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In my neverending quest to make myself more appealing to members of the fairer sex, I signed up for guitar lessons and got started on them last night. Some of you may recall that I started lessons a couple years ago, but my instructor was weird and not very helpful, so I only went like twice and then never went back, and my guitar (which was a birthday gift from my dad about 5 yrs ago) continued to sit unused.

My new instructor is named Roger and has been teaching guitar for 35 yrs, and I can tell after one lesson that he’s going to be much better than the last guy I went to. This is something I would like to get good at (assuming I enjoy it) so hopefully I stick with it (I think I probably will — I didn’t think I’d stick with the blog, but that’s been going for over a year now).

It’s way too early for me to start taking requests, but if you want to hear the little guitar line that repeats in Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” I’d be more than happy to play that for you, although we might have to call it “Pretty Slow Woman” as I’m not too quick yet.

Rock on, kids! *throwing up double horns*

I needed to kill some time last night between work and my scheduled haircut at 5:30, and also needed to buy a few things, so I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone and get some quick shopping in. I stopped at Super Target and got a few things, including a new tube of toothpaste. I went into the toothpaste aisle and looked for my normal toothpaste of choice — Crest Whitening with Scope — when I saw this:

I know the picture is a little fuzzy (sorry, camera phone pic), but you’re looking at two different packages of the same kind of toothpaste. The boxes on the left, which have the yellow strip across the top, come with a free sample of Crest floss. The boxes on the right are just in the normal packaging. Free floss. Nice deal, eh?

Well, not really. Not only do the packages with the “free” dental floss cost $0.05 more than the floss-free packages, they also come with less toothpaste — 6.2 oz. vs. 8.0 oz. in the cheaper package. What an amazing deal! For a little more money, you can get 22.5% less toothpase and FREE floss! WOOO!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that when I was about 12 or 13, I was with my family at a Hardee’s in Shelbyville and noticed a sign on the counter for the fried chicken they offered at the time. Basically, there were two deals being offered; one was just a regular family meal for x-number of dollars, and the other was the exact same thing, except it cost $1.50 more and came with a “free” 2 liter bottle of soda. Bastards.