Strange Times

How do you do this COVID thing in your lil ole lives? Living with the pandemic, I mean.

Many of you are past our country's stage of being in the third wave and consequently, the third lockdown, so your lives are probably closer to normal that ours. As you know, we are in lockdown, but by golly, you can't let the cat starve. I needed to order her monthly food bag.

In the previous lockdown, I was able to call the store, and they set aside the order. I then phoned when I arrived. They put it out on a table, and I picked it up. Easy peasey. 

This time the method had changed. This time when I called, they told me that I was now to order online, making sure not to pay online because that would mean they would ship the order from elsewhere, and that would take time. Once I did the online thing, the store would be notified, and once they readied the order, they in turn would notify me.

I am still flexible (in spirit at least), and it worked out well enough.

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I also have a jumpy mouse, which has nothing to do with the cat and is driving me to distraction. Not in my bed although I have experienced that too, albeit in the distant past. Nuff said.

No, I refer to the computer mouse. It's jumpy. I will move the mouse pointer to make a click but the silly mouse has a mind of its own and will jump around willy nilly. More than once these random perambulations have caused me to inadvertently close the browser and lose my place in the online universe.

Still stuck with a tethered mouse, I also want a cordless one so that if I am watching something on YouTube late at night from my distant chair, I can click to the next clip without having to get up. You see, I sometimes endeavour to lull myself to sleep that way, and it doesn't help if I keep having to get up and down. My theory is that I could work the cordless mouse right from my easy chair. Time will tell.

Confidently onto the Staples website went I, knowing the process there already. It works like the pet food store. You order online. If the store has the item in stock, you can pick it up in about two hours. If not, they will ship it within two days. This particular "Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie," (thank you Robbie) will require shipping.

Aarrgghh! The jumpy mouse just caused this post to close again. Fortunately, Blogger does a great job at continuously saving the post as I write it.

The thing is, even though I have an online Staples account, I have to input my store every single dadblasted time that I visit the site. They do maintain all of my data on file, including my address, but they seem to want me to travel to a store in Toronto for pickup. It's a strange thing, I tells ya. Why the website defaults like that, I know not. It's not even nearby Ottawa where they try to send me. Go figga.

But these are strange times. I am telling you that, just in case you don't already know.