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I skipped the treadmill this morning. No reason except I am the boss of me and I didn't wanna. I laid in the dark and asked Echo to play NPR and listened to the morning news. It was pretty luxurious.

After years of listening for at least a couple of years a day and then fewer years boycotting, I'm now soaking up NPR again. And enjoying it. Local TV news is basically local people introducing tapes of national news. Our one general newspaper is also mostly wire services. Neighborhood blogs are good but our two local NPR affiliates really cover the local news better than most. And the rest of what NPR covers is more interesting than most. They will piss me off soon but for now, I'm enjoying it.

Biggie and I decided to cancel the new cat tree. I moved a scratching post to his window and added the bee and feathers. We'll find one that is both pretty and fun some day maybe.

It's nearly daylight and the birds sitting still look like the pods left on the tree and Biggie is studying them all carefully.



Once I get dressed, I'm off to the grocery store. I don't need much. But I'm getting low on eggs and that's serious biz. And I think I want a steak and some fries. So off I go.

Square (or it will be) number 3. I got about half of it done yesterday.

Heavy lifting

So the used oven I got was broken. I got the replacement today after much heavy lifting and wrestling the old one into the box and the new one onto the counter.

And as I was unpacking it, I happened to check on the fine print in the back. They sent me the wrong damn model!!! The box had the right one but the oven had the wrong one.

Back to Amazon return/replace. I wrestled the old one of of the double box it was in so I could put the new one in one of those boxes and right in the middle of all that shit, I stopped.

And asked Google what the difference is between the two models. The DT200 has 8 modes and is cheaper. The DT201 (the one I want and the one I ordered) has 10 modes. The one I got that says DT200 has 10 modes. WTF??? So I decided to stop and surrender.

I went back to Amazon Chat and canceled the second return/replace and the nice lady gave me $30 credit for my pain. Which was nice. The oven is running fine right now - you run it empty to burn off stuff. And I'm whipped. At least I'm done. UPS will come get the first oven and the broken cat tree tomorrow.

Whew.

I did make a successful grocery run and had lovely steak and frites with hollandaise (the last of the Trader Joe's hollandaise that I've had in my freezer). I saw a PBS cooking show lady cook steak on the stovetop that came out perfectly. I did what she did and mine came out perfectly, too!! golden crusty on the outside and perfect on the inside. I used frozen air fried fries that also came out fine. And I have enough to repeat tomorrow!

Oh and I also did all the laundry.

So far. Good day. I think the evening will be crochet and TV/radio.