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I just found the perfect bachelor tool on HEB’s website. AWESOME!
I went looking for a meal idea for tonight and they have a pre-planned menu for each week on their site.
You can click on the items and pull up a recipe. Then scale the menu for how many servings you want to fix.
Personally I’m going to try two servings. One for dinner and one for lunch the next day. Granted – that’s if I only eat one serving for dinner.
Once you have the recipe scaled to the number of servings you want, you can either print out a 3×5 size card, a 4×6 size card or a full page recipe. Personally I’m going with a 4×6 to fit in the handy recipe book my sister Amy made me for Christmas a few years back (another perfect gift for your favorite bachelor).
And then above and beyond that – you can print out a shopping list with everything you need to make that weeks menu on it.
Awesome.
Now I only need a nutritionist to let me in on how healthy I’m really eating.
Some of the recipes have nutritional information and some don’t.
But this is a tool everyone should know about. Use it and have fun. I’m about to go do my shopping for the week and I’ll try the Thai Curried Shrimp with Mushrooms tonight.

It’s a couple days late – but this month’s WordIt is: majesty

Here’s my first go at it: Everest, Creation, Milky Way, Scripture, Enthroned, Velvet, Craftsman, Might, Power

The buzz continues, Wired magazine talked to developers at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2005 to get their opinion on today’s announcement.
Everyone seems to be supportive.
I hope that it means I can actually find quality support for my Mac computers.
Working in an all Mac office I end up being tech support anytime anything goes wrong with hardware or software.
There’s no real tech support for Macs, but maybe with a common processor and architecture, this will ease my worries and troubles.
My friend at Microsoft says he believes that this will help lower the price of Macs for sure.
And if that’s the case, I’m sure Mac users everywhere will be ecstatic.

USA Today has a feature Sports article on Erron Kinney today.

After rescuing a fellow firefighter from a building, Kenney said, “For everybody else looking in, they say it was life-threatening. But I’m just doing what I’m supposed to do. That is what you do. If you have a fireman go down, you have to get him out. It’s not like you have choices.” Then he shrugs and adds, “The funny thing is, the most I’ve ever done since then is rescue a cat.”
“You cannot be half of a firefighter,” Titans Head Coach Jeff Fisher said. “You either are, or you’re not. … Erron’s going to do everything he can to the best of his ability. If it requires him to make tough decisions in an effort to save somebody’s life, I’m sure he’ll make the right decision.”
So there are no concerns about Kinney’s other career?
Well, Fisher says, smiling knowingly, “Sometimes what’s difficult is when Erron will come in in the morning for a workout, smelling of smoke, and you know he’s been up all night.”

Here’s to all our public servants with a passion for helping others.

Scobleizer and many others have been blogging on this all day, but CNN just confirmed that Apple computers will make a major shift in their processors by 2007.
The company will start fitting all their machines with Intel processors instead of the IBM chips they have used for years.
No one really knows the implications of this decision yet, but for me its a big “I told you so,” to all my Apple-a-holics.
If Apple’s run so much better and work so much better than PC’s, why would they need to change to Intel processors that have been running PC’s for so many years.
Who knows what the future holds? But either way, it could be bad news for IBM.

Some of you may recall my rant Have it Your Way a few weeks back.
As an update, our paper just received word that the franchise is filing for bankruptcy.
I wonder how many other people were having trouble Having it Their Way?
There have been a number of businesses come and go in Belton as of late.
This particular burger stop has been open for 2 or 3 years. It’s in a prime location along I-35, yet the business apparently hasn’t done to well.
Another restaurant nearby has had troubles as of late as well.
Yet other businesses seem to strive.
Two tire shops closed down in Belton within the last 18 months.
Both blamed the local economy and a lack of support.
Yet, when talking with the owner of the store that moved into one location — he said he wouldn’t sell his property for double what he paid for it.
He said he couldn’t be happier with the business, location and response from the community.
It just goes to show how far customer service really goes.
I only shopped at the two former tire shops once. With the poor service I received I had no desire to go back.
Why waste my time and money when I can get better service and prices elsewhere.
Marketing and advertising have a lot to do with your business – but after that, its up to your customer service to keep the customers coming back.