Last week I mentioned that I bought two Polartec 200 fleece jackets<\/a> and two windbreaker v-neck shirts<\/a> from Cabelas<\/a>, a hunting and fishing store. They arrived a couple of days ago, and since it’s windy and 30 outside I decided to layer – one of the new fleece jackets over one of the new windbreaker shirts over a long-sleeve T-shirt. When I walked the three blocks from my parking garage to the Second Street branch office, I was completely warm – the freezing wind didn’t make any headway through the layers. My heavy black leather jacket, which I normally wear at these temperatures, is at home in the closet. Actually, now that I think about it, it’s probably at home on the floor – I am a single guy after all. Anyway, I highly recommend you check out Cabelas if you need some comfortable and nice looking winter wear.<\/p>\n By the way, the Polartec 200 fleece is considered their mid-weight fleece – they have a Polartec 300 that is even heavier. Currently the fleece jackets (the 200s) are on sale for $19.99 for regular sizes, and so are the windbreaker shirts if you buy two.<\/p>\n Today, December 1, is National Day or Union Day in Romania. On this day in 1918 the region of Transylvania (formerly part of Austria-Hungary) became part of Romania. Transylvania had always been majority Romanian in its ethnic makeup anyway, and one of the reasons Romania entered World War I on the side of the allies was to add the region to its territory. You know, tourists go over there to look for vampires… if I went there, my attitude would be, “Who cares about the vampires… where are the GIRLS?”<\/p>\n My plans for this weekend: Keeping them quiet for now, but there will probably be a new photo album online after it’s all said and done. Whatever you do, have fun and stay warm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy Friday and happy December! I’m sitting here in the Second Street branch office, where they now have their seasonal Christmas beers in stock. I remember Young’s Winter Warmer from last year – had a really unique, delicious, fruity taste (raisins?), although it tasted a lot different on draft than it did in bottles. Other … Continue reading “Friday update: Condo bubble starting to burst, product reviews, Romania”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.memphisheritage.org\/images\/LawrenceBuilding.jpg\")
<\/a>Another purchase that worked out well is the HP Photosmart C3180 all-in-one (printer, copier, scanner) that I bought last month at Amazon.com. I have now used all its features, and it prints out beautiful looking documents (both B\/W and color, both documents and copies) and it does an outstanding job scanning as well. Amazon currently has it for $79.99. One reviewer comments that the difference in document quality is negligible between this machine and ones in the $250-300 price range. Another reviewer writes that it drinks ink – I haven’t noticed that to be the case, but then again I haven’t printed a ton of documents yet on this machine. Highly recommeded based on what I have seen.<\/p>\n