Friday the 14th
I have had some retail therapy today and I am exhausted. In my defense I had done a needs analysis over the last several weeks. When I fight with certain elements in my studio, it gets to the point . . . no more. From various departments, I had a list of eight items. The total cost of my therapy was $89.00. Thank you very much Amazon. I have no idea how many stops it would have taken in Mankato with the same amount of success. Even the fuel to begin the run-around might have been mind-blowing. I can now relax and know that my days in the studio will be more relaxing as I wait for several days.
Ordering from Amazon’s warehousing and imagining having all these items being pulled for one order, takes me back a few decades.
On Excelsior Bouvard in Hopkins were several large company’s warehouses. My dad took me to my rooming house on Sunday nights and picked me up Friday after the milking was done. I had happened to get a job in what was then Coast-to-Coast Hardware warehouse. As stores requested supplies to be shipped to them, those requests became printouts. Getting to work, I would be handed a list for . . . let’s say Hutchinson’s Coast-to-Coast Store. I would walk the multiple aisles carrying my basket matching each item on the the printout to the bins of IBM cards. If the store requested four coffeepots, I would pull four IBM cards signifying matching printout numbers to matching cards. Cutting to the chase . . . I would love to see how it is all done now. Yes, I am a curious Grammie.
My brother called this forenoon. It was great to catchup with him. Assisted living units were perhaps not his ideal desire, but it is what it is. Eric is just about 30 minutes from him and can stop and see him often. Calvin is able to visit with anyone and I am sure he shares his views to those that stay put long enough to listen to one or two or more of them.
A batch of egg-salad is on for supper by request. The little onion that I used was strong enough to bring me to the point that I could not see straight. Changing up options of texture and taste does a person well.
With that I will take my leave. ♥