- everything 60% off during the month of May, 2020
- an additional 20% off over the five-day Memorial Day "weekend"
Two ways to figure it, I suppose. The first way would be the simpler way but would be wrong: 60% off plus an additional 20% off could mean a total of 80% off. If so, one would pay $20 for a regularly-priced $100-item. But that would be wrong.
The correct way:
- regular price: $100
- sale price, 60% off: $40
- an additional 20%: $32 -- final price
Arianna, our oldest granddaughter, and I drove out to the mall to see how things were going as the state of Texas starts "re-opening."
Crickets.
But, wow, talk about sales.
I've never seen such an incredible Swarovski sale as this one. My wife and I collected a bit of Swarovski when we lived in Europe many years ago:
- the dollar was very, very "strong," making Swarovski a "good" buy to begin with;
- we bought it in the military exchange where their prices were even better because they bought in volume; and, NO sales tax at military exchanges;
- decades ago, Swarovski was not yet an "item" and much less expensive then than now;
And we did.
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Steak
Over the past month or so, I've written on the blog and in private e-mails about my new-found excitement of grilling steaks directly on FOGO.
I have mentioned often on the blog that I am partial to Omaha Steaks when ordering on line, although I seldom order for myself. There are too many options here in Texas and at much better prices. I order for my son-in-law in Portland, OR, and my brother-in-law in Huntington Beach, CA.
A reader suggested Crowd Cow.
Today, of all things, that reader sent me a link to Forbes: "The Best Places To Order Steak Online."
And get this: the article was dated May 20, 2020. LOL. The writer must be reading the blog.
The list:
- Porter Road
- FreshDirect
- Rastelli's
- Kansas City Steak Company
- Snake River Farms
- Crowd Cow
- FarmFoods
- Omaha Steaks
Another list, also very recent, 2020, at urbantastebud. Be sure to read the social media comments regarding this list.
Buying steaks on line is lot like buying wine, I suppose. Decades ago, Herb Caen wrote this in the San Francisco Chronicle:
It's not difficult to find a great wind; the challenge is finding a great wine at a great price.I've always remembered that line, although Herb Caen probably said it a bit better.
From wiki:
"The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was: his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings.My hunch Caen would have a lot to say about the current state of affairs in San Francisco.
Now that I am reminiscing about Herb Caen -- I would have been reading his column, 1977 to 1980, when we stationed at an Air Force base near San Francisco, before we were transferred overseas to Germany -- and reminiscing about seeing Omaha Steak ads in Forbes decades ago, it seems we lived in much simpler times fifty years ago and enjoying it much more.
I had a whole lot less disposable income then, but somehow those days seemed a whole lot more carefree. And even then I was working 100 hours a week.
Back then, the state of California had no rules/laws limiting the number of hours physicians-in-training could work. One-hundred-hour work weeks were not uncommon -- in fact, for surgeons, it was the norm. In 2011 that all changed; in 2017, it all changed again. See this story in The Los Angeles Times.
But before 2011, let's see:
- Monday - Friday: 0600 - 2000 (14 hours x five days = 70 hours)
- Saturday: 0600 - 0600 (24 hours)
- Sunday: 0600 - 1400 (8 hours)
- 102 hours
I must have done a bit of reading at home before I went to bed, looking up cases, etc.
We were younger then.
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