Much fail today
Feb. 17th, 2026 12:57![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertI worked at the shelter today. We took this guy in. Gentle six month old kind of wiry haired something or other. Once again I'm so happy that we don't have room for half a dozen more dogs. I've drawn the line and intend to hold it. But look at him!
Dana has a friend (recently acquired) helping her clean up "the room" where my grandaughters will be staying in April. This is a pretty huge thing. The room is so bad that I considered for a while about whether or not we could even host the two girls. There was not even a way to enter the room. Now there is, at least, a path. There's lots of time before the girls are coming (20 Apr) but I put a 1 April hard time on the room being ready. We still have to get a bed and get it in there. So I've been stressing about it a bit and Dana has been stressing a lot. Anyway, she's found someone to help and that someone is in there now making some headway.
Meanwhile Dana called and asked me to get some cash so we could offer her some money. I was at the shelter and thought about it and I realized I had no way to get cash. In an absolute emergency I could walk into the credit union we use with my ID and work through not having a card with me and get cash. But short of that I had no way. I've got a few hundred bucks tucked away in a shoe and that stash is $60 less now. I'll fix that but it was an interesting exercise. Dana still thinks in cash.
Apparently Walmart is not far behind. After I got off the phone with Dana I stopped by Walmart to get a couple of things and tried to check out using my phone. Walmart does not do that. No GPay, no Applepay. I said thank you, but no thank you and left. I did have a card with me but it was in the car parked, of course, far away in the lot. And I was feeling annoyed so I decided to leave the stuff behind.
On my way back home I was hungry and did something I never do. I went to a fast food place. Even before I started semaglutide I talked my way out of getting fast food most of the time. I want the taste but am invariably disappointed so I just talk myself out of it and come home to make what I really want. Works every time. But I was feeling wild so I went to Shake Shak. Of course I've heard of it and thought it had to have something going for it. Turns out it has nothing going for it at all. Crinkle cut extruded French fries you can get in the freezer in Walmart (if you have an actual card or cash) and a quarter inch thick burger on a bun with mayo, tomato and lettuce. Redefining mediocre. And a small Dr Pepper. They did not screw that up.
For $16.23!!! There must be a tarrif on crappy hamburgers and fries.
The absolutely best thing about is I'll never have to go back. I can't wait.
Dana has a friend (recently acquired) helping her clean up "the room" where my grandaughters will be staying in April. This is a pretty huge thing. The room is so bad that I considered for a while about whether or not we could even host the two girls. There was not even a way to enter the room. Now there is, at least, a path. There's lots of time before the girls are coming (20 Apr) but I put a 1 April hard time on the room being ready. We still have to get a bed and get it in there. So I've been stressing about it a bit and Dana has been stressing a lot. Anyway, she's found someone to help and that someone is in there now making some headway.
Meanwhile Dana called and asked me to get some cash so we could offer her some money. I was at the shelter and thought about it and I realized I had no way to get cash. In an absolute emergency I could walk into the credit union we use with my ID and work through not having a card with me and get cash. But short of that I had no way. I've got a few hundred bucks tucked away in a shoe and that stash is $60 less now. I'll fix that but it was an interesting exercise. Dana still thinks in cash.
Apparently Walmart is not far behind. After I got off the phone with Dana I stopped by Walmart to get a couple of things and tried to check out using my phone. Walmart does not do that. No GPay, no Applepay. I said thank you, but no thank you and left. I did have a card with me but it was in the car parked, of course, far away in the lot. And I was feeling annoyed so I decided to leave the stuff behind.
On my way back home I was hungry and did something I never do. I went to a fast food place. Even before I started semaglutide I talked my way out of getting fast food most of the time. I want the taste but am invariably disappointed so I just talk myself out of it and come home to make what I really want. Works every time. But I was feeling wild so I went to Shake Shak. Of course I've heard of it and thought it had to have something going for it. Turns out it has nothing going for it at all. Crinkle cut extruded French fries you can get in the freezer in Walmart (if you have an actual card or cash) and a quarter inch thick burger on a bun with mayo, tomato and lettuce. Redefining mediocre. And a small Dr Pepper. They did not screw that up.
For $16.23!!! There must be a tarrif on crappy hamburgers and fries.
The absolutely best thing about is I'll never have to go back. I can't wait.
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Date: 2026-02-17 20:37 (UTC)