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^People who come up to town from the south see a lot of dirty stuff since that's where our industrial stuff and quarries are. People like that have to drive through miles of that stuff to get to the clean parts. Or they work in that part of town. That's where your most hardcore city haters come from.

My dad bought that stuff. I couldn't see why he didn't just buy regular orange juice

Huh yeah, can't just do those corner pieces of EIFS that have another piece of EIFS glued onto them but in a different color.

How I know I'm old is that I never ate at a fast casual restaurant in college except while traveling. There weren't any in Portsmouth.

Trust and believe or get out. Musk Says You 'Should Not Be An Investor In The Company' If You Don't Believe Tesla Will 'Solve Autonomy' https://jalopnik.com/musk-says-you-should-not-be-an-investor-in-the-company-1851432004

The Tallman stop had been there since at least the early '80s.

Main and West Streets as well. The bench is still there.

There used to be lots of bus stops on Main Street in Groveport but they took them away. Now you call the on-demand transit to come pick you up and take you to the Marathon at 317 and Alum Creek Dive then get on a COTA bus there. I could still hop directly onto a COTA bus in 2016 when I moved here.

So the introduction of the play clock helped with keeping the game moving sot that the games wouldn't go so long and be less disrespectful of people's time. But now we're adding a two-minute warning? Games were already hitting 4.5-5 hours since it seems the important ones usually go into at least one overtime and at least one major game-stopping injury. The play clock helped. But now we're back to more stopping because we're afraid some Boomer might not take action on setting up that Pacific Life account or buying his second F-150 in three years if he doesn't see each ad 17 times instead of 15. Seriously, these games start at 8PM and go past 1AM way too often.

Frankly I think a lot of these people doing business in Warren and Butler counties think that they can do no wrong because they see some of the highest income numbers in the state. Income is a hammer and everything is a nail. Nuanced details aren't important to them. I violated my own homespun metrics when I bought the video game store in Dayton Mall whose service area includes Warren County. The metric is no Land Rovers in the parking lot. If someone owns a Land Rover their (and their family's) video game consumption is almost nil outside of maybe Fortnite and Minecraft. Two very difficult games for B&M to monetize. Well it took me after I bought the store to see all the Land Rovers in the parking lot. I paid the price.

Another good meet! I'm telling folks you want to be there for these! The big 20th UO Anniversary Meet is still months away and these are a little more low-key so they are a good introduction.

Especially when they are in the 40-80 year "death zone" when people don't care about them.

Save the Billboard! Save the Billboard! Whew, that was close

Farmers hedging earlier in the year against prices of their own grain in the Fall.

Isn't it weird that Columbus' MLK is only 1/4 mile long? In other towns businesses wind up on MLK without thinking because their MLKs are much longer.

maybe it's made in the Rap Snacks factory

Haha, that's how you get around the Zoning Commissions -- secret rooms like mansions from the late 1800s had

In the past a lot got done with interest rates this high or even higher but today's economy got addicted to them in the same way fields get addicted to too much fertilizer and won't produce if you take it away. Homespun sayings brought to you by The Farm

I don't remember going to Halle's even though we went to Lazarus often.

It's not just office jobs moving to the suburbs (because that's where the big bosses live) and WFH. It's also a lot less office jobs in general. Wall Street now considers those "fat" while blue-collar jobs are production capacity (in whatever form it takes) so it's bad when you cut those. Plus cutting blue-collar jobs is bad PR while the (not true) assumption is that white-collar people will easily find other work.

I really like that building. Shame to see GM leave.

Yeah when I had stores I never wanted to do that. Landlords even offer monetary/contractor locating assistance for that but I still didn't want to do it. If I saw a gravel floor I noped out.

Schools are now almost 100% dependent on kids born 2008 and after. Now the kids are born into poorer, less-educated families so also no surprise that interest in private schools is lower. People need good jobs right out of school -- not just when they are over 40.

Schiff just demo'ed a beautiful historic property north of Chillicothe on Bridge Street: https://www.sciotopost.com/chillicothes-fox-farm-inn-fully-demolished-friday/ https://www.sciotopost.com/help-try-to-save-chillicothes-fox-farm-inn/ and is bringing a Valvoline Instant Oil Change to South Court Street in Circleville. All around great stuff

Maybe they're getting ready to do away with commercial breaks like soccer