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Aug. 22nd, 2016 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI didn’t have a headache when I woke up about an hour ago, but I do now. I really don’t know what’s going on with that. I can think of a couple of anxiety things that might have an impact, but I wouldn’t think either would do this.
Scott and Cordelia ended up going to two different Verizon stores because the store Scott prefers was too busy to serve them. They stopped there then went to Target for shoes, came back then went to Pizza Hut for lunch, came back and, finally, gave up and went to a different store.
The Pizza Hut visit was apparently truly terrible. Scott says that, although only one table in the place was occupied, the staff took more than five minutes to seat him and Cordelia. They also told Scott that the only way they could do spinach on a pizza was to pile raw spinach on the pizza after it was done. They claimed that the health code doesn’t allow them to bake a pizza with spinach on it. We get pizza with spinach on it all the time from other places, so WTH? Somehow, I don’t think that all of the other pizza places are violating the health code. I think they only stayed because the place was right by the Verizon store.
Cordelia now has two new pairs of gym shoes. I think Scott said one is her current size and one is a size up. I’m not sure she’ll grow that much more, but I suppose she might.
We have a new phone plan that folds in all three phones and gives us all unlimited texting and four GB data to share. This is, according to Scott, just a tiny bit cheaper than the old plans which had me and Scott on one and Cordelia on another. Our data usage, for all three of us, is pretty much always just a tiny bit over two GB, so four should be more than enough unless one of us starts wandering around, streaming video with no wifi. Or, I suppose, if Cordelia starts playing Pokemon Go seventeen hours a day…
It was a bit after 4:00 when Scott and Cordelia got back here to pick me up. I checked myself and Cordelia in at Great Clips on my phone while we were on the way. Our trims ended up taking about five minutes each, and I don’t think we waited longer than five minutes. I am glad I checked in online because about eight people came in after us who hadn’t done that. I felt a little sorry for the Great Clips employees given that there was no way they were going to get everyone taken care of by closing time (5:00). One of the employees did say that they stop adding people to the list at about 4:50 but take everyone who’s there by then.
Cordelia and I walked from Great Clips to Kroger and caught up with Scott. We were home and had the groceries put away by about 5:15, so we had plenty of time for the library. Unsurprisingly, a hold for me came in right after we’d left the library. I’m currently trying to decide whether or not I want it enough to try to get down there before it expires on Saturday. At the current moment, I’m leaning toward not, but I’ll check with Scott this evening as to what his week looks like. I’m more likely to go there if he takes me than if I have to take the bus.
Scott and I watched a Marx Brothers movie last night. He remembers those very fondly from childhood. They’re not the sort of thing he’d normally watch now, but he’s very enthusiastic about them. I’m not sure which ones I’ve seen, and I’m pretty sure that I didn’t pay much attention to the ones I watched as a teenager. We have a set of five Marx Brothers movies from the library.
We also watched some of season one of The Flash with Cordelia. That’s a little frustrating because she will suddenly decide, in the middle of an episode, that she’s no longer interested and expect us to wait to watch the rest of the episode until she’s ready for it. I mainly find that frustrating because the Blu-ray player will lose our place when we turn it off, and if we don’t turn it off, it gives us difficulty in using the TV for anything else. Last night, Cordelia was ready to walk out on an episode with five minutes left, and I insisted that she stick around.
I did very little writing yesterday because I felt like I was thinking through cotton wool. Pushing my way through was just too much work. I managed a couple hundred words, however, so it wasn’t no writing at all. I also spent some time looking at my list of potential fic titles to see if anything jumped out as the right title for the Iddy Iddy Bang Bang fic. I didn’t find anything that I thought was perfect, but I noted about a dozen options and then started eliminating the ones that really didn’t fit after all. I’ve got seven possibilities left, and I think at least two are too on the nose.
I got up earlier than I would normally because I’m expecting someone from UPS to come by to pick up that CD that wouldn’t play in order to ship it back to Amazon. I was pretty sure that, if I got up early, they wouldn’t come until late in the day but that, if I slept in, they’d arrive at 8:00 on the dot. I’d like to shower, too, but don’t dare until Cordelia’s up (though they won’t take the package from anyone under the age of eighteen, so I probably shouldn’t even then). I’d also like to take a walk because it’s in the 50s outside right now. That’s not likely to happen again any time soon.
Scott and Cordelia ended up going to two different Verizon stores because the store Scott prefers was too busy to serve them. They stopped there then went to Target for shoes, came back then went to Pizza Hut for lunch, came back and, finally, gave up and went to a different store.
