Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Starbucks is closing a lot of stores. A customer wondered what other costs savings that Starbucks was implementing.
Probably paying less for coffee beans. Forget fair trade coffee. Starbucks visits coffee fincas and says, "We can't pay you what we had been."
The coffee bean farmers then says, "We'll then forget you. We'll sell to luck in coffee from China."
Ghost Town and Maestro are available on meta quest horizon plus.
Ghost Town. The player steps onto a fishing boat. The interior. It's the greatest I've ever seen. Ever. Similar to and better than the fishing boat experience in A Fisherman's Tale. Actually, the fishing boat experience in AFT was over the top amazing.
I wish that The RCMP ST Roch Voyage was available as a high quality VR app. I'd pay money for something like that.
The other free apps were forgettable. Some kind of space shooter. No shooter games are as good as Gun Club VR.
Crisis Brigade 2, Drop Dead, Dead Second and Pistol Whip are the best. Every other one is Crap. Guns and Stories isn't too bad. All the rest are on the forget it level.
Starship Home. I'll give it a shot but what the heck.
I'm taking the day off today. I did two unfamiliar areas which are more stressful for the brain than doing well known and usual areas. I removed weeds from near a supermarket yesterday. The weeds were bad and it would get worse in a month, two months etc. A lot worse. I removed them all. The weed takes at least a year to reach that size so it hadn't been removed for awhile.
Exhaustion and old age is catching up with me. I don't have the energy like I used to. I have 80% the energy I used to. Just feeling kind of burned out. Slightly. It's at a manageable, even healthy level. A little bit of burnout is healthy.
This morning, google was down on my tablet. I couldn't access google at all. But now I can after I restarted my tablet. I thought google was down because of the US government shutdown. Talk about the brain painting a picture.
US Gov is down. BCGEU is down and Canada Post is also on strike.
"Well, at least we still have half a ship." Ewan MacGregor, Revenge of the Sith
At least we still got half a country while the other half shuts down at 5 pm and also for half a year due to weekend and extended holidays.
Electronic Arts got bought out. Jared Kushner, Donald Trumps son in law who was pretty good in Deadpool part 2 is one of the principal shareholders. The biggest non hostile corporate takeover in history at $57 billion, but don't quote me on that.
Worried, I checked to see if Need for Spped Most Wanted and Need for Speed No Limits is still available in the android tablet. It is.
That's not how takeovers work. Pepsi owns Burger King. Burger King is still operating as its own autonomous entity.
Ford owns Porsche and Jaguar. They are still operating as their own auto-nomous, no pun intended, entities.
Doctor Jane Goodall dies at age 91. I'm glad she wasn't done in like Dianne Fossey or that she didn't die of a Gordy's Home from the movie Nope related incident. For awhile there I'm sure some of us were wondering.
She was one of the best. She was really good at observing and interpreting complex chimp behaviour while most people would look and see nothing out of the ordinary.
There are two chimp species, the chimpanzee and the bonobo. The bonobo is the more gentle species and is the onky chimp species which practices a type of socialization where bonobos rub each others genitals as a calming move. Chimpanzees routinely hunt and eat bonobos. I wonder which species Dr Jane Goodall worked with.
I hate escape rooms. When you solve one puzzle you get another puzzle more difficult than the last. I hope that if an RCMP St Roch VR app is released that it isn't an escape room. Ghost Town is horrible. Everyone involved with the St Roch died peacefully. There are no reports of that ship being haunted.
Halloween is ghost stories season. Watching ghost hunting videos will for some reason, give a person an anxiety disorder. Too much weird forces.
