The Day The Earth Stood Still

What shit. Today was the turn-on at CERN, the Large Haydron Collider machine on the border between Switzerland and France close to Geneva. 12:30 was supposed to be the End Of The Earth as the LHC would form a tiny black hole and the earth would go POOF!
Well 12:30 came and went and here I am writing my blog, it appears that nothing happened. Oh well, I thought the end of the earth would be at least a moments full of adrenaline but no. Shit.
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We found ourselves once again being taken for a ride, this time art Carefour in Chateauroux. We went there expecting to find a couple of rollaway beds we could use for Kelly's sewing room and Dix as an extra bed. No such item was located and we searched every single square foot except the meat department. The AD paper circular that we get weekly had one shown for a rather agreable 40 Euro price including a mattress. Oh well, so much for those rags, some stores get them, others do not or they put them out on some other day during the sale, who knows. In any case we bought a few other things and tried to buy a bed frame, a nice iron one, black in color for 39 dollars including the rail kit. When we got to the checkout counter suddenly the item was rung up as being 83 Euros TWICE, once for the headboard part and another 83 Euros for the rails! What?! No way! The checkout person scouled at us, THOSE DAMNED BRITS, CAN'T THEY READ?! No theose damned Brits can't read at all...the Americans would be better. 8-)!!!
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Then home but not really, stopped by the Tourist office where our savior MC was tasked with trying to get France Telecom to explain our bill AGAIN. She grows tired of this I know, and so do we but there is definetly something very wrong when they use the prelevment to take out 4 separate payments for our bloody telephone line and the internet DSL connection every month! We cancelled DIX over a month ago and yet there it is! France Telecom is a bust, a disaster. It's the most complained about consumer service in France they say and we know why. The $$%$##@ billing is impossible to figure out either on-line or off the paper bill. When we come back we will try to switch to something else though I KNOW it won't be easy or fast. Nor is France Telecom!