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Yesterday was my first and only day for being able to go to my church back in the Bay Area. I found that after lunch, it has become a tradition for the high school and college aged students to head over to the park to play a bit of friendly volleyball with the English pastor. Being my first time back in awhile, I just follow everyone to the park. To my amazement, the park was bustling with people from all walks of life. It ranged from people out to simply enjoy the warm rays of the sun, to another volleyball court set up in the grass, to elderly Asians getting their daily exercise with handheld drums. The park was nothing but a large section of green grass surrounded by some bushes and trees along the perimeter of the park. In the middle was a statue of Benjamin Franklin. After setting up our volleyball court, our group of about 25 ended up playing for about four hours. During the duration of four hours, six completely random stranger asked and joined us. Many others simply stood aside and observed us having fun. It was truly a great experience being in such an open minded environment where strangers are not afraid to talk and join activities with others.

The public parks in San Francisco (big city) compare nothing to the parks in Irvine (suburbs). Irvine parks are generally smaller, but having expensive play structures for kids. On the other hand, parks in San Francisco are larger, but more plain with simply a green field. However, the park in the city are more packed with activity. The parks in Irvine are unfortunately generally empty. If you are ever in a city and pass by a crowded fun park, be sure to check it out.

If you are one of the many people out there who have problems logging in (stuck at validating) to your account using AOL's new chatting software codenamed Triton, there is finally a fix available! Direct your browser to the official AIM Triton Beta Test site. The question that has the solution is called "Q: I am hanging at the validating stage during the sign on process, what should I do?". This directs you to a link of a .reg file which will make some safe changes to your operating systems registry. Once this is done, restart AIM Triton and you should be able to seamlessly log in! This has worked for me, how has it worked for you?

The million dollar question is which type of queue line at a retail store has the best overall benefits? The single queue line or the multi queue line? My personal opinion was that single queue lines are more efficient, but probably less fair. However, my roommate strongly believes the multi queue line is more efficient. Which one seems more fair in the long run of a day, or even a week?

My theory is that because the single queue line does not connect directly to the cashier, the time it takes a customer to physically walk from the front of the queue line to a cashier is what makes the single queue line inefficient. Sure the walk is short if the cashier is located right in front, but anything further is wasting time. At Best Buy, we observed that it took a customer roughly seven seconds to walk from the start of the line to the furthest cashier. This may not seem like much of a difference, but over the course of a whole day, much time is wasted. In the case of a multi queue line, each line already connects, so the time between customers at each line is very short. For this reason, I believe the multi queue line to be more efficient, but less fair.