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12/22/2002 Entry: "Christmas Shopping Hell"
Yesterday I returned to my car after a dreadful afternoon of shopping, only to find I had dropped my car keys sometime in the previous two or three hours.
Horror-of-horrors. I had to go back to all the shops I'd been to, trudging all my bags along witth me asking if any keys had shown up. All the time, I was imagining some evil key robber waiting until the lots cleared out so they would know which car they could drive off with... The keys ended up at the very last store I had visited, so I probably should have retraced my steps in reverse. Oh well. The keys may not have made it to the Lost and Found area by the time I'd revisited had I done that. Still the experience did nothing to increase my decidedly-lacking Christmas cheer of this year. I hate shopping. People had better appreciate their gifts.
On a more positive note, I also put in some time volunteering at the co-op yesterday. My job is to redo the bulk food labels. I managed to update the bulk food label spreadsheet. Over the next few days I'll be using it to build some labels that can be stuck on the bins. It was fun. People were asking me where stuff was, and I actually knew some of the answers. There seemed to be a good number of customers while I was there. Normally whenever I go, it's the last hour they're open and I'm usually the only shopper there. Hopefully it won't be as doomed as I had feared, especially with all the upcoming spiffy new bulk food labels.
(I've made some slight changes to the site. There's no more karma voting since nobody ever used it, and it was starting to get abused by bots. I also upgraded to GPG 1.2.1 and published my key, since things will probably start getting out of hand pretty soon. Seems like I think things are getting out of hand about once every two years.I also added a minimal FOAF file built using FOAF-a-matic and signed it. I've also switched to a Creative Commons license)
