I would not consider myself cheap per se, but when you start seeing words like "Deconstructed", "Foraged", "Aioli", "fresh cracked pepper", "buttermilk-soaked", in an otherwise quaint little town's downtown restaurants, then you get the picture.. it becomes a bit annoying.

Take for example, this "Menu" item:

Pâté of roasted indigenous legumes, paired with a compote of seasonal berries, served on hearty sprouted wheat bread.

You realize that the above just means Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.

So why the pompous name then, well, a PBJS will set you back, say 3 bucks, whereas our hearty wheat bread option can ring up to 6, or 7 dollars a piece, a nice 100%+ markup for fancy words, sacré Bleu!!.

Up-selling in the restaurant industry is a huge industry in and on itself, and apparently it works, it just doesn't for me.

But I will give all other small-town folkspeople like me a gift, go ahead and open your own restaurant, and run my amazing "Fancy Menu Generator" get your menu, and slap on it an outrageous price on its items, you can't go wrong, so here it is:

Here is the latest incarnation of the Smart Home:

I will post the entire source code as soon as I finish with all the code tests.

This is loosely based on th original smart home in hackster.io, but the code is completely different, and it does not have any PubNub hooks, it shows how to build a Smart Home using legos, a Raspberry Pi 3 and mighty Python.

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