Well, did I get it all done?

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Uhrm, you tell me.  I forgot to make a list and probably would have forgotten it if I did.  *laughs*  Oh, but I sure plan to plan, and make a list of lists to make.  I do, I twuly do!  I found the list I posted here and I'll go down the list.  Now, realize, I got a late start.  No surprise, going to bed at 2:00 and expecting to be out by 9:00 is stretching it further than I usually can, by a long shot.  I was only an half hour late, and I called before I would have been late.  No problem, they just pushed it up to 9:30, which I barely made.

That list grows, and this time I will include non-purchase tasks; check deposit, oil change/inspection, turning over the KoC jewels (which I just located and set with the check, and where I will be putting ice chests before long for ease on the memory in the morning), paraffin, drink and mixer, coffee beans, auto plates, and finally regular ice.  Added: tool to get the old/broken kickstand off.  Ackh!  And add a gallon of white gas.  Oh, well, there are some exceptions.  I can get paraffin tomorrow, and maybe see who else might carry white gas, just a bit of it.

I didn't get mixer, save Kahlúa, a pseudo mixer.  I would really like margaritas, but...  As noted, and again, I forgot the paraffin.  I did check for white gas at two places to no good ends but I did buy a little bottle for it.  I will simply have to hope it works as I don't want the lesser fuels to junk up the works in the interim.  As for the bike tool...  I could not find anything exact.  But I did find larger hex keys.  I purchased a two set group, SAE and MM, just because this bike is a basket case and seems to have both.  I had no way of telling which would, or might, work.  Bleh.

As well, I got in a 10 block hike.  When she was in for an oil change I got them to deliver me downtown to buy coffee.  I decided just to stretch my legs and return.  It might not be 110 out there, but I am guessing it was at least 90.  On  the way back I saw a fellow who seemed local, so I asked him about dry ice.  He suggested either Smith's, a local grocer, or the other place I had suggested.  He also told me where it was.  It seems I had, in my failure to write the address down, transferred east and west and north and south so that where I was looking was juxtaposed to the actual position of the shop.   Irritating though that may be, I love when I make a mistake that is so... to me... mathematically or geometrically... clean.  Yum!  Other than that I just stormed the streets.  Oh, wait, I did stop into the store in question, as it was on the way.  They do indeed carry dry ice.  On my way out of town I will be stopping there.  Actually, I think the day before.  They are a 24 hour shop, it's just when I start I want to go.

I was rather crafty with how I did things.  The events were planned out.  At the oil shop I also ran for coffee, at the tire rotation shop it worked out that I could turn over the jewels or I would have done something else.  And I was as efficient as I could be as to locations.  It was truly a sweet deal.  I was done, and having a burger as I didn't want to cook but needed food, by 12:30~13:00.  I have stuff to cook or just heat up for later tonight.

Okay, I didn't do too badly.  Tags have been updated.  If I don't do it right then it might not get done for... a while.  Yea... not bad at all.  I also grabbed a mirror for the bike, another patch kit (one for with the bike saddle pocket, one for in camp),  two rolls of duct tape, and a couple of plackets of the better paper plates.  No paper cups could be found.  And I stopped at the post office on the way home and grabbed what packages where in there.  Nothing here at home, but the MRE's were in yesterday, if you can believe it.  Damn.  I'm almost thinking this thing will slip off like clockwork, give or take, and considering it is me.

It was a darned good thing the extra money came in though.  I haven't nubbed out my allowance, but with road gas and lodging, and maybe a few incidentals in between and beyond maybe, it will be tight.  There have been expenses I hadn't accounted for, extras I needed but didn't think about until into projects, and just... nibble, bite, sting, here there and everywhere.  Yowzas!  Oh, and I still have dry ice, fuel, hotels, and... travel foods and such if I want.  Though I might just go with MRE's on the road.  Bleh, but...  Beats the dry, foiled, lemon wax survival food.  By a lot.  I will have a couple of bars of that, too.  If nothing else people who have never tried it can get a taste.  Yum in a yuck way!  Hmm, and no contact lenses, at least yet.  I'll just have to make my four remaining trial pairs last.  Or...  I'm thinking on it.  Depends on if they have them in stock, though, too.  No reason to order if they won't be here in time.  At $70 a month....  Hmm...  Thinking.  See?  *nibbles*  Later.

Oh, right, one last thing.  While buying liquid refreshments I thought, for all my bad deeds, a bottle of Riesling and a bottle of port sounded about right.  I think I will enjoy the evening.  Though if I get to the point where I am able to use either bottle as a telescope type thing, I probably will avoid blogging.  Lets just call it the night of the werewolf and leave it at that.  Good, bad, and ugly, you got to admit, even if just once in a while, I can lay it down as if I was still alive, innit.