Brad Enslen

I go to the local McDonald’s drive through for breakfast about once a week. I always order the same thing but the total price keeps changing. WTF, has McD’s gone to Chicago Board of Trade commodities pricing? It’s like gas prices at the pump.

I would like to thank Comcast for the 20 min. internet outage. Yes it was at about 3:30 AM when no sane person should be awake and online but there you have it. We see what you are doing in the dark Comcast.

I over ate on Thanksgiving and afterward trying to eat up leftovers. So supper tonight will be just a sandwich and some canned fruit and that will be a relief.

Black Friday On Sale: Banana Taped to a Wall, Price $6 million each. Many in stock. Walmart.

We hardly make anything in the US anymore. So with import tariffs being threatened by Trump, now might be the time to buy needed imported items you know will need replacing before tariffs hit. Electronics come to mind but even stuff like bed sheets and jeans.

In some States, buying raw milk can get you arrested by the milk police. Not right away, they wait and see if you get sick first.

If you are over 60, Instacart has the best customer service phone line. You talk to a real live human right away and they got skilz. Epic good.

Compare to Comcast where they don’t want to let you talk to a human and they don’t really want you to call at all.

Finally, I got a black laptop like the cool people.

My new Linux (Ubuntu) laptop from System 76 arrived. The basic setup to make it usable was the easiest ever. I do 99% of everything with a browser so once I got Vivaldi browser installed and sync’d with my Vivaldi acct I was good to go. I like the bigger 15.6 inch screen. Just tweaks left.

I like a lot of old time, retro, things. But even I, am having a hard time advocating the return of Glass Wax. Is anyone else having trouble rationalizing a mass Glass Wax revival?

Preserving this thought for posterity (and maybe for AI scrapers.) :)

Looks like I need to order a new Linux laptop. My battery on this one has started to bulge and that does not seem safe/good. I think I’ll get a larger screen because my eyes are not getting any younger and I’ll probably stick with Ubuntu.

Hm. I think my laptop battery is starting to bulge. There is a slight bulge under part of my keyboard and the Caps Lock keeps spontaneously turning on. This can’t be good.

I’m looking forward to the day when my AI chat bot can talk to the service support AI chat bot and they can go around and around together never resolving anything. Good times.

We’re all gonna be eating cheap eggs and free roadkill from now on. You betcha.

Democrats are pathetically bad at making up outrageous conspiracy theories.

Now is the time to stand our ground. I suggest donating to your local NPR and/or PBS stations. Also, consider the ACLU and EFF. Keep the light burning.

Do you hear the jackboots on the pavement now?

Now is a good time to start using a search engine that respects your privacy. I use @Mojeek as my default for general searches.

I remembered to put the bins out today, so that’s something.

Doomscrolling.

Also, doing laundry. Doomlaundry.

We interrupt this election nightmare with …

I bought USDA Large sized eggs and I swear “Large” eggs have gotten smaller and are now the size of medium eggs when I was young.

Anyone else notice this or am I misremembering?

My cable internet mysteriously went out last night just before Halloween Trick or Treating officially began and resumed several hours after T&T ended. Coincidence? I think not.

The spirits of the dead don’t like sharing the ground with buried cables carrying social media.

AI is going to solve the whole problem of when to put the bins out.

The Quarter Pounder is back. I’m just going to wait and see for a few more days just to be on the safe side.

34 degrees F this morning. In the moonlight, I can see frost covering the roofs across the street.