So, instead of treating you to a recap of the weekend’s events, I’m going to just point you to Takaza‘s entry – saves us both time 🙂
One item of interest to repeat from his journal, though: We compared the prices of about 90 items that we commonly buy across four different grocery stores: Harris Teeter, Kroger, Lowes’ Foods, and Wal-Mart Super Center. It was not a great surprise that Wal-Mart was cheaper on average than the other three, but the real surprise was by how much: 20% cheaper than Lowes’ Foods, and about 30% cheaper than Kroger and Harris Teeter. In some ways this sucks because I really hate shopping there – narrow aisles, stupid people in large numbers (moo!), and they don’t have a lot of the brands we like. But those are some pretty compelling numbers. The major drawback is that I will absolutely not shop there between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, no matter how much money we’re talking. Anyway, all that took about four hours but when I looked at some average grocery bills and annualized some of the price differentials, we’re looking at an annual savings of about $800-$1,000 by shopping at Wal-Mart instead of Lowes’ Foods. I’d say that was four hours well-spent.
Today we spent some nice time just snuggling (something we don’t do nearly enough sometimes). After that, it was a bit of housecleaning, then we did some shopping. When we got back I mowed the lawn (I know my wuff loves me – he brought me out a glass of ice water while I was mowing 🙂 and then we sat down to a nice dinner of cheeseburgers and Futurama. Yay!
On a side note, I joined the Grey Muzzle mailing list (for furry fans over 30 years old) last week, and I have to say that so far I’m not impressed. I was hoping for some interesting discussion about furry fandom from a more mature perspective. What I’ve gotten instead is 30-50 messages per day with what amounts to a rehash of alt.fan.furry, by a lot of the same players, no less. I haven’t posted there, except for a short introduction, for the same reason that I don’t post to AFF – these people aren’t looking for a reasoned discussion and a calm, even exchange of views. They’re looking to convince the world that they are right and everyone else is wrong, and by god, they’re going to beat that into everyone’s head. Yeah, right. I have better things to do with my time, thanks. I’ll hang on for a while longer in hopes things improve, but I’m not optimistic.
As Roho often says, ‘Yes, wouldn’t the world be a much better place if everyone was just like you?’
Bleah.
Well, been watching the greymuzzles for a while, and I have to agree.
Seems like the message got lost somewhere in the folds and whiskers.
Besides, age is a state of mindlessness….
I’m on the Greymuzzle list also. Haven’t had anything to say that was productive for a while, and sure don’t need to get into this arguement that’s currently going on there myself.
When did it start cutting off at 30? I always thought it was 35. I’m 34- but it doesn’t sound that thrilling to hear Duncan tell it 🙂
I had a bad experience with Wal Mart Super Center when out in New Mexico that has led me not to trust them enough to buy meat from them, and their produce section never really impressed me, but I’m sure this varies from region to region, and I did still buy most of my dry groceries and pre-packaged frozen stuff there.
As for the Greymuzzle list, the past week or so has been atypical. Sooner or later the Usual Suspects will have their fill of attention and the list will go back to being fairly low traffic and tolerably high signal to noise.
I’m feeling stupid, and so I think I’m going to post my two cents on Greymuzzle. Sure, it’ll be like kicking a mountain to get it to listen, but hope is stupid, I guess. I can leave a dent in the dirt and say “At least I tried.”
After that, I’m probably gone from Greymuzzle. Since I read some of my mailing lists in big, infrequent batches, I pretty much see the same thing all the time; it’s the same argument, and the same players. I’ve got the grey (and I like it) and if somebody wants some purported wisdom, they can find me and ask for some.
I think I’ve come to the conclusion that following “the truth” and having to be “right” is a possible sign of immaturity. People are where it’s at. “The truth” be damned; if you can’t take feedback from observing the effects of your actions on others, grow up. And hence, the list doesn’t really cater to a mature audience. QED.
Wanna start a “mature” furs list?