitter feed post .. why did i do that ? Well i'll  tell you why... Because even though i am on the road more than most of you... and i even put a twitter feed last week about what i do when i see drunk drivers late at night on the various freeway's i drive on.. just get defensive and keep my distance (very far away) i can tell their  drunk , they tell us to call 911 however i don't do that.. ( i leave that to someone ,else) ...Yes, drunk drivers scare the Jabezee (that's a made up word) out of me..and they annoy me ..cause even though i rarely drink anymore, when i did , i would just make a alternative to get around ... whether taking the bus , a taxi, uber .... a hotel whatever.. just the penalties in the state i live in are astronautical for  a DUI ,, OUI , there's different things you would call it..depends on what state .. oh and one of the reason's i don't call 911 ( i mean if they crashed i would), try to give the benefit of the doubt .. like there just a idiot driver or playing on the cell phone .... but most of the time they are drunk..  well i am not a law officer, so it's not my job to call 911 (feel free to comment if you disagree) .



                    So why was i annoyed when i approached the DUI checkpoint? i mean i had a valid driver's license and was in a nice newer model car, it's just that we live in a free society... and being stopped for a driver license check is not what are forefather's fought for in the Constitution ...unreasonable search and seizure.. don't agree , don't think drunks should be on the roads, but this is not acceptable in our society.. it' s just a opinion, and some of you actually might agree with these borderline Gestapo spectacle's.  Believe me  i know that law enforcement has probably seen the dark side of drunk driver's . Well if you disagree ,your welcome to leave a comment.  Anyway my eye's are out there in So.Cal so if i see one being set up like i did last night, in Malibu, You can bet your bottom dollar i will be on social media posting w / a little help from Mr. Checkpoint :)  ...

 Posted on twitter and  mr. checkpoint(he's a twitter user).  Helped me get over 5,483 impressions, and 14 engagements...that's techie talk to a computer nerd like me .. but it's a big impression from my twitter post... on the post on the checkpoint ..even though i lost like 5 followers -who know's why that stuff happens? shouldn't  Take it personal , just kind of sensitive sometimes .Well that's my opinion, of my thinking , We all have are different opinions, but this is the way i think ... actually i am fortunate, because i grew up in a very conservative area in my teenage years that being New England. now i live in liberal Southern California.and there's a reason .. i am more liberal than conservative, so southern NH- as beautiful as it is  , i am OK in a suburb of Los Angeles for the moment :) i bid you a goodnight and remember the good weather is upon us and there will be a lot of these up until the labor day weekend , and they will make a comeback for the holiday season you can guarantee that.. so make alternatives if you drink and drive ... uber is cheap enough, get a hotel , designate a driver, be responsible  be safe and don't make a bad mistake .. over and out ... .Kevin B.

Haven't blogged for awhile ,how about a little about me , OK , here it goes:

                     Grew up in the far Northeast (like way back east) in between VT. and ME. ( that would be the state of NH ). However grew up in Southern NH , Northern NH is a whole different Venue. unless your from the Northeast .. you might not understand , it's like the mountain folks(hillbillies)  live up past Concord ( the state's capitol). Where i was working when Christa McAuliffe -had the space disaster , on Jan . 28, 1986 -  I was a waiter at a restaurant across the street from the state capitol  it was called the Millstone... Now i live in Southern Ca . , Find growing up where i did was really fortunate .. i mean who grows up in So. NH . ?It was a great time from like oh 1979 - thru 1986   - my teenage years... wouldn't take it back (growing up there) for any where else. However my dad was a traveling salesman so i went to three different high schools, that being , my Hometown which is Bedford,NH ,Clear Lake City TX. and Lexington MA.  However they didn't have a high school in Bedford at the time ( they do now), so they bused us affluent bratty kids from the suburb, into the big city of Manchester .. (which i am being a bit sarcastic) Manchester is not a very large city and not a very small city .. it's kind of like Sacramento (about the same size) ..Manchester NH is kind of Republican country and a bit conservative .. well i'll  give you a example of how NH is conservative .. well i grew up before the internet and being on wi-fi and all that. So we had the Union leader which was our newspaper.. it was the only way to get information (news) we didn't have,  i pads, smart phones, internet .. So the newspaper were king back then , They choose who they would put in their paper, the editorials and such.. remember if  they didn't like a horror movie playing at the local movie theater - they didn't like the content or whatever so they just chose not to run the ad ... (they basically refused to advertise the horror movie). This is what i mean by NH was a bit conservative.. Newspaper's were the boss back than and they wrote whatever they wanted.Regardless if you agreed with them, and they choose who they published in their editorials . Unlike today where anyone can be  a writer, a critic, a editor , a movie critic , a restaurant critic .. problem these days there is just to much free stuff online, and it is hard to get paid for your work. Whether it be videos you make, things you write , pictures you take,   all those i just mentioned i have never made a dime selling a photograph.. i plaster everything on Flick and some of my photo's are damn good.But when it comes to getting compensated it just ain't happening.. anyway back to NH , great place to grow up, The folks are genuine, the food is great , and the weather is unpredictable.They have a airport ( i can't fly direct from where i am in Ca.) would have to stop in Chicago or something. So for me, i just fly into Boston and take the bus up to Manchester , that's just me , there's a lot of way's to get to the Northeast . My favorite time of year is late Sept , early Oct. can't beat the foliage.. so if you haven't been to the state of NH , put it on your list to vacation .. it's also nice in the summer, bit muggy and crowded , but a good time of year too. Anyway hope you enjoyed my blog about my home state,  feel free to follow me, or leave a comment ... the sign greets you welcome as you enter (french) -(welcome) (Bienvenue) :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe