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Three things for Sunday
28 Mar 2021 10:31A not part of the three things. I like doing three things for Sunday. Makes me accumulate minor thoughts.
1. Part of the solution, not part of the problem.
This one is pretty major for me. I often say I want to be part of the solution, not the problem, and I try. Sometimes it involves some sacrifice, but eh, usually minor and worth it. This week, two things came up, one major, one minor, that are going to require a change from me, one MAJOR, one minuscule.
I'll start with the smaller one, and what pushed me over the edge.
I know Ikea, with their current focus on cheap shit, covers itself with a 100% organic green veneer, but I also know they are majorly part of the problem. I don't tend to buy much from them any longer (did back when when their quality was better), but I still shop there once or twice a year, if only for the frozen meatballs and gummies. Yesterday, we had to return some stuff that we no longer have a receipt for. It was a total PITA. They refused to look up the purchase with the card (like, say, Target does), their process was unobvious and took forever, and dh felt that the lack of helpfulness was deliberate and unacceptable. So eh, we're done with Ikea. I'll just have to figure out how to meat Swedish meatballs myself and mass produce them for freezing!
The next one hurts. I'm giving up Diet Coke.
On any given day, I drink about two to three cans. On days when I go to Bellingham, I always stop at a McDs on the way home for a large Diet Coke. This is not going to be an easy one to replace for me.
But it has to be done, and I will be writing the Coca Cola company to tell them way: their unacceptable silence in lights of the horrible Jim Crow voting act that was passed in Georgia. Done with Coke. Delta was always our fallback airline if Alaska didn't come through, no longer. I have tended to use UPS over freaking FedEx when I can't ship USPS, but no more UPS either. These are rarer and very minor. More difficult will be Home Depot. Dh always tries the local hardware store over Home Depot, but since we have no Lowes anywhere nearby (nearest is minimum 30 minutes, compared to Home Depot, 10 minutes) we might still continue to shop there, while avoiding it at all costs.
But the Diet Coke is going to hurt. I despise Diet Pepsi, so that's out. I guess I'll have to start bringing a HydroFlask of iced tea to drink on my way home from lab. Sigh. But what happened in Georgia is completely disgusting and I'm going to use the little power I have. If enough of us do...
2. My periodic vaccine rant.
Everyone is opening up eligibility. We are not, and it seems the governor is determined not to open until Biden pretty much forces him to. So far the consensus seems to be that dh and I will be able to get in line on 19 April. The floodgates open 1 May. We need to get vaccinated quickly or I suspect we won't get in for the longest time.
The good news is there is some research/speculation that shows that in the end, the states that opened later will have a more solid base of population on which to build herd immunity.
What is frightening is that cases in King County are going up, and quickly. And we're pretty much totally open. The power of the dumbass mouthbreathers to kill us all.
3. Whee! New book in a series
There is apparently a fourth book out in Kristen Cashore's Graceling series. Time for a re-read of the first three and a read of the 4th! Excited.
1. Part of the solution, not part of the problem.
This one is pretty major for me. I often say I want to be part of the solution, not the problem, and I try. Sometimes it involves some sacrifice, but eh, usually minor and worth it. This week, two things came up, one major, one minor, that are going to require a change from me, one MAJOR, one minuscule.
I'll start with the smaller one, and what pushed me over the edge.
I know Ikea, with their current focus on cheap shit, covers itself with a 100% organic green veneer, but I also know they are majorly part of the problem. I don't tend to buy much from them any longer (did back when when their quality was better), but I still shop there once or twice a year, if only for the frozen meatballs and gummies. Yesterday, we had to return some stuff that we no longer have a receipt for. It was a total PITA. They refused to look up the purchase with the card (like, say, Target does), their process was unobvious and took forever, and dh felt that the lack of helpfulness was deliberate and unacceptable. So eh, we're done with Ikea. I'll just have to figure out how to meat Swedish meatballs myself and mass produce them for freezing!
The next one hurts. I'm giving up Diet Coke.
On any given day, I drink about two to three cans. On days when I go to Bellingham, I always stop at a McDs on the way home for a large Diet Coke. This is not going to be an easy one to replace for me.
But it has to be done, and I will be writing the Coca Cola company to tell them way: their unacceptable silence in lights of the horrible Jim Crow voting act that was passed in Georgia. Done with Coke. Delta was always our fallback airline if Alaska didn't come through, no longer. I have tended to use UPS over freaking FedEx when I can't ship USPS, but no more UPS either. These are rarer and very minor. More difficult will be Home Depot. Dh always tries the local hardware store over Home Depot, but since we have no Lowes anywhere nearby (nearest is minimum 30 minutes, compared to Home Depot, 10 minutes) we might still continue to shop there, while avoiding it at all costs.
But the Diet Coke is going to hurt. I despise Diet Pepsi, so that's out. I guess I'll have to start bringing a HydroFlask of iced tea to drink on my way home from lab. Sigh. But what happened in Georgia is completely disgusting and I'm going to use the little power I have. If enough of us do...
2. My periodic vaccine rant.
Everyone is opening up eligibility. We are not, and it seems the governor is determined not to open until Biden pretty much forces him to. So far the consensus seems to be that dh and I will be able to get in line on 19 April. The floodgates open 1 May. We need to get vaccinated quickly or I suspect we won't get in for the longest time.
The good news is there is some research/speculation that shows that in the end, the states that opened later will have a more solid base of population on which to build herd immunity.
What is frightening is that cases in King County are going up, and quickly. And we're pretty much totally open. The power of the dumbass mouthbreathers to kill us all.
3. Whee! New book in a series
There is apparently a fourth book out in Kristen Cashore's Graceling series. Time for a re-read of the first three and a read of the 4th! Excited.
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