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Brick and mortar is dying. And brick and mortar deserves to fucking die. This message brought to you by the sheer number of times I try to buy something locally and can't find it so I wind up getting it online. Shit, my supermarket has discontinued one of about 3 dog treats my dog likes. And the Website for the company that makes them is useless for finding where they're sold, so I'll have to buy them online.

Last month I spent a week driving all over town to try and find a red scarf. You would think someone would sell a red scarf in the Christmas gift season in a place where it snows. But you'd be wrong. Last week I...oh, I found exactly one place--Hobby Lobby--still sells calendars. But while on that errand I managed to crack my front bumper (long story). It turns out JB Weld makes something called "BumperWeld", but of course no local auto parts store carries it--or has even heard of it, so it looks like I'll be getting that online too. And yes, I wound up getting the scarf online.
 
Me: It must've been nice to be a grown-up before 1980, when drinking and smoking wasn't stigmatized and people could have some fun.
Also Me: Yes, but a 50 year old man looked like he was 82 and died before turning 65.
Me: SHUT UP, YOU'RE KILLING MY JOY.
 
ROTFL:
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I do NOT want to go outside in 18 degrees F. Yes, I grew up in Wisconsin, where I used to consider 0F warm for this time of year, but there's a reason I *left* Wisconsin. (Well, there's lots of reasons, but that's a big one.)
 
Here's a first world problem, I missed the first 5 minutes of The Love Boat on MeTV right now, so I didn't get to see the roster of washed up guest stars, so I'm playing it by ear. Or eye.

So far we have Ted Knight, Barbara Luna, that secondary guy from The Fall Guy, Mary Crosby (she shot JR, yaknow), that dude who played Jeff Colby on Dynasty, Sonny Bono, and... oh fuck I give up.

 
Bah. Old house mysteries. For some reason I've got a practical "box" in my ceiling. Two bedrooms are connected by an adjoining door, like in 1970s motels. Both the closets are on that wall too. This means there's a sort of foyer/hallway between the rooms on the guest bedroom side. For no particular reason the ceiling is lower there, which means if I went up in the attic (or cut a hole in that little chunk of ceiling from below) I'd find a roughly 17"x48"x7" "box". The romantic in me hopes it is there to hide lost Confederate gold but the realist in me has been too lazy to go up in the attic and find the appropriate spot--or cut a hole in my ceiling. So it is kind of Schroedinger's lost Confederate gold: It simultaneously is and isn't hidden in my ceiling. Unfortunately it occurred to me to knock on it from below just now. It sounds hollow. So it is more likely Geraldo Rivera's All Copone Safe: It simultaneously is and isn't filled with lost Confederate gold until I open it and it isn't.
 
Wife's selling stuff on Vinted, finally chance to get rid of some attic stuff.
 
Volpone said:
Bah. Old house mysteries. For some reason I've got a practical "box" in my ceiling. Two bedrooms are connected by an adjoining door, like in 1970s motels. Both the closets are on that wall too. This means there's a sort of foyer/hallway between the rooms on the guest bedroom side. For no particular reason the ceiling is lower there, which means if I went up in the attic (or cut a hole in that little chunk of ceiling from below) I'd find a roughly 17"x48"x7" "box". The romantic in me hopes it is there to hide lost Confederate gold but the realist in me has been too lazy to go up in the attic and find the appropriate spot--or cut a hole in my ceiling. So it is kind of Schroedinger's lost Confederate gold: It simultaneously is and isn't hidden in my ceiling. Unfortunately it occurred to me to knock on it from below just now. It sounds hollow. So it is more likely Geraldo Rivera's All Copone Safe: It simultaneously is and isn't filled with lost Confederate gold until I open it and it isn't.
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Maybe the Freakish American Batboy is stashed in there.
 
Has anyone thought to ask an AI: "We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean." ? I mean, besides John Connor back in the early '90s.
 
Saw an A&E Biography on singer Tom Jones awhile back. At one point his manager told him he was a millionaire and Jones wanted to see the bank account. The manager explained that it didn't work like that, the money was invested various places, but Jones wanted to see it, so the manager had to sell off all the investments so he could put the money in the bank and show him a bank statement that said 1 million. I guess the manager should be glad he didn't want to see an actual briefcase full of money. (I assume that was pounds not dollars, but don't know for sure.)
 
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