Yeah, Wal-Mart is pretty awful, though I have shopped there before, and may well again if I need something not at the Big Y, because it's often the only game in town. Cellphones I still avoid.

Anyway, welcome; even if you decide a weblog is not useful, it's handy to have an account to keep tabs on your friends (for example, Tom and I are having a party in roughly two hours, to which you're invited even though you can't show up.)