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03-23-20, 11:49 AM
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Man, I need to remember to pick up beer. I emptied my last can on Saturday night, and couldn't source any yesterday, which was a bit frustrating.
I basically shop at one of two places:
One place went online ordering/delivery only with a $35 minimum (elitist scum!). That's fine when I need a few things, but I just wanted a 4/6-pack or two, but whatever - it's nice to know where they stand, but I wasn't tripling my purchase to meet the minimum this time around.
The other place shut down their store to walk-in customers in favor of online ordering and curbside pick-up, no minimums. Cool, but requires at least a little planning and they were offering a very limited selection. Then they walked back on the policy and opened the stores back up, but with truncated hours and some capacity/distancing caveats. Fine, I can handle that. I walked over during their stated hours and saw a sign that basically read "Open regular Sunday hours *except 3/22/20 - ha ha, WhyFi, you schmuck!"
I basically shop at one of two places:
One place went online ordering/delivery only with a $35 minimum (elitist scum!). That's fine when I need a few things, but I just wanted a 4/6-pack or two, but whatever - it's nice to know where they stand, but I wasn't tripling my purchase to meet the minimum this time around.
The other place shut down their store to walk-in customers in favor of online ordering and curbside pick-up, no minimums. Cool, but requires at least a little planning and they were offering a very limited selection. Then they walked back on the policy and opened the stores back up, but with truncated hours and some capacity/distancing caveats. Fine, I can handle that. I walked over during their stated hours and saw a sign that basically read "Open regular Sunday hours *except 3/22/20 - ha ha, WhyFi, you schmuck!"
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03-23-20, 11:54 AM
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03-23-20, 11:55 AM
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03-23-20, 11:56 AM
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Man, I need to remember to pick up beer. I emptied my last can on Saturday night, and couldn't source any yesterday, which was a bit frustrating.
I basically shop at one of two places:
One place went online ordering/delivery only with a $35 minimum (elitist scum!). That's fine when I need a few things, but I just wanted a 4/6-pack or two, but whatever - it's nice to know where they stand, but I wasn't tripling my purchase to meet the minimum this time around.
The other place shut down their store to walk-in customers in favor of online ordering and curbside pick-up, no minimums. Cool, but requires at least a little planning and they were offering a very limited selection. Then they walked back on the policy and opened the stores back up, but with truncated hours and some capacity/distancing caveats. Fine, I can handle that. I walked over during their stated hours and saw a sign that basically read "Open regular Sunday hours *except 3/22/20 - ha ha, WhyFi, you schmuck!"
I basically shop at one of two places:
One place went online ordering/delivery only with a $35 minimum (elitist scum!). That's fine when I need a few things, but I just wanted a 4/6-pack or two, but whatever - it's nice to know where they stand, but I wasn't tripling my purchase to meet the minimum this time around.
The other place shut down their store to walk-in customers in favor of online ordering and curbside pick-up, no minimums. Cool, but requires at least a little planning and they were offering a very limited selection. Then they walked back on the policy and opened the stores back up, but with truncated hours and some capacity/distancing caveats. Fine, I can handle that. I walked over during their stated hours and saw a sign that basically read "Open regular Sunday hours *except 3/22/20 - ha ha, WhyFi, you schmuck!"
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I drink a glass occasionally, I had some just yesterday. It's always leftover from a quart that I don't want to go bad, used originally for pancakes or mac n cheese or cornbread, etc. And yes, always whole milk.
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03-23-20, 12:02 PM
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I have a couple bottles of whisky/bourbon. Use cases between beer and liquor may have a healthy amount of overlap, but they're not the same. Accompanying a meal, in particular, is beer territory for me; I wouldn't have whisky neat or sidecar or anything like that with a meal.
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We got us a nice little snow event going on right now, got a couple inches so far. 
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I have a couple bottles of whisky/bourbon. Use cases between beer and liquor may have a healthy amount of overlap, but they're not the same. Accompanying a meal, in particular, is beer territory for me; I wouldn't have whisky neat or sidecar or anything like that with a meal.
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Liquor also isn’t disgusting, so there’s that.
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I have a couple bottles of whisky/bourbon. Use cases between beer and liquor may have a healthy amount of overlap, but they're not the same. Accompanying a meal, in particular, is beer territory for me; I wouldn't have whisky neat or sidecar or anything like that with a meal.
Smoke, too. I smoked for 20 years, age 13 to 33, and I couldn't stand the smoke while I was eating. They used to have smoking and non smoking sections in restaurants which is ridiculous, but even as a smoker I was grossed out if people were smoking while I was eating.
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They shaft us pretty badly here in California. People say it's because we have higher tax but we aren't the highest tax on gas in the country and the state that is has gas for around $2. People also say it's due to the whole "winter blend" thing, but every contiguous state has some form of that and it only adds about 10 cents to a gallon anyway.
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My step-ish-sister-in-law had milk served at her wedding. Before the meal a server came around and asked if we would like iced tea or milk with our dinner. During toasts and such she was drinking a glass of milk. It was weird. But so is she. I had tea.
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03-23-20, 12:33 PM
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Part of getting old seems to be wanting to drink, but not liking the buzz. I seem to get intoxicated without the old euphoria—loss of dopamine neurons, I'm sure. 
The solution seems to be drinking very good stuff very slowly.
The solution seems to be drinking very good stuff very slowly.
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03-23-20, 12:42 PM
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Uhhh... How old we talkin' here? I rarely drink, but if it's liquor I quite enjoy the buzz at 37 or 38 or whatever hell age I am these days. 37?
03-23-20, 12:44 PM
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Dallas County just ordered shelter in place. I am in Denton County, but it could happen. We just adjusted our mortgage and my student loan payments back to the standard payment so we could put away some more money just in case. If Denton goes to shelter in place, there is no justifiable way to keep our doors open for the time being. Sales and stuff can be done remote but if I'm not here to build stuff, it's hard to justify paying me money. I keep trying to tell myself it's unlikely but who the hell knows at this point. My SIL in Fort Worth just got furloughed.