My mom and I have to make a budget (Long story, but my mom helps me with my money or I blow it all on stupid things.). Gotta dig through my files on the computer and dredge up what Needs to be adjusted. As exciting as a root canal :|
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When I went back to school for my reading and ESL endorsements, I got some etextbooks and LOVED them. Much lighter and less bulky, and if I was looking for a certain term instead of having to remember where in the chapter it was, I could just use the search function and the page would pop right up.Especially for college kids making minimum wage. I do hope eTextbooks are better. I have a few years before DD finds out.
I love real books for my fiction reads, but ebook is the way to go for textbooks imo.
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I wish those were available 50 years ago. If I recall, the cheapest book I bought was on statistics, and that was around $30 or so. The real expensive ones were for chemistry- analytical, organic, and bio; microbiology, histology; that hematology book that we never used, and bacteriology. None were less than $60, and used books weren't a thing yet. Also, I didn't get my first GI Bill check until November, so all those books were bought from savings. And I still have that statistics book.
I think I can get etextbooks for a few of the kids classes but I hate the idea of having to stare at a screen even more. DS likes his screen way brighter than necessary as it is! I know our eye doctor didn’t like how the kids had to do school through the computer because they were looking at screens so much. But i think I’ve heard some public school districts using ebooks too.
jersey mikes has some giant subs
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Jersey Mikes? Never heard of them.
They seem to be all over here and other places.
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Apparently, not so in WNY. Here, we have a Subway seemingly on every corner, and in most of the WallyWorlds.
There here and OMG we have even more Subways!
Jersey Mikes has spread into our area in the last 5-10 years. We have a local chain that I like better; but they do have good subs. DS wanted that for his last birthday. 
I don’t go often though.
Subway takes me back to college when they knew my order so well I didn’t have to tell them.
Those were the days!! Eating without fear if any.
I don’t go often though.Subway takes me back to college when they knew my order so well I didn’t have to tell them.
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Back in my college days, there were no chain sub shops. In the little town where I went, there was a hole-in-the-wall place called The Bean Pot, but nobody called it that. It was the hoagie shop; period. No tables; takeout only.Jersey Mikes has spread into our area in the last 5-10 years. We have a local chain that I like better; but they do have good subs. DS wanted that for his last birthday.
Subway takes me back to college when they knew my order so well I didn’t have to tell them.
Don’t know if they had them in my college days either because I was way too poor to eat at restaurant. cheap on campus vending machine meals for me.
Jersey Mike's hasn't made it's way to NEIA yet either.
The town my parents and I were born in used to have a lot of ethnic foods available because of the high immigrant population. It feels like chain restaurants didn’t really do as well there until the late 90s. I mean they were there; but now there are a lot! Some people have been working to bring back the unique food culture and they are doing a good job! I go visit and eat and eat.
Hot plate in my dorm room, and LOTS of ramen noodles. LOTS. They were 5 cents a pack back then.
As expensive as it was you had to eat on the cheap! Go to the market see what was cheap and easy.
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When I attended on the GI Bill, my tuition was covered by a NYS Regents scholarship, I was getting $160 a month, and we lived off campus as live-in babysitters for a woman and her 4 boys, plus I was the handyman, so there was no expense for room and board. But, I gave up four years of my life for that 'free' stuff.
I received a unusual notification tonight on my phone. Currently the northern part of my county is under a Tornado Warning. I'm watching the movement on TV. At present I'm about 10 miles south of the projected Tornado path.
Yikes! That's scary! Let's hope it stays in farm fields and uninhabited areas!
I remember when Canada had its first F5 Tornado in Eli, Manitoba. That was over 13 years ago by now. The sky was an alien green I'd never seen before. Freaky stuff!