The Pizza Hut visit was apparently truly terrible. Scott says that, although only one table in the place was occupied, the staff took more than five minutes to seat him and Cordelia. They also told Scott that the only way they could do spinach on a pizza was to pile raw spinach on the pizza after it was done. They claimed that the health code doesn’t allow them to bake a pizza with spinach on it. We get pizza with spinach on it all the time from other places, so WTH? Somehow, I don’t think that all of the other pizza places are violating the health code. I think they only stayed because the place was right by the Verizon store.
Cordelia now has two new pairs of gym shoes. I think Scott said one is her current size and one is a size up. I’m not sure she’ll grow that much more, but I suppose she might.
We have a new phone plan that folds in all three phones and gives us all unlimited texting and four GB data to share. This is, according to Scott, just a tiny bit cheaper than the old plans which had me and Scott on one and Cordelia on another. Our data usage, for all three of us, is pretty much always just a tiny bit over two GB, so four should be more than enough unless one of us starts wandering around, streaming video with no wifi. Or, I suppose, if Cordelia starts playing Pokemon Go seventeen hours a day…
It was a bit after 4:00 when Scott and Cordelia got back here to pick me up. I checked myself and Cordelia in at Great Clips on my phone while we were on the way. Our trims ended up taking about five minutes each, and I don’t think we waited longer than five minutes. I am glad I checked in online because about eight people came in after us who hadn’t done that. I felt a little sorry for the Great Clips employees given that there was no way they were going to get everyone taken care of by closing time (5:00). One of the employees did say that they stop adding people to the list at about 4:50 but take everyone who’s there by then.
Cordelia and I walked from Great Clips to Kroger and caught up with Scott. We were home and had the groceries put away by about 5:15, so we had plenty of time for the library. Unsurprisingly, a hold for me came in right after we’d left the library. I’m currently trying to decide whether or not I want it enough to try to get down there before it expires on Saturday. At the current moment, I’m leaning toward not, but I’ll check with Scott this evening as to what his week looks like. I’m more likely to go there if he takes me than if I have to take the bus.
Scott and I watched a Marx Brothers movie last night. He remembers those very fondly from childhood. They’re not the sort of thing he’d normally watch now, but he’s very enthusiastic about them. I’m not sure which ones I’ve seen, and I’m pretty sure that I didn’t pay much attention to the ones I watched as a teenager. We have a set of five Marx Brothers movies from the library.
We also watched some of season one of The Flash with Cordelia. That’s a little frustrating because she will suddenly decide, in the middle of an episode, that she’s no longer interested and expect us to wait to watch the rest of the episode until she’s ready for it. I mainly find that frustrating because the Blu-ray player will lose our place when we turn it off, and if we don’t turn it off, it gives us difficulty in using the TV for anything else. Last night, Cordelia was ready to walk out on an episode with five minutes left, and I insisted that she stick around.
I did very little writing yesterday because I felt like I was thinking through cotton wool. Pushing my way through was just too much work. I managed a couple hundred words, however, so it wasn’t no writing at all. I also spent some time looking at my list of potential fic titles to see if anything jumped out as the right title for the Iddy Iddy Bang Bang fic. I didn’t find anything that I thought was perfect, but I noted about a dozen options and then started eliminating the ones that really didn’t fit after all. I’ve got seven possibilities left, and I think at least two are too on the nose.
I got up earlier than I would normally because I’m expecting someone from UPS to come by to pick up that CD that wouldn’t play in order to ship it back to Amazon. I was pretty sure that, if I got up early, they wouldn’t come until late in the day but that, if I slept in, they’d arrive at 8:00 on the dot. I’d like to shower, too, but don’t dare until Cordelia’s up (though they won’t take the package from anyone under the age of eighteen, so I probably shouldn’t even then). I’d also like to take a walk because it’s in the 50s outside right now. That’s not likely to happen again any time soon.
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Date: 2016-08-22 09:48 pm (UTC)The mister does that with television shows and sometimes I have to put my foot down. How can they just walk away? Don't they need to know how the episode ends right this minute (like I do)? Frustrating.
Our library charges us a dollar if we just let a hold expire but if we know we're not going to be able to pick it up we can cancel the hold and not get charged.
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Date: 2016-08-22 11:32 pm (UTC)Our library doesn't charge for holds not picked up. I'm not sure why they don't because it would make sense to. Holds involve extra work for the staff and keep items out of circulation longer. I could especially see it for something with a long waitlist (as opposed to something with six other copies, none checked out).
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Date: 2016-08-22 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-22 11:28 pm (UTC)