Slurpee Day. Happy 7-11!!!!

During the summer months in the late 80s early 90s it was intensely hot on the house I grew up in.  We didn't have air conditioning and had to find ways to keep as cool as possible.  I have a lot of memories of my mom getting Coke Slurpee cravings and my dad driving 10 minutes to the nearest 7-11 to get her her fix.  Of course my dad would also get me one and would get a big smile on his face when on the bottom of my Slurpee cup was a baseball disc ala Sportsflix of a player I collected.

The majority of my baseball cards I had as a kid are long gone, but I remember getting super excited about Roger Clemens being on the bottom of my cup one night.

7-11 hasn't done a promotion like this for nearly two decades.

The closest thing that has been produced to resemble the tiny circular discs is a 2013 Panini Hometown Heroes Sportsdisc.

The front of the tiny disc has the sportsflix look to it.

While the back has a quick snapshot of the player's career.

Of course I have two different parallels to these backs. The base and black.  I still need the gold.

What are your favorite Slurpee flavors?

Weather Update or It's Not Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Another snowy day on the east coast today.

Here's Jackie Denardo (Jessica Collins) of Channel 5 News to give us a weather update.

Thanks Jackie

And what do the elements have in store,

A lot of confusion it seems.  Early indicators of this storm ranged from a dusting to 18 inches depending on how the temperature was and the way the current took the storm.

Jackie Denardo is a fictional character played by Jessica Collins on the TV show, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.   I work not too far from Philly and am happy to say, I'm not working today as the area is being pummeled with the 4th Noreaster in 3 weeks.

My latest pickup is a 2013 Hometown Heroes Zipcode parallel.  It goes with the Home State parallel I have.

Oddly enough I need the base (no foil stamping in top right).

So to answer today's question, it's not always sunny in Philadelphia or Pennsylvania in general.