15 January 2021: A Day in the Life of...
Yesterday I sailed through time and space in my comfortable, snug space ship. That is not, generally, a good idea. I could have walked circles around the peninsula that separates my kitchen from my living room/office, but I didn't. Reading on my comfy couch, the posts on my LJ, even the dinner I made myself were all the reasons (um...excuses) I
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My condo complex has 3 sets of clustered mailboxes (12 per cluster, 36 units in our complex). Each of these self contained pods has a package box - so if it fits in that box, the mailperson will stuff it in there, and put the key to that box in your small mailbox. If it doesn't fit, or there are more packages than the 3 available package boxes, then USPS will drop the package at my front door.
UPS and Fedex and whoever Amazon is using these days - also just drop things at my front door. It makes me happy that I am at the very *end* of the lane and the way the houses are aligned, you have to walk all the way to the end of the lane and be just about right in front of my house in order to see if there is anything at my doorstep - so far I haven't had anything disappear before I can retrieve it!
So far this week, my package haul has been
Wednesday - a HDMI to VGA adapter for the work laptop (which turned out to not work for that laptop)
Thursday - a "miniport" to VGA adapter for the work laptop (which ALSO turned out not to work for that computer...)
Friday - two new sets of paintbrushes just arrived - I'm quite excited by this :D
I only check my mailbox every few days - today was one such day, and I had
- a card from my health provider describing all the ways in which they can sell my personal information
- an envelope with my 401k statement inside it
- 2 catalogs from purveyors of plus size clothing, which I perused and then recycled
- flyers from the local grocery stores, which I perused and then recycled
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You are lucky in the location of your house: your deliveries aren't obvious and blinking "Want me? Come get me." That isn't a problem now that I'm in an apartment, but for the decades I lived in a row houses that fronted on a busy streets, I often thought how disappointed any thief would be. Size 1X women's clothing, thyroid-replacement pills and blood pressure medication, with the occasional book they wouldn't want to read***: what ever they took would end up in the nearest trash can, I'm sure. FanSee
***Even my family call my reading choices, "Nancy books." That is not a compliment.
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