March 26, 2020
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The major grocery chains in lovely Arizona are posting special Old Folks’ early-morning shopping hours on certain weekdays, by way of minimizing corvid exposures to the most vulnerable segment of our population. If you’re 65 or older, you get to … Continue reading
February 18, 2020
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Comments Off on Lampquest!
And so it was off into the rising sun… With a printout of a candidate glass lampshade from the Lamps Plus manager, along about midmorning I set out for Phoenix Lamps, a venerable shop that has occupied the same hole-in-the-wall … Continue reading
February 14, 2020
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Comments Off on Lamp Tragedy: Rays of Light
Sorry: couldn’t resist that one. But yes: there are some twinkles of hope now, in the wake of the Great Lamp Tragedy. After spending half of yesterday traipsing to lamp stores, I ended up shooting down to the spectacularly pricey … Continue reading
January 23, 2020
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Am I the only one who’s noticed that Amazon’s prices on a wide range of goods are…well, exorbitant? Surely not… Okay, admittedly: it’s worth something not to have to traipse around the city to get this, that, and the other … Continue reading
October 28, 2019
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Comments Off on Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me…
Still pounding at Death’s Door. The bastards won’t let me in. Having consumed another whole bottle of Albertson’s cough medicine, I had to drag down to the store again this morning. Bought two jars of the stuff this time, hoping … Continue reading
July 20, 2019
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How do brick-and-mortar chain stores even begin to compete with Amazon? Y’know, at first I thought the answer to that was obvious. The reasons, as I saw it, were multipartite: When you physically go into a store, you can see … Continue reading