Fri
-- 12:15a  Bed

--   4:20a  Up;  +"Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage"

Also installed Windows 11 2025H2 update.  I had just instealled cumulative update

only 2 days ago, but Copilot said it was necessary to do that first.

--   5:45a  Bed

--   8:00a  Woken by lawnmowers

--   9:05a  Up

--   9:45a  Leaving to bike, then get breakfast @McD:  2 sausage/egg burritos

-- 12:22p  Inside after biking 2+4+6 (3rd leg with neighbor);

Tony called to say he was happy with lunch at hot bar @Mariano's.

I haven't eaten there since before pandemic.

-- 12;34p  "The View";  They mentioned 2 kinds of cheesy popcorn,

--   1:29p  Skim Ch2 news

There was a story about "Dial M for Murder" at Drury Lane, but the anchor who

introduced the story said "Dial M for MODERN", and the captions reflected what she said.

After the pre-taped piece was shown, she explained that what she said happened to

be the name of an antique store in her area, so that's the source of the mistake.

--   1:57p  ... +"Ghosts"

--   3:15p  "Inside Edition"

All of today's "Jeopardy" players last names end in vowels but 2 of them are silent "e"s.

One of them is a standardized patient.

--   3:55p  Leaving to bike, then get dinner @Buona: rigatoni marinara (half price for Nat'l Pasta Day)

Then I went 2 doors down to get 4 free McNuggets @McD (won on the Monopoly game), however,

the app insisted that I was still in the middle of this morning's order.

I told the clerk who insisted that the app was separate from the restaurant.

I asked, "Don't you think that the manager would want to know if a customer was having trouble?"

She seemed to think the manager didn't care, but, eventually, the manager took a look.

She managed to fix it -- but couldn't say if there was something that I could do to fix it.

This is the 2nd manager that was able to fix it without giving a clue for next time.

She said she's never seen this before -- but, I suppose that makes sense if the clerks

are reluctant to call a manager over.

~~  Then I took the pasta and the McNuggets to the McD patio.

The marinara sauce was very watery.  I doubt that it was just one bad batch.

For some reason, it seems that they think this is good.  It was OK -- just not much flavor.

I'm not sure why customer seem to keep ordering it at full price.

--   6:22p  Inside after biking 3+3  (Total 18 mi today);  "ET"

--   7:13p  +"Elsbeth" (10/12/25)

--   8:50p  Started watching the season finale of "Tracker"  (05/11/25).

I had marked that I had watched it but just noticed that I never copied a recap

into my file.  The rerun conveniently followed the "Elsbeth" that I just watched.

If I had watched it, I probably watched it on my phone while eating several breakfasts,

which makes it stick less in my mind.

~~  After about 12 mins, although I wouldn't say that I remember the episode, it seems

that I probably saw it but then skipped to the last 10 mins.

-- 10:05p  Skim Ch5 news

Weather segment showed 2 photos from viewers -- both named Jen.

-- 11:02p  Resume "Colbert" (10/2)

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