Two more weeks gone. in A small but passable life.

Yeah, two weeks since an update.

After I’d gotten my last grocery order for 2022 I figured the year end total. It was a grand total of $29.25 per week. Compared to $27.60 per week in 2021. Not too bad. I’d eliminated cheese, chicken, tuna, frozen prepared items, and cookies, cake, pies, ice cream, brownies, and all other crap from the menu. I can still pare more of course.

60% of Americans NEVER eat ANY fruits or vegetables. I’m almost there. I do buy one 1/2 gallon of orange juice every two weeks.

Eggs just hit $6.69 per dozen for Grade AA Large. Nope. Not doing that. No more eggs.

I switched from Sara Lee Honey wheat bread to Kroger sandwich wheat. A three dollar difference. That right there will add up to about $75 savings for a year. Crazy. The Kroger does of course taste and feel like shit. Already stale when bought. Oh well.

I’m still working on the thirty-three bags of coffee that Dottie had given me a year ago. Maybe a dozen or so bags left. I really don’t want to know how much coffee costs right now.

I’m going to renew Instacart for 2023. Why not? Triple Contagion raging and really no desire to go shopping. It’s worked for two years now with no problems.

The weather forecast looks to be warming steadily all this week to eventually reach seventy degrees on Christmas Day. That may be a good day to resume afternoons at the pool. It may even happen today at the forecast sixty-five degrees.

I haven’t left the park in two months. No reason to. I may have to though. I’m almost tapped out of weed. And when I go out for that I’m thinking I may treat myself at the newly built Popeye’s across from Fry’s.

A video call with Daughter and the now six month old Grandson yesterday. He’s really turning into quite the character. Very active. Very vocal. Very, very happy.

So yeah, 2022 winding down. Now that everybody on this rock knows that ANYTHING can happen, maybe 2023 will bring nothing that could rattle anyone more than the the last three years did.

Something to watch for: OpenAI and their ChatGPT. I swooped down a rabbit hole on that one. Everyone always thought that the first big shift would be robots replacing manual labor. Nope, it’s definitely going to be AI replacing EVERYONE who stares at a screen and calls it “work”. Five years, max. Probably the biggest upset socially will be doing away with schools of every kind. No need to spend money on something not needed. Oh, and Google Search is definitely going away.

Anyway, the sun is shining bright today!