Wee Hours Shopping
We once again did a grocery trip to Reno in the wee hours of Saturday morning. I got up two hours before my usual alarm time, and we managed to get to WinCo (the large 24-hour grocery store in Reno) about 3:30 AM. It was less busy than it had been last weekend when we did this two hours later or so. We were pleased to see that most of the staff were still wearing masks, despite Nevada lifting statewide mask mandates. The handful of other customers were mostly maskless, though.
With fewer people in the store, we were able to get our groceries pretty quickly and get out, and were back home before 5 AM. We put the groceries away, Lisa got ready for bed (she's been mostly sleeping days), I got breakfast from the Wigwam, then went to work on a project. I had a CanSMOF board of directors meeting scheduled later in the morning as well. A long nap in the afternoon was not a surprise.
The main drawback to these trips to skip the crowds is that there's only the one 24-hour grocery store (two locations in Reno). There are several other stores that sell things that we can't get at WinCo - Raley's and Scolari's - and they aren't open around the clock. So eventually we'll have to make a trip at a somewhat more "normal" hour.
We don't really need to go shopping weekly. Lisa says it's comforting to know that we have weeks worth of canned and non-perishable food if necessary. Most perishables we can get in Fernley, and we could go without them if we really had to do so. But as conditions permit, we do try to keep the pantry fully stocked.
The pandemic isn't over. We still don't trust most people, particularly given how close to half the population is unvaccinated and denies that there's a problem, and many of them still think that only Weak People ever get sick, and since they can't see so-called "viruses," they don't really exist, because they were real, you could see them, and then you could shoot them with your guns. So for now, we still have to consider any unmasked person a potential threat to our health, keep wearing our N95 masks, and watch out to see if another booster shot is indicated. I've been not-sick for more than two years now, which is longer than I can remember in my entire life, and I think I like being not-sick.
[Backdated because I forgot to post this on Saturday on account of falling into bed much earlier than usual, for reasons that should be obvious.]
With fewer people in the store, we were able to get our groceries pretty quickly and get out, and were back home before 5 AM. We put the groceries away, Lisa got ready for bed (she's been mostly sleeping days), I got breakfast from the Wigwam, then went to work on a project. I had a CanSMOF board of directors meeting scheduled later in the morning as well. A long nap in the afternoon was not a surprise.
The main drawback to these trips to skip the crowds is that there's only the one 24-hour grocery store (two locations in Reno). There are several other stores that sell things that we can't get at WinCo - Raley's and Scolari's - and they aren't open around the clock. So eventually we'll have to make a trip at a somewhat more "normal" hour.
We don't really need to go shopping weekly. Lisa says it's comforting to know that we have weeks worth of canned and non-perishable food if necessary. Most perishables we can get in Fernley, and we could go without them if we really had to do so. But as conditions permit, we do try to keep the pantry fully stocked.
The pandemic isn't over. We still don't trust most people, particularly given how close to half the population is unvaccinated and denies that there's a problem, and many of them still think that only Weak People ever get sick, and since they can't see so-called "viruses," they don't really exist, because they were real, you could see them, and then you could shoot them with your guns. So for now, we still have to consider any unmasked person a potential threat to our health, keep wearing our N95 masks, and watch out to see if another booster shot is indicated. I've been not-sick for more than two years now, which is longer than I can remember in my entire life, and I think I like being not-sick.
[Backdated because I forgot to post this on Saturday on account of falling into bed much earlier than usual, for reasons that should be obvious.]