The Latest #3

Cross another week off of the calendar!  That means I have FOUR weeks of school left -- three five-day weeks and one four-day week.  Can I get a HELL YEAH?!???!??  The kids are SO done, and we teachers are even MORE done!  On we go....

The Latest Food Obsession:  Shrimp chips from our local Chinese restaurant.  I hated these until about a year ago.  Now, I call them up before I drive by the restaurant on my way home and order two or three bags.  They're zero calories, right?  RIGHT??!??

The Latest Excitement:  I get to babysit my (nearly one-year-old) niece this coming Sunday.  I. Cannot. Wait.

The Latest Excitement, Part 2:  Our stimulus check from the government has been direct-deposited into our account as of this morning.  RETAIL THERAPY, anyone??!??

The Latest Yard Rant:  Dammit all to hell if the damn grass doesn't need cut AGAIN.  What is this GROWING thing it keeps doing???  I see that I need to get together with The Blades and have a little talk.

The Latest Ridiculous Pizza Offer:  You heard about this, right?  The Papa John's 23-cent Pizza deal in the Cleveland, Ohio market... Basically, it was an apology to the people of Cleveland from Papa John's Pizza due to a franchisee in the Washington, D.C. area's spur-of-the-moment decision to make t-shirts with LeBron James' number 23 and the word crybaby where a player's name would go above the number on a jersey.  Papa John's Pizza HQ was NOT impressed with the franchisee's creativity, nor were many Cleveland Cavaliers fans... thus the 23-cent pizza apology.  In the end, nearly 175,000 pizzas flew out the doors of Cleveland-area Papa John's Pizza locations... with all sorts of money going to LeBron's charity for children.

DUDE.  It was INSANE.  I drove by our small location out here in sub-suburbia, and I swear there had to be AT LEAST 200 people standing in line, waiting to get somewhere near the building to get their 23-cent pizza.  I'm sorry, but NOTHING is worth a wait in a line like that -- especially when you're not even guaranteed to GET a pizza -- once they ran out of supplies/ingredients, that was it... doors closed, game over.  And then?  People even had the nerve to complain because the stores ran out of supplies/ingredients before their appointed closing time of 11 PM.  DUUUUDE.  You're complaining because a company who didn't have to do this promotion ran out of stuff to make you a gawddamned pizza and charge you less for it than what you'd have to pay for one regular postage stamp or to make one call from a pay phone?!??  Did you not even realize that they waited to run this apology promotion until they could truck in additional supplies to all their locations so they'd have enough to make it through the majority of the day??!???  Not to mention trucking in additional help from stores in other markets so they could make 200-300 pizzas in an hour??!???  Perhaps you should go back to smoking that crack, and forget about the damn pizza, k?

That's all for this edition of The Latest!