Cool, or even cold this morning. It was 55F yesterday, but got into the 80s by afternoon. It also cleared up and was a beautiful sunny day. I’m hoping for more of that. National forecast shows clear sky, but my wife says the local forecast is for lower temps. We’ll see what happens when it happens.
I did get some stuff done yesterday. Did about 4 pickups in mostly the same area. Hit the grocery store for early Thanksgiving shopping, and I was out of Dr Pepper. Lots of instore sale items this time. I saved $55 buying sales items with coupons, but still spent $350. There weren’t many turkeys left, but they were on sale. I found a 10 pounder, and added two drumsticks. I am thinking about smoking the beast at the BOL…
Most of the sale items weren’t staples, but they were holiday items, which will help people.
Speaking of inflation, I stopped to get D2 some Jack in the Box after her evening activity. Tried to get a Buttery Jack cheeseburger, not the meal deal. The menu board said the meal was ~$9.50 and the “burger only” was ~$6.25. After a comedy of errors involving me thinking the order taker got it wrong because she kept saying the charge would be ~$9.89, and insisting I only wanted the burger, to her limited english skills… finally another worker got involved and the price in the cash register for just the burger was $9+ and the meal was ~$13+. That’s 150% above the posted drive thru menu. I told D2 that she better savor that burger as it was the last one I was buying for a long time. $10 for a fast food burger. Criminy.
Today I’ve got a morning pickup, then I’ll head to my client’s place. He’s having control issues with his system and the normal phone troubleshooting didn’t work. Sometimes you just have to see the problem first hand. It also gives me a chance to invoice him for the year. Unfortunately it will suck up several hours from a day that I already had planned to use all the hours. I just don’t seem to be able to get ahead.
The check will be nice though.
No plan survives contact with the enemy.
Which is why we plan to have the plan fail. And we stack stuff, so we have choices and resources.
nick
Bridezillas.
I paid $15 for just chicken and feta in a wrap at Cava in Boston last week.
We had already gone through the line once, but something in the first Greek wrap I ordered was vile. Maybe the sauce. They were giving an authentic rude Mediterranean experience. Think Soup Nazi.
Theme dining.
I didn’t want to be “that guy”, but on the second trip through the line, I made them slow down and listen since I was paying for the chain restaurant food again.
Hotel taxes were 30% in Cambridge, something I was not expecting.
We should have just stayed at the hotel near the airport and rode the train every day.
OTOH, the news at breakfast Sunday morning before we left was that the line to Harvard and MIT would be shut down for the following week, after our departure.
No train for you!
The Christmas buying season is the shortest possible using the existing Calendar with the first of November falling on a Friday.
BTW, lobster rolls were consistently $30 everywhere last week, whether it was at the fancy lad restaurants in Martha’s Vineyard or, where my wife got one to say she tried it, High Rollers in Portland, ME.
For reference, my hot dog and fries at High Rollers was $6.95. Kosher dog with a nice bun prepared NY deli style.
High Rollers was a recommendation from the hotel desk clerk. We had to go back for my spare phone so I had already given him a tip for finding it in the room after we checked out.
57F but it looks clear. Sky is lightening…
Coffee is ready for me and I am ready for it.
n
– know a person by the company they keep.
n
Oprah’s production company was paid $1 million for … something.
Oprah will be back in 2028, pushing Wes Moore, the Governor of Maryland.
Assuming, of course, that Wes Moore doesn’t have “feet of clay” like so many real African American politicians seem to possess.
Obama? Please. His was not the “real” experience.
Reagan was the last President who grew up in something approaching true poverty conditions.
Oprah got paid to wash $1M and transfer it from the campaign to someone’s pocket. I’ll give 10-1 odds that most of it gets returned in the shape of appearance fees, grants to orgs, or donations.
n
MSNBC spinning off
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/11/20/msnb-see-ya-comcast-dumps-cable-channels-in-midst-of-ethics-scandal-n3797172
Probably too late for Mika and Morning Joe to consider only fans.
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Holy Deep State, Batman, but I did not make the connection until yesterday that “Mika” is Mika Brzezinski, Zbigniew’s daughter.
I heard a guest on with Cutie Pie (Hannity) drop that factoid while driving home from the office.
MSNBC ratings have been too low to measure effectively for more than a decade.
As for the rest of their channels, SyFy is so broke that they were running a “Lethal Weapon” marathon last week, licensed from Warner Discovery who is about to go over the edge into oblivion.
Only the US and New Zealand allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise prescription meds on TV.
The USA is the only country in the world with the unlimited freedom of speech embedded in its Constitution.
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Ok. Now do tobacco and alcohol.
Drug companies can advertise but we can’t have beer commercials and the Marlboro Man?
21F here in the California high desert this morning, 9F below the predicted 30F. The forecast has been for consistently warmer temps than we have experienced, but that is a particularly big delta.
House was a comfy 60 inside with no overnight heat on, but the heater will correct that soon.