As Ray has noted, I took today off ostensibly to keep a doctor's appointment which then got cancelled.  I decided to still take the day off.  I get kinda worn out sometimes, what with how demanding our customers can be.  Plus my brother's coming tomorrow to visit for the first time in a couple of years, I believe ( Read more... )

I had an extraordinary day yesterday.
Three customers shared personal news with me yesterday.  The first was a woman whose first name I don't know (although I know her daughter's name - Tina).  Mom told me she hadn't been around for a while because her husband died Jun 1.  I listened to her talk about the process, when he went to Hospice, when he ( Read more... )

I've been told by a number of customers that dollar stores have readers.  One low-end pair of them at my employer's cost me sixteen bucks.  Today I got four pair for sixteen bucks.  Wonderful deal ( Read more... )

A young man got a job offer while waiting in line to be cashed out.  A mechanical engineer, he'd been let go from his previous job under circumstances that left a bad taste in his mouth.  I found out the good news when he called a friend while within earshot ( Read more... )

I got to work a little early yesterday, because my last pair of cheap reading glasses had broken, and I needed to get new ones.  I picked them up, along with a couple of things like coleslaw mix, which we sell out of quickly before summer weekends.  The front end was explodingly busy, so I got cashed out at our customer service counter.  I threw ( Read more... )

I asked Ray this morning if, when he's almost finished reading a book, he slows down at all, the way I do sometimes, to savor the last part of it ( Read more... )

We've been hearing for weeks that we're due to get rain, then we don't, and it's getting damn dry around here.  Our neighbors' yards look burnt, as they usually do in August, especially if they insist on mowing them too often or too short ( Read more... )

We arrived at the surgery office right on time yesterday morning.  I checked in at the desk, and I'd barely found a place to sit when the door opened and the nurse, Christine, ushered me in.  She explained everything really well, had me sign some papers, then directed me to change into the hospital gown.  When she came back, she put an IV shunt in ( Read more... )

Did an online JDPower survey about my new car.  Major time suck, which was okay, because I have the day off ( Read more... )

When I got home from work Friday, I was extremely lame, and almost the first thing out of Ray's mouth was "What can I do to help?"  He deboned the chicken we had for dinner, bless his heart.
Ray and I did amazing things in the yard this weekend.  He helped me with weed removal, and I subsequently got almost all of my veggies planted.We watched ( Read more... )