Thank you State Department Of Transporation

I was coming home back over the bridge from the pool this morning when I spied the traffic alert sign saying there was an event at the stadium at 12:40. ???? Oh Geez! The Mariner game today is a matinee! Well, that mixes things up a bit.

I had planned on a Costco trip today. Outside walk (I park in the farthest spot from the door), inside walk (up and down the aisles in air conditioning) and to test out one of their new hamburgers. But I may rethink or I may go early. Costco is on the other side of the stadium from here so I could get trapped in game traffic but, it's Philadelphia who suck more than we do plus are in the other league that no one cares about and it's a Tuesday afternoon. I'm thinking not that much traffic so I might go anyway. Worst case, I sit in traffic. No biggie.

Somehow I have hurt my hand. Knitting injury? Crochet injury? Sleeping injury? Amazing all the benign ways I can hurt myself. It actually feels better now, it was really bothering me while I was swimming. Maybe I just slept on it wrong.

Latest Duncan Hines Perfect Size for 1 trial - corn muffin. Excellent. I nuked about a tablespoon of bacon bits and then nuked the muffin. Delish. 1 min 30 secs to make it plus coffee. May well be my goto breakfast for a while. Interestingly, Walmart has a much wider selection of these cake mixes at cheaper prices than Amazon. Their $35 free 2-day shipping has caused me to do more Walmart shopping to try out the various flavors (and there are a bunch). I toss in thread, and cat food and other small stuff that I normally buy at Amazon. It's been an interesting experience. Not as smooth or seamless as Amazon but not bad at all. Interesting.

My fancy new Echo comes today and I'm jazzed. The reviews are all about how invasive it is. It steals your privacy! OMG and it's useless! And ridiculous and ugly. I'm glad Amazon has me. I'm happy to have someone listening in - Hi Putin!! It maybe useless to some but not to me. Alexa, how do you spell serendipitously delightful? I'm going to have to find new homes for my orginal echos. I'll probably just put up a for sale sign on the bulletin board in the garage.

Yeah for new gadgets!

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Weird Day

As I was waiting for Costco to open, I got an email that two books I put on hold were at the library waiting for me. Score! So I went to pick them up and then, because it was too hot to think, I asked Google to shot me to Costco directly from the library. Google Maps then had a seizure and I ended up on a packed interstate highway going the wrong way.

I got to Costco and got a nice walk in and, of course, spent more than I planned but only $40 so not so terrible. I did try their much touted cheeseburger. I'm very confused. It was really not good. Really. $5 no drink. Their $1.50 hotdog and drink deal is way tastier.

There was a young guy there will two small kids - like 5 and 4. He was doing a fair job of wrestling them into a table with their hot dogs and keeping them happy and entertained. When they were about half done, he got up for 30 seconds to move his cart. While his back was turned both kids managed to shoot the hot dogs out of their buns onto the floor. They sat their quietly waiting for him to come back and fix the problem.When he turned back around, the look on his face was so hilarious.

I came home and cut out a new swim suit. My hand problem?! Scissors! Somehow I must have bruised/strained/broken the muscles or tendons that I use for cutting with scissors cause OUCH. Guess I won't be doing that for a while.

Then I sat down to watch the game which was ok for a while. Then I got a text that my Amazon packages had been delivered. They were delivered by Amazon's home grown delivery service which pretty much sucks. There are three places where they leave packages. I checked all three. No packages. Anywhere. I checked again. No Packages. Anywhere.

So I came back up here and called Amazon. "Oh a text that says it was delivered doesn't really mean it was delivered. It could mean that it will be delivered soon. Oh I see here it was delivered to the receptionist." "There is no receptionist." "Oh well, then just keep checking and let us know if you don't see it by 8 pm." Fuckyouverymuch.

I checked again. I came back up here and wrote a blistering, I mean incendiary, email to Amazon.

Then I checked again. Found 'em. (About an hour later, I was cleaning up tabs in my browser and got to the Amazon one to see a message 'your email did not go through, try again later.' Cracked me up.)

The Echo Show is really pretty. I like it. I told it to play me some music and it picked Itzahk Perlman. Classy choice.

And then the Mariners totally folded in the 8th and lost to the loser Phillies for the second day in a row. Thankgod they are off tomorrow.

OH! But, big news!! I have a new doll/bear/monster adoption agency!!!! http://westsidebaby.org/ and they have two donation locations and lots of handy hours - even Saturdays. I sent them an email with links to photos so they could see what I was talking about and they would be 'delighted to have them.' WHEW!!! I haven't even made a doll on the new machine yet. That will need to change. I'm kind of ready to get back to it. What a relief.