Inflation, newspaper edition

The big city papers left town just over a year ago and I miss it, just not as much as I thought. I had to go to Bartlesville and while I was there I picked up a copy. The price had gone from two to three dollars. This wouldn’t have been so bad if the paper hadn’t been two thirds of its previous size. At least it had the previous night’s sports results which is more than I could say for the Kansas City or Wichita papers. News is supposed to be new, not two or three days old. The overpriced dailies are acting like weeklies.

Speaking of weeklies, the Wilson County Citizen is one now that it has cut back from two editions a week. The issue wasn’t costs as much as finding a press operator. The Citizen was one of the few local papers that printed its own paper. The press operator retired last week and they could not find a replacement. When you don’t print your paper in house, your deadlines get pushed back by up to a day. To pay for the outside printer, the cost of the paper went from 50 cents to a dollar this week. This means the Independence Daily Reporter and Coffeyville Journal are the last papers in the area under a dollar, still 75 cents for now.

Weeding out the help, Part five.

Another stocker quit at Wally World the night before last. He just walked out at lunch time and never returned. He also never told anybody he was leaving. It’s not like he had another job lined up and with the economy about to take a serious dump, he may not get another. I noticed that night that while the intercom plays a lot of Queen songs, “Another One Bites The Dust” is not among them.

Cats win, hand spoon to Hawthorn

Geelong finally got into the win column with a 127-45 win over Hawthorn on Easter Monday. The large margin of victory assured Hawthorn would have the worst scoring percentage of all of the 1-3 teams, replacing the Cats as the last place team. The Cats managed to have the best record of the 1-3 teams, making them 13th of 18 teams. Now on to West Coast.

Bank of Americurr

I just got to sleep this morning when I heard a buzzing sound. After about 30 seconds, I realized it was my phone and I had never been called since I bought the phone around Christmas. After figuring out how to answer it, a “representative” from “Bank of Americurr’ called asking about some deposits. I actually had an account with Bank of America until they pulled out of rural Kansas a decade ago.

Since this bastard had ruined my day, I decided to return the favor and string him out for as long as I possibly could. Unfortunately he was one of the few scammers who could take no for an answer and hung up immediately. I spent the rest of the day trying to get my eight hours of sleep one nap at a time.

Inventory

I had to work on my night off to prepare the shelves for the annual inventory. No matter what job you have, there will always be some tasks that are frustrating and irritating. Rounding up stray boxes of Jello and figuring out where they are supposed to go is high on that list. So is trying to keep squishy bags of marshmallows firmly in place.