Wasted day but not really

[susandennis]

All morning I sat around and waited for the building manger to let me know he was ready.

Our conversation yesterday (just like in emails previously):

me: Whenever you are ready, just ping me. It does not even have to be this week.
him: Oh I'll have time tomorrow morning, let's do it then.
me: Whatever is good for you, just let me know.
hin: Tomorrow morning.

He had been our for a week at Christmas. Back for a day and a half and then out sick since. Today was his first day back. So I pretty much knew this morning was not happening but I waited anyway.

Also I was waiting on Amazon.

Never heard from him. Amazon now says 9 pm tonight. I looked all over town (on store websites 'available in your store' - so nice of them) and I could find none that I liked as well as the Amazon one for any price.

So I decided to get over it. If it comes. Great. If not. Whatever. If the building manager calls, fine. If not. Whatever. I am moving on with mylife.

I needed milk and eggs for my brother's visit but I really needed kitty litter desperately. My Amazon kitty litter isn't getting here until Wednesday and I wasn't going to make it.

So, I headed out. My plan was to go to a small grocery not horribly far but not close either. Grocery Outlet - the very closest and easiest by far - was on the way but they rarely have kitty litter. But, hey, I was there and it was easy to pop in so I thought I'd check.

Clearly my luck had turned. They had a little supply of Arm & Hammer - fine by me. So I also got eggs and milk. The smallest milk was half gallon which was way more than I wanted but then I remembered a quart wasn't going to be enough for a week of bro's coffee so I would have not gotten enough at the regular store. Thanks GO! You are a life savor.

We have new recycling laws here in King County. I don't have a clue how they are going to work for people. Happily, out recycling is handled privately and so far no word of change. I know why they are doing this but ugh. No more plastic bags or wraps. And they cannot be put into garbage either. All the plastic has to be taken to specific drop off spots. So, your used kitty litter, which has to go in garbage, you put that in by the handful???? I do not get it. But, thankfully, I do not have to.

I just read that 16 years ago we had a bunch of snow so I went back to look at my LJ entries. Bunch is clearly relative. And my photography skills sucked as badly as my camera but fun to see.

Here's a snowman for Live Journal on my terrace



And through the spin wheel that view is history. There are now two giant buildings there.



But, this view is pretty much the same. If it snowed today, I could grab the same shot.



This was the view at the corner - also now, very much more dense. That's the Amtrak station with the tower there.



Fun. Back in 2004, I served up all my photos from susandennis.org. When I abandoned that domain, I moved them all to replicated folders on susandennis.com but, apparently, my global search/replace operation missed a few. So most, if not all of those entries are photo-less until I go in and edit each one to swap org for com. Tedious and probably not happening!

While I was waiting this morning, I did do a powerwash of this chromebook. Reset it to factory specs. It was time. It's a little perkier and there are some websites it was pissed at but apparently now likes again.

So really not a wasted day at all.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Susan, I'm sorry. I wrote a comment yesterday about the two guys who walked past you when you needed assistance. I wrote "Karma's a bitch", envisioning the assholes stranded on the side of the road with a flat and nobody coming to their aid. It occurred to me hours later that you might have thought the comment was directed at you. It wasn't.

Sorry I didn't make myself clear.

Ann in Ontario.

[susandennis]

I did not think that but, in retrospect I can see how it might be possible and am so sorry that you stewed over it. :)

[galebird.livejournal.com]

How DO you dispose of cat litter under those rules? Our kitty is sick right now and that litter box is constantly being changed/refreshed to keep up with it (so much pee) and I would be a wreck if I couldn't just put it in plastic bags and toss it.

[susandennis]

Honestly, I have no idea. Paper bags, I guess which around here you have to buy because stores are not allowed to give them for free.

[galebird.livejournal.com]

They initially were charging for paper bags around here but the city I now live in has a very wide gamut of incomes and people threw a huge stink. Now they're almost always free. Yikes. I'd have to triple layer to deal with Lord Piddles here.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

We still have some plastic bags as they were only recently banned from stores here. I've already started bringing the kitchen trash with me over to the litter box and scooping directly into that. I'm thinking about getting a second garbage can like the one we use in the main bath, it has small garbage bags that fit it. I don't use that garbage can often enough to need to buy another pack of bags, though, so I don't know how much that might cost.

Scooping directly into the kitchen trash works nicely, though. It's a big hole so it's easy.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

I had no idea Amazon deliveries could be so...vague. Schrodinger's Mattress Pad:). Go you for hefting the old one out, which is massively impressive, and a pox on the oblivious bastards who walked past.

[susandennis]

ok that is the best... schrodinger's mattress pad. i love it.

[meowmensteen]

I think it's okay to throw away stuff IN a plastic bag. The rule is just referring to empty plastic bags. Like, if you were recycling them before, you should still find a way to recycle them, but if you used them for holding trash stuff, you can still do that.

[susandennis]

Oh. Ok. Whew. So, contrary to public (and my) opinion, Seattle's disposal rules were just not complicated enough. I get it. New level. Geesh.

[meowmensteen]

The thing is that because they can, they want to recycle clean plastic bags, but unfortunately loose bags tend to get caught in the machines that sort the recyclables. So there is a process to recycle them, it's just hard to get them separated from all the other recyclables. It only works if they have their own bin, but it's not cost effective to have one at each and every residence, so instead grocery stores tend to have them.... sometimes I'm just way too Seattle. I could go on and on about sorting trash and where it all goes.