Speaking of warm temperatures this weekend, the WP Mom and I indulged ourselves and went to Dairy Queen to get a couple of Blizzards. It was a good thing we did because this is the last weekend DQ will be open before it closes for the season. Our other go-to ice cream place – Sawyer’s – closed two weeks ago. Most of the seasonal food stands and attractions are closed until next spring. Not that it means that we aren’t still seeing tourists around here because we are now in the middle of Fall Foliage season. It hasn’t reached peak color here at the lake but it has north of the lake up in the White Mountains and along the Connecticut River Valley in the western part of New Hampshire. I expect we’ll see peak color here sometime over the week or so. We’ll be seeing a lot of folks ‘from away’ visiting, including quite a few from overseas.
Once the leaf peepers have departed we’ll have about two months of peace and quiet before the winter tourist season starts. Folks will be up for skiing, snow tubing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling starting just before Christmas. Thinks like ice fishing will have to wait until January in order to make sure the ice on the lakes is thick enough.
And so it goes…
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I saw on the news that Rite Aid is pulling the plug, closing the rest of its pharmacies across the nation.
Pharmacy chain Rite Aid closed all of its locations after filing for bankruptcy twice in less than two years.The Rite Aid near The Gulch closed about a year ago. So did a couple of other Rite Aid locations elsewhere in New Hampshire that I knew from the past.
The retailer posted a brief announcement on its website.
"All Rite Aid stores have now closed," the site states. "We thank our loyal customers for their many years of support."
The website offers former customers their pharmacy and immunization history, as well as assistance with finding pharmacies that their prescriptions were transferred to.
It goes to show that even the biggest companies can make mistakes that will bring them down, sometimes to extinction.
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When I heard that there’s an AI actress looking to be signed by an agent, it wasn’t all that surprising to me. I figured it was only a matter of time. It doesn’t bother me in the least.
Hollywood, on the other hand, is having a conniption fit. If flesh and blood actors and actresses can be replaced by code and CGI and used to make movies and TV series, what are ‘real’ actors and actresses, their agents, their stunt doubles, film crews, extras, and so on going to do?
Frankly, I don’t care. I’ll bet a lot of other people feel the same way.
At least if it does happen we’re less likely to have to listen to the bullsh*t from the Hollywood ‘wokerati’ because there won’t be any.
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From VDH comes this new, quite appropriate phrase to define the leftists mayors and governors doing their best to make sure federal government operations are blocked in their cities and/or states:
Neo-confederate nullificationists.
Seems just about right to me.
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This is going to be a somewhat shorter TOAS than usual as I have been very busy all day and had little time to do nearly as much as I wanted. I got started a lot later than usual and would like to start getting ready to sleep.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where there are still a lot of folks till boating and hitting the beach and swimming, and where Monday is coming around again all too soon.