Hot Enough to Fry a Cow On the Sidewalk
I don't know if it got up to 100 today, but it was very hot, and even worse, very humid. Nevertheless, I got quite a bit done. I ran the usual Saturday errands this morning. Checked out a yard sale. They were just selling baby toys, so I moved on to the bank. After I left there, I headed for the Collingswood Farm Market. They were surprisingly busy for such a hot day. I found lots of things I wanted to try - peaches, an ear of corn, tiny apples, tomatoes, blackberries, blueberries, romaine lettuce, perfect purple eggplant, and the first regular-sized plums of the season.
I was sweating buckets when I finally got home. I put everything away, then thought I'd add music to my MP3 player for my visit to the family in Cape May County next weekend. I did manage to delete a bunch of old stuff and add a jazz CD and part of the first disc of the Birds, Bees, and Monkees special edition that I bought in February before I got a strange error that said "This USB Device can Perform Faster if Connected to Hi Speed USB 2.0 Port." I don't know why it said that. It WAS connected to a hi-speed 2.0 port. I checked three times. I rebooted twice and reset twice. Nothing seemed to change.
I got so frustrated, I finally decided to ignore the heat and go out to the mall behind the Acme and see if I could find an MP3 player. I didn't get an MP3 player, but I did finally buy a new pair of cheap sneakers to run errands in from The Shoe Depot and a new purse from Fashion Bug. (The lining on the old one was ripped, and I really wasn't that crazy about it. The handle wasn't nearly long enough, and it wasn't big enough for everything I haul in my handbag when I'm on a trip.) I took a look at MP3 players at Wal Mart and Staples, but I finally decided I'd see if I could do something about the old one.
After I got home, I changed into my bathing suit and went right over to Dad and Uncle Ken's for a swim. Dad's still out of town at a wedding, but Uncle Ken, Dolores, and several neighbors and Dolores' grandchildren Mercedes and Blake were around. I swam with the kids in the pool for a while, playing something called "Cattergories." You name a category (stuffed animals, TV shows), and everyone has to guess something in that category. If the person guesses something someone's picked, they have to chase them. If they make it to the other side, the other person is still it. Mercedes never did get anyone.
After I got home, I made a lovely dinner of steamed yellow squash and zucchini, cucumbers, and cornmeal-battered salmon. Oh, and Lauren helped me figure out what's going on with the computer. I'm going to have to re-install the problematic driver tomorrow.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
It's So Hot, It's Cool
It was a surprisingly nice day today. Very hot, into the 90s, but with a nice wind and no humidity. I did make my library run this morning. I organized the children's DVDs and shelved the adult ones. Also returned How to Murder a Millionaire and X-Men: The Legacy Virus, both of which I did get to finish. I didn't take anything out; I doubt I'll have the time to read much of anything before vacation.
Made quick stops at Rite Aid (their contact lens case was $6.99 - I've seen them cheaper elsewhere) and at WaWa (for a Cherry-Vanilla Coke Zero from their soda fountain) before heading home. Spent the rest of the afternoon adding more music to my MP3 Player and sweeping the porch. (This should do it for the MP3 Player. I left a lot of music on there from last year, so I won't need to spend quite as much time adding albums to it now.)
Work was steady-to-dead, no major problems beyond some obnoxious beginning-of-the-month customers and a lack of help. A frazzled manager told me when I came in that five people called out today, which explains why another manager actually tried to call me in this morning around 11. (No one told her about tonight, apparently.)
It was a surprisingly nice day today. Very hot, into the 90s, but with a nice wind and no humidity. I did make my library run this morning. I organized the children's DVDs and shelved the adult ones. Also returned How to Murder a Millionaire and X-Men: The Legacy Virus, both of which I did get to finish. I didn't take anything out; I doubt I'll have the time to read much of anything before vacation.
Made quick stops at Rite Aid (their contact lens case was $6.99 - I've seen them cheaper elsewhere) and at WaWa (for a Cherry-Vanilla Coke Zero from their soda fountain) before heading home. Spent the rest of the afternoon adding more music to my MP3 Player and sweeping the porch. (This should do it for the MP3 Player. I left a lot of music on there from last year, so I won't need to spend quite as much time adding albums to it now.)
Work was steady-to-dead, no major problems beyond some obnoxious beginning-of-the-month customers and a lack of help. A frazzled manager told me when I came in that five people called out today, which explains why another manager actually tried to call me in this morning around 11. (No one told her about tonight, apparently.)
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Music, Music, Music!
Did my library volunteering this morning. They're getting better at organizing the children's DVDs. Once again, the DVDs were (generally) with the right letter groups, but the DVDs were out of order in the groups. (For instance, some of the Sesame Street DVDs were before Strawberry Shortcake, and Bob the Builder was all over the Bs.) I also rounded up the children's books that were left sitting on the shelves and either put them on display or on the racks for the librarians to put away later. After I left the library, I stopped at Super Fresh quickly for carrots and spinach, then headed home.
