Words On Wednesday

I normally gravitate toward large bottles of liquor for better value, but there is a time and place for shots or mini bottles. The place is here and the time is now. Let's talk about the party bucket from 99 Brand. A coworker was telling me about a recent time when he had some friends over and they got a bunch of different alcohol to try. His personal favorite was a pack of 99 proof mini bottles in a variety of flavors. He claimed they were super cheap (like a buck per bottle) and really good, which is really the name of the game for me. I was really curious to try them for myself. Normally the price per volume of mini bottles makes them cost prohibitive for me, especially if it's something I'd like a full fifth of anyway. The justification here is the plethora of flavors available here, and the fact that I live in a camper right now making storage space a premium. Mini bottles are tiny, hence the name. One recent trip by the grocery store (yesterday), I decided to stop by ...

My posts have been mostly consistent lately, but I’m afraid that probably won’t last much longer. Confession, I’ve been writing a bunch while working my notice at Michelin. I was still satisfying my job requirements, but naturally I had less work to do while I was wrapping up my time with the company. As such, I had a pretty good amount of time available for other things. Days when I was in the office, I couldn’t do any work around the house, but I could still write. So I wrote, and I wrote, and I wrote. Pretty much everything posted between September 2021 and now was composed during that window. But I had the opportunity, so why not? Problem is, I’m writing this on my last day with Michelin. I start my new job on Tuesday. I can’t know how much spare time I’ll have with the new job, but I have to assume it won’t be as much as I have right now. Given the situation, I’m expecting I’ll slow or even stop posting again very quickly. I didn’t post at all between December 2020 and June 2021. ...

That is the question. I like being on the water. Whether it’s cruising around on a pontoon, or getting pulled behind a boat on a float of some sort, I just enjoy lake life. So much, in fact, that I’ve considered buying a boat through the years. Every few years, we rent a boat on Lake Jocassee for a day in the summer. We’ll invite several people, cruise around the lake, and turn it in at the end of the day. It isn’t cheap, a rental seems to go for about $500 per day, plus fees for accessories and junk. The cost is easily worth it, especially if you have multiple people chip in. I considered, though, what if we just bought a boat? If you buy a boat, you make payments on it until you own it, and then it’s yours. Eventually, that cost probably evens out and you’re in for cheap lake days for life. You pay for gas, and I guess that’s it. And then, we could go out on the lake whenever we wanted, without that steep cost for the rental. I ran this idea by a coworker who owns a boat, and he actu...