When I got off work, I got some food for the upcoming Labor Day weekend. I get things I don’t normally buy such as ice cream. I noticed the packages shrank since the Independence Day holiday week. In the ancient times of the early 21st century, ice cream came in 2 quart packages. A few years ago the packages dropped to 1.75 quarts. Today I got this. The name brand was $5, the house brand $3.
At Wally World we put up the holiday grocery display in the aisle this week. This is where most of the pumpkin spice stuff is going to be from now until Easter. They couldn’t even wait until Labor Day this year.
By now people have companies making packages smaller to keep prices down. This has not been totally successful as prices are going up anyway. They may not notice these same companies switching to cheaper ingredients or diluting liquids. Retailers are pushing back and in some cases refusing to stock products. This is why some of your favorite items may not be available in your local convenience store or supermarket deli.
High School and college football kicks off this weekend. The high schools in the area had scrimmages last night. While most states have scrimmages, this has been a recent development in Kansas. Schools have a choice between a three or four team scrimmage, with each school having a total of 36 plays equally divided against each of the others.
The local colleges kicked off their regular season today. Indy hosted Iowa Central while Coffeyville traveled to Highland. Results will have to wait until tomorrow.
After today temperatures drop from the unbearable 100s to the normal nineties. The biggest difference is in the night temperatures. 75 degrees or more is like putting salt in the wound, but lows in the 60s when I get off work feels refreshing.
There are two abandoned churches is my neighborhood. One of them was an historically Black church where revivals were held until held until a decade ago. There will be a weekend revival this weekend. There was an article in this week’s Chronicle about the spiritual and structural revival of the church. This should be a clue for the Dumholtzes who run the county’s other newspapers. To stop urinalism, you need to get your heads out of your butts and your butts out of the office like Andy Taylor.
A shout out for the Michigan convenience store customer who shot a would be robber while holding a six-pack of beer in the other. I’m surprised there aren’t memes of this all over the internet.
I never had much experience with old people growing up, since most people in my family died under age 60. Things such as dementia are alien concepts to me. My current tenant is in her late 70s and is the early stages of dementia. Her granddaughter lives next door and keeps an eye on her during the day. I see her twice a month. Once to collect the rent and once to collect for the water/sewer/trash/electric bill. She rarely leaves the house and never by herself, so I go downtown and pay the city on my way to the library.
I notice she is having more trouble writing the checks each visit. She can’t figure out how much she owes the city and she gets her dates confused. To be fair, the City of Coffeyville’s bills are not easy to read. Unlike the City of Phoenix, the ink is not as dark as it should be. It is hard to read the due dates and the total amount owed. The City of Coffeyville has not changed the format of the bills since she moved in, so if she has more trouble figuring out the bill her mind is going downhill slowly. It is quite painful to watch and will only get worse.
At the bottled water company I worked at we had to change out the charcoal in the carbon filter roughly annually. This was an all day job and a messy one too, as we couldn’t avoid getting wet charcoal all over our uniforms. One year a teacher at the school next door shoved one of the kids up against the chain link fence separating us and screamed loud enough for all of us to hear “If you don’t straighten up and behave, you’re going to work over there for the rest of your life.”
The publisher of the Wichita Eagle announced this week that the e-edition of the paper would be updated during the day. He also announced that the paper would be mailed to customers starting October 23. Wasn’t this the same paper that got its bulk mail permit pulled for monkeying with the numbers in its annual circulation report a decade ago?
Footyfried