Well, lists do grow.

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I was late getting to town.  My friend decided shopping and dinner was all for tonight.  A task he wants to do, he decided, it was too late at night.  First shopping.

He didn't have much on his list.  Initially, he was going in with a small list as well.  I think just whole whipping cream.  I think I have the lad addicted!  That stuff is good.  Don't even listen to the doctors.  I think, even if somehow through the secular indoctrination they still believe they are in it for you, they are being indoctrinated to kill you with bad advice.  Low fat, in many cases, means high sugar.  The first is good for you, the last is bad for you.  Put sugar in your gas tank to see a quicker view of what high doses of sugar does to engines.  Your body, boys and girls, is an engine.  Anyway, he ended up with eggnog, cream, and a pack for his chair.  I may be looking around for something a tad better for his birthday.  Or not.  Depends on what he says about it or if some other need is discussed.  I don't notice haircuts or shaves, but I do listen for little actual needs.  That's how man friends do things. 

My list was small.  A couple of thumb drives, milk, and perhaps a couple of other things.  Cleaners?  Yeah.  Well, I got all that.  I bought enough Rid-X for six months, in a form that is safe from bugs (they eat the Rid-X in cardboard box, and the boxes too... weird... unless that is how it treats septic tanks, by getting bugs to do the, urhm, dirty work?).  Plastic seal wrapped doses, in water-dissolving packets.  Then I went a bit crazy in the cleaner aisle.  This and that and those...  I still have a bit of work to do on the tub, but it is very close.  I got an extending handle scrubby, so I can do just bits while I am taking a shower.  Might work for a back scratcher too!  :)  Then, while heading to the thumb drives I remembered kleenex, and then cat treats.  Finally, at the thumb drive area, I found the highspeed chips I was going to buy, for the camera, next month.  They were half the price I was set to pay.  Two of them, the last two in stock, and on a literal 1/2 sale.  So, yeah.  Thankfully I checked out in the electronics section, so wasn't interested in messing around at the front checkout, or keeping things straight between bought and unbought, or who knows what else might have ended up being purchased.

Then dinner.  Nothing fancy.  At that hour, McDonalds was all that was open, I believe.  All good.  But the meal filled me past the comfort zone.  Something I have noticed, when eating twice a day?  I have to cut back.  I simply can't eat very much at a time now.  My old order habits will have to change.  No doubles, but singles.  Not large, but medium.  That meal exhausted me, so that the drive home was a weary one.  I hate that sort of driving.

Well, now with the thumb drives, I can set up the laptop, then set up photoshop... then possibly make another system "picture", or such.  It would give me two layers to fall back.  Beside photoshop, I'll probably put a couple of other adds on, like Pale Moon, and adjust settings a bit, and some software security or two, before making the last system picture.  Two levels of back up, one to initial loaded and setup, the other back to, essentially, factory.  No, these systems can't be trusted.  This isn't even a guarantee.  It's just as good as I can do.

I don't know if that will happen tonight.  That meal, and the much shortened sleep period, are really doing a number on me.  I may just watch a few episodes then hit the sack.  Good night, either way, though.  I doubt if I'll make it back to the machine.