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I need to try and make this brief today . . . which should thankfully be fairly easy as there's not a huge amount to tell anyway. But I've also got a lot to do. I'm very busy. I am so important!
Last night I left work early so I could make the 4:10 showing of
Air at Pacific Place. It was quite nice seeing a movie that early, actually, as it was barely 6:30 once it let out, even after way too many trailers before the movie. It was still light out, the morning rain had stopped, and I was able to read my library book walking home up Pine Street from there.
Shobhit had rice and a kind of Indian vegetable stew ready for dinner. I had a bit of that while getting into writing my review, which was done by about 7:30. Solid B.
Then, I discovered, even though
Ted Lasso officially releases on Wednesdays, it becomes available on Apple TV+ Tuesday evenings. This must be a similar thing to album releases on iTunes: once it's the release date on the east coast, we get it on the west coast simultabeously. Although I think we even watched it before 9:00. Maybe they go by Atlantic Standard Time, factoring in Canada? Newfoundland Standard? I don't know. Whatever, I found out I don't want to wait until Wednesday to watch Wednesday releases on Apple TV+.
Later, I made the mistake of opening up TikTok after getting into bed, and thus wound up awake until 11:30. Dammit! I need to reprogram my mobile devises to shut down when I should be sleeping. I had them doing that for a while and then it went away, maybe with a software update? I didn't manually change any settings to make that stop.
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Cathryn here at work, who most days works from home, recently decided she would come in from Bainbridge Island to work in the office on Wednesdays. I suggested a couple of weeks ago that some Wednesday we get lunch together. Last week was out because we had our All-Department Merchandising meeting. So, I emailed her on Monday to suggest we do that this week. Thus, I just got back from lunch with Cathryn.
We decided on a nearby vegan cafe neither of us had been to, called
Broadfork Cafe. I was a bit taken aback by the prices, but whatever; I had budgeted $30 for this lunch anyway. In the end I spent $20.79 on a veggie wrap, which seemed reasonably priced until I went ahead with the added tofu, for which there was a $3.50 extra charge! Then with the 15% tip I still added, that was the total it came to.
This place is right on the corner of Queen Anne and Denny, which I walk past any time I go catch the bus after work. This was the first time I had ever walked in. They were out of a whole lot of stuff, apparently having been temporarily closed until just last Monday. My only options, really, were a salad or a veggie wrap. I went with the veggie wrap, and so did Cathryn, although I had mine with bell pepper and she had hers with broccoli, in both cases because they were also out of avocados, which I didn't want anyway.
The lady did offer me a free drink for my trouble though, which was nice. I had an Earl Grey. My only complaint was that, since it's a vegan cafe, they didn't have real creamer, and I had to settle for coconut creamer. That was a poor substitute, but whatever. It was free!
Anyway, I had to delay our getting over there by about ten minutes because Jeff asked me to send down an immediate batch of five new Beer & Wine skus, since Peter is evidently not in today. And then, after shooting the shit quite pleasantly with Cathryn, talking a lot about her trip to New York last December during which she and her husband caught covid, and so we talked a fair bit about our respective experiences with covid, she suddenly realized it was about three minutes to 1:00 and she needed to get back to the office for a meeting with one of the Deli Merchandisers. She thus had to run before I was ready to go, which was fine. I finished the first half of my veggie wrap, and boxed the other half to go. I'll eat that for dinner at my desk after work before I go to my next movie tonight.
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[posted 1:15 pm]
