Thursday miscellanea #416

• Suzie‘s funeral is today. Please include her friends and family in your prayers.
• I went to Wal-Mart yesterday for motor oil. You see, no one but Costco can get within 30% of Wal-Mart’s price for Mobil 1; viscosities are limited at Costco; and the new Leamobile needs 0W-20. I had to use a self-checkout. Self-checkouts have “advanced” to the point that they don’t “like” it if you don’t put something down in the bagging area within a specified timeframe, which reliably roused my inner “asshole.” Yesterday’s visit reinforced how much I hate Wal-Mart, as well as how much I hate self-checkouts. I must continue doing this grudging bit of business with Wal-Mart—the savings are simply too substantial—but shall exploit the pickup service option when again I need Mobil 1 in six to nine months.
• I finally saw my first Buick Cascada in the wild on Monday night. It was black, the top was down, and it was quite fetching. I couldn’t get a photo of it. I’d definitely drive one were I in the market for a convertible.
• I am now so behind on video games I’d like to play that it’d probably take me two or three full-time months to get through them all. I’m talking about games already in my house. It might be time for me to admit that that page has turned.
• Did you ever have a milkman? We did, for a bit of my pre-divorce childhood. He was a Barber’s employee (same people), and I had to be up really early to actually see him. He always left two half-gallon of Vita-Diet skim milk in the dark purple cartons, with occasional other items, on the doormat by the back door, with a crate over them.
• That back door was right by the persimmon tree where Dad and I had our hickory horned devil adventure. In the latter time that we lived there, after Dad had remarried, we had about 300 square feet chain-linked off for Caesar right there too. None of that is there anymore. My childhood yard has changed quite a bit.
• There are multiple reviews in the BoWilliams.com pipeline, including an intriguing consumer product tomorrow and a new #hsvhotwings review Saturday. Thank you for reading! Tell your friends!

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