Shop-ping!
Feb. 20th, 2011 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogI actually spent more time on errands in various retail establishments in the past two days than I usually do during the course of an entire week. Weekend schmeekend.
Yesterday: after picking up the prop for today's children's sermon at Toys R Us, first stop was at the Transit-Klein Wegmans for lunch, since I was going to the adjacent AT&T store to see if Eleanor's phone could be resuscitated. No, it couldn't, and I found out that her March-somethingth date for an upgrade is somewhat cast in stone. Fortunately, my customer service representative Marlo (how could I not love someone with ThatGirl Name?) tipped me off to a much less expensive alternative: Go to Walmart or Best Buy, get a prepaid phone, don't buy any minutes, and just put your wife's SIM card in it and it'll work fine!
Much as I resisted a second-in-a-month journey to Wally World, I needed to kill 20 minutes before I could get my hair cut before looking like a long-haired Commie-type pinko something at church today, so I shot across Transit to the local Chinese Embassy to see what they had. They had few prepaid phones and way less customer service, is what; and I left empty-phoned. I resolved, though, to try the other retail choice after trying to pick up the Next Book On My List from the Elmwood Avenue library branch that had the only remaining copy north of Orchard Park.
Emphasis on "had," since it had just been checked out by the time I got there. Oh well: I stopped at the next-nearest Best Buy and got Eleanor a perfectly functional new phone, with no new contract, for a ridiculously little amount of money compared to the penalty payments for getting one with a contract; got the grocery list filled at the Wegmans on the way between there and here; and restocked the wine cellar before finally returning home. Three outta four ain't bad:)
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That got us to this afternoon.
Eleanor had made a Farmers and Artisans run, but we still needed milk, so I stopped at my third Weggies in just over 24 hours for that on the way to the gym. This, though, is when I realized that I'd sailed out without anything to read at the gym, so I said, fine, skwoo it, and headed to the book section to just buy a paperback of Sarah's Key.
On the way, though, I had to get one more reference in to Broken, since I haven't mentioned it here in, what, a week?
That is not the correct Broken- but it came as rather a shock that there's a NYT bestseller out by the same name.
Sadly, one aisle over, there was an even more disturbing use of the verb:
The good news here is, I was NOT the customer who upended the display copy of the damn thing. Not that his disciples will notice, seeing how most of them, probably, can't read at more than a third-grade level:P
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Gym was lovely, with Sarah's Key in my sight and Lucy Kaplansky's first two albums in my ears. Dinner was Mostly Leftly-Overlys, which were just as lovely. Tomorrow is a no-mail, no-bank, catch-up kinda day. Life is plenty sweet:)
Yesterday: after picking up the prop for today's children's sermon at Toys R Us, first stop was at the Transit-Klein Wegmans for lunch, since I was going to the adjacent AT&T store to see if Eleanor's phone could be resuscitated. No, it couldn't, and I found out that her March-somethingth date for an upgrade is somewhat cast in stone. Fortunately, my customer service representative Marlo (how could I not love someone with That
Much as I resisted a second-in-a-month journey to Wally World, I needed to kill 20 minutes before I could get my hair cut before looking like a long-haired Commie-type pinko something at church today, so I shot across Transit to the local Chinese Embassy to see what they had. They had few prepaid phones and way less customer service, is what; and I left empty-phoned. I resolved, though, to try the other retail choice after trying to pick up the Next Book On My List from the Elmwood Avenue library branch that had the only remaining copy north of Orchard Park.
Emphasis on "had," since it had just been checked out by the time I got there. Oh well: I stopped at the next-nearest Best Buy and got Eleanor a perfectly functional new phone, with no new contract, for a ridiculously little amount of money compared to the penalty payments for getting one with a contract; got the grocery list filled at the Wegmans on the way between there and here; and restocked the wine cellar before finally returning home. Three outta four ain't bad:)
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That got us to this afternoon.
Eleanor had made a Farmers and Artisans run, but we still needed milk, so I stopped at my third Weggies in just over 24 hours for that on the way to the gym. This, though, is when I realized that I'd sailed out without anything to read at the gym, so I said, fine, skwoo it, and headed to the book section to just buy a paperback of Sarah's Key.
On the way, though, I had to get one more reference in to Broken, since I haven't mentioned it here in, what, a week?
That is not the correct Broken- but it came as rather a shock that there's a NYT bestseller out by the same name.
Sadly, one aisle over, there was an even more disturbing use of the verb:
The good news here is, I was NOT the customer who upended the display copy of the damn thing. Not that his disciples will notice, seeing how most of them, probably, can't read at more than a third-grade level:P
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Gym was lovely, with Sarah's Key in my sight and Lucy Kaplansky's first two albums in my ears. Dinner was Mostly Leftly-Overlys, which were just as lovely. Tomorrow is a no-mail, no-bank, catch-up kinda day. Life is plenty sweet:)
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Date: 2011-02-21 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-22 05:09 pm (UTC)I'm fairly certain that Hickey of the Beast is its own, though. ;-)
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Date: 2011-02-22 05:16 pm (UTC)Q. This singer-songwriter, who had one of the biggest hits of the early 70s, broke on to the scene with a debut album entitled "Tapestry." Name the artist.
A. That would be Don McLean, although most of the world blinked and missed it until he followed it up with "American Pie." Carole King's debut album was entitled "Writer," and her farrer famouser "Tapestry" came out later.
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Date: 2011-02-22 05:17 pm (UTC)