Reset Forty-One, Day Twenty-Seven
Jun. 21st, 2022 06:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rejectomorphMonday I forgot it was a new Federal holiday and checked the mailbox, adding one more pointless activity to the day. The main pointless activity was wasting time on Internet shopping that came to nothing. There was a coupon from Instacart, a service I've never actually used but signed up for some time ago but found problematic. But I've needed anew keyboard and mouse for quite sometime, and wanted an externa DVD drive, so when they sent me a digital coupon for fifty bucks off a hundred dollar purchase from Best Buy I thought well, why not.
I'd checked Best Buy's own web site and found the three things I wanted (the third being a battery charger with batteries I'd need for the wireless keyboard and mouse) so I anticipated no problems with the purchase. But the site Instacart sent me to did not seem to be the regular Best Buy site, and though I found a keyboard and mouse right away, the other items were nowhere to be found. I searched for DVD drives, and they showed me DVDs and hard drives. I searched for battery chargers and they showed me only two similar to the one I'd found on the actual Best Buy site but way more expensive, and without batteries included. I did lots of searches, using various search terms that ought to have brought up what I wanted, but every one was a fail. Eventually I gave up and closed the page, after removing the keyboard an mouse from the cart.
Instacart later sent me an email telling me I could retrieve my abandoned cart (on "aisle 8* no less, as though real world terms could make up for the chaos of their virtual incompetence) but I was not moved to return. Online shopping is, if anything, more hellish for me than actual shopping. Aside from the one regional supermarket chain I've found that has put together a fairly decent system, which I will continue to use, I doubt I'll ever attempt shopping over the Internet again. I can forget whatever nightmares I have while sleeping, but these waking nightmares will probably be with me for years.
The experience left me exhausted, and I ended up going back to sleep before sunset (just after taking the wheelie bin to the street and pointlessly checking the mailbox) and didn't get up until half past two in the morning. Since I never ate dinner, I lately had a snack of two sourdough English muffins and a small bowl of leftover Spanish rice, which I washed down with a screwdriver, since I didn't feel like drinking beer, and it was tasty and I have now made two more screwdrivers and am coming to the end of the second one and feel quite near actually drunk. This is making me miss my alcoholic friends, so I'm sad, and I'll probably go back to sleep again soon. I hope the room doesn't start spinning around, as that makes sleep very difficult.
Anyway, it's the summer solstice today, and it's going to be 103 degrees, the first of eight triple-digit high days in a row the forecast is now predicting, and my displeasure at this is enormous. I've gone into please kill me now mode, but it's unlikely I'll get my wish. I comfort myself with the knowledge that, when I wake up, I'll be able to sit in an air conditioned apartment and (as long as the keyboard and mouse hold up) watch music videos like this one, "Bolero" by 40 Fingers:
I'd checked Best Buy's own web site and found the three things I wanted (the third being a battery charger with batteries I'd need for the wireless keyboard and mouse) so I anticipated no problems with the purchase. But the site Instacart sent me to did not seem to be the regular Best Buy site, and though I found a keyboard and mouse right away, the other items were nowhere to be found. I searched for DVD drives, and they showed me DVDs and hard drives. I searched for battery chargers and they showed me only two similar to the one I'd found on the actual Best Buy site but way more expensive, and without batteries included. I did lots of searches, using various search terms that ought to have brought up what I wanted, but every one was a fail. Eventually I gave up and closed the page, after removing the keyboard an mouse from the cart.
Instacart later sent me an email telling me I could retrieve my abandoned cart (on "aisle 8* no less, as though real world terms could make up for the chaos of their virtual incompetence) but I was not moved to return. Online shopping is, if anything, more hellish for me than actual shopping. Aside from the one regional supermarket chain I've found that has put together a fairly decent system, which I will continue to use, I doubt I'll ever attempt shopping over the Internet again. I can forget whatever nightmares I have while sleeping, but these waking nightmares will probably be with me for years.
The experience left me exhausted, and I ended up going back to sleep before sunset (just after taking the wheelie bin to the street and pointlessly checking the mailbox) and didn't get up until half past two in the morning. Since I never ate dinner, I lately had a snack of two sourdough English muffins and a small bowl of leftover Spanish rice, which I washed down with a screwdriver, since I didn't feel like drinking beer, and it was tasty and I have now made two more screwdrivers and am coming to the end of the second one and feel quite near actually drunk. This is making me miss my alcoholic friends, so I'm sad, and I'll probably go back to sleep again soon. I hope the room doesn't start spinning around, as that makes sleep very difficult.
Anyway, it's the summer solstice today, and it's going to be 103 degrees, the first of eight triple-digit high days in a row the forecast is now predicting, and my displeasure at this is enormous. I've gone into please kill me now mode, but it's unlikely I'll get my wish. I comfort myself with the knowledge that, when I wake up, I'll be able to sit in an air conditioned apartment and (as long as the keyboard and mouse hold up) watch music videos like this one, "Bolero" by 40 Fingers:
