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Jun. 22nd, 2018 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckThe weekend is, according to Scott, going to be packed. I haven't yet gotten him to make me a list of what needs doing, so I don't know what-- if anything-- I can help with. Right now, the only thing I can come up with is the grocery shopping, and I'll still need him to get me home from that.
I can get there by bus, even with the dozen empty bags. I absolutely can't get home by bus with more than a single bag of stuff, and I need that to weigh less than 15 pounds. The bus trip is long enough to make shuttling impractical, especially in the evening. Weekdays, up until 6 p.m., there's a bus every half hour. After 6 p.m. or during the weekend, there's one an hour. I'm not sure what time service stops altogether any day of the week. It used to be 10 p.m. on weekdays and 6 p.m. on weekends, but I think it's changed.
I think that part of it is that Cordelia's twelve days of driver's ed (M-F from the 18th through the 3rd) are eating his evenings. He has to leave here not all that long after getting home, and the two hour class really isn't enough time for him to feel that coming home makes sense, especially given that last night there was construction up and down Main Street around where the school is. Class ends at 9 p.m., so Scott and Cordelia get home just in time for us all to start getting ready for bed.
Tuesday and Wednesday, he took walks during the class. Tuesday was hot, so he went to Briarwood Mall to walk in air conditioning. Wednesday wasn't nearly so bad, so he walked around the sports campus (the class is very near the University of Michigan stadium). Last night, he and I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to look for a new fitted sheet as one of our old ones has developed holes. I needed to be able to touch samples in order for us to select something because I'm very picky about textures.
I was afraid we'd have to buy a complete set of sheets, but we found two on sale fitted sheets that are close in color to the top sheet and pillowcases from the old set (same manufacturer) and grabbed both of them so we'd have a spare.
That took half an hour, so we went to Whole Foods which is just down the road. Then, as we still had a lot of time, we walked in the park across Washtenaw from Whole Foods (the County Farm Park, I think it's called). There weren't too many bugs, and there are a lot of Ingress portals. We didn't hit all of them because we ran out of time. The portals are well spaced along the trail because a lot of them are exercise stations meant for people to be able to walk between them for long enough to cool down/relax a bit. That meant that the only portal we couldn't hack twice was the one at which we ended our outward trek.
I got about thirty unique hacks out of the trip. Another 900 uniques will get me a gold badge (I need two more gold badges to go up to 12th level. I'm a long way from that in all the possible ones). Getting uniques is hard for me, though, because I don't get out under my own power all that much and because I can't easily identify whether or not I've hacked something before. I'm probably going to have enough points to advance before I have the necessary badges.
I can get there by bus, even with the dozen empty bags. I absolutely can't get home by bus with more than a single bag of stuff, and I need that to weigh less than 15 pounds. The bus trip is long enough to make shuttling impractical, especially in the evening. Weekdays, up until 6 p.m., there's a bus every half hour. After 6 p.m. or during the weekend, there's one an hour. I'm not sure what time service stops altogether any day of the week. It used to be 10 p.m. on weekdays and 6 p.m. on weekends, but I think it's changed.
I think that part of it is that Cordelia's twelve days of driver's ed (M-F from the 18th through the 3rd) are eating his evenings. He has to leave here not all that long after getting home, and the two hour class really isn't enough time for him to feel that coming home makes sense, especially given that last night there was construction up and down Main Street around where the school is. Class ends at 9 p.m., so Scott and Cordelia get home just in time for us all to start getting ready for bed.
Tuesday and Wednesday, he took walks during the class. Tuesday was hot, so he went to Briarwood Mall to walk in air conditioning. Wednesday wasn't nearly so bad, so he walked around the sports campus (the class is very near the University of Michigan stadium). Last night, he and I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond to look for a new fitted sheet as one of our old ones has developed holes. I needed to be able to touch samples in order for us to select something because I'm very picky about textures.
I was afraid we'd have to buy a complete set of sheets, but we found two on sale fitted sheets that are close in color to the top sheet and pillowcases from the old set (same manufacturer) and grabbed both of them so we'd have a spare.
That took half an hour, so we went to Whole Foods which is just down the road. Then, as we still had a lot of time, we walked in the park across Washtenaw from Whole Foods (the County Farm Park, I think it's called). There weren't too many bugs, and there are a lot of Ingress portals. We didn't hit all of them because we ran out of time. The portals are well spaced along the trail because a lot of them are exercise stations meant for people to be able to walk between them for long enough to cool down/relax a bit. That meant that the only portal we couldn't hack twice was the one at which we ended our outward trek.
I got about thirty unique hacks out of the trip. Another 900 uniques will get me a gold badge (I need two more gold badges to go up to 12th level. I'm a long way from that in all the possible ones). Getting uniques is hard for me, though, because I don't get out under my own power all that much and because I can't easily identify whether or not I've hacked something before. I'm probably going to have enough points to advance before I have the necessary badges.
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Date: 2018-06-23 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-06-23 05:50 pm (UTC)It also means that we don't get to look at, say, bags of baby carrots and pick the least water-logged or to decide that the gala apples look terrible and, possibly, granny smiths might be preferable.
It doesn't let us check whether or not the ingredients on items have changed since the last time we bought something (this happens a lot) to include things that will make one or the other of us extremely sick. I have problems with a lot of trace ingredients.
It also doesn't let us see something that we didn't know existed and decide to try it or notice something we need but that I'd missed putting on the list or to say, 'Oh, there's a one day sale on bagels. Those freeze well,' or 'No blueberry bagels. What else do they have that Cordelia would eat?'
We wouldn't be able to allow substitutions, either, so most weeks we just wouldn't get certain items at all and would have to go in anyway to find safe alternatives.
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Date: 2018-06-23 09:55 pm (UTC)But, as I said, I haven't tried it; I'm just an interested bystander at this point.
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Date: 2018-06-23 09:56 pm (UTC)