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howeirdAfter yesterday's grocery delivery FAIL, Winco was on my mind. A couple of Nevada friends had mentioned it online, and early in my time here I went, but it was a long drive, the place was dauntingly huge and you have to bag your own groceries, which come down the ramp quickly and there's another customer's stuff coming soon.
But the address looked closer than I remembered, and there were a couple of YouTube videos of shopping at that very store. But none of them showed the checkout process.
In a nutshell, Winco is Costco without the requirement to buy 12 of everything. Cash or debit card only. Many items show prices at competing stores. Most do not.
Huge produce department, what they have looks good, but there were a few things they did not have. Laura Scudders smooth PNB they have, but not chunky. Adams they have both, but $$. Red delicious apples are kind of small but no Golden at all. Small steamed Dungeness crab (I bought one, had it for dinner) which is hard to find in Las Vegas. They carry the same pre packaged sushi as Albertson's for the same price. No house brand sliced canned olives. Organic cherry tomatoes but not inorganic, huge price diff. They had most of the Lean Cuisine meals I like. And sherbet.
Three aisles of bulk foods, half of one aisle is pet foods. I got some trail mix (peanuts & M&Ms).
Lots of people loudly on their phones.
Scored some big beautiful bananas, and lots of apples. Breakfast and snacks will be apples & PNB for a while.
Repacked everything in insulated bags (I brought along cold packs) and drove home. Only 7 miles but seemed longer.
100° at 10:30 am, after I brought things inside I needed to cool down and relax before putting stuff away.
Fired up the Amazon Fire and watched an alleged award-winning documentary by a woman who says she has been visited by multidimensional beings who appear as lights and continue to be her friends and guides. The movie is Among Us her name is Caroline Cory, and a few of her "experiencer" guests claim they are hybrids of human and alien, created on the UFO with their mom's eggs and anonymous sperm donors, with alien DNA inserted into the human cells. Caroline has a slight accent which might be Eastern European, and looking at all the usual places, her birthplace and early years has been scrubbed from the Internet. Nothing on LinkedIn, IMDB, her web page, her production company web page. Maybe she's a Russian spy. The movie production is very simple, the "experts" present amateurish experiments. Most of the content is anecdotal, with no physical evidence. Free on Amazon Prime, worth full price.
3-5:30 pm work training zoom meeting, again it was just me and one other contractor, and three staff members. And again the first 2 hours was a rambling session which came close to what we will be expected to do, but it was delivered too quickly and without structure. But then the last half hour the programmer gave us a very well done PowerPoint which covered one of the large customers and what we'll be doing for them, which teams they stream, and on which packages. Next week we have two more training sessions, hopefully the boss will be there, and finally we get to do "ride-alongs" later in the week.
I may have had an apple turnover for breakfast and most of a banana nut muffin from Winco as a snack. A whole Dungeness crab and rainbow sherbet for dinner.
Spent some time with Jade, she is still hiding in the storage rack but has also been seen parking under the computer/piano chair which I sit in when I come in to pet her. Spook is back to her old trick of waiting outside the door hoping I will let her in.
Tivo time - Married At First Sight tell-all with three of the participants. I was surprised that the black Brooklyn fireman spoke fluent Spanish, as did his bride. They called his mother and the whole conversation was in Spanish. Other than that I think they are totally incompatible. The woman who started as the most affectionate of all the couples has become something of a shrew. And her husband has brought out his dark side. The cowboy and the redhead are very attracted to each other but she needs him to tell her how he feels, keep the strong but ditch the silent type. Asian Party Boy was not there nor was his wife, but he's realizing that a married man cannot be a party boy. And he really wants to party much more than he wants to be married. And she is not attractive enough to change that.
Watched the Patriots try to give the game away to Dallas over and over again, but with 1:20 left Brady did it again and the bucks won.
Plans for tomorrow:
Stir some PNB (I have a nifty tool) and cut up an apple or two - more nifty tools).
Record some of the Jewish music LPs
But the address looked closer than I remembered, and there were a couple of YouTube videos of shopping at that very store. But none of them showed the checkout process.
In a nutshell, Winco is Costco without the requirement to buy 12 of everything. Cash or debit card only. Many items show prices at competing stores. Most do not.
Huge produce department, what they have looks good, but there were a few things they did not have. Laura Scudders smooth PNB they have, but not chunky. Adams they have both, but $$. Red delicious apples are kind of small but no Golden at all. Small steamed Dungeness crab (I bought one, had it for dinner) which is hard to find in Las Vegas. They carry the same pre packaged sushi as Albertson's for the same price. No house brand sliced canned olives. Organic cherry tomatoes but not inorganic, huge price diff. They had most of the Lean Cuisine meals I like. And sherbet.
Three aisles of bulk foods, half of one aisle is pet foods. I got some trail mix (peanuts & M&Ms).
Lots of people loudly on their phones.
Scored some big beautiful bananas, and lots of apples. Breakfast and snacks will be apples & PNB for a while.
Repacked everything in insulated bags (I brought along cold packs) and drove home. Only 7 miles but seemed longer.
100° at 10:30 am, after I brought things inside I needed to cool down and relax before putting stuff away.
Fired up the Amazon Fire and watched an alleged award-winning documentary by a woman who says she has been visited by multidimensional beings who appear as lights and continue to be her friends and guides. The movie is Among Us her name is Caroline Cory, and a few of her "experiencer" guests claim they are hybrids of human and alien, created on the UFO with their mom's eggs and anonymous sperm donors, with alien DNA inserted into the human cells. Caroline has a slight accent which might be Eastern European, and looking at all the usual places, her birthplace and early years has been scrubbed from the Internet. Nothing on LinkedIn, IMDB, her web page, her production company web page. Maybe she's a Russian spy. The movie production is very simple, the "experts" present amateurish experiments. Most of the content is anecdotal, with no physical evidence. Free on Amazon Prime, worth full price.
3-5:30 pm work training zoom meeting, again it was just me and one other contractor, and three staff members. And again the first 2 hours was a rambling session which came close to what we will be expected to do, but it was delivered too quickly and without structure. But then the last half hour the programmer gave us a very well done PowerPoint which covered one of the large customers and what we'll be doing for them, which teams they stream, and on which packages. Next week we have two more training sessions, hopefully the boss will be there, and finally we get to do "ride-alongs" later in the week.
I may have had an apple turnover for breakfast and most of a banana nut muffin from Winco as a snack. A whole Dungeness crab and rainbow sherbet for dinner.
Spent some time with Jade, she is still hiding in the storage rack but has also been seen parking under the computer/piano chair which I sit in when I come in to pet her. Spook is back to her old trick of waiting outside the door hoping I will let her in.
Tivo time - Married At First Sight tell-all with three of the participants. I was surprised that the black Brooklyn fireman spoke fluent Spanish, as did his bride. They called his mother and the whole conversation was in Spanish. Other than that I think they are totally incompatible. The woman who started as the most affectionate of all the couples has become something of a shrew. And her husband has brought out his dark side. The cowboy and the redhead are very attracted to each other but she needs him to tell her how he feels, keep the strong but ditch the silent type. Asian Party Boy was not there nor was his wife, but he's realizing that a married man cannot be a party boy. And he really wants to party much more than he wants to be married. And she is not attractive enough to change that.
Watched the Patriots try to give the game away to Dallas over and over again, but with 1:20 left Brady did it again and the bucks won.
Plans for tomorrow:
Stir some PNB (I have a nifty tool) and cut up an apple or two - more nifty tools).
Record some of the Jewish music LPs
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