Monday, December 22, 2025

Nice spot!

A friend of mine always says I get so lucky on the parking spot and I may have mentioned this before.  But what brought it up is I went to the mall on Saturday and Costco on Sunday, before Christmas and you can imagine both being crazy.  They were both crazy but again, I some how managed to get good spots at both!  The mall I was about the 4th car from the spots they save for pick-up.  There is about 5 spots in front of the mall where you can park and get a pick-up item and I was about the 4th car after that... so very close and lucky.  Then at Costco. I was kind of down a few lanes because I knew afterwards I wanted to pick up a salad at the food area and again, I ended up about 4th or 5th car from the front!  It is funny because I am not really hunting for a spot but just pulling in.  Sometimes (at the mall), I'll pop a Pokemon daily incense because I figure I will be going up and down lanes for a bit and I can use that time to hunt with it.  It works sometimes but other times, I end up getting a spot right away so oh well, worth the waste of the daily incense.

Weekly Update:
The rain... it approaches!  Finally some good news!  Rain is supposed to hit us around Tuesday but they say by Wednesday it will be here in full force and a lot of it (I HOPE!).  To me, us having rain on or during Christmas is our equivalent of a "white Christmas" since we don't get snow here but our mountains will.  But I hope it rains and rains and rains for days so we can recover just 1% of this drought, that would mean millions of gallons of reserve water (including the mountain snow).  Now currently my forecast only goes up to Thursday which says rain for most of the day but possibly not all of it.  What is beyond that is vague at best but I'm hoping for more rain of course.  I don't know why people don't like the rain, they realize we need that to survive right?  Also, it helps (me anyway) reduce a lot of costs like water and some utilities because I am not needing to use sprinklers for example for the yard.  So, rain good, no rain and only heat is bad.

At the movies:
A lot of new movies, a lot of changes but this was the last weekend before Christmas.  New at #1 is Avatar: Fire and Ash with 88 million and the original movie opened to around 70 mil and went on to do huge numbers but will this franchise continue to follow that pattern?  New at #2 is David with 22 mil and this may be the biggest opening for faith-based Angel Studios.  New at #3 is The Housemaid with 19 mil and not much written on this one.  New at #4 is The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants with 16 mil and this may do better this coming week with kids needing something to do after opening presents.  Holding on to the #5 spot is Zootopia 2 with 14.5 mil extra and now shy of 300 mil, likely to get there by end of the coming weekend.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one in at #9 on very limited release is Marty Supreme earning 875k but it was only on 6 screens so made a per screen of 146k which is exceptional.  Look for this one to expand just after the new year.

Quote of the week:
"Things are not quite so simple always as black and white." - Doris Lessing

Facts & Tips:
Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.

"How long can a broken flower last? Make the deal with me. I can save you." - James Pax as Quinn Chow in the TV series Silk Stalkings.

posted by McDuck @ 00:00

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