Christmas Shopping - limited quantity

I have children at home and it's difficult to find interesting and educational gifts for kids in particular during the seasons holidays. Our family likes Lego and find them to be both parents and kids favorites.

Last month, you had a special buy of a Lego City Corner and World of Racers set at $30 which we thought were wonderful kits of our children. When we got to the store at Market Mall, Calgary, early in the morning when the flyer began, we saw one man who took 7-8 of the City kit and a woman took 5+ boxes of each kit and left nothing behind.

I could see a regular person buying one or two kits 5+ was not a reasonable number especially when the product was in high demand and was sold in limited quantity. It was not fair that one or two customers arrived earlier and empty the stock and left the rest of the regular customers who wanted only one unit of the product for our loved ones disappointed.

Coincidentally, I found similar Lego products available at much higher prices on our local Kijiji (Buy/ Sell) site. I suspected someone bought a larger amount of the Lego products when they were on sale and sold it online to make a big profit.

I was not happy to see that some people could selfishly buy all the special buy products to his own benefits. I believe your organization is not a wholesale store and should not encourage such behavior, I sincerely hope you will set a limit on the buying quantity of these products in the coming year so 20 regular customers would be happy instead of the 2 professional shoppers ripping everyone off just because they were the first in line.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Descaler for humidifier

Homemade Descaler for Humidifier.

Recipe one:
3 teaspoons Citric Acid
2 1/2 cup warm water

Recipe two:
1/4 cup (2 oz) lemon juice - no pulp
3 cup warm water

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Christmas Shopping - Sony Store

Jim didn't seem to have luck with the Sony Store.
Not this year either.

The thing is Sony Store has its own culture and it's pretty much requires some faith to shop there. i.e. unquestioning faith

Salesmen just say whatever they want: I cannot recollect whether they are intentionally cheating or they simply tell me what they think is right. Bottom line: not very logical or reasonable.

Jim finds it difficult to work with this arrogant young man, G, who is (un)fortunately ignorant as well. It seems that G does not know what PS3 packages Sony Store carries and what are the different features on each of them, not to say the price of each. All G says all the time is: PS3 is selling at cost, Sony Reader is selling at cost, Sony computers are selling at cost... Now Jim is confused: how this Sony Store or the bigger Sony Corp operates if most of their products are selling at cost!

And then, there is this Buy $50 gift certificate and get a $50 in-store coupon promotion. The attractive poster says: see associate for details. The truth is: you get a different story talking to a different salesperson. I wonder why it cannot have a formal rules and instructions on how this promotion works printed somewhere (like the Sony style site)! The fine print on the coupon is brief but the explanation form the salesmen Jim talks to are creative, almost like they are pulling the facts out from the air (or vacuum).

Not only G, but the other person who plays the good guy also talks unreasonable. Maybe there are really no rules, they just make it up and they pretend they are well organized.

Loads of crap. I'm not buying from the Sony Store again if I have a choice. Jim says.

Read Chinese epub using Sony PRS-T1

Follow below steps:

Use 'Calibre', downloadable from the Internet. A great freeware app.

Import Chinese ePub book into Calibre. Right-click the book entry, then choose 'Tweak ePub' from the drop-down menu.

Click the 'Explore ePub' button. Double click the .CSS file to edit it.

Insert the follow lines at the end of the CSS and save it. (from @... to } )

@font-face {
font-family: "DroidSans", serif, sans-serif;
src:url(res:///ebook/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf);
}

Click the 'Rebuild ePub' button. Then Save a copy and transfer it to T1.

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I got the above information from a person in Hong Kong. Much thanks.

You have to repeat the procedures for every Chinese ePub book you want to view on T1. A pain, but worth the trouble.

http://www.sony.co.uk/discussions/message/718096

Removing silicone caulking

Start by cutting off as much of the old silicone caulking as you can. Then make a thick paste with ordinary flour and water. Don't use whole wheat flower, we need the good old fashioned sticky stuff. Take this dough-like putty and rub it over the bit of silicone that is still forming a film on the tile or tub. This dough will roll the silicone up into itself and then you can rinse off the dough -- leaving a clean surface ready for new caulking.

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