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I'm seeing family members on Wednesday before Thanksgiving but I will be alone Thursday so I intend to order some nice seasonal foods from Instacart, hopefully from Citarella, the afternoon before to heat up. I actually have not been to a Thanksgiving at all since before Covid. Two years ago one of us got Covid at the last minute and last year I was so sick from the medication I was taking for the vasculitis that I couldn't eat anything. Let's hope this time's the charm!

The whole recurring charge with cards is so aggravating that whenever I can I use Paypal for those charges. All I have to do is update my Paypal default card and things take care of themselves On a related note, I tried to buy a vintage camera from a merchant in the UK who I have found out has a reputation for being at best - well, disorganized. After not receiving the camera after nearly 3 weeks I emailed him and asked him to cancel the order and refund my credit card. Well, he promised to cancel if I wanted but it's been nearly a month and I've never been refunded. I've started a chargeback with Chase, the issuer, and even uploaded the email chain of my asking 3 times for the refund, but nothing has come of it. Maybe I'll be refunded by New Year's.

I haven't read the article (kind of want to avoid any spoilers) but the Tea Leoni character, and the way she was introduced, suggests they may be going for a kind of film noir flavor next year which might turn out to be way more interesting than Season Four.

I've never noticed the scent of any Dawn I have bought but the one I currently have and used to unclog the sink is a large blue one with the yellow baby duck that appears in their commercials (because it is apparently used to save birds caught in oil slicks).

I actually use a strainer all the time in both the bathroom sink and the tub so I don't think my issue is hair, I believe (and these are very old pipes) it's generally a problem with bar soap which I've read can re-solidify in the drain (another good argument for liquid hand soap). Apparently the blue dawn detergent is some kind of super emulsifier which is why it eventually works. I do use a lot of it if I have to, followed by hot water if necessary, but especially on a weekend it's such a relief when it finally works.

As a night owl type I agree @Dimity, though I have actually never met a fellow night owl who braggs about it! I have known early birds who like to brag. One of my oldest friends is definitely an early, she likes to get up maybe around 6 am to go to the gym (shudder). However we have no issue communicating, we just pick a time like noon or 12:30 to meet up fpr lunch.

I have a feeling the missing husband will turn out to be dead, but as we saw this season he could certainly appear in flashbacks!

Maybe this belongs in good news / bad news but I've had one apartment issue after another the last few days. The big one began some weeks ago when the unit above me - which was empty at the time - had a serious leak from the sink pipe at 6:30 am, it was so loud I could hear the water over my head in the bedroom. My super, who is a great guy, promptly went up to fix it and said my new bathroom fan (which had water dripping around it) would be all right. Fast forward a few weeks and there's a water stain on the bedroom ceiling on the side near the bathroom. He fixes the stain and seals it. Fast forward another few weeks, the ceiling paint in my bedroom starts falling down all over in large pieces, on the bed, on the floor, etc. Between my going away and his vacation it probably could have been caught sooner but whatever. Now his son who also works here has scraped it and is starting to re-plaster but...it's not their fault, he was ill yesterday and had to run the elevator Sunday... but I really feel this will take awhile. The paint was also old so....maybe it was bound to happen but I'd love for this to be over. Good news? I also had my bathroom sink clog up on the weekend. After a day of aggravation I finally used the hot water/blue Dawn dish detergent trick and after multiple attempts it's draining like a dream. Home remedies do work sometimes.

I don't know about now but we did play croquet in the back yard when I was growing up. I enjoyed it also. I was not very athletic but we did enjoy playing outside in those old days! My great-nephews and great-neice seem to be more into organized sports like soccer as far as I can tell.

Well I'm not sure how to summarize everything. Pros: it was a good ending, the explanation of the murder more or less made sense given dramatic license and all that. Loretta didn't die at the wedding - I had a feeling she wouldn't when the show started to tease about the possibility. I hadn't thought of a long distance marriage being possible but they can certainly write it in if there is only another season or two. The Westies are probably going to re-appear maybe? Richard Kind is always funny. Cons: I hated to see Lester dead. I wish they would leave open the idea of the victim not necessarily being a building regular (as in Season 3). And I was hoping that Sazz might be alive, no such luck. Jane Lynch did get a real chance to shine though especially in the finale. And maybe it was inevitable but this last ep just wasn't that much fun, especially with the re-enactment of Sazz' murder and then Jan killing Marshall on top, then Lester's gory death scene. Overall I really do hope next year they drop the celebrity guest stars, especially actors playing themselves. It created so much filler that really slowed the story down. Ron Howard was okay but the three actors in the movie took up so much time and I was sure they couldn't be involved under their own names. I guess we will never find out how Bev Melon knew about Sazz' playground/getaway? Edit: I knew I forgot something but the scene with Tea Leoni asking for their help looked so familiar, was it somehow quoting from a famous film noir or something like that?

Very sorry to hear about Teri Garr, although she had been public about her illness for some time. Yes she was hilarious in Young Frankenstein. She seemed to be everywhere, from being a dancer in Shindig I think it was to a bemused modern day young woman in a time traveling episode of Star Trek.

Congratulations @Cloud9Shopper! I used to work the front desk/answer the phone at a performing arts non-profit with a lot of public interaction so I know how stressful that kind of job can be. Great that you are moving on to something better and with less of that kind of stress.

I noticed him too, if he doesn't figure into the finale that really would seem like a loose end to me...? But I am wondering how they would tie him in with one more ep to go.

Well I'll be the first to say that I was wrong thinking that Marshall couldn't or shouldn't be the killer because we had barely seen him for weeks. I guess that isn't always a requirement in this kind of story. I was thinking before watching tonight that as it was episode 9, that we were hopefully finally moving towards a resolution of the story and it sure looks that way. I think the issue for me this season is that so many of the episodes have felt like celebrity-heavy filler. Especially with the three actors, but also the Melissa McCarthy/Doreen episode which totally stalled the story as well. It did reunite Oliver and Loretta but we didn't need 40 extra minutes for that. The friendship scenes between Charles and Oliver towards the end were charming I agree and it was great to see Mabel finally taking charge of the investigation. Of course now she's in danger but hopefully Marshall doesn't have a weapon on him...or an accomplice hiding somewhere... I hope this doesn't mean Sazz is dead for sure...striking that Glen is the first character this season to be genuinely dead on camera. I guess? I wonder how the Westies and Dudenoff will figure in the final ep or will some of them come back as colorful side characters next year?

This is total speculation of course but I wonder if the big reveal will be that Sazz and Dudenoff are both alive (as we have never seen their bodies and the Dudenoff suicide film could be some kind of a fake out) and has been speculated elsewhere there could be a murder in the last act. Not that I want to see it at the wedding though...