That does sound crummy…
And sticky; very very sticky.
That page mentions that they also do a smaller cake - 1.5 lb !
That doesn’t sound very mini to me.
I don’t know, the fruitcakes I had as a kid were about the same density as our patio bricks… which’d make a small one close to 4 pounds.
Seriously, depending on density, a 1.5 “cake” could easily be the size of a large brick (say 4x6x8").
Oh, definitely. I don’t even turn off the battery pack at the end of the day (which means I’ll soon be treated to wails of “the lights ain’t working!!!”).
In other work news, a runaway tractor trailer cab came through the fence around the parking lot today, taking out one car and crushing the fender of another enough to make it undrivable. There was one space between this mess and my Jeep. 
Wow. I’ll have to either take someone else’s space or start parking on the production side of the building (I think there are a couple of ‘unclaimed’ spots over there), but I’m definitely finding somewhere else to park.
Nope.
Far smarter to park in one of the spaces that the destroyed cars were using. After all, in that big ole lot, what are the odds of two runaway trucks hitting the same spaces on different days? 
Bah, humbug on fruitcakes and this whole season. No sooner have I just paid for my massive plumbing disaster than it starts to snow, reminding me that I haven’t yet paid my annual extortion to my snowplow guy. Simultaneously, my credit card, cable, electricity, and gas bills have all arrived. How is a pup to survive in this world of sin and greed?
Figuratively, fucking the fruitcake works for me. In fact, I devoutly wish to figuratively have carnal relations with this whole benighted season.
Doors. Doors go better with fruitcake. When you put a fruitcake on the floor by the door the door stops moving. That’s about the only good use for a fruitcake.
Went to the eye doctor for the second time this year because he wanted me back in six months instead of a year. First, I’m in with the assistant getting all of the preliminaries done. She states, “Did you bring your prescription glasses?” When I answer yes she asks me to put them on & starts to give me the eye test. I can barely make out anything on the top row. She tries another screen but it’s no better; that’s when I ask her if I should be looking at something so far away with my reading glasses. Ooooh.
I take 'em off & suddenly I can read the bottom rows. 
Then I go to pay. Since this is my second visit of the year it goes towards medical instead of eye. Guess who doesn’t meet their deductible & had to pay a crapton more than I was expecting?
A story about a friend of a friend, playing a game of charades during the holidays. One little girl, I think 5 or so at the time but I could be misremembering, takes her turn.
She goes to the middle of the floor and curls up into a ball and…that’s it. Just lays there.
The adults start guessing all sorts of random objects, but she just says “no” to all of them.
After several minutes, everyone gives up and asks her what she was.
“A FRUITCAKE!!!”
And, you know, that is pretty much exactly what fruitcakes do. She definitely won that round!
Oh crap, I remember you bringing this up in the past. That’s still a thing? 
I’m sorry, that sucks.
Makes me happy that we typically get one or two real snow days a year around here.
Unfortunately, global warming is a gradual process and doesn’t magically eliminate snow, plus it can have counter-intuitive effects like producing a lot more snow than usual.
My snowplowing contract during last season’s El Nino winter was a bust – there wasn’t much snow, but still, more than I could have personally dealt with. This year will be the opposite El Nino/La Nina cycle but who knows what that will bring. We’re predicted to have intermittent flurries over the next few days, and then at least three days of warm-ish weather when it will all melt.
I consider the snowplow contract to be a form of insurance, because we all know what will happen if I don’t have it. And we also all know the success rate during a major winter storm of being able to beg someone with a snowplow to come by to do a one-time job. 
I hear you. I had my eye appointment last week. She asked me if I had any drastic changes in my vision in the last year. I said “no.” Then she checked my eyes with the glasses on. I could not see shit with my right eye. I had to change my answer to the previous question. Turns out I have a cataract in my right eye. On one hand, that sucks, but on the other hand, it improved my vision in my right eye dramatically.
I have a whole new glasses prescription, but I’m beginning to think I need to get my contact prescrition looked at, too. I still have a box of my current prescrition.
Last night I took Loki out to pee at 1 am. It was snowing, but unusually warm. When I got up at 5 to do the barn chores for my gf who had an early meeting, the temperature had plunged to 19 F and the world was an ice skating rink.
Damn! I hate winter.
2 Mini Rants
As I have said before, the low temperature in my place and the lack of hot water in the bathroom sink have made the skin on my hands very dry and cracked. I have started applying lotion on them before I go to bed. It seems to be helping. This morning, I woke up to find two long scratches on the back of my right hand. I have no idea how they happened.
For the past two nights, I have heard strange noises in the lower kitchen cabinets. It sounds like some kind of animal trying to chew its way in. I have inspected the cabinetes- no holes, no sawdust, no droppings. It is confusing.
Sometimes there are empty spaces behind or under floor cabinets. Mice can get into there.
We once had a gray rat snake get loose behind the floor cabinets. When we finally found him again, he was more than half a foot longer.
Ooh, I used to get fruitcakes from them in the past. I don’t know why I stopped and I had kind of forgotten about them somehow. They were so good. Off to check them out again.
Damn!!! How much did your dog pee?!??
Traffic here has suddenly exploded with all the folks sharing your assessment of winter.
And if that isn’t rant-worthy, I don’t know what is. 
I only know about the Collin Street Bakery because of the embezzlement. (This isn’t a gift link, but I think you can read an article or two in Texas Monthly for free every month) The problem with embezzlement is, you can get away with it for a while, but eventually someone will notice.
Somewhat of a long and unusual rant, but I had to get this off my chest.
I was watching some old episodes of Dragon’s Den, the CBC equivalent of Shark Tank where aspiring entrepreneurs try to get funding for their business. It’s surprisingly entertaining, but one segment in particular inspired this rant.
In that segment, a couple of nerdy guys were pitching their “Fix Me Stick”, which was simply a USB stick with a self-contained bootable OS that could scan your PC and remove viruses, with the “innovative” feature that it did it all independent of the host OS.
Gimme a break – I’ve been building stuff like this for decades on the Windows PE / BartPE platform, with dozens of applications running in that isolated boot environment, including AVs, backup and restore programs, registry editors, and dozens of other apps including full Windows functionality. Bootable from either a CD or USB stick. There are also lots of free pre-configured variants based on bootable Linux media.
But these “Dragons” – all multi-millionaire investors with deep insights into business and marketing – seemed to me to be hoodwinked by this pair of pitchmen. They were more interested in distribution and marketing and current sales than in asking any basic questions about WTF this thing actually was – i.e.- what was the virus/malware engine, what made it more effective than mainstream AV products, what was the OS platform and what hardware was it compatible with, etc. They decided to give these twerps their asked-for investment of about half a million dollars or whatever it was, and I thought, what gullible goofs.
It turns out that these investors understood the marketplace better than I did. That old show was about ten years ago so just for fun I did a Google search on the product, expecting to find nothing and that the whole thing had gone bust. Instead, I found an active website claiming that they had now sold something like 1.3 million devices on a subscription basis and branched out into other areas. By my rough calculation this fucking thing that I and thousands of other techies had had for free more than 20 years ago has pulled in more than $60 million for these fuckers. Who are probably squandering it all on Ferraris, hookers, and blow.
It sometimes amazes me what people will pay money for. I know that many people are not at all computer literate, and that’s fine and understandable, but I’m just astonished that something so simple could end up generating so much income. It took me literally less than a second to find 15 different free bootable antivirus scanners.