I spent the rest of the afternoon working on editing the many short stories Lauren and I have written for the role play in the past few months and filling my new MP3 player for my vacation in two and a half weeks. I know it's early to be thinking of music, but I wanted to fiddle with my MP3 player and see how it works before I go on my trip, instead of putting it off until a couple of days beforehand. I added some more Monkees (we ARE going to see Micky Dolenz at the end of the week), some jazz vocalists, and songs taken from various rock compilations.
I went for a short walk before dinner. It was hotter but windy, not humid, and really gorgeous. I'm so glad the weather's been great this month. August is usually one of the worst months of the year weather-wise, steamy hot and humid, but this August has mostly been one of the loveliest months weather-wise I've ever enjoyed in my life. I made a quick stop at the river at the end of Goff Avenue, then went back around that neighborhood and down Kendall Avenue. I wasn't the only one out and about. Mothers walked their children in strollers. Old people shot the breeze on their porches or stoops. Two teenage girls were chatting away happily on their bikes. I saw a woman walk her huge German Shepard on my way back to my apartment.
Did my library volunteering this morning. They're getting better at organizing the children's DVDs. Once again, the DVDs were (generally) with the right letter groups, but the DVDs were out of order in the groups. (For instance, some of the Sesame Street DVDs were before Strawberry Shortcake, and Bob the Builder was all over the Bs.) I also rounded up the children's books that were left sitting on the shelves and either put them on display or on the racks for the librarians to put away later. After I left the library, I stopped at Super Fresh quickly for carrots and spinach, then headed home.
I spent the rest of the afternoon working on editing the many short stories Lauren and I have written for the role play in the past few months and filling my new MP3 player for my vacation in two and a half weeks. I know it's early to be thinking of music, but I wanted to fiddle with my MP3 player and see how it works before I go on my trip, instead of putting it off until a couple of days beforehand. I added some more Monkees (we ARE going to see Micky Dolenz at the end of the week), some jazz vocalists, and songs taken from various rock compilations.
I went for a short walk before dinner. It was hotter but windy, not humid, and really gorgeous. I'm so glad the weather's been great this month. August is usually one of the worst months of the year weather-wise, steamy hot and humid, but this August has mostly been one of the loveliest months weather-wise I've ever enjoyed in my life. I made a quick stop at the river at the end of Goff Avenue, then went back around that neighborhood and down Kendall Avenue. I wasn't the only one out and about. Mothers walked their children in strollers. Old people shot the breeze on their porches or stoops. Two teenage girls were chatting away happily on their bikes. I saw a woman walk her huge German Shepard on my way back to my apartment.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
A Walk In the Neighborhood
I slept in this morning and spent an hour or so after breakfast adding more music to my new MP3 player and experimenting with arranging songs. I've never really done that before. I did soundtracks today, and the only one I ended up just taking straight off was the soundtrack for the first Back To The Future movie. I only added the vocal numbers from Brother Bear and rearranged the soundtracks for Grease and the Hairspray remake to better reflect the way the songs are actually organized in the films. I also added three songs from the second disk of my two-disc Hairspray movie soundtrack - a ballad that was intended for Tracy when she's hiding in the Pingletons' bomb shelter that was cut, "I Can Wait", and two vocal background numbers, "Breakout" and "Trouble On the Line."
After I did the soundtracks, I decided I needed to just get out and about, so I went for a walk. It was a lovely day, lower-80s and sunny, with no wind. It was warmer than yesterday, but still not nearly as bad as it usually is this time of year. I just walked around the neighborhood, down Manor, down the back roads behind West Clinton, and over to the park/schoolyard. I didn't have enough time to play in the playground this time. I wish I had. It was quiet there and in the park. Everything looked so much better than it did the last time I went for a walk there. Water plants grew in the lake, which no longer had alge in it. Canadian geese feasted on the very green grass on the field behind the school, which no longer looked like one big patch of straw. (And the geese must have scared the bees away. I was wearing sandals again, and this time, I made it across the field with no stung toes.)
Work wasn't nearly as fun. I had plenty of people who were obnoxious and rude, and things just plain didn't go right. One woman kept insisting that the 23 oz boxes of Frosted Flakes she bought were $2.49, even though they came up 5.19. I sent a bagger to check. He said $5.19. I went to see myself. Turns out they WERE on sale...a month ago. The sale had ended in July. Somebody forgot to take the tag down! And not only that tag, but a couple of other Frosted Flake tags on that shelf, too. One was from May! Not only that, but this is the second time in three days an item came up wrong, and a dated tag was to blame. Whomever is putting up tags now really has to be more careful. I gave the lady what she wanted, but it held up a long line and was just plain frustrating. (And it might help if they made the print for the sale expirations on the tags larger, like they used to. I'm sure the customers wouldn't notice it, but the employees might see it quicker.)
