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Diplomacy
I went to a local Barnes and Noble the other day and played a little Diplomacy. It was pretty fun – had a good time. This is actually the first time I think that I’ve actually played with people that more or less know what they’re doing. The other few times I”ve gotten to play,…
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Speed estimates
Lately I have been doing some speed estimates for the EFC trip. Just doing some timings as I drive to and from work. This process was greatly enhanced by Carolyn finding my watch this morning. I’ve kind of noticed lately that my speedometer has not accurately been reflecting my speed. Or, alternately, the odometer is…
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April grocery totals
Totals for the month: Price before coupons: $2,373.50Coupons: $495.13Doublage: $340.92Rebates: $32.95Catalinas: $298.00Store savings / rainchecks: $1,016.37Other (mostly Meijer gas and Kroger GYR): $93.39 Net price: $96.74Savings: $2,276.76Savings pct: 95.92%
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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…