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A really really wonderful 11 years.

Working from home is the greatest

Hello,
My family and I frequent the Common Cents that is on the way home from my in-laws and have done so since it opened.

Last night on our way home from opening Christmas gifts, we realized that we needed some snacks at our house. So we followed our usual plan and made a stop at Common Cents.

My kids headed inside as I gathered my wallet and cell phone and headed in.

During that short period of time the Lady working rose her voice at my children and told them to close the door or they would be in trouble. My son was simply holding the door open for my wife.

My wife questioned the employee about her comments and she confirmed that she did indeed talk to my children in such a manner.

The Employee then proceeded to verbally attack my wife about the incident. As we ushered our children outside, they were crying at this point, and as I take my last step out the door, the employee says to me 'You need to teach your kids some manners'.

I was floored. I have never been more offended entering any place of business in all of my life. We are not a family of hoodlums. We are a very clean cut family. We were not in the store making a lot of noise, we were not throwing things around making a mess. My children were simply holding the door open for their mother. Manners indeed.

Since it was Christmas and I was not going to head home, I went to the next store that was open. One of your competitors down the street.

After making our selections, and spending quite a bit on some snacks, the employee at your competitor greeted us pleasantly and let us know that he appreciated us coming in. I made a comment that I appreciated his kindness. I then proceeded to tell him what had happened at your store. He was completely stunned. By the time I finished my talking, quite a crowd of other customers had gathered around and everyone was shocked.

On our way out the door, the gentlemen told us Merry Christmas, and I hope to see you again soon. That is quite a far cry from 'Teach your kids some manners'.

I DEMAND an apology for the way that your employee has treated my family. It is not right.

Rest assured that this story will be shared with our family and friends. I would like to be able to share a happy ending.

I absolutely will never step foot in one of your stores again. NEVER again.

I look forward to your response to this matter.

This is my only method of contact as there is no other contact information for the local store. The store in question is located in Orem, Utah.

Thank you and Merry Christmas,

Chris Merrill

I could not believe that someone would do this. If you go there, watch out for the employees. I know that they have good prices. Prices don't matter if you get treated like this.

Today (December 18th)

She is a very savvy shopper and got the 6 cell battery, 2GB ram and even an external USB dvd-writer. What a woman!

After reading triple book install guide at msiwind.net I could not wait to give it a try.

Some christmas money afforded me the 500GB hard drive. It now multi boots Windows XP, Ubuntu, and Mac OSX. Nothing new there.

I could not get the wireless to work in MAC OSX. I tried all sorts of different drivers but none worked. I ran belarc in windows and it showed the wireless card as a 802.11bgn 1t2r mini card wireless adapter.

Some googling got me to this driver - http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/drivers/STA_RT2860%20D-1.1.1.0%20UI-1.6.8.0_2008_12_04.dmg.

It works. I now have the wireless working on MAC OSX.

It just worked. it just did. I am writing this in hopes that others may find it and save them from hours of looking for the proper drivers for their wind.

UPDATE: I also have Ubuntu 8.10. I now my wireless works on all 3 OS's

UBUNTU INSTRUCTIONS (source):

1) Install Ubuntu.

2) Download Linux driver from ASUS (card is Atheros(R) AR8121/AR8113 PCI-E): http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?product=1&SLanguage=us-en&type=map&model=P5KPL-CM (note: click on "Drivers" and find "Support Linux Drivers", which is zip file).

3) Unrar them and transfer to USB drive and place in your EEE.

4) Cd to the src directory (<usb drive mount>/LinuxDrivers/L1e_Lan/l1e-l2e-linux-v1.0.0.4/src)

5) sudo KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make

6) sudo KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make install

7) A file called atl1e.ko is made, that’s your driver. Move to: /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/net/atl1e/at1le.ko (If for some reason the atl1e directory isn’t made, just sudo mkdir atl1e, your kernel name may be different)

8 ) Move into the directory from step 7 and: sudo insmod ./atl1e.ko

That’s it, you should have working wired internet now! If it does work, you'll see the Network Icon immediately start to change to two circles, indicating that it is retrieving an IP address from DHCP.

If you want to have the module load automatically (and you surely do), run

9 ) sudo depmod

UPDATE : 12/16/2009 - Mirror for Linux Drivers here.

The lines were entirely too long this year. So far our only purhase will be at village inn.

And with the cover removed

looks like they are from mydutchbike.com

It reminds me of the madsen that Melisa wants.

I was also playing around with the Panorama mode on my phone. IT produced this:

it seemed kind of cool at the time...

It has been a while since I wanted to build something so badly. I need to build one. or something similar.

source : http://www.brothers-brick.com/2009/09/22/g-arm-gauss-tank/