What have you bought recently?

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would you call that Magenta.. it's a pretty shade of pink...
 
Shopped till I dropped. Well, it was pretty darn close; I’m tired. I got dropped off near a mall and still had my very bulky down coat and backpack to deal with. It wasn’t the weight, it was the size of it and lugging it around.

I only went to a couple of stores to do a return and in search of some basic shirts. Things are pretty cleared out at this time of year. Selections in petite are even more limited. Found 2 basic short sleeve t-shirts for $8 each. In the other store I bought 2 black Henleys and a white and a baby blue long sleeve. Even at less than half price, it adds up. I hate taking off clothes to try on more clothes. Just when I thought I was finished I‘d find something else to try on.
 
Jules said:
Shopped till I dropped. Well, it was pretty darn close; I’m tired. I got dropped off near a mall and still had my very bulky down coat and backpack to deal with. It wasn’t the weight, it was the size of it and lugging it around.

I only went to a couple of stores to do a return and in search of some basic shirts. Things are pretty cleared out at this time of year. Selections in petite are even more limited. Found 2 basic short sleeve t-shirts for $8 each. In the other store I bought 2 black Henleys and a white and a baby blue long sleeve. Even at less than half price, it adds up. I hate taking off clothes to try on more clothes. Just when I thought I was finished I‘d find something else to try on.
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I'm the same I absolutely hate trying stuff on,particularly like you, if I've already got dressed again then found something else..

9 times out of 10 I won't try on, and just guess it'll be fine, and hope for the best...except if I'm buying in M&S..their sizes are so way out, I have to try 'em on... however the good thing about M&S is they have mirrors in the changing rooms which show every aspect of your body and not just the front.. that makes a huge difference
 
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This afternoon Ima spend some money on groceries. It's the day before DD's payday so she's broke, and there's stuff I want for making comfort food because the weather is craptacular and depressing. Comfort food will make me feel better. Mexican potato soup.

My blue hair is more purple than blue. WTH?
 
Georgiagranny said:
This afternoon Ima spend some money on groceries. It's the day before DD's payday so she's broke, and there's stuff I want for making comfort food because the weather is craptacular and depressing. Comfort food will make me feel better. Mexican potato soup.

My blue hair is more purple than blue. WTH?
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I have a friend who has purple hair, it looks good. Do you not like it?
 
@hollydolly I mentioned to DD that I thought something had been added to it. For a long time it was shown as discontinued no matter where I looked. Could be that there were enough complaints that they decided to bring it back, but got the "recipe" a little haywire.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@hollydolly I mentioned to DD that I thought something had been added to it. For a long time it was shown as discontinued no matter where I looked. Could be that there were enough complaints that they decided to bring it back, but got the "recipe" a little haywire.
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I think that's probably what happened. They may have discontinued it for a variety of reasons, perhaps they couldn't access the correct blue dyes, or any of the ingredients, and maybe decided they could get as close to it using a little Indigo in the mix...
 
Weird.

A while back I bought a small cordless leaf blower. Turns out it is very handy on dry fluffy snow as well. Came with 2 batteries and a charger.

I decided since batteries don't last forever and sometimes I want more runtime anyway, I'd look into spares.

What I found was that the battery packs alone are so pricey that I could buy a whole second blower at a discount price plus coupon for less than buying 3 batteries.

So I did it. That gives me 4 batteries, 2 chargers, and two whole blowers and shoulder slings. Since the battery chargers are conservative to prolong battery life, a charge from flat to topped takes a couple of hours. Two chargers is a bonus then.

The second unit appears identical to the first. Specs are identical. It just has a different output tube and "nozzle" at the end. Parts all seem to be interchangeable though.

And it was all still pretty cheap. Hopefully I'll have enough bits to keep at least one going for years.

Too bad tool batteries were not standardized long ago.
 
hollydolly said:
Look how tiny the 128gb flash drive is that arrived today... this is compared to a pen...

this compared to my already very small 64gb flashdrive

Can you even imagine being told a few years ago that you could hold an immense amount of information on this thing the size of a pencil sharpener...
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By today's standards, those drives are not just physically small, they are tiny storage devices. Between the internal hard drive and all of my external drives, I have 12 Tb plus. I used to have 20 Tb, but one of my 8Tb drives went to that big electronics recycling center in the sky on Christmas Eve, 2024. Along with 7,000 plus copies of almost all of my DVD Collection. (That took hundreds of hours to copy.)

But yes, I can imagine that. I don't remember exactly when this Cox Communications commercial was on TV, but sometime after I moved to Eureka, they had one that showed a guy sitting on a beach somewhere with a huge laptop on his lap, typing away. The caption was "Just think, in a few years you'll be able to send Email from the beach."

