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Online only, and usually no. This year, I had need to acquire a Panasonic UB-820 media player for my movies. I bought from Best Buy on Friday for $399. Yesterday (Sunday) they dropped the priced to $349. I hooked up with their online chat, and they price matched and gave me a refund. The new machine had not even been delivered yet. Other than Costco, Best Buy pricing is no worse than anybody else. They give me free next day delivery. If the same item is available at Costco, I buy it there. The price is always better, plus Costco often adds a few years to the warranty, making a service agreement not needed. The Malwarebytes Black Friday weekend sale is the best pricing of the year for their malware product. Highly recommended.

OP, I understand your allusion. My bride and I are movie fans. As such we keep adding to our movie library... the good movies, that is. Casablanca, Maltese Falcon, Lost Horizon, Thin Man, 2001, Forbidden Planet, Some Like It Hot, etc, etc, etc Many of these titles are on sale in 4k UHD media at blu-ray.com I have no desire for modern/woke LGBTQWTF trash, nor scenes of actors urinating in the morning. We are just finishing a full run of Pirates of the Caribbean in 4k.

I am told that Promo is the replacement for Red Dot, and Power Pistol is the replacement for Unique. Both are new designs, burn cleaner, etc, etc and similar burn rates.

On paper, Red Dot is wonderful. Too bad is has become Unobtanium.

I find turkey to be a whole lot more carvin' and pickin' work than is chicken. We have turkey once a year, just "because".

In the shop in the stall next to the Mini Cooper. Thanks for the laugh.

Her: < obsequious baloney in heavy Indian accent > My name is Debby. What is your name? Me: < in heavy Indian accent > My name is Rakesh Kendalwall Her: < in heavy Indian accent > I am not of thinking your name is Rakesh Me: < in heavy Indian accent > And I am not of thinking your name is Debby Her: < click off > BTW, this was with Dell Support. Amazon customer service has ALWAYS been excellent for me.

Windows 7 has long been out of "support". Win10 ends "support" in October of 2025. No big deal. The ONLY reason I moved away from Win7 to Win10 is because of planned obsolescence. Quickbooks, Turbo Tax, ON1 (photoshop clone), Chrome and Firefox (current) all refuse to run on less than Win10. The "support" is the endless stream of patches for security related issues. These are for the guys who open every click in every email, or are a regular at "hotchix.com" or similar. Nothing will really protect you if have a penchant for trolling in dirty bars. Those terrified of security problems should invest in Malwarebytes. You can buy it every Black Friday weekend for 40% off. This is the best deal of the year. I run it on all our workstations and phones. I am always amused that Malwarebytes finds phishing and malvertising sites on Fox News. MB is highly recommended. The rest are not. Win11 is still a well documented nightmare. It has a heavy hardware requirement, plus the latest updates are still breaking things. It has gotten SO complex it stumbles over itself. Not Recommended.

I'm down on day #6 of the nasty head cold going around, so we don't have company this year. With nothing else to do, I figured it is time to discard my beloved Windows 7 and upgrade to Win10. Too many of my daily use apps will no longer run on less than Win10, so it is time. Being the careful sort (read: burned too many times) I backed up a GHOST image of my Win7 system. On a lark, I decided to verify the image.... and it crapped out. Oops... Santa just brought me a dying backup disk. Drat.. only 58,000 hours and it developed a bit of a bug. So, I hooked in a new replacement driver and will be spending the next 24+ hours syncing the old disk to the new one.

We find the Autopsy Channel to be FAR more entertaining than sports. Plus, it comes on every day.

Same as a politician, who is another ordinary crook but dressed better.

My bride is cooking an 11.25 lb turkey in her new wall oven. She is celebrating having a working kitchen after so many years. I divorced my ex 50 years ago, and she won't be attending. The reasons for the divorce have not changed over the last 50 years. Kudos to those who can share a meal with the ex and adult children. We are eating dinner by ourselves tonight. Not for lack of invitation, but that I am now on Day #7 of this nasty head cold that is going around.

Lessons for the smug Communist.

I have to feed 50 people twice each month at my lodge. My reusable method is an Excel spread sheet. The database part contains 1419 grocery entries. Each is cataloged by store, UPC, price per unit, etc. The sheet flags which item and/or category is the lowest unit price. The Menu parts of the sheet are done by plugging in the UPC code. Each Menu has a scaling factor to scale up the recipe servings to the desired total servings. For simplicity, I do the scaling in multiples of the number of servings in her recipe. Each Menu is then pasted into a shopping list for printing. Each function is an Excel Macro so it is all point and click.