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I was at a local bar last night with a friend having a pizza and some suds.  A couple of older guys walked in and sat down.  They had cool leather motorcycle club jackets on with cool patches.  I innocently asked "those are cool jackets; are you guys from around here?"  I was met with an icy stare and a "why are you asking questions?  don't ask too many questions."  I thought for a second oh gawd, I pissed off the local chapter of Sons of Anarchy; I'm a dead man!  lol.  I apologized and said I just thought the jackets are super cool.  He said it's cool, no worries.  I bought them each a beer.

break like the wind,

to be free of intestinal gas again

Wife's friend spent the night last night, and I fired up the Wii this morning and we had 4 hours of fun.  Wii Sports (bowling) and Konami Karaoke Revolution are the games we played.  She initially resisted (last game she played was Ms. Pac-Man), but she easily picked it up and had a blast.  

I saw America last night at a local restored theatre.  Gerry pointed out that this was the first show of this decade and the very first show of their 50th year as a band (branded as such on the tickets), so they both talked a bit about their history.  I was blessed to see them (never have before), and the seats were only like 10 rows from the stage even though the tickets were not much more in cost than a nice steak dinner which is forgotten the next day.  If you get a chance to see them, I highly recommend it.  Plus it's fun to get out of the house once in a while and mingle.  I sit at a screen way way too much.  There were 2 extremely attractive women (30 years old or so) in the seats in front of me, and even though they were talking to each other, I didn't mind as they were talking about their love of America.  One of them got excited when they did "Ventura Highway" (her favorite song), and she whipped out her iphone and recorded it.  The energy of the crowd adds to the experience.

Watching the local news, a couple of real winners (2 sisters) were caught cleaning out the shelves of all the Lego sets at various local Wal-Marts.  And they had their kids with them -- teaching 'em early!  

The police put the case together piece by piece.

I treated myself to a ticket to see the classic band America on the 17th here in Ohio.  $85 for a seat only like 6 rows from the stage.  Last big name act we saw (Eagles in 2003), it was $100 each for nose bleed seats a gazillion miles from the stage.  I've been listening to America all my life. 

A dear friend called sobbing this morning.  Her son (20 years old) passed away this morning at 4am.  He's been battling a rare genetic condition all his life.  There's a gofundme campaign if you'd like to help.  Prayers and good vibes are also appreciated.  What a sad way to ring in the new year.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/dakota-fluhartysharry-wood-benefit

A friend foisted a massive amount of cheese cake on us last night because her son is 350 pounds, and she doesn't want him eating all of it.  She piled it all up on ONE plate.  It was like 8 inches tall -- various flavors -- cherry and strawberry.  The sheer weight of it compressed it down into a gloopy mess -- like a cheesecake soup.  I think it was kept at room temp with how gloopy it was.  I was afraid it'd leak out because there wasn't enough tinfoil over the plate.  So I stopped a few miles down the road and slid it out onto the roadside.  Don't want that gloopy mess getting my car dirty.  Just the thought of all the turkey and stuffing I've been eating lately makes me want to walk 5 miles everyday.

I bought a new Xbox One S 1 TB for a friend and her 2 kids.  It took like 2 hours for it to download all the updates and for them to log in and create a gamer tag (just one).  It is the NBA2K edition, and sadly it didn't come with a physical disc -- just a card with the redemption code on it.  I am glad I didn't get them the all digital edition, as their mom bought them 5 games on disc.  I guess the games would've came with a redemption code, but it's nice to have the physical disc option for games and Blu-rays.

I am too honest.  I ordered a 365 day supply of Kirkland allergy meds off ebay for $18.  It's the generic version of Zyrtec (Cetirizine).  We don't have a Costco membership, and it's like 1/10th the price of the generic forms of it from CVS, Rite-Aid, etc..  Anyway, the Costco Warehouse sent me TWO bottles of it in one poly bag, and inside there's a pre-paid shipping label addressed to a lady in PA.  I stuck her label on the poly bag over my label, put her bottle back in, taped it up and dropped it in the mailbox.  

The meds don't expire until like August of 2021, so I could've had a 2 year supply.  lol, but I didn't want the other lady to be inconvenienced.  I had ran out last week, and my eyes were getting itchy and I was getting sneezy and clogged up.  

I thought my iPad Air 2's battery was finally toast.  Been watching Netflix in bed on my smart phone, but I ordered an Anker lightning cable on ebay.  It was just a bad cable.  Yey!

I am surprised the "expert panel" predicted such a close score in the Ohio-Michigan game -- 36-34, 28-24, etc..  Buckeyes destroyed Michigan.  I knew it wouldn't be that close.

Only Black Friday shopping I've done was to buy another Google Home Mini speaker from Google Store.  Google needs that $29 to stay in the black on their books.  Not much of a sale, as BB had them for $25 last week.  Now I could keep one in the bathroom and kitchen both without having to move them around, and they can be paired in stereo too.  Lenovo's site has an IdeaPad laptop for $99 but it runs Win 10 and has only 2 GB of RAM, so it'd make a great gift for someone you don't particularly like.  Also, a Lenovo tablet for $39 but it only has 1 GB of RAM.

We started watching "The End of the F---ng World" last night on Netflix.  It's a series.  I didn't even read the summary/plot.  It's awesome.  I think not reading the plot is better, as you are a little more surprised by what happens.

Snoopy lives in a very bad part of town.

When you're trying to find an item, the item is always at the last place you looked. Funny how it works out that way. 

First fall with a mower with a bagger.  I love it.  I just mow up the leaves and dump them over the fence.  Way easier than raking.  I like to keep the backyard clean for our dog, or else I'd just leave them for the winter for food for the grass.  I don't worry about the leaves in the front and side yard.  If you have a mower that can take a bagger, they are awesome and a good purchase.  I had a non bagger which I sold to a friend and bought this bagger off CL for $60 in mint shape. 

I have a scatter-brained friend who sends long texts with zero punctuation, so it's kinda hard to make out what she's saying.  I asked her to please add some periods, commas, semicolons, and coordinating conjunctions are nice too.  The next text from her is literally this.

sorry.i.will.try.to.separate.out the.stuff.i write.im in.a.hurry.lots.on.mymind.sorry.again.ttyl.thanks.again.sorry

Then the next texts went back to normal -- zero punctuation.

"get a neck!"