Oh, and I finished Get Smart today. Most of Get Smart seems to have aged very well. Spy spoof, movie parodies, and cute, goofy little men who think they're James Bond and are paired with voluptuous and intelligent Mata Haris never go out of style. PC sensitive folks might want to be warned that there are a few Oriental stereotypes here, both negative and somewhat positive (Harry Hoo was so popular he became a semi-recurring character and is a big help to Max, but as with his inspiration Charlie Chan, he's obviously played by a white man). Other than that, this show is still hilarious fun for the whole family, kids too. (My 15-year-old brother Keefe is a big fan of this show. He once told me he used to watch it before school when it ran on TV Land in the early mornings around 2000-2001. He loves Mel Brooks, so this show is right up his alley.)
Favorite episodes from this first season include the black-and-white pilot "Mr. Big" mentioned in a previous entry, the delightfully funny and suspenseful two-parter "Ship of Spies" (the first story handily deserved its Emmy win), and our introduction to lovable Hymie the Robot, "Back to the Old Drawing Board." Ok, so the new box set doesn't have the extras the big full-show set from Time Life did, but it's also 15 to 20 dollars in most places and does have a few commentaries and Barbara Felton's lovely introductions. That's good enough for me. Beyond the Disney Platinum sets, I'm not that big of a fan of extras anyway. I just want to see some shows that don't get re-run nearly as often as they should anymore. (Which is why I try never to buy shows that are still on the air or seen frequently in re-runs on DVD. Same goes for movies unless I really, REALLY like them. If I want to see newer stuff, I can rent it or borrow it from the libraries.)
I slept in this morning and spent an hour or so after breakfast adding more music to my new MP3 player and experimenting with arranging songs. I've never really done that before. I did soundtracks today, and the only one I ended up just taking straight off was the soundtrack for the first Back To The Future movie. I only added the vocal numbers from Brother Bear and rearranged the soundtracks for Grease and the Hairspray remake to better reflect the way the songs are actually organized in the films. I also added three songs from the second disk of my two-disc Hairspray movie soundtrack - a ballad that was intended for Tracy when she's hiding in the Pingletons' bomb shelter that was cut, "I Can Wait", and two vocal background numbers, "Breakout" and "Trouble On the Line."
After I did the soundtracks, I decided I needed to just get out and about, so I went for a walk. It was a lovely day, lower-80s and sunny, with no wind. It was warmer than yesterday, but still not nearly as bad as it usually is this time of year. I just walked around the neighborhood, down Manor, down the back roads behind West Clinton, and over to the park/schoolyard. I didn't have enough time to play in the playground this time. I wish I had. It was quiet there and in the park. Everything looked so much better than it did the last time I went for a walk there. Water plants grew in the lake, which no longer had alge in it. Canadian geese feasted on the very green grass on the field behind the school, which no longer looked like one big patch of straw. (And the geese must have scared the bees away. I was wearing sandals again, and this time, I made it across the field with no stung toes.)
Work wasn't nearly as fun. I had plenty of people who were obnoxious and rude, and things just plain didn't go right. One woman kept insisting that the 23 oz boxes of Frosted Flakes she bought were $2.49, even though they came up 5.19. I sent a bagger to check. He said $5.19. I went to see myself. Turns out they WERE on sale...a month ago. The sale had ended in July. Somebody forgot to take the tag down! And not only that tag, but a couple of other Frosted Flake tags on that shelf, too. One was from May! Not only that, but this is the second time in three days an item came up wrong, and a dated tag was to blame. Whomever is putting up tags now really has to be more careful. I gave the lady what she wanted, but it held up a long line and was just plain frustrating. (And it might help if they made the print for the sale expirations on the tags larger, like they used to. I'm sure the customers wouldn't notice it, but the employees might see it quicker.)
Oh, and I finished Get Smart today. Most of Get Smart seems to have aged very well. Spy spoof, movie parodies, and cute, goofy little men who think they're James Bond and are paired with voluptuous and intelligent Mata Haris never go out of style. PC sensitive folks might want to be warned that there are a few Oriental stereotypes here, both negative and somewhat positive (Harry Hoo was so popular he became a semi-recurring character and is a big help to Max, but as with his inspiration Charlie Chan, he's obviously played by a white man). Other than that, this show is still hilarious fun for the whole family, kids too. (My 15-year-old brother Keefe is a big fan of this show. He once told me he used to watch it before school when it ran on TV Land in the early mornings around 2000-2001. He loves Mel Brooks, so this show is right up his alley.)
Favorite episodes from this first season include the black-and-white pilot "Mr. Big" mentioned in a previous entry, the delightfully funny and suspenseful two-parter "Ship of Spies" (the first story handily deserved its Emmy win), and our introduction to lovable Hymie the Robot, "Back to the Old Drawing Board." Ok, so the new box set doesn't have the extras the big full-show set from Time Life did, but it's also 15 to 20 dollars in most places and does have a few commentaries and Barbara Felton's lovely introductions. That's good enough for me. Beyond the Disney Platinum sets, I'm not that big of a fan of extras anyway. I just want to see some shows that don't get re-run nearly as often as they should anymore. (Which is why I try never to buy shows that are still on the air or seen frequently in re-runs on DVD. Same goes for movies unless I really, REALLY like them. If I want to see newer stuff, I can rent it or borrow it from the libraries.)
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