# Random Musings (and associated non sequiturs) v. 3.0
**URL:** https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478
**Category:** general
**Created:** [October 10, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478 "2013-10-10T00:21:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 64
### Author:  [@dakboy](https://cog.discourse.group/u/dakboy)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1318 "2015-11-18T02:25:45Z")
> [@ClockWorkXon](#):
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> If you have a grocery chain that has a delivery service, you could order from them.
1. Don’t have grocery delivery out here in the wilds of western NY
2. Can’t buy anything but beer in our grocery stores. Everything else is at separate liquor stores (although our primary grocery store chain also owns a bunch of liquor stores which are conveniently located right near some of their locations).
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 2:46am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1319 "2015-11-18T02:46:05Z")
The ex-landlady used to order pizza delivery, and ask them to pick her up a couple bottles of wine on the way.
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### Author:  [@DocDubious](https://cog.discourse.group/u/DocDubious)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1320 "2015-11-18T16:52:21Z")
> [@dakboy](#):
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> Flip side: I don’t like getting gift cards. They’re basically an obligation to buy something,
Oh, H3LLS yes. A $15 dollar card to a store where the starting prices are $75 or more? I don’t shop there because I can’t afford their sh!t… and now I have fifteen bucks to either throw away or spend more of my own?
Gee! Thanks!
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### Author:  [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1321 "2015-11-18T17:30:44Z")
Due to some raffle wins and some appreciation gifts, and get well soon gifts. I have $100 to a $80 a plate restaurant, $150 to a $60 a plate place (Though lunch can be done for $40 for two, so that’s what that is for), $50 to California Pizza Kitchen, which is downtown and out of the way, $50 at Crapplebees, $25 at Starbucks, and a couple others.
Thing is, every time I want to go out to eat none of those sound any good. Three of them are destination places, so I need to be dressed right and really I’d like a beverage too, which I can’t get right now. Honestly, I’d almost be happier with $100 at McDonald’s. That doesn’t commit me to a whole night out, which I’m not sure I can pull off at the moment.
edit: And I do want to go to these places, so it’s not like I can sell them.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1322 "2015-11-18T17:38:13Z")
Is one of the expensive places St. Elmo’s? Because if so, I’m super jelly.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1323 "2015-11-18T17:40:20Z")
> [@dakboy](#):
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> Can’t buy anything but beer in our grocery stores. Everything else is at separate liquor stores
I can buy just about any type of hard liquor at my local grocery store or CVS. Silly northeastern states.
Actually it worse when I lived in Texas. My part of DFW you couldn’t even buy beer in the grocery store. There were separate stores and all kinds of weird rules about when you could and couldn’t buy it. Especially for hard liquor.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1324 "2015-11-18T18:22:37Z")
> [@Force10](#):
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> Actually it worse when I lived in Texas.
That’s odd. I was told (back in 1986) that it was permissible to walk around with an open container in Texas.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 6:51pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1325 "2015-11-18T18:51:38Z")
It was. But there are still all these funky rules on when and where you can buy it. At least there were in the mid-90s and I don’t think it’s changed.
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### Author:  [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1326 "2015-11-18T21:03:30Z")
Plus, parts of DFW are dry.
I’m in Houston and grocery stores generally only sell beer & wine. From what I understand, there are different levels of liquor license for beer, beer/wine, beer/wine/liquor, for both selling retail and selling for consumption on premises, and the jump from non-liquor to liquor is very steep. That’s why some of the (mostly Mexican / TexMex) restaurants around here, as well as some concert venues, have margaritas made with “wine” instead of with tequila.
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### Author:  [@balance](https://cog.discourse.group/u/balance)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1327 "2015-11-18T22:00:24Z")
> [@Force10](#):
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> Is one of the expensive places St. Elmo’s? Because if so, I’m super jelly.
Heard that’s a great place, and seems to be one of the main choices for ‘business meetings’ for the GenCon crowd.
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### Author:  [@DocDubious](https://cog.discourse.group/u/DocDubious)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 11:27pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1328 "2015-11-18T23:27:56Z")
> [@Woodman](#):
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> Due to some raffle wins and some appreciation gifts, and get well soon gifts. I have…
Hopefully they have long expiration dates, and hopefully Indiana has decent consumer protection laws, so you can use them when you’re back on track.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1329 "2015-11-19T00:04:17Z")
Our group has a GenCon tradition of having dinner there every year on Sunday night. Last time I went was in 2011. There were around 20 of us. I dropped about $90 on dinner (including tip) and it was worth every penny. I recommend the bone in ribeye. Rare.
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### Author:  [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1330 "2015-11-19T03:02:25Z")
One of them is for Harry and Izzy’s, St. Elmos’ “casual” dining location. Same shrimp cocktail, same steak, but they added some awesome $10 burgers. It’s right by my office so we get vendors to take us there quite a bit.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1331 "2015-11-19T22:27:47Z")
> [@Woodman](#):
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> One of them is for Harry and Izzy’s, St. Elmos’ “casual” dining location. Same shrimp cocktail, same steak, but they added some awesome $10 burgers. It’s right by my office so we get vendors to take us there quite a bit.
Excellent.
> The average price of a gallon of regular gas is $2.13 according to
> AAA, down 75 cents from a year ago. That decline means consumers will
> save about $7 billion on gas during the 37-day period between now and
> Christmas, or about $40 a driver. And prices are expected to keep falling.
> Gas is already below $2 a gallon at 44% of stations nationwide,
> according to Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at both GasBuddy and the Oil
> Price Information Service, which tracks prices for AAA. Prices are below
> $1.59 a gallon in states such as Ohio, Texas and Oklahoma, according to
> [GasBuddy.com](http://GasBuddy.com)
From CNN Money. My response was “not around here”. More like $2.65 or so.
Also, I’ve been to Ohio and Oklahoma and lived in Texas for two years. $1.59 gas is cool and all but it’s not going to make me come live there. 😄
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### Author:  [@Woodman](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Woodman)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1332 "2015-11-19T22:43:29Z")
I like Ohio, only drove through Texas and Oklahoma and one of them is too big and hot and the other one would have me singing show tunes all the time.
And it’s $1.75 here.
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### Author:  [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 11:02pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1333 "2015-11-19T23:02:00Z")
I have kin in Ohio.
I think I paid $1.76 a few days ago. That was closer to my house. Gas is usually 10-15 cents higher 5 miles up the road by my office.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1334 "2015-11-19T23:41:09Z")
> [@Woodman](#):
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> I like Ohio, only drove through Texas and Oklahoma and one of them is too big and hot and the other one would have me singing show tunes all the time.
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> And it’s $1.75 here.
If someone held a gun to my head and told me I had to move to the Midwest, I’d choose Indy. Because GenCon. But not before pondering saying “just shoot me and get it over with”. 😉
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1335 "2015-11-19T23:53:15Z")
$2.70 to $2.80 here. One a-hole outfit is at 3.09, for no apparent reason.
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### Author:  [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1336 "2015-11-20T00:20:47Z")
We have a couple of those too. Usually right next to the freeway.
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### Author:  [@ClockWorkXon](https://cog.discourse.group/u/ClockWorkXon)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 2:53am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/random-musings-and-associated-non-sequiturs-v-3-0/478/1337 "2015-11-20T02:53:17Z")
If I am on the freeway, I go to truckstops. Better prices, better service, the coffee is usually decent and I can get some halfway decent food.
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