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Meijer Saturday
Helped somebody move today, and then went to Meijer to pick up a few things. Final totals: 8 Fruit Snacks32 Froot Loops (11 oz)1 2-liter Pepsi One (I found a Catalina someone had left behind for a free one)9 Eckrich Smoked Sausages6 Eckrich Polish Kielbasa4 Tyson Chicken Strips1 Gallon milk Amount paid: $7.83 (most of…
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EFC Improvements
Well, I managed to improve my EFC time by 15 minutes, to 27 hours 21 minutes. As seems to be the case with most improvements, it happened with a paradigm shift – where instead of making minor improvements to an existing route, I just tried something new. And as also seems to usually be the…
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Good Diaper deal
Bought 6 packages of diapers at CVS today for free. So I got that going for me, which is nice. In other news, the Red Hot Death seem to be going down to utter defeat, which ain’t so fun.
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Darth Vader
Ever wonder what it might be like if Darth Vader had his own blog? Yeah, me too
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High Comedy
To paraphrase Bill Simmons, there’s high comedy, there’s transcendent comedy, and then there’s Marty Brennaman reading off the Reds‘ trivia question and pronouncing The Notorious BIG as The Notorious “big” Which is all not to mention his deadpan reading of the various rap song titles and lyrics, which was also quite classic. It scored at…
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forte
Did you know that the word forte, when used to mean a strength of someone, should actually be pronounced like fort (as opposed to for-tay, which is how you pronounce the musical term that is spelled the same) I did not know that till today
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EFC Tests
Okay so I did some testing of my EFC route. One of my problems is that although I have estimated times for several different routes, I don’t have a very good way of determining if my estimates are accurate (other than driving and timing them). The way I do my estimates is that I classify…
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Jeopardy
So, I caught the very end of Jeopardy today. Missed the final answer but the 3 responses were Cinncinnatti (sic), Cincinnati and Council Bluffs. Certainly somewhere on the Internet (Edited to add – of course) somebody has to be keeping track of these things, but it makes a somewhat interesting game to play – what…
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Gamescorer
So Mark Mulder pitching 10 innings screwed up the gamescorer, which is apparently only built to handle one digit of innings pitched. Personally I blame Mike.
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Meijer Saturday
Totals for the family morning trip to Meijer: 1 Prescription ($10 co-pay)2 bottles of kids toothpaste (no coupons grr)35 bottles of ketchup28 boxes of fruit snacks8 boxes of 19.7 oz Froot Loops Total spent: -$5.01 (overage mostly due to a $20 off gift card for any new prescription) As I was roaming the aisles, I…