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Reset Forty-Eight, Day Thirty-Six
Apr. 1st, 2023 05:49 amFriday brought the fetching of groceries, an event that has worked out okay despite some moments of fiascoishness (thanks largely to Safeway.) They appeared to have substituted some donuts I had specifically instructed them (via their own system) not to substitute, and they failed to notice the request in a note (also through their own system) that instructed them what to do in lieu of one of the dumb substitutions their system had proposed. But it turned our they had not substituted the donuts, as they had not charged me for them, so in the end I got a free package of donuts I didn't want instead of the donuts I would gladly have paid for. Sort of a lose-lose situation.
They also didn't have one item tat would have been a great buy, probably because it was such a great buy that they ran out. Since they had not included that item, nor an acceptable substitute for the donuts I needed, my niece went back to the store and filled in those gaps. After she had gone home Safeway called with a mea culpa, namely that they had not given me the complete order. They had failed to pack two items, and I hadn't even noticed, mainly because it was such a big order. I told then I'd be unable to retrieve it myself, and in the end they credited my card for the missing items, which were not an absolutely must have anyway.
Anyway, I do now have everything I need for the next couple of weeks, even though not everything I want, but it's survivable and I'm glad the damned shopping is over for now. The one lingering problem is that I bought a bag of onions, and even though I've got them wrapped inside two plastic grocery bags I can still smell them. I mean serious, silent but deadly onion reek. They are stinking the whole place up. Such a first world problem.
Severe weather has shifted itself entirely out of California for now— assuming this is not nature's April Fool joke— and ensconced itself in the east. We deserve a break, I think. The place will be in flames in just a couple of months, so everyone else's schadenfreude is merely delayed, not canceled. In the meantime, here's a piece of music I think I've poste before, but it seems appropriate now, and it's quite soothing. Our current reality is the east's delightful future.
They also didn't have one item tat would have been a great buy, probably because it was such a great buy that they ran out. Since they had not included that item, nor an acceptable substitute for the donuts I needed, my niece went back to the store and filled in those gaps. After she had gone home Safeway called with a mea culpa, namely that they had not given me the complete order. They had failed to pack two items, and I hadn't even noticed, mainly because it was such a big order. I told then I'd be unable to retrieve it myself, and in the end they credited my card for the missing items, which were not an absolutely must have anyway.
Anyway, I do now have everything I need for the next couple of weeks, even though not everything I want, but it's survivable and I'm glad the damned shopping is over for now. The one lingering problem is that I bought a bag of onions, and even though I've got them wrapped inside two plastic grocery bags I can still smell them. I mean serious, silent but deadly onion reek. They are stinking the whole place up. Such a first world problem.
Severe weather has shifted itself entirely out of California for now— assuming this is not nature's April Fool joke— and ensconced itself in the east. We deserve a break, I think. The place will be in flames in just a couple of months, so everyone else's schadenfreude is merely delayed, not canceled. In the meantime, here's a piece of music I think I've poste before, but it seems appropriate now, and it's quite soothing. Our current reality is the east's delightful future.
