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Very little to report today, which is all good since, as I noted yesterday, I have tons of work to get done this week . . . much of which I was unable to get to yesterday, because of a frustrating fiasco with a scale item that had previously been discontinued, but evidently Scott re-authorized it without bothering to tell me, so then stores had it and needed it to scan and being a scale item really complicated things. Or so I thought: in the end it was far simpler than I realized, and I just made it more complicated because of my relative unfamiliarity with how scale items work.
That whole thing stems from when we closed all our bulk sections for COVID, and started selling bulk prepackaged but in scale item containers like they sell in the Deli, which is not a department I work in. I had to learn a whole new system and application for those items, which I still have very little working knowledge of. It felt like a whole lot of time got wasted yesterday as a result. Fun!
On the upside, I did arrive in the morning to something pretty hilarious, a hall-of-fame typo on a shelf tag that had been generated for stores on a new item yesterday: GT's Immortal Immunity Shot. I had accidentally typed GT's "Immortal Immunity Shit." That made for
a bit of fun.
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As for last night, I baked the bag of
Brazi Bites I had gotten free recently with a coupon, to have with
French onion soup from Costco. The Brazi Bites were baked but I went ahead and followed the microwave instructions for the soup; each of the six servings come individually wrapped in frozen cylinder shapes, which you just set in a microwave safe bowl, nuke for three minutes, stir, then nuke for another two minutes. Usually I don't prefer food out of the microwave if I can avoid it but soup is a pretty easy exception, and this soup was very tasty. It was especially delicious with the Brazi Bites. Even though I'm sure that, combined with the leftover calzone I had for lunch, left me breaking 161 lbs this morning.
Shobhit had one more roll of dough left last night so he actually baked another calzone right before I got home, so I had yet another half of one for lunch today. Very tasty, but, ironically I had just been thinking yesterday about how my weight has stayed pretty well maintained around 159 lbs in spite of consistently eating bits of chocolate and snacks at work. The key, really, is portion control at meals, and I think calzones plus soup with cheese bread is kind of taking me over the top.
Anyway, we ate while watching Sunday's episode of
Succession, which was excellent and hilarious, and then the season finale of
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. After that I processed just a few recently-taken photos, and then updated my budget based on Friday's paycheck, which took me far longer than I anticipated, actually more than an hour. This did also include my finally calculating my personal spending for the Las Vegas trip, which came to $1,034, or $545 if you subtracted the night at Harrah's and the airfare, which I paid for. $545 was what I spent during the trip itself.
I had forgotten I also paid for the airfare to LAX when we go to Palm Springs next week. That alone exceeded $700 for the both of us, which means there is absolutely no doubt my total spending for that trip will exceed $1000, probably a fair distance more than Vegas did, especially after paying for the car rental as well (this was still more economically feasible than trying to fly directly into Palm Springs without renting a car; flights there are apparently occasionally cheap, but certainly not during Thanksgiving week).
Amazingly, though, at least after the airfare costs, so far I have managed this spending without really dipping further into the funds I have earmarked for vacation spending. I feel good about that.
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