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Friday was exhausting, but the shopping is done and was mostly successful. It didn't star tout well, when I was assembling my online cart from Safeway, which has a very annoying web site, and the items I wanted to get from their Friday sale kept showing up at their regular prices. I used their live chat app to try to find out what was up, and the problem remained unresolved. The chatter advised to to log out and delete my browser history then log back in, or even return to the site with a different browser, and I tried the latter but it didn't change anything.
A couple of hours after my planned bedtime I finally gave up and just added a couple of other items to the cart to get the total over the $100 needed to avoid a shopper fee, and headed for bed. For the second day in a row I got less than five hours of sleep, and then had to go out and do stuff. When picking up the order at Safeway I asked if the Friday sale prices were available to online customers and found out they weren't. Well, that would have been a useful bit of information for their chat room employees to have had. It could have saved me and them a lot of wasted time.
Anyway, the other stores (one of which has a single-day sale on Mondays and has no problem giving the sale price to online customers) were fine, and the one I had to go into because they don't have curbside pickup service wasn't as crowded as I'd expected. In fact for the start of a holiday weekend things were quite placid. I think maybe a whole bunch of people have gone out of town for the holiday. I certainly can't blame them. Almost anywhere is a more pleasant place to be in summer than the mini-metropolis and its sweltering region.
A mouse glitch I overlooked is the most likely culprit responsible for the fact that Safeway sold me two packages of donuts rather than the single package I thought I'd ordered. I'll have to gorge on them now, as they go stale pretty fast. The mouse sometimes sends multiple commands, but I usually catch it and correct it when filling my online cart, but I must have overlooked the donut mistake. It might have been the mouse that failed to order the pen I thought I'd ordered, too, as it does sometimes end no signal at all, and by the time I ordered the pen I was pretty punchy and probably wasn't paying enough attention. It's unfortunate, as I have three unusable pens and the one pen that works is very nearly out of ink. If I don't get a new one soon I'll be reduced to writing my checks (yes, I still write checks) in pencil.
Today begins five days of highs in the mere eighties, which is about as close as we get to a respite in the central valley in July. Better yet, the nights will all have lows in the high fifties, which is as close as we get to heaven in the central valley in July. In fact if Hell were a real place I suspect that Chicoans who died and went there in summer would probably thing they had gone to heaven. At least until they heard the banjo, bagpipe and accordion trios.
Well, I'm totally worn out and way short of sleep, so I'm going to go to bed early tonight. Half past two is quite early for me. I'll go as soon as I give one last listen to one of my favorite sweaty summer songs, the late Chris Whitley's sultry "Poison Girl." I'm pretty sure a murder takes place near the end of this video, but it's ambiguous.
A couple of hours after my planned bedtime I finally gave up and just added a couple of other items to the cart to get the total over the $100 needed to avoid a shopper fee, and headed for bed. For the second day in a row I got less than five hours of sleep, and then had to go out and do stuff. When picking up the order at Safeway I asked if the Friday sale prices were available to online customers and found out they weren't. Well, that would have been a useful bit of information for their chat room employees to have had. It could have saved me and them a lot of wasted time.
Anyway, the other stores (one of which has a single-day sale on Mondays and has no problem giving the sale price to online customers) were fine, and the one I had to go into because they don't have curbside pickup service wasn't as crowded as I'd expected. In fact for the start of a holiday weekend things were quite placid. I think maybe a whole bunch of people have gone out of town for the holiday. I certainly can't blame them. Almost anywhere is a more pleasant place to be in summer than the mini-metropolis and its sweltering region.
A mouse glitch I overlooked is the most likely culprit responsible for the fact that Safeway sold me two packages of donuts rather than the single package I thought I'd ordered. I'll have to gorge on them now, as they go stale pretty fast. The mouse sometimes sends multiple commands, but I usually catch it and correct it when filling my online cart, but I must have overlooked the donut mistake. It might have been the mouse that failed to order the pen I thought I'd ordered, too, as it does sometimes end no signal at all, and by the time I ordered the pen I was pretty punchy and probably wasn't paying enough attention. It's unfortunate, as I have three unusable pens and the one pen that works is very nearly out of ink. If I don't get a new one soon I'll be reduced to writing my checks (yes, I still write checks) in pencil.
Today begins five days of highs in the mere eighties, which is about as close as we get to a respite in the central valley in July. Better yet, the nights will all have lows in the high fifties, which is as close as we get to heaven in the central valley in July. In fact if Hell were a real place I suspect that Chicoans who died and went there in summer would probably thing they had gone to heaven. At least until they heard the banjo, bagpipe and accordion trios.
Well, I'm totally worn out and way short of sleep, so I'm going to go to bed early tonight. Half past two is quite early for me. I'll go as soon as I give one last listen to one of my favorite sweaty summer songs, the late Chris Whitley's sultry "Poison Girl." I'm pretty sure a murder takes place near the end of this video, but it's ambiguous.
