A good productive day.
Apr. 1st, 2007 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreAnd to think all we set out to get was a labeling machine..
Typical weekend morning here at Offhand Manor. I "slept in" until about 0800, Kiri a few hours later. Screwed up a perfectly good game of Nethack. We decided to take the bag of cans over to the recycling place and then get food.
We picked the right time to hit the recyclers.. the place was nearly empty. Got $26 for the cans (which went in my wallet.. hey, I drank most of them!) and headed off for Denny's. We picked the wrong time to go to Denny's - caught the tail end of the church surge. Still, lunch was good. Kiri saw an ad for a radio/cd player at Fry's; off to the pyramid for us!
Where we saw that the featured item was crappy, everything else was way-over priced, and the service was down to Fry's usual lack of standards. We did find a couple of things (a new alarm clock, a book on the Martian rovers, and some batteries for my PalmPilot) There was one odd thing...
For the past couple of days, I've been dealing with some slight intestinal irregularities. Suffice to say there have been a couple of times when I needed to get to a restroom quickly. This happened at Fry's.
I race off to the men's room, only to find a couple of Asian men in suits washing their hands. Excessively. This bathroom had two urinals and three stalls. The urinals were free, but all three stalls had men standing in them, flushing repeatedly! Hello, we're about to declare a drought alert - stop wasting our water! And I don't care how big your bladder is, it does not take three minutes to piss!
Seriously, I was about to do something I hadn't done since I was three. When I get angry, my southern accent come out. "If all y'all need to do is piss, use the goddamn urinals! One of y'all vacate before I shit on your shoes!" The guys who were washing their hands (still!) looked at me like I hadn't been there before, and one of the stalls opened and a guy peeked out. "You! Out! Now! You Are Finished!" I shoved past him, slammed the door, and finally got some relief. This set them all to jabbering (from what I heard, I'd guess they were Japanese.. it sounded like I was listening to Iron Chef.) When I got out of the stall, the other two were still occupied, and still being flushed every fifteen seconds!
OK, I hope none of you were eating for that little adventure. Anyway, free of Fry's (after dealing with the time-shifted cashier. Poor man was moving at a much slower rate than the rest of us) we decided to "go to Cost Plus and look at outrageously priced furniture we have no intention of buying." (100 points for identifying the source, which character said it, and the store/item he was talking about in the strip.)
Going back to the store was weird. I almost started straightening things a few times, and almost headed for the registers when someone called a "Service 20" (next cashier needed) over the PA. We did get some good ideas for changing our decor from Early College Student (a collection by the famous Belgian designer Han D. Medown) to Vaguely Asian. Replace the ass-eating leather couch with a futon, get rid of the damn shelving unit Bill and Charles left us with and finally bring up the TV cabinet from the garage (after spraying it with Raid, nerve gas, and Orders to Quit Premises on the 8 billion spiders currently living in it.) Remove the desk we got on Freecycle (by freecycling it, how else?) and replace it with a papasan chair for me. Maybe a screen or something to cover up the big empty wall. Kirsten wants to get us a couple of laptops and use the tower PC as a home base sort of affair. Works for me. We got a lot of good ideas there and the amazing thing is they aren't all pipe dreams this time!
All in time, of course. We have to dig out the apartment first. We're making progress there, and I've established an "eBay/Craigslist/Freecycle" box. I foresee a lot of my older gaming material going in there. I've really been holding onto some pieces out of stubbornness, and they need to go. Same with many of our books. Any number of them can be donated to the library or Goodwill.
Back to the day, our last stop was RiteAid where we found a better stereo system for Kiri's office, the labeling system we set out for in the first place, and I grabbed my work sodas for the next week (I grab the 20oz Coke bottles, taking two a day. That, and a big bottle of water keeps me happy.)
Just brought up a load of laundry.. socks, underwear, and t-shirts. Some days I like having Aramark cleaning my work uniforms. Less work for me. Clothing, that's another area that needs serious culling.. (makes a note.) Finally, I've accomplished my Weird Task for the weekend. Looking at iTunes, I noticed that there was a number of songs in My Top Rated that didn't list any plays. The explanation is simple, I mostly use iTunes for my iShuffle, and rate songs based on what I know about them. But this weekend I set the favorites folder to display Play Count from lowest to highest, and started listening. Five more to go!
