A bit behind on things here
Alright, well it's been a while since I've posted anything on here. I'll try to be better, though I'm not sure it'll really work all that well. So, what's been going on the last couple weeks, you ask? Let me think ;)
Most recently, Mike and I made our way to Walmart to get the last 6 months worth of pictures printed. They must have the slowest uploading machines in existence. 20 minutes later the pictures that had taken less than 2 minutes to load onto the memory card were finally done. Amazingly, despite having over 150 pictures to print, they actually got them finished in the one hour time. I haven't had that happen in a good long time. Usually 1 hour at Walmart means come back in a couple days.
Anyways, on to the madness that is Walmart. There was a pretty constant stream of people going in as we were waiting for our pictures to load, so we were unsurprised when we went inside to find that it was a zoo. People filling pretty much every aisle, lines that filled the area between the tills (not just with one line of people, but with a clump of them). We decided that maybe it wouldn't be waiting in line to purchase anything, and wandered through Marlborough mall for a bit, waiting for the pictures to be ready. After that was all done, we quickly went to Home Sense to pick up some new bath mats since Mairi tried to wash one and made it disintegrate. Not really a normal problem, but it was pretty funny and our dryer is still letting out red lint (it was a really bad bath mat, we replaced it's twin as well to stop the shedding of pink dust all over the bathroom floor).
Okay now, thinking back... Busy week at work. Lots of meetings, some of them were even useful. Incredible really. That almost never happens. On my walk in on Wednesday, I think, the sidewalks were crazy icy. Every bit of sidewalk was covered in a thin layer of ice, you couldn't walk without slipping. I didn't fall, but I witnessed many people sliding, and one or two who took pretty uncomfortable looking spills. I tried to walk on grass as far as I could, and then very carefully when I couldn't.
What else... well, I had Friday off, finally got around to renewing the car license. When I tried to put the new sticker on, it cracked and didn't stick. I think it was partly that it was too cold out, partly that the plate wasn't quite clean enough. There's only so much you can do sitting in a parking lot. Yes, I know I could have gone home, but being so brilliant, that didn't occur to me until after I had destroyed the sticker. So I went inside like the idiot that I was, and fortunately they didn't charge me for a new sticker, just looked at me like I was a moron. Well deserved, really. When the DMV thinks you're an idiot, you know you've done something special.
Lastly, a little rant about stupid drivers. Think about it. Don't change lanes 2 feet in front of someone (i.e. cut them off) when you're going down a hill that is absolutely covered in gravel. They may not appreciate the shower you send their way, particularly when the lane change was entirely to weave in and out of traffic to get somewhere 2 minutes faster, not because you actually needed to be in their lane. Yeesh...
That's all for now. I'll try to update more frequently from now on so that I don't have these marathon rants going on.
Most recently, Mike and I made our way to Walmart to get the last 6 months worth of pictures printed. They must have the slowest uploading machines in existence. 20 minutes later the pictures that had taken less than 2 minutes to load onto the memory card were finally done. Amazingly, despite having over 150 pictures to print, they actually got them finished in the one hour time. I haven't had that happen in a good long time. Usually 1 hour at Walmart means come back in a couple days.
Anyways, on to the madness that is Walmart. There was a pretty constant stream of people going in as we were waiting for our pictures to load, so we were unsurprised when we went inside to find that it was a zoo. People filling pretty much every aisle, lines that filled the area between the tills (not just with one line of people, but with a clump of them). We decided that maybe it wouldn't be waiting in line to purchase anything, and wandered through Marlborough mall for a bit, waiting for the pictures to be ready. After that was all done, we quickly went to Home Sense to pick up some new bath mats since Mairi tried to wash one and made it disintegrate. Not really a normal problem, but it was pretty funny and our dryer is still letting out red lint (it was a really bad bath mat, we replaced it's twin as well to stop the shedding of pink dust all over the bathroom floor).
Okay now, thinking back... Busy week at work. Lots of meetings, some of them were even useful. Incredible really. That almost never happens. On my walk in on Wednesday, I think, the sidewalks were crazy icy. Every bit of sidewalk was covered in a thin layer of ice, you couldn't walk without slipping. I didn't fall, but I witnessed many people sliding, and one or two who took pretty uncomfortable looking spills. I tried to walk on grass as far as I could, and then very carefully when I couldn't.
What else... well, I had Friday off, finally got around to renewing the car license. When I tried to put the new sticker on, it cracked and didn't stick. I think it was partly that it was too cold out, partly that the plate wasn't quite clean enough. There's only so much you can do sitting in a parking lot. Yes, I know I could have gone home, but being so brilliant, that didn't occur to me until after I had destroyed the sticker. So I went inside like the idiot that I was, and fortunately they didn't charge me for a new sticker, just looked at me like I was a moron. Well deserved, really. When the DMV thinks you're an idiot, you know you've done something special.
Lastly, a little rant about stupid drivers. Think about it. Don't change lanes 2 feet in front of someone (i.e. cut them off) when you're going down a hill that is absolutely covered in gravel. They may not appreciate the shower you send their way, particularly when the lane change was entirely to weave in and out of traffic to get somewhere 2 minutes faster, not because you actually needed to be in their lane. Yeesh...
That's all for now. I'll try to update more frequently from now on so that I don't have these marathon rants going on.
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