Blog Number 190

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

I usually call the wife on the cell phone as I am pulling out of the parking garage when I am heading home from work.  Today was no exception.  I detected a hint of "I ain't cookin' tonight" in her voice so I braced myself for the worst (the worst = eating out on Friday at any semi-respectable restaurant).  When I arrived home and dinner had not been started, my fears were confirmed.  Today was a hard day for her so I sucked it in and we started the discussion of where to go.  The wife and I wanted to go to Pei Wei but the kids were against that.  The son and daughter wanted to go to On The Border for the sole reason that they could eat all the chips and salsa they wanted.  I was against that since On The Border is typically crowded on Fridays.  After much discussion we just gave up and went to Wendy's.

After a truly forgettable meal, we walked over to the grocery store across the parking lot.  Neither the wife nor I had been to this store and it was sort of a low price store (as opposed to a Kroger or Marsh for instance).  Anyway, we killed 20 minutes in there before heading home for the night.  I did spend a large percentage of the time there in the wine section looking for anything on sale.  Six bucks is all I allow myself to spend on wine so that really narrows down the choices.  One thing I did see was some wine that was on clearance.  This seemed odd to me.  I don't recall ever seeing wine on clearance before.  I mean, wine is supposed to get better with age so why would you ever clearance out any wine?  Anyway, the clearance price was like 9 dollars and the regular price was something like 11 so in my mind that hardly qualifies as a clearance price.  We did find our 4 dollar a bottle wine that we used to buy back home at Wal*Mart.

In the end we did not buy anything and overall the store was truly forgettable (just like the meal that preceded it).  Such a so-so night it hardly deserves a mention in a blog.  The wife tells me that I am going grocery shopping with her tomorrow so perhaps something exciting will happen to me then.  Until then...

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon