The Floor 地板, 床, 바닥)

MJ is big about what kind of floor we have in our home, and it's a pretty simple philosophy: NO CARPET! Allergies is a major reason, but another one is what goes into carpets that people don't see: sure the long fur and deep colors can cover up some of the nastiness that goes into the carpet that doesn't get swept up, but there can just e stuff hiding in there. At least with the vinyl floors we have now, I (and more importantly, MJ) can see what is on the surface and clean it up as necessary, and vacuuming is easier. Count me in as a hard floor guy. It's tough living on the floor of society nowadays. I went to Jack in the Box the other day and ordered the No. 1 on the menu with the combo because I was dying of thirst and (similar to MJ) I've been craving fries recently......and suddenly it turned out to be $16.00! That's a far cry from the $1.50 hot dog and soda combo at Costco! I thought of what it must be like for the people still making just $15.00 minimum wage per hour (it may have increased since then, but still) and what a financial hit just getting a greasy burger at a low-rated fast food chain must be (sorry Jack in the Box, but that's the consensus review among my generation of people). Unfortunately, that's the economic reality of people at the bottom: wages are stagnant and don't go up very often, but inflation hits you hard, so your wages actually give you lower purchasing power. For every major superstar celebrity or Youtuber you see on TV who get all the attention, there are probably thousands of people living on the floor who are just struggling to get by, and I get reminded of that every time I go to places like....Jack in the Box. It kind of reminds me too to not fall in the trap a lot of people do of getting too used to luxury: once you start flying business class instead of coach, you never want to go back. Once you start paying for the express lane on the highway, you never want to go back. Once you let your kids have cell phones, they never want to go back to reading or studying. It's very nice to be living at or the near the ceiling, but you need to have started at the floor to know what a blessing it is to be living at the ceiling, and to stay sharp and hungry lest one day you're back living on the floor (one of my worst fears really). Oh and turns out my order was probably entered in wrong at Jack in the Box.... even they're not that usurious to chareg $16.00 for their basic combo, except maybe at the airport, where it's really high crimes and misdemeanours for price gouging.... NEVER EAT AT THE AIRPORT. I've gotten into the game show "The Floor" recently with Rob Lowe. I binged the first season straight in about a day while visiting said airport and Jack in the Box, was so excited about it I showed MJ and my sister.....and they both were underwhelmed. I don't get it. Lots of trivia in a short amount of time except it's mostly pictures you identify instead of text clues like Jeopardy, and it's a duel format where 2 contestants battle in one of the contestant's chosen "categories" like Halloween costumes, State Capitols, Olympic Sports, Fruits, etc. I found that I have a lot of gaps in at least my visual identification of certain categories, like I just did not register seeing a daffodil, or a picture of Bad Bunny (Is THAT what Bad Bunny looks like?) Also tests reaction time, retrieving the answer from the back crevices of your mind quickly and blurting it out loud, and depth of knowledge. Like I just DON'T KNOW that many country singers, so would I survive a whole minute on the clock of identifying country singers by their faces? Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves, Tim McGraw.... Luke Bryan and Kane Brown stumped me. Good study tool for trivia lovers, even if some of the categories are really easy, like naming all 50 states based on their location on a map. Rob Lowe is......LITERALLY one of the most expressive game show hosts out there, he doesn't have to do much except wince and react to contestant's missed questions.....he's great at it.