Typical weekend morning here at Offhand Manor. I "slept in" until about 0800, Kiri a few hours later. Screwed up a perfectly good game of Nethack. We decided to take the bag of cans over to the recycling place and then get food.
We picked the right time to hit the recyclers.. the place was nearly empty. Got $26 for the cans (which went in my wallet.. hey, I drank most of them!) and headed off for Denny's. We picked the wrong time to go to Denny's - caught the tail end of the church surge. Still, lunch was good. Kiri saw an ad for a radio/cd player at Fry's; off to the pyramid for us!
Where we saw that the featured item was crappy, everything else was way-over priced, and the service was down to Fry's usual lack of standards. We did find a couple of things (a new alarm clock, a book on the Martian rovers, and some batteries for my PalmPilot) There was one odd thing...
For the past couple of days, I've been dealing with some slight intestinal irregularities. Suffice to say there have been a couple of times when I needed to get to a restroom quickly. This happened at Fry's.
I race off to the men's room, only to find a couple of Asian men in suits washing their hands. Excessively. This bathroom had two urinals and three stalls. The urinals were free, but all three stalls had men standing in them, flushing repeatedly! Hello, we're about to declare a drought alert - stop wasting our water! And I don't care how big your bladder is, it does not take three minutes to piss!
Seriously, I was about to do something I hadn't done since I was three. When I get angry, my southern accent come out. "If all y'all need to do is piss, use the goddamn urinals! One of y'all vacate before I shit on your shoes!" The guys who were washing their hands (still!) looked at me like I hadn't been there before, and one of the stalls opened and a guy peeked out. "You! Out! Now! You Are Finished!" I shoved past him, slammed the door, and finally got some relief. This set them all to jabbering (from what I heard, I'd guess they were Japanese.. it sounded like I was listening to Iron Chef.) When I got out of the stall, the other two were still occupied, and still being flushed every fifteen seconds!
OK, I hope none of you were eating for that little adventure. Anyway, free of Fry's (after dealing with the time-shifted cashier. Poor man was moving at a much slower rate than the rest of us) we decided to "go to Cost Plus and look at outrageously priced furniture we have no intention of buying." (100 points for identifying the source, which character said it, and the store/item he was talking about in the strip.)
Going back to the store was weird. I almost started straightening things a few times, and almost headed for the registers when someone called a "Service 20" (next cashier needed) over the PA. We did get some good ideas for changing our decor from Early College Student (a collection by the famous Belgian designer Han D. Medown) to Vaguely Asian. Replace the ass-eating leather couch with a futon, get rid of the damn shelving unit Bill and Charles left us with and finally bring up the TV cabinet from the garage (after spraying it with Raid, nerve gas, and Orders to Quit Premises on the 8 billion spiders currently living in it.) Remove the desk we got on Freecycle (by freecycling it, how else?) and replace it with a papasan chair for me. Maybe a screen or something to cover up the big empty wall. Kirsten wants to get us a couple of laptops and use the tower PC as a home base sort of affair. Works for me. We got a lot of good ideas there and the amazing thing is they aren't all pipe dreams this time!
All in time, of course. We have to dig out the apartment first. We're making progress there, and I've established an "eBay/Craigslist/Freecycle" box. I foresee a lot of my older gaming material going in there. I've really been holding onto some pieces out of stubbornness, and they need to go. Same with many of our books. Any number of them can be donated to the library or Goodwill.
Back to the day, our last stop was RiteAid where we found a better stereo system for Kiri's office, the labeling system we set out for in the first place, and I grabbed my work sodas for the next week (I grab the 20oz Coke bottles, taking two a day. That, and a big bottle of water keeps me happy.)
Just brought up a load of laundry.. socks, underwear, and t-shirts. Some days I like having Aramark cleaning my work uniforms. Less work for me. Clothing, that's another area that needs serious culling.. (makes a note.) Finally, I've accomplished my Weird Task for the weekend. Looking at iTunes, I noticed that there was a number of songs in My Top Rated that didn't list any plays. The explanation is simple, I mostly use iTunes for my iShuffle, and rate songs based on what I know about them. But this weekend I set the favorites folder to display Play Count from lowest to highest, and started listening. Five more to go!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
Re: Baby Gap?
Date: 2 Apr 2007 12:18 (UTC)