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Out of the blue I had a day with perfect timing. I woke-up early, went to my bank and got them to reverse an overdraft charge that shouldn't have happened (an ATM snafu resulted in them re-posting transactions out of order). I was glad they fixed it, but disappointed that they didn't take it upon themselves to have found and fix this too. I can't help but wonder how many people got penalized by this and won't go in and speak-up.
Then I did something I don't know if I've ever done before: I went grocery shopping at 10am. It is something of a different crowd in there on Saturday mornings. Not the mostly older folks that are there during middle of the day on any given weekday, and not the mish-mash of families and singles jamming the place on Sunday late afternoons. Because my income tax refund hit my checking account on Friday, I was able today to do some stocking-up and some splurging. I bought a duck breast and some caribbean jerk sauce to marinade it in. I'm debating about going back tomorrow to get some coconut milk and attempt to do coconut-jasmine rice to go with it.
Then it was a haircut at 1, which ran a little behind, but turned out fine, as next was picking up Samantha to take her to her pizza party that her basketball coaches were doing for the team. That was a nice, leisurely late lunch with the girls spending the vast majority of it giggling among themselves.
Finally, back here by 4:30 to have an hour to myself before having to do a systems test for work tonight. I was able to connect in over the VPN and stay home for that, which was nice, as it went until 9pm. The test was generally successful with only a couple of small problems that we can work on permanent fixes for next week. So not a bad day of productivity and fun.
Tomorrow: car shopping with the Ex.
Then I did something I don't know if I've ever done before: I went grocery shopping at 10am. It is something of a different crowd in there on Saturday mornings. Not the mostly older folks that are there during middle of the day on any given weekday, and not the mish-mash of families and singles jamming the place on Sunday late afternoons. Because my income tax refund hit my checking account on Friday, I was able today to do some stocking-up and some splurging. I bought a duck breast and some caribbean jerk sauce to marinade it in. I'm debating about going back tomorrow to get some coconut milk and attempt to do coconut-jasmine rice to go with it.
Then it was a haircut at 1, which ran a little behind, but turned out fine, as next was picking up Samantha to take her to her pizza party that her basketball coaches were doing for the team. That was a nice, leisurely late lunch with the girls spending the vast majority of it giggling among themselves.
Finally, back here by 4:30 to have an hour to myself before having to do a systems test for work tonight. I was able to connect in over the VPN and stay home for that, which was nice, as it went until 9pm. The test was generally successful with only a couple of small problems that we can work on permanent fixes for next week. So not a bad day of productivity and fun.
Tomorrow: car shopping with the Ex.
