Plug for Rite Aid and added comments

First, got a hair cut...then scooted to Rite Aid Drug Store and cruised around inside...just looking.  I only bought some beer and some plastic bags, but I enjoy just cruising and looking.

Nice big store, well laid out, tons and tons of merchandise.  Love it.

LATER: In comments below, Garnett expresses surprise that you can buy beer in a drug store.  LOL, yes, and liquor too.  And lawn furniture, and birdseed, and shoes, and clothes.  Jackie says she likes Walgreen's. So do I. It is right across the street from Rite Aid, but the aisles are narrower, and there are only about half as many. 

Rite Aid is laid out in rows, AND diagonal aisles, intermixed. You can get lost in a Rite Aid store, and that is fun.  Wandering the aisles filled with wonderous merchandise, until you find a clerk to lead you out. The Labrynth's at Delphi or Lesbos or Cornith (Actually Crete says Wikipedia.) were never this much fun.  .

Mothers' Day at the Old Folks Home

   What a nice Mothers' Day at the Old Folks Home.  Each lady was given a long stemmed carnation as she entered and was ushered to her seat.

   The entree today was baked potato, a treat hereabouts.  The potato bar was loaded with toppings: salsa, butter, sour cream, chives, bacon bits, broccoli and cheese, and perhaps more that I don't remember.

   All these were served with fresh fruit.  Choice of pie for dessert.  Charming day for the ladies who stayed here for the day.  Many were out with families. 

   A happy day for grandfathers too.

Insomniac Almanac

Just worked forty minutes on this entry and then got booted. Spoiled my sense of well being.

  Went to bed early, ten p.m., feeling punk.  Woke at one a.m. feeling good.  Usually don't dream so early in the night, but had a remarkable dream that left me with a sense of well-being.

   A group of men and I, seemed to be in eighteenth century England, and were working on getting the exact flavor of vinegar to add to a large pot of soup.  Remarkable in the dream was the fact that I could taste the flavors of vinegar.

   Children were playing outside, not sitting around watching television. 

   Now what am I going to do with the rest of this long night.  Sometimes when I have interrupted a dream, I have been able to go back to sleep and continue the dream... but in this case, I don't care what flavor that soup eventually takes. 

   Maybe I'll go outside and play with the children.

According to Statistics

...if you drive to the store to buy your Mega Millions ticket, the chances are six times greater that you will be killed in a traffic accident than they are that you will win the Jackpot.  So says Durango Bill.

Avocadoholic

Although avocados are back up to $1.69, I bought one. ONE. I put it on the kitchen sink sideboard. Just to taunt myself. I see it often during the day. In my minds’ eye, I see it moving itself around to catch the sun. The sun ripens it.

It mellows and I faint, so to speak. Suddenly I have the avocado in one hand and knife in other. I cut the top off, grab a spoon, and dig out the large stone. Then I add herb and garlic sour cream. Right in the avocado shell I mix a rich guacamole.

Now on crackers this would be a treat, but the avocadoholic in me will not wait for me to open crackers.

“I don’t need no stinkin’ crackers.” I dig in, and finish it off. Oh, I reproach myself for eating it all, not saving any of anyone else, nor even saving some for after supper. 

I ate it all.

I gotta go get another, no matter what they boost the price to.

What's In a Name?

Half and Half?  Half cream and half milk I was taught.  And what is "cream"?  Whole milk in which the batterfat was allowed to rise to the top.  Ah yes, thick creamy substance. 

But SO VERY RICH that we had to "cut" it with milk, to make a liquid for lightening our coffee.  What was left when the Half and Half was siphoned off? SKIMMED MILK. Yeech.

Now what do we have here?  "Fat Free Half and Half"?

A contradiction in terms.  If it is "fat free" it can't be cream, and if it can't be cream it can't be "half and half".

If "no refrigeration" is needed, it can't even be a dairy product. And if you have to shake it, it isn't even all liquid.

I ask you: What IS IT?

It is a grade A patented product that is not for individual sale, so if you want one in your coffee put your nickle away...you can't buy just one.

So There, Fans

Barry Bonds was booed and jeered and taunted all afternoon by Philadelphia fans.  Then he hit homerun number 713.  Then the fan who recovered the ball brought it to Bonds and asked him to sign it.

Then Bonds did what I would have done.  Smiled and did nothing.

Bravo Barry.

And what a hub bub about 713th homerun.  When he ACTUALLY ties Aaron's record with number 714, what will happen?  And when he PASSES the record with 715?  What then?

Of course, if I catch number 715, I hope he will sign it.

Please.