It’s my first Saturday! Though I have picked up a taxi ride. So it isn’t a totally free day. Then again, I will be making a teeny bit of $. That’s a good thing. Every shekel in is a shekel saved. I think Gilgamesh said that first, way before Ben Frankenstein.
I have a plan. At least for the first part of the day. And a plan for dinner. In between is up for grabs. Probably play and read and maybe do some chores around the house.
The weather for the next 10 days (after today) looks crappy. Boo.
I have tried Chester’s Chicken now. My verdict: meh. I was unimoressed with everything. The chicken wasn’t particularly crispy nor tasty. The biscuit was just a biscuit. And the potato wedges were boring. So, probably never gain. I miss Bojangles. Sigh.
Before picking up my passenger, I ran my errands. My first stop was the bank to see if they had any $2 bills. I always feel like I’m playing go fish when I ask them. And none of the tellers had any. Though one teller was indisposed and didn’t answer. So maybe I will try again next week. Oh well.
My next stop was the library. Turns out that there really aren’t many Augustus’s running around. There was a worker there who I hadn’t seen before who seemed interested in my name. Meanwhile, Fred knew that I had come for my book. Someone on the internet suggested I read The Notebook. I saw the movie and cried. I mean, who didn’t? I doubt the book will be much sadder. It will hurt a bit more for me because of my mom having gone through Alzheimer’s. But it will be good to have read it.
Off to the grocery store, watching my time. I had a longish list of things to get for my pizza empanadas. I ended up getting everything on the list as well as getting some feta and some greek olives. I might as well make a few different kinds of empanadas while I am at it. I am debating opening a can of artichoke hearts as added filling. I don’t really see a reason not to. I can always eat them in another dish tomorrow.
There was only one checkout person operating, which made sense since it wasn’t very busy. I really, really don’t like using the self checkouts and I’m glad I didn’t have to.
Since I had time, I decided to pop into the Salvation army to look for a round Brita pitcher (my rectangular one is ok, but I like the round ones better) and more teaspoons (not that I really need them, but it doesn’t hurt to look). They didn’t have anything of interest.
Last stop, my pickup location over near Canandaigua. Where I read and was so absorbed in the Emily Wilde book that I didn’t notice that my passenger had exited the building and was looking for the car. (I was in the front row in plain site – no other Tesla’s in the parking lot…) I will admit to blathering the whole time and not letting her get a word in edgewise. I talked about the Emily Wilde books and about Neuralink. There was a cool video released the other day made by a man who is totally immobilized due to ALS. How crazy is that? The team even used AI to create an app that used his voice to narrate. I also heard on the internet (though I didn’t know this when I was driving my passenger back to her home) that they have just gotten special status for their next application – for speech restoration. Which they kinda have done with the ALS patient. Though maybe they are going to try to go straight from thought to voice without the intermediary step of having the speech created by words that the person “types.” I look forward to seeing what develops.
But this means that they must be close to demonstrating some sort of vision restoration soon. So exciting!
I got home and have basically done nothing. I ate some lunch and played and played. Oh, I did do two sinks worth of dishes. That’s a good thing.
Now I am going to go and make some empanadas. Wish me luck! And if you were here, I would probably share…probably…
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