Things accomplished and not
May. 15th, 2021 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellToday I found the right timing to leave the house on my bike and catch the bus that gets me to the farmers' market just when it opens. It feels weirdly late to be heading out, because the market pushed its opening time back an hour when things started shutting down for the pandemic, and also because I used to walk to the bus all the time.
I had a hankering for a pretzel-style croissant, but the German bakery booth which is there every week was not there this week. On the other hand, I did score some strawberries to snack on the next few days.
I headed over to the Fred Meyer nearby so I could use their ATM, since the one we shop at every week has had theirs replaced by one for a credit union which charges for withdrawals from other banks. Unfortunately, this one has had the bank branch inside it displaced by the same credit union. I guess that means it's happened to all their stores, meaning the only ATM anywhere near us I can use without a fee is the freestanding one in the parking lot of the Fred Meyer where we shop every week, which has not been replaced by a credit union one.
I went over the transit center to take the bus home, only to discover that in the year-plus since I was last there, all the stops have been rearranged, so I just missed the bus and had to wait for the next one.
On the other hand, the delay meant I would be going past Rainy Day Games, our friendly local gaming store, right when it opened, and I had been planning to visit there this weekend. I've decided that I want to start volunteering to run Pathfinder Society games there when in-person gaming with random strangers is doable again, so I need to start collecting supplies.
Top of my list was a Pathfinder Combat Pad, which I have seen in use in-person and look fantastically useful. Next was a deck of condition cards, which remind you about the effects of being stupefied, clumsy, dazzled, etc. along with some cards that help track the duration or intensity of conditions. Rainy Day had both of those, but not the other thing I was looking for, miniatures for the Pathfinder iconics (a set of characters which can be used by new players or ones who don't have a character of the appropriate level for the adventure). They do have a wide selection of non-game-specific fantasy miniatures, though, so it's just a matter of going back again after I make myself a list of what I need.
Rainy Day is within bike range of my house, and the weather was beautiful, so I rode back, but of course this took my past my favorite donut shop, so I felt compelled to stop there and get one. They seem to have been doing a normal amount of business the couple of times I've stopped by in the past year, but today they were extra busy, thanks to a get-together of Volkswagen fanciers in the parking lot next door. So there was a bit of a wait before I was able to get a German chocolate donut, ride home, and consume it, feeling relatively accomplished.
I had a hankering for a pretzel-style croissant, but the German bakery booth which is there every week was not there this week. On the other hand, I did score some strawberries to snack on the next few days.
I headed over to the Fred Meyer nearby so I could use their ATM, since the one we shop at every week has had theirs replaced by one for a credit union which charges for withdrawals from other banks. Unfortunately, this one has had the bank branch inside it displaced by the same credit union. I guess that means it's happened to all their stores, meaning the only ATM anywhere near us I can use without a fee is the freestanding one in the parking lot of the Fred Meyer where we shop every week, which has not been replaced by a credit union one.
I went over the transit center to take the bus home, only to discover that in the year-plus since I was last there, all the stops have been rearranged, so I just missed the bus and had to wait for the next one.
On the other hand, the delay meant I would be going past Rainy Day Games, our friendly local gaming store, right when it opened, and I had been planning to visit there this weekend. I've decided that I want to start volunteering to run Pathfinder Society games there when in-person gaming with random strangers is doable again, so I need to start collecting supplies.
Top of my list was a Pathfinder Combat Pad, which I have seen in use in-person and look fantastically useful. Next was a deck of condition cards, which remind you about the effects of being stupefied, clumsy, dazzled, etc. along with some cards that help track the duration or intensity of conditions. Rainy Day had both of those, but not the other thing I was looking for, miniatures for the Pathfinder iconics (a set of characters which can be used by new players or ones who don't have a character of the appropriate level for the adventure). They do have a wide selection of non-game-specific fantasy miniatures, though, so it's just a matter of going back again after I make myself a list of what I need.
Rainy Day is within bike range of my house, and the weather was beautiful, so I rode back, but of course this took my past my favorite donut shop, so I felt compelled to stop there and get one. They seem to have been doing a normal amount of business the couple of times I've stopped by in the past year, but today they were extra busy, thanks to a get-together of Volkswagen fanciers in the parking lot next door. So there was a bit of a wait before I was able to get a German chocolate donut, ride home, and consume it, feeling relatively accomplished.
