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Aug. 17th, 2007 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI definitely have Delia's cold. For the first couple of days, I held onto the hope that it was lack of sleep or seasonal allergies, but I'm convinced now. I'm not as sick as she was, but I am dragging. Poor Delia. She's energetic and eager to be out and doing things while her mother wants to sit quietly and nurse her sore throat and irritated lungs in hopes of avoiding setting off her asthma. I haven't figured out how to explain this to a four year old in a way that gets through the but-I-want barrier. She genuinely doesn't understand that my feeling dreadful can trump her desire for things.
I probably ought to take her for a run to the grocery store this afternoon. I don't much want to, but the neighborhood potluck is tomorrow, and we've got nothing for it. Scott might be able to pick something up, but right now, I'd say there's at least a fifty-fifty chance that he'll have to work late tonight or early tomorrow. Me and Delia going to the grocery store by bus will be a *lot* easier today than tomorrow when the buses are less frequent. Also, tomorrow, we have to fit in a trip to the library to return her DVDs.
Although, come to think of it, I don't have any holds to pick up. We could return her books and DVDs to the branch near the grocery store. We usually go downtown because the bus schedule's easier for me to remember in that direction and because the facility is better, but if we're going to the grocery store anyway, Delia can get new books and DVDs at the branch just as easily.
I need to check to see where that branch library's moving to. I know it's moving soon, within the next year or two, but I can't remember where it's going or how it relates to the bus route. I think the new location will be a lot less convenient for us, but my understanding is that the facilities will be a lot better. The current location is tiny, with every crammed into a smallish storefront in a mall.
Hm... I managed to dig up information on the new branch. I can't say I'm really keen on the location. I think it's still on the bus route (translating the bus system's posted maps to maps of the area done by anyone else is an exercise in hitting oneself repeatedly with a large rock as the bus maps leave out streets and straighten out twists in the route and otherwise elide things. The bus company's website has an automated ride planner that works all of 25% of the time for destinations I want. The ride planner doesn't acknowledge the existence of the intersection where the new branch will be located even though the #1 bus seems to go right by it).
I don't know if we'll use the new branch at all because I can't tell from the maps how busy the street is right there, how far it is to the nearest light or the state (or existence or non-existence of) the sidewalks in the area. Traveling alone, I might risk ending up somewhere where I can't get to the return bus without either injuring myself by walking too far (more than 0.25 miles) or risking death by crossing without a light (since part of my vision problems includes not being able to reliably gauge the speed of oncoming traffic unless I extremely familiar with the road), but I won't do it with Delia along. I'd pay to subscribe to any map service that reliably gave me all of those things, especially if it updated several times a year.
I probably ought to take her for a run to the grocery store this afternoon. I don't much want to, but the neighborhood potluck is tomorrow, and we've got nothing for it. Scott might be able to pick something up, but right now, I'd say there's at least a fifty-fifty chance that he'll have to work late tonight or early tomorrow. Me and Delia going to the grocery store by bus will be a *lot* easier today than tomorrow when the buses are less frequent. Also, tomorrow, we have to fit in a trip to the library to return her DVDs.
Although, come to think of it, I don't have any holds to pick up. We could return her books and DVDs to the branch near the grocery store. We usually go downtown because the bus schedule's easier for me to remember in that direction and because the facility is better, but if we're going to the grocery store anyway, Delia can get new books and DVDs at the branch just as easily.
I need to check to see where that branch library's moving to. I know it's moving soon, within the next year or two, but I can't remember where it's going or how it relates to the bus route. I think the new location will be a lot less convenient for us, but my understanding is that the facilities will be a lot better. The current location is tiny, with every crammed into a smallish storefront in a mall.
Hm... I managed to dig up information on the new branch. I can't say I'm really keen on the location. I think it's still on the bus route (translating the bus system's posted maps to maps of the area done by anyone else is an exercise in hitting oneself repeatedly with a large rock as the bus maps leave out streets and straighten out twists in the route and otherwise elide things. The bus company's website has an automated ride planner that works all of 25% of the time for destinations I want. The ride planner doesn't acknowledge the existence of the intersection where the new branch will be located even though the #1 bus seems to go right by it).
I don't know if we'll use the new branch at all because I can't tell from the maps how busy the street is right there, how far it is to the nearest light or the state (or existence or non-existence of) the sidewalks in the area. Traveling alone, I might risk ending up somewhere where I can't get to the return bus without either injuring myself by walking too far (more than 0.25 miles) or risking death by crossing without a light (since part of my vision problems includes not being able to reliably gauge the speed of oncoming traffic unless I extremely familiar with the road), but I won't do it with Delia along. I'd pay to subscribe to any map service that reliably gave me all of those things, especially if it updated several times a year.
