Feeling fairly chipper at the moment.
Mostly because I actually got the motivation together to take the Walker Express (hint : don’t both using the wheels, fling and follow old school style) to the kitchen and make myself some lunch that I could carry back to Mister Computer via my walker’s sidebags.
The one thing I could not transport that way was my beloved Decaf Diet Coke, so I still had to get Julian to bring that to me then take the half-bottle back to the fridge.
I plan to solve this problem in the future by getting my pop in cans instead.
2L bottles don’t fit in my sidebags but cans of pop totally do.
And when I had those cans of Decaf Diet Pepsi recently, I rediscovered the strange magic of canned soda : I was as completely satisfied with a can of pop, which is 333 ml, as I was with my usual half-a-bottle of Decaf Diet Coke, which is 1L or 1000 ml.
Equal satisfaction for one third of the quantity. That’s magic all right. i wish I could do that with everything I eat and drink,. I would be so happy.
So yeah. A switch to cans seems to make sense to me.
Also on the supply front is the fact that neither of the bags of trail mix I ordered with last week’s groceries actually showed up. Out of stock. Dammit.
Stupid supply chain issues!
In retrospect, I could have seen this coming, though. Before I went into the hospital, I had encountered the same issue and had bought some of my stuff directly from the bulk food section of Sav-on’s instead of in the “prepackaged bulk” form I am used to.
Don’t try applying logic to “prepackaged bulk” , You and logic will both end up feeling foolish if you do.
So I figure I have to make a rare second grocery order this week in order to secure the supplies I need and probably some sugar free treats too.
Sucks to have to pay a second $10 delivery fee in the same week, but what the hell, I will consider it a cost of learning a lesson and move on.
And what the hell, I can use it as an excuse to get stuff I don’t normally get.
More upsetting than the lack of bulk trail mix was the lack of bulk bologna.
I am so used to getting those big huge packs of like a zillion slices of bologna that the lack thereof makes me feel like, in one small way, we are failing as a civilization.
I wanted the baloney because my immediate short-term sloppy kludgy solution to my Vitamin B12 deficiency is to get the most low-effort kind of meat I can so that I can always just add a couple of slices of bologna to a meal and bingo, it has meat.
No prep. No fuss. Ya don’t even have to heat it up.
It is ready to eat the moment you buy it. You don’t even have to open a can.
And I find it is best to plan and program my life with realistic assumptions about my future laziness in mind.
Especially now that my leg pain limits the amount of time I can spend on food prep.
Still, to return to our thesis, I am glad I got myself moving and made my own lunch today. I needed the exercise and it felt good to focus down and do for myself and actually spend time in an activated state for once.
Oh. And breaking in a new keyboard is hard.
More after the break.
Pain in the ass
Did another kitchen trip. This time I pushed myself a bit too hard and had to rest on my couch in the living room before traveling the rest of the way to Home Base here.
Another lesson learned.
Speaking of my ass, that’s one of my persistent issues right now : the fact that the longer I sit in front of here computer on my “I paid too little for this” cheap uncomfortable computer chair, the more it aggravates the wound on/in my butt.
It’s basically directly in front of and beside my nethermost gate and that is a crazy bad place for it to be for sanitary reasons alone.
Don’t think about that too much.
But the real problem is the pain. No wonder I do all my gaming on the tablet now. I only come here to blog and chat with my fuzzy friends.
And I might not need to do those things here any longer if Alexa’s speech to text capabilities are as good as they seem to be.
In theory, I could blog via just dictating to Alexa and having it going into a text file.
And I must admit, I am curious as to how needing to say things out loud in order to blog them would change the tone, tenor, and content of my blogging.
Then again, I could just vlog instead. And I am seriously considering it.
After all, the whole point of this blog o’ mine is self-expression and whilst I express a lot of myself in these words of mine after all these years of practice, I feel like I could express so much more of myself and who I am as a person via video.
And besides that, on YouTube, I might actually attract a following.
And then I could live my dream of becoming a mighty force to be reckoned with in the world of public opinion as I write my words of blood and fire across the sky.
Or at least really irritate a lot of stupid. crazy, and/or evil people.
That would make me so happy.
The tablet makes recording video ridiculously easy. Editing it, not so much. So the PC might have to get involved too.
And you know what that will be?
A real pain in the ass.
Callbacks make things seem smart!
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.