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Took my mom and son to Seaquest in lynchburg. Fun road trip, but I've been thinking about trying to get out of the house and do grown up stuff.

I've been a single dad for about three years now. I have done a lot of work to get the kiddo and I stable, but I find that I have no real social network of any kind. Rebuilding after divorce sucks, especially when you're the responsible one. Any other single parents want to get together and talk trash about our exes? I got a doozie!

I didn’t do any traditional shopping, but I finally took a few things back to the Amazon Hub that have been sitting in my trunk for weeks. While I was out, I went by goodwill to browse. I found a pair of Frye boots in my size that are fabulous. I have the same pair in black and love them. Now I have brown. I can’t wait to wear them. Merry Christmas to me!

Probably run under some sort of Joint Operating Agreement. That’s relatively common for newspapers where there’s a morning and evening paper in the same location owned by seperate media companies. The presses are usually owned and operated by the JOA. Tucson and Detroit both used to have JOAs.

how early can one order lunch food (specifically spaghetti) at Joe's Inn? like, if I'm there at 8am could spaghetti be ordered?

Be glad you weren’t in short pump lol

I wish I would have brought UNO or a crossword book.

On days where it's not at least steady all I think about is what I could be doing not in this building.

I would email and ask her...but you may not be able to handle the truth.

Jeez, I’d rather a slammed holiday shift over a slow one any day. I always hated these type of service industry work days.

Spent the day out and about and the city felt dead. Hardly anyone out.

My sole BF purchase was a $25 gift card from Starbucks so I could get a free $5 promo gift card.

Spent the day cleaning and organizing the utility room using the two new shelves I bought. Finally moved the fancy cat litter box into the small bathroom. I'm hoping New Cat won't destroy it with bad aim. Tomorrow we'll expand the organizing effort to the living room so I can put up the tree.

It probably would work fine but would just be redundant for now. 95% of my downloaded media I watch on the TV that is close to my PC so being plugged in and controlled with a steam controller works out fine.

The other 5% I end up watching on the bedroom TV I just run through Handbrake and stick on a USB since Roku is weird about certain codecs.

Unrelated to this, she has one of the better golf swings I’ve ever seen. Just completely natural, I’m jealous.

You are correct. Fox is owned by Sinclair still. But they are both broadcast from the same station. They use the same content as NBC12 and reporters.

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No shopping. Just hanging with fam.. leftovers and world cup earlier. Went for a walk. Playing chess for first time since last year when my brother visited. He is destroying me lol.

Could some of it be more indoor activities due to the cold?

Out of town at the in-laws, ate great leftovers and had some downtime to read my book for the first time in weeks. Best Black Friday in years lol

Today has been kind of a wash. Boss didn't believe pretty much the entire experienced staff telling her that we're never busy the day after the holiday, so we're staffed to the gills looking at two tables.

Only three more hours of service and then I can go have a ham sandwich. (:

I’d love a NAS for storage but not something I should spend on now. But I actually just have my Plex server connected via IP through the Plex app on my smart tv/smart device. Not sure if that’s an option for you but all I do is download media, place in appropriate folder, sync the server, login to server on device I’m viewing, start watching. 😎

Decided to decorate for Christmas since I'll be out of town tomorrow. Got up all the extraneous stuff and discovered....our tree accidentally got thrown out during spring cleaning 🤦🏼‍♀️ A quick trip to Walmart solved that problem and the apartment is fully Christmas-a-fied.

I was surprised that Walmart was fairly empty when I went. It doesn't feel like people are as gung-ho on Black Friday as they have been (and is that necessarily a bad thing?)

Bonk?

Good find on the SD cards. Agree about the rest of PC stuff. I was hoping EVGA would discount more of their B-stock 30 series stuff since the 3070Tis they have are just above my insta buy price.

WD had their Reds on a decent discount but idk if I want to deal with a Plex server yet. So far running a long HDMI cable from my PC to TV is working out well enough and I still have a few TB free internally.

Bonk