Whats your favorite thing to do when your bored? --Read or play a game What do you do when it is rainy outside? --Read or play a game. ;o) Honestly, I'm probably just doing routine chores inside. Is there something that is always on your mind? If so would you like to share it? -- I call "Mom guilt:" Whatever I'm doing, I should be doing something else. Even if I'm doing something I have to do, I think of other things I have to do. Have you ever gotten into a akward conversation if so what was it about? -- Wow. I remember one with a college botany prof when I was a freshman. Several students went to his desk after class to ask class-related questions, me included. As he answered questions, he somehow got into a philosophical monologue about how a man of science balances the scientific with God/religious faith. He told us about his son dying, and how he lost his faith and had to find it again. By the time he stopped, he was sobbing and every other student had somehow slipped out of this awkward moment. I was the only one still standing there. Then he looked up at me and said "What do you think about that?" I don't even know what I answered, I was so stunned. I also don't think I ever got my questions answered. LOL. Do you love yourself? -- Hm. I like myself, respect myself. But if I really loved myself, you'd think I would take better care of me! Do you think the wilderness spectacular? -- Awesome, in the true meaning of the work, not the slang. Are you living life to the fullest? -- No, I think the day to day bogs me down. What is you main focus in life set on? -- Raising kids who are kind, responsible and happy. What is your favorite brand of chocolate? -- Oooo, the Starbucks caramel macchiato truffles I bought yesterday. What was the last thing you downloaded on your computer? -- DH has updates to our firewall downloaded automatically every morning. What is one thing you wish would happen today? -- A miracle would happen to someone who needs it somewhere to day. I don't need one today, so I wish it for someone else. What emotion do you feel a lot? -- Frustration.

As is your usual method, someone has disagreed with you and you defend yourself by springing to attack. Even when you don't understand the point the person is trying to make, you see some one who appears to be disagreeing with you, and you attack. Even when the poster is mostly agreeing with you, but is quibbling about some interpretation, you attack. I don't need a lengthy lecture about economic theory or the actual business practices of major corporations. I will freely stipulate that you know more about those subjects than anyone, anywhere. But as with the other times when you've attacked me, that is not relevant to the point I'm trying to make. To break my point down in easy to digest declarative statements First the assumptions: Self-checkout machines lower the labor costs of a grocery store in because fewer cashiers are needed to service the same number of customers. Just because the company does so and has lower labor costs, that doesn't mean they will instantly and automatically lower all prices by some factor. Instead they will lower some prices, raise some prices, keep some prices the same just as they do virtually every single day. Are you with me so far? If you as a customer buy 20 items and go through self-checkout, and then immediately reenter the store and buy the exact same 20 items and go through the normal checkout lane and then compare the receipts there will be no difference and therefore no evidence to you as the consumer that the company is offering lower prices because of the self-checkout lanes. If you as a customer buy 20 items at a store that hasn't yet installed self checkout lanes, and save the receipt. And then two weeks later, after that very store has installed self-checkout lanes, you go back and repurchase the exact same 20 items, and then compare the receipts. The second one will be either higher, or lower, or exactly the same. Even if it is lower, there is no evidence to the customer that the prices are lower because the store installed self-checkout lanes. Therefore there is no direct evidence to the customer that because the store has installed self-checkout lanes that it is using the lower labor costs to offer lower prices. QED

What is it that you are going to can? tomatoes? If you are going to can only a couple of dozen jars of tomatoes you will need a large enough covered pot that you can put in at least 4 jars at a time and have the water come at least an inch above the tops. Then a simple pair of jar tongs to use. I bought a canner with an insert where you can lift all the jars at once. It is amazingly heavy when filled with tomatoes!! And those jars are very hot when you take them out! I decided that I like doing only a limited number at at time and taking them out with tongs. I buy a couple of bushels from a farm and probably can somewhere around 30 jars a summer, but not all at once. Just a few at a time. Taste for acidity. Tomatoes vary by selection. I made the mistake of adding too much citric acid to my jars one year and they were too tart. That is when I got the brilliant idea to add a pinch of baking soda to the tomatoes when I went to use them to cook with. What a difference it makes! At first it foams up a bit like that volcano science project. It gets all pink and froth looking, but goes back to being deep red tomatoes in a minute, but much sweeter tasting. Go to this website below and watch the old Italian grandmother can her tomatoes. It is on Youtube. What a treasure! .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn_Yx3NmaNY I got rid of my freezer many years ago. Now I just prefer to can a select few things each year and try to keep it simple and good. I, personally, think that many things don't really freeze all that well and your food is so dependent on having a working freezer. Tomatoes freeze easily and they are fine, but I still prefer canning. So, it is basically tomatoes that you want to can? Each vegetable is going to be a bit different. And, it depends on how many tomatoes you plan to process. If it's only a few jars, you don't need much equipment to do it. Tomatoes have been being canned for a long time. Those old basic instructions are just fine as long as you are using old fashioned water bath canning. If you have a pressure canner, read the book that came with it. The internet is also a valuable resource of information. The science behind preserving a jar of tomatoes by sealing them in a sterile jar has not changed.

They're taking your word for it but double-checking. The bank doesn't need to "legalize" anything or to cover itself. Cardholder agreements say that the individual authorizes account reductions for authorized charges (or liability, in the case of a credit card). If the bank's info sources suggest the charge was authorized, whether that's correct or incorrect, they're entitled to reinstate it as if it were a normal one triggered by the cardholder. At which point, kathsgarden, you'll need to speak with them further.