notes on the perfect food

 

Whoever wrote that REEElly hates bologna.
I'm wondering why my body is having pains right now, and this is only a note.
(IOW, will the pains disappear in a week with no bologna??)

They prolly should add communists love the cancer-causing stuff, and sad puppies die after eating it.

grrrr

The mob is at war with the cult.
I get stuck on all the proper nouns.

Mob->cult->Mr. Big and his brother.
There's kind of a puppet government who doesn't like things smuggled in, it (prolly) eats away at their taxes and import duties.
I just happen to be looking for a smuggled item, and I need help from the mob, who needs help against the cult and Mr. Big. (and vendettas)
No one trusts anybody, rats and stoolies everywhere.
It's like, gangs and turf wars. O...k.
Then there's random civilians needing help to get groceries from the very bad neighborhood.
I get to shoot random thugs of some gang or other, and then it's business as usual. taking subways and crosstown-busses to meet pissants at some bar.

Everyone everywhere has italian accents

"hello, I'm yada-whoozits, formerly of the magister whoozits"
(Is there going to be a test on this?)
I don't know anyone, anywhere. 

Trump should hire the people making puzzles for this game.
It would take a genius several days, and everyone else should brush up on googling skills.
https://www.ign.com/wikis/dragon-age-the-veilguard/Through_the_Shadows_Walkthrough

"Wemod" made him immortal.
Disabling "wemod" killed him in less than a minute.

The perfect coffee mug dream

 The large family I lived with (one of them) left a couple coffee mugs next to my bed, and one under my pillow, because I must have mentioned that I collect them.

One had a nice signature on the bottom from one spouse to another, on their anniversary, and the others were more commercial, like maybe they were adopted from a garage sale.
It's the thought that counts, right?
I wondered (the dream wondered) how much a blue-striped coffee or tea mug could be.
Perfect little stripes, with gold trim.
Well it must be a popular dream.

$103 (on sale from 184) for two mugs, sounds pricey.
Why?
*I* always used to remark to myself that I must have great taste, because I leak it out all over the place in retail stores.
Whatever I pick is the finest and the most expensive item.
Whether it's a computer-keyboard or a television or clothes.
I got burned on the clothes, they only looked nice in the store.
The keyboard was a bluetooth one from Microsoft, and they wanted $250. 
I couldn't afford it then or now.
The televisions were deeply unsatisfying...it's what's on a tv, not how it looks that matters, but in a store you aren't thinking about TV shows.

That brings me back to mugs. Why the hell someone decided any mug should cost zillions...unless my mind is picking up commercials in my sleep.

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Google suggests the word "vintage," as if these were popular many years ago.
I don't know, I only just heard of them.
Not 6th-grader style either, all wobbly lines.
No horizontal lines either.
No, the closest one is the first one I found on Google above, but the price went way up since google first advertised it (I lost the google link.)

The computer on Google senses my interest and raised the price!

See? Good taste.
Maybe "Blue Bananas" or "Elvis" mugs would be cheaper??

AI salesmen, what a concept.

There's a very oversized version of what I want, and decent-sized ones for twice as much.
A model holds the mug and you can see the colors change as you hover over the different selections.
The only sensible one is the plainest one, and it's way too big, 
But I might get it.
I'm not sure why.

Why are stripes "Vintage" or "Retro" anyway?
I'm pretty old and I don't remember these at all.