Street Play Part II

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Local Hindu church group performing a street play in Phoenix, Arizona

A local Hindu youth group performs a street play for family, friends, and anyone else who happens to wander by Indo Euro Foods this afternoon. The play is presented in Hindi without subtitles and there are no scenes involving pyramids, snowcapped mountains, or rapid costume changes, so it might be difficult for the casual passerby to pick up on the real context of the play, but it was nice to see their enthusiasm for conveying a positive image and message to a welcoming audience. This was a repeat performance; last August we had a similar show in front of the store, but this time Caroline was able to understand a few sentences. Next year she just might be able to follow the whole thing!

Sunblock

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Sunset over Phoenix, Arizona

Mysteriously, this sky patch followed the sun all day. From sun up to sunset, it never changed shape but always stayed just in front of the sun-blocking the people of Phoenix, Arizona, from having the opportunity to see the sun in all of its shiny hot glory. The news never mentioned it, people wouldn’t talk of it, they went about their business like it wasn’t even happening. Personally, I think it’s a bad omen. If this continues tomorrow are we to assume Al-Qaeda is using a new WMD to block the sun denying us our way of living with tans? You betcha.

Barcodes

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Barcode for Indian grocery item

In my spare time, I am trying to help set up a friend’s grocery store with barcode scanning for her checkout. The days of placing price stickers are alive and well in many ethnic grocery stores across America; I am trying to modernize at least one of them. Missing inventory control, reporting on selling frequency of items, or any quick ability to identify costs of more than a thousand items from multiple suppliers, it is now high time to move this little shop into 21st-century gear. I had hoped the product distributors would have the basic barcode product data readily available – wrong. I am entering the data on each and every product manually. The cool thing is I am learning yet ever greater detail regarding the Indian diet, like not eating from bloated leaking packages.