The day started out on a fairly
relaxed note. I watched Frost/Nixon on blu-ray. Probably Ron Howard’s best film
to date.
Then having been told by a friend
the day before that the Rogers on Borden St. was going out of business, I spent
45 minutes walking there. Making the
purchase took longer than expected, in part because most of the DVDs and
blu-rays didn’t have prices on them, so the prices had to be checked to give me
the best possible deal.
I was way behind schedule as I
started heading to the bus stop. I didn’t realize that my fanny pack was open;
I either left my debit card at Rogers or it fell out en route to the bus stop;
some coins probably dropped out. I saw the bus and almost missed it but due to
the lights and people waiting at the next bus, I was able to catch it at the
next stop by running so fast that my throat hurt for a while after (still not
entirely better).
I took the bus back downtown and
dropped off my bag at my apartment. I only had a few minutes before I was
supposed to meet a friend for lunch so I quickly grabbed her gift and card,
wrapped/taped the gift in record time, and did another run, this time to the
Old Spaghetti Factory. We had a nice meet. I gave her my gift and she treated
me to lunch and gave me a coupon book.
I told her about the sale and she
told me about another video store that was going out of business, the
Xanavision on East Saanich. So after the
lunch meet I went home, grabbed my credit card, and took a bus over. Apparently
it’s been going under for about a month, but maybe due to its location, there were
still lots to pick from even after I got through with it.
There was time before the next
bus so I went for a jog and then took the bus back downtown. The good news was
that it was a double-decker. The bad news was that one person was not only
talking on his cell phone, he had it on speaker so the other passengers could
hear a crackling voice from the other side.
Both directions I relaxed by reading the 2012 edition of Eat This, Not
That, which I had plenty of time to do as it’s about a 45 minute ride each way.
Then when I got home I realized
it was time to start more uploads to Flickr.
So not a boring day.
No comments:
Post a Comment