It was probably their feeble attempt to say that Cox's internet service would be so good down the line that email from the beach would be possible, as it was not at the time. (No Internet Service at the Beach.)

However, that was not too long after I moved to Eureka, so it could have been 1999 or 2000. We had Cox Cable for 10 plus years when it was sold to Suddenlink, which was sold after another 8 to 10 years to Altice USA, and they didn't have basic Internet Service with WiFi until the late 2010s, and there no cell phones with email service available in Humboldt County until the mid 2010s either.

That commercial was shown about 25 years ago, and in the "Grande Scheme of Things", that wasn't that long ago. I bought my first computer in 1986...

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If anyone is interested, here's a little Generic Band history...

I bought this computer for two reasons. First off, it's initial release date was my birthday January 16th, 1986 and even though I paid for it, it "supposedly" was a birthday present from my wife at the time. (Typical of her, actually.) But the primary reason I wanted it was because it had MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) capabilities.

We had this guy running lights for us that had a thing for strobe lights. He was not a musician so he didn't see a relationship between strobe lights and metronomes, as he had no sense of musical time signatures at all. So we would be playing along at one speed, and he would turn the strobe light on at a different speed, and within seconds we would be playing at that speed.

I asked him repeatedly not to do that, but he did it anyway. We had a request for some song that had multiple time signatures and he turned the strobe light on and it threw us off as usual. I stopped the band, walked over to the strobe light unplugged it and walked over to this girl at the show that looked disappointed I had unplugged it and asked her if she liked strobe lights. She said she did, so I gave it to her. I told her she could keep it, and she looked quite happy.

When I got back on stage I apologized for the interruption the rest of the crowd, and we started the song over again, without the strobe light messing with our time signatures. So as I said before, I bought this Mac Plus because it had MIDI capabilities. I had a friend build me a "floor keyboard" with switches for our lights to 10 settings with MIDI triggers, and made a very durable keyboard with 10 stomp buttons on it. This system was limited, but it gave me control of the lights from the stage. Besides, we were not Pink Floyd... We didn't need a fancy light show.

Our strobe light happy light guy that it was a pretty cool idea, and said he couldn't wait to play with it.

I just smiled and told him, "Meet our New Lights Operator, Mac."
 
dilettante said:
Weird.

A while back I bought a small cordless leaf blower. Turns out it is very handy on dry fluffy snow as well. Came with 2 batteries and a charger.

I decided since batteries don't last forever and sometimes I want more runtime anyway, I'd look into spares.

What I found was that the battery packs alone are so pricey that I could buy a whole second blower at a discount price plus coupon for less than buying 3 batteries.

So I did it. That gives me 4 batteries, 2 chargers, and two whole blowers and shoulder slings. Since the battery chargers are conservative to prolong battery life, a charge from flat to topped takes a couple of hours. Two chargers is a bonus then.

The second unit appears identical to the first. Specs are identical. It just has a different output tube and "nozzle" at the end. Parts all seem to be interchangeable though.

And it was all still pretty cheap. Hopefully I'll have enough bits to keep at least one going for years.

Too bad tool batteries were not standardized long ago.
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Works great when you have to evict dust bunnies from under the sofa.
 
@hollydolly Remember a while back I asked you how to replace the battery in the watering can solar light? Well...I just discovered that it doesn't get replaced, the whole top section is sold separately and gets replaced. I'll be darned. Amazon has them. Guess what I'm gonna order?
 
Shoes, from Teva. They are very comfortable. I have worn the same style for years. Being homebound I can't go to stores even if I wanted to so I buy everything online, mostly Amazon. Groceries were the first things I started buying regularly online even before I was housebound. There are problems with out of stock items that aggravate me but still it beats my trying to get around the store.
 
Georgiagranny said:
@hollydolly Remember a while back I asked you how to replace the battery in the watering can solar light? Well...I just discovered that it doesn't get replaced, the whole top section is sold separately and gets replaced. I'll be darned. Amazon has them. Guess what I'm gonna order?
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Since you said that , I just popped out to the garden and had a look at the 2 of mine and you're right , there doesn't seem to be a battery, just the bulb...how odd..

Anyway.. mine have started to rust due to all the rain we;ve had in the last couple of months, but they're still working well.. fortunately with 20-20 vision, I predicted this and bought 2 new ones last summer which are in the shed , waiting for their debut..
 
Rosie said:
Shoes, from Teva. They are very comfortable. I have worn the same style for years. Being homebound I can't go to stores even if I wanted to so I buy everything online, mostly Amazon. Groceries were the first things I started buying regularly online even before I was housebound. There are problems with out of stock items that aggravate me but still it beats my trying to get around the store.
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Rosie just a question..if you never leave the house why do you need shoes ? ..just wondering...:unsure:
 
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