Random Thoughts

 Random Thoughts, this Sunday the 17th.

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Today would have been my Dad's 73rd birthday.  If you've been reading, you can see that I miss him.  I can only think of the reams and reams of questions I'd like to ask him.

Foremost among them today:  Did you know what the fuck you were doing at 48?

I don't feel like it most days, here lately.

Sometimes I need to be reminded that we're all just bags of water with attitudes and varying degrees of self awareness, and the ones that think they know what they're doing and know what's going on are only deluding themselves.

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Old blog buddy Eric and his wife Fiona are taking a trip to see some Tennis this weekend.  It kinda hit home that Shyam and I haven't taken a trip in a couple of years.  Trying to save up some money, and possibly looking for some part time work in the fall.  Maybe we can change that up.  Even if were just a trip over to Fall Creek Falls or Cumberland Mountain for a cabin for a couple of nights.  

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I mowed yesterday, and then took myself to the movie Weapons.  And I dug it.

I don't want to talk about it too much, because I went into the thing cold, and that was the right way to do it....knowing only what the poster and previews had told me.

It's excellent, and doesn't find a moment to drag in its 129 minute or so run time  (a run time that made me leary for a horror flick.....it's tough for some flicks to maintain suspense and atmosphere for 90 minutes, let alone longer than 2 hours.

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Ranking the Zero Sugar Root beers I've tried in the last few weeks.

Prior to July, I'd only ever tried one zero sugar root beer: A&W.  Which I didn't care for back in the day.  But, when they had a sale on Coke products at Food City, I grabbed a 12-pack of Barq's Zero Sugar, and said that if I didn't care for it, I'd leave it in the cooler at the vats, and let anybody who wanted them have them.

Turns out I liked it.

And I've gone on a minor tasting spree. 

So far, I've only tried 4, 3 of them new.  I retried A&W, which is the only one you can find in 20 ounce bottles, that I've seen.

Anyway:

1.  Barq's.    Delightful.

2. IBC.   Quite good...in fact, were I to blind taste test, it may come that I like it better than Barq's, but it comes pricy in the 4-pack bottles.

3.  Mug.   Good, but not as strong a flavor.  Tastes almost watered down compared to the previous two.

4.  A&W.  It's not horrible, but it's got a medicine-y aftertaste that the first 3 do not.  Now, it's more convenient, because you can't find the other 3 in 20 ounce bottles at your local inconvenience store.  But it's not great. 

Maybe that comes as a surprise, as online, it's constantly rated best.  But those people rating it are wrong, and are probably on the payroll of Big A&W.

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Speaking of Root Beer, I'm up to 11/22/63 in my chronological read-through of Stephen King's work.  This one was a high-water work, and I was really looking forward to it.

So far?  Jake's going back for a Root Beer in 1958 caught my eye.

Also, Jake's a little too gung ho for going back and time and stopping the Kennedy assassination, for my money, but it's still fun......

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