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Week 33: 2/5 YTD: 81/165 (49%) with 7* My mom gave me a homemade chocolate chip cookie...I'll share. 🍪

April 26: 77% / 55% / 67% In J I ran Pluralize, missed three in Fore & After, and one each in everything else. In DJ I missed one in Pop Culture Initials and Beep-Boop-Beep, two in Poetry, and three each in the rest. Was not at all confident but I got FJ! TSes: (J had 3; DJ had 6 plus 1 clue left behind) I got possession. I was rooting for Dan. Amy's slowness is starting to drive me nuts, and Matt had some long pauses in there, too. Also I didn't like his shirt. What the heck is a democracy entrepreneur? Me, too, if that makes you feel any better. Guess it's just as well that I wasn't home, then! I met my parents for dinner after work and didn't leave the restaurant until about 7:10. I just watched on youtube. Other than cutting the sound for most of Dan's interview, it was a pretty good upload. All the guidebook talk is giving me flashbacks to maintaining the travel section at the bookstore. My dad got me a TripTik for my trip to Rhode Island for a friend's wedding in 2007.

And his "Bluetooth" while pointing to his ear that clearly did not have any such device in it. I liked the Shawshank references (also one of my favorite movies). New meat = fresh fish! (Fun fact, the guy in the blue cap who says that line is Morgan Freeman's son, Alfonso. He's also young Red for the mugshot in his file in the parole hearing scenes.) Also, I just watched again and apparently I was wrong about the old-fashioned outfit I thought I saw. The whole pack seemed to be in fairly modern clothes. Just how many Black Friday tramplings have there been at this store?

Who even hired her if there's no manager? She hadn't actually met the person who who runs the whole department before she got promoted, right? And high schools don't have to serve three meals a day! My whole college was about 1500 students. (My freshman class was "the largest freshman class ever" at just over 400 (396 by the time we graduated, if I recall correctly)...until the next year when the next freshman class was the largest ever.... lol. The options at any given meal were a hell of a lot more than one main and two sides. And no small restaurant in town was prepping any of it. Well, Sara Gilbert is the executive producer, isn't she?

I could be wrong, but I thought one of the women in the ghost gang was wearing an old-fashioned dress, definitely pre-Deal Mart. Didn't really get a good look at their costumes (though I'm pretty sure the butcher was wearing a Deal Mart apron; maybe he liked to fight in real life, too, and lost that one).

Maybe they looked up maps of the area online before he left. As a scout and travel agent, he probably has a decent memory for that sort of thing. Eli Manning?

Ditto. I just wanna see how it ends. Gee, is it too much work for a 20-something kid to run a restaurant and play caterer for a college cafeteria that apparently has no contracts with actual vendors who have the capacity to supply places like cafeterias serving hundreds of meals a day? I wonder... Is this the same day as when we left off last week or is this another order of hamburgers? Um, Darlene, cheap earbuds don't drown out a conversation happening less than ten feet from where you're sitting. Especially since everyone on this show half-yells their lines. Harris needs something like this:

"...far off lands like whatever's west of Michigan." 😆 "My ghost power is making people forget what they're looking for when they come into an aisle." Well, that explains so much. Target is haunted. It would be fun to see Pete roam around the world and see what ghosts he meets. He can just talk to them and not look crazy like Sam. "Oh, my god he lost Pete." Well, to be fair, he has no idea where Pete is and no way to keep track of him. So Pete lost Jay. "Quick death is it's own form of kindness." Why doesn't Sam take Pete where he needs to go? At least she can make sure he gets out of the car... Trevor's expression when they were trying to figure out the throuple positioning...😆

Love the professors declaring they tried everything to get him to stay. Glad they told him he needs to go. "...a toast to our complete and utter lack of integrity!"

Is anyone going to ask Sheldon where he wants to go? "Why would you wanna be close to us?"

I did, too. Didn't think it was right, at least.

April 25: 73% / 50% / 61% Not too bad in the first round, terrible in the second. Missed three in Gorges and one each in everything else. In DJ I missed one in DC, one in Holidays (out the of four they actually got to), two in Rock & Roll (out of three), two in Vocabulary, three in Sailing Novel (out of four), and four in French History. Had no clue for FJ. Amy needs to pick up the pace. TSes: (J had 5; DJ had 9, plus 1 DD, plus four clues left on the board) I got Tanzania, Parker Brothers, and Maybellene.

I ended up turning this one off. I had zero attention span to devote to it. Didn't even move my laptop from the table (where if I'm sitting properly in my chair my back is to the TV).

I am finding the tumor show surprisingly heartwarming; I even just turned the TV back on to see what tonight's mass is. Even though I should go to bed. I've been watching After Midnight (the CBS reboot of Comedy Central's @Midnight)on youtube while checking in on the chat every so often. It's Weird Al Yankovic, Drew Carey, and Thomas Lennon. If you need a palate cleanser after all the apparent dreariness of this episode you might want to check it out. Absolute chaos in the best way. :) Hope everyone has a good week!

I was doing jigsaw puzzles while I was waiting for the show to start! I use jigsawexplorer.com.