Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Thunder In the Fall

Began the morning with breakfast and one of the most unique holiday cartoons ever. "Thanksgiving for the Memories" is from the Q-Bert segment of Saturday Supercade, a 1983 anthology of animated video game shorts. Q-Bert's teacher tells her students how the Q-Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower and competed to see who could get the most work done. Q-Bert and his fellow pilgrims work diligently on their settlement, but a jealous Coiley trips them up wherever he can. When Q-Bert's little brother Q-Bit runs away, it'll take the combined effort of all of the settlers and their new Native friends to rescue him.

Called Uber after the cartoon ended. No trouble getting a ride either way. Both women arrived within six minutes, easily dodged traffic on Nicholson Road, and got where they were going in less than five minutes.

Generally, work was pretty quiet. Everyone is probably waiting to do their Thanksgiving shopping over the weekend and next week. I did have trouble at one point when I tried to help a young man wrap his flowers. I couldn't remember how to do it. He ended up having to help me, which was embarrassing. Otherwise, I was mostly either sweeping the store or outside gathering carts. There were clouds leftover from the rain we had last night and a few puddles this morning, but they were gone by the time I went home. It remained windy and relatively warm, in the mid-60's. 

Since I was taking Uber, I picked up another 12-pack of those holiday Hint flavors after work. I found a holiday-themed 8-pack of Sparkling Ice sparkling water, too. Also grabbed a box of 40 Christmas cards that were on sale for a mere $3.74. 

Oh, and I heard from a company in Moorestown that wants me to do an interview for a customer service representative job. As long as I'm not dealing with hundreds of people and their money a day, I don't see how it could hurt. I'll see them with Dawn tomorrow. 

Changed, then went straight into fixing the bike when I got home...and that's where the trouble started. I could get the rim off the bike, but I couldn't for the life of me get the tire and inner tube back on. They were the right size. I checked three times. They just wouldn't settle in the rim. One side would go in, and the other would stick out. I spent over two and a half hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong with that bike tire. I finally gave up around 5:30 and decided to buy a different tire and see if that would work. I bought a mountain bike tire to have better traction on the road, but maybe it was too big for the rim.

Calmed down with inventory work. Added the London Sister Act, Skyscraper, and Snoopy: The Musical. All three are recent finds. Snoopy came from Abbie Road last year, Skyscraper from eBay in 2021, and Sister Act from the Woodbury store On the Record in 2022. 

Continued with the second season of The Monkees during dinner. Micky's made to think "I Was a 99 Pound Weakling" when he's targeted by devious exercise guru Sha-Ku (Monte Landis). He takes him up on his offer to impress a pretty girl, but Davy and Peter insist there's cheaper ways to exercise. When Micky overdoes the working out and tries to serve them health food, they drop in on Shah-Ku's to prove that this guru is an unhealthy phony.  

"Hillbilly Honeymoon" gives us a new, more modern look for the Monkees. Peter's now an out-and-out hippie in bright floral shirts and beads, Davy and Mike have shorter hair (though Mike retains his hat here), and Micky has finally let his go full-on Afro. The four find themselves caught in a rural war between the Weskitts and the Chubbers when they're just passing through. Ellie May Chubber takes a shine to Davy, annoying her Weskitt boyfriend. Davy's buddies rescue him from the Weskitts, then try to make the hillbilly worthy of a bride.

Finished the night online with the Disney Babes In Toyland from 1961. I went further into this charming operetta with Annette Funicello and Ray Bolger at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog in 2018.


And yes, we finally got rain. In fact, we got an enormous thunderstorm, which I most definitely was not expecting. The massive boom at one point shook the windows and scared me to death! It seems to have settled down now, but it's supposed to continue raining in one form or another for the rest of the night.

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