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rebeccmeisterI needed to obtain some crickets and fish from the pet store, and I just didn't think they'd survive if I tried to transport them by bicycle. At least the temperatures were warmer than yesterday, with an afternoon high of (gasp!) 15.1°F. Almost time to break out the shorts!
We have a neighbor who has figured out that we rarely drive, and so when it is necessary to park only on our side of the street, they put their Mercedes as close as they possibly can to the edge of our driveway. I can imagine this is convenient for being able to pull out of that spot. Anyway, it was a harrowing squeeze to extract my vehicle from the driveway without scraping my vehicle across their front bumper, and now I'm glad to be done with car errands for a while. (being the fan of trip chaining that I am, I also picked up several heavy bags of cat litter while I was out and about, too)
I really wanted to go to the local community protest bike ride today, but ensuring the animals got settled in at work had to take priority. Thankfully it does look like there was good turnout for the ride.
Else?
Not much, really. Just a bit of cooking and some preliminary weekend chores.
Oh, this is not related to anything else, but I just discovered that Stash Tea has stopped making a second type of tea that I love, a decaf chocolate hazelnut tea (this is after they stopped making chocolate peppermint tea). Also, their current website design is AWFUL. I have a bad feeling about those things. I have been a fairly loyal Stash tea drinker for a long time but we might be close to the end of an era at this point. I wound up ordering some sort of decaf chocolate-y tea from a different company instead, in part because that other company also carries Greek Mountain tea, which is very hard to find. All told, I find it vexing how finding good tea has turned into such a moving target! I am hoping to increase home production of chocolate peppermint tea in 2026 at least, however.
We have a neighbor who has figured out that we rarely drive, and so when it is necessary to park only on our side of the street, they put their Mercedes as close as they possibly can to the edge of our driveway. I can imagine this is convenient for being able to pull out of that spot. Anyway, it was a harrowing squeeze to extract my vehicle from the driveway without scraping my vehicle across their front bumper, and now I'm glad to be done with car errands for a while. (being the fan of trip chaining that I am, I also picked up several heavy bags of cat litter while I was out and about, too)
I really wanted to go to the local community protest bike ride today, but ensuring the animals got settled in at work had to take priority. Thankfully it does look like there was good turnout for the ride.
Else?
Not much, really. Just a bit of cooking and some preliminary weekend chores.
Oh, this is not related to anything else, but I just discovered that Stash Tea has stopped making a second type of tea that I love, a decaf chocolate hazelnut tea (this is after they stopped making chocolate peppermint tea). Also, their current website design is AWFUL. I have a bad feeling about those things. I have been a fairly loyal Stash tea drinker for a long time but we might be close to the end of an era at this point. I wound up ordering some sort of decaf chocolate-y tea from a different company instead, in part because that other company also carries Greek Mountain tea, which is very hard to find. All told, I find it vexing how finding good tea has turned into such a moving target! I am hoping to increase home production of chocolate peppermint tea in 2026 at least, however.
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Date: 2026-02-01 04:54 am (UTC)