Neanderpundit

Over the past year I have bought some selected items from Walmart. yeah, yeah, everyone has a beef with walmart. But like the LODGE cast iron dutch oven I got there, some things are good, and people that sell them should be rewarded for doing so.

Anyway, I learned long ago that if you choose the items available in store, you can sometimes get some pretty good deals pretty fast. Got the wife a notebook and the daughter a tablet at some very attractive prices.

So headed to SHOT, I thought, it might be nice to have a tablet of my own. Save me dragging around a notebook, and a nice way to take notes at the show, right? Oy. So I buy one Walmart proudly proclaims as being available online, and in the middle of the day I get the notification that it has been shipped from Guanxiou City by tramp steamer, and will be here in 2025. Apparently “Pick up in store as early as today” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. Monkeys. So now I’m gonna see if I can find one that’s actualy in stock somewhere, so i don’t have to drag my notebook along, I hate excess carryin baggage. And I don’t want to check anything, thankyouverymuch. Should be more whining coming from SHOT in upcoming days.

in conversation during my regular High & Tight last night, says “I can always tell when a guy has a yappy wife”.

me: “His ears are bleeding?”
Joe: “No, hairy. A guy has a wife won’t shut the fuck up, his ears are hairy as a french woman’s armpits.”
me: “Really!”
Joe: Yeah. I been a barber 50 years and it’s always true. A guy has hairy ears,I ask him, you got a yappy wife? Every time he says ‘Jesus is she ever!'”
me: “Joe, you’ve done a great service to science.”
Joe: “I don’t know about that. I just know the body is smart, and it tries to close off those holes where the pain is coming through”

Im used to having websites self populate with ads for places i visit but this is ridiculous. This morning as i went down the road, a billboard flashed to a KEH ad just as i approached it.