{"id":33641,"date":"2025-04-03T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33641"},"modified":"2025-04-03T13:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:33:52","slug":"missing-whats-gone-that-i-only-now-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/03\/missing-whats-gone-that-i-only-now-noticed\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing What’s Gone That I Only Now Noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I like to carry a small disposable lighter on my person when I leave the house. Because if I’m ever in the situation when I need to make a fire (for an emergency survival situation, gentle reader, not because I dislike someone’s politics, because I am not young and or easily led by the permanent professional and optimized cacophony of the Internet), I want to be able to make a fire easily.<\/p>\n

In the past, I’ve grabbed a three pack of small lighters at the checkout stand at the grocery or the Walmart, and I’ve kept them in my pocket provisioning drawer. I lose them here and there when they fall out of my loose pockets when I’m sitting various places–I probably have a bunch hidden in the chair in the parlor or beside the drivers’ seats of my vehicles–but I lost the last of them a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n

When I went to replace them, I couldn’t find them at the checkout stands any more. I mean, you used to find them everywhere with the candy bars and chapstick.<\/p>\n

But Walmart has dramatically cut its point-of-sale merchandise to basically candy bars, and I couldn’t find them at the Pricecutter. So I made a point to look for them.<\/p>\n

I found some at the courtesy counter.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

They’re now $1.50 each, not three for a dollar or three for a buck fifty.<\/p>\n

Given that I’m going to lose them, I certainly don’t want to buy refillable collectible lighters or anything with personality.<\/p>\n

But…. I guess it’s just one thing I’m used to being ubiquitous that was ubiquitous geographically but not in the time stream.<\/p>\n

Maybe I should pay as much heed to not losing them as I do to the other things in my pockets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I like to carry a small disposable lighter on my person when I leave the house. Because if I’m ever in the situation when I need to make a fire (for an emergency survival situation, gentle reader, not because I dislike someone’s politics, because I am not young and or easily led by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33642,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33641\/revisions\/33642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}