Cav's Place

While this post otherwise covers the remaining days from January when I ran, I’ll start by mentioning that, in the early hours of Wednesday, after noticing that no views had been recorded the previous day, I finally got around to removing the Google Analytics code, since I hadn’t been checking that at all in a long time anyway, sticking to Matomo even if it doesn’t offer what I was used to and I don’t see how I could ever put together any more of those statistics posts just based on what it shows. But it’s not like those posts have any relevance.
On the other hand, Wednesday evening dad mentioned that he met that neighbor who had been interested in trading his apartment for ours and was told that the contract for retrofitting the building had been signed and in no more than two months the scaffolding will be put up, which is obviously a terrifying prospect and means that I won’t be sleeping for months and months to come, plus that there will be people walking around in front of my window and eventually they’ll likely replace the window as well, with who knows what other consequences, and it remains to be seen what will happen to the blinds, being on the outside… Plus that all of this will start while I’ll be preparing for this year’s half marathon. And no, dad didn’t say anything about what that neighbor did about that apartment in the end.
Either way, another thing I want to mention is that on February 3 we ended up with a second Internet subscription, in fact from the same provider, my computer being left on the old one on its own while dad started using this new one, so the connections are now separated and I can stay on-line without feeling that anxious. It still feels wrong, not being in the sort of network that I’ve been in until just over five years ago, but it’s a major improvement. And it was forced by the provider, who called my mother, on whose name the landline is, to tell her that they’re switching to fiber optics for landlines and unless she agrees to switch and also include an Internet subscription along with the landline, for a slightly higher monthly fee, she’ll have to cancel it completely. So she agreed, and the guy came and put in that new line.

To finally get to the runs, the first one that I’ll write about here was on January 16, and it came after being out on both of the previous two days, albeit not late on the previous evening, plus that I still didn’t have green onions for the salad made in that day’s early hours, so I once again used a red onion. And then, after getting up to pee a little after 8:45 AM, I kept waking up, and a little after 10:10 AM I was also woken up by a call, later learning that it was a pharmacy that I had ordered some teas for dad from, though I didn’t answer at the time. And there were also an increasing number of little noises, both from the neighbors and from dad, after he got up… And at 12:40 PM he pulled his bread out of the freezer and woke me up again, so I went to “thank” him for it… And he just asked why did I get up instead of staying in bed. Either way, I had actually fallen asleep again by the time the alarm rang, at 1 PM, then got up, feeling quite sleepy, and had the usual stuff, though I once again delayed opening another bag of whole grains and used regular oats instead, albeit quite a lot of them. And the sweet thing yet again consisted of a slice of cozonac, with added honey. And I left at 3:45 PM, wearing the full running gear, with some things in the pocket of my tights, the thinner old training shirt, despite the shape it’s in, plus that thing on my neck and the gloves, and the jacket on the way, tied around my waist as I ran. The reported temperature was 6°C and it was sunny and not windy, yet it felt surprisingly chilly on the way to the park. Either way, that temperature should have dropped a little by the time I finished, but I couldn’t check at that point and the fact that it was 2°C at 6 PM isn’t relevant, since that was after sunset.
The time was 48:48.20, with sector times of 4:17.79, 5:13.16, 6:03 (6:02.96), 4:35 (4:34.50), 5:39 (5:38.69), 5:52.44, 4:30 (4:29.50), 5:02.16, 5:44.00 and 1:53.00, making for lap times of 15:33.91, 16:06 (16:05.63) and 15:16 (15:15.66). Since I seemed to have finally recovered after that fall that caused problems during the year’s first two runs, at least for the most part, I was clearly aiming to get back under 48 minutes, but the first sector’s time seemed a little worse than it should have been, the second sector was much worse, and when I went over six minutes on sector three of lap one and over 15:30 on the lap as a whole, I knew that I was once again looking at just staying under 49 minutes… And even that became unlikely after I ended up losing over 30 seconds because of a shoelace on sector two of lap two. But I did my best after that moment, pushing more and really going for it on lap three, not thinking that I had any realistic chance but just wanting to know that I gave everything, and in the end I did make it, in fact already being safe at the end of the lap. But, of course, that remains a bad time, and even without that problem, and also without the few seconds lost on sector three of lap one, I wouldn’t have managed to get under 48 minutes.
That loss of time on sector three of lap one was because I almost slammed into another runner who was coming from the opposite direction and jumped aside when a dog jumped at his legs before the owner could pull on the leash, and at that point he was just a couple of steps in front of me and I obviously also turned sharply in the same direction in order to avoid getting near that dog, what saved us from really slamming into each other being that both of us had the same reflex, to thrust our arms forward and grab on, so we grabbed each other’s arms and stopped like that for a moment. But, of course, the big loss of time was when the right shoelace once again became undone, on sector two of lap two. At least it didn’t end up knotted, but I still lost over 30 seconds because of it. Otherwise, there were the usual problems caused by the lane and the small loss of time likely caused by pulling off the glove and then putting it back on after pressing the button on the stopwatch. As for physical issues, while that muscle, if that’s what it was, no longer hurt, I probably still held back to some extent, not wanting to risk a return of the problem by pushing it too much, too soon, and over the course of the first lap a spot on my right calf that seemed to be on the bone was hurting, and then a muscle on my left leg gave some warnings, possibly because I had been trying to spare the right one. Those problems faded after a while, but on lap two I felt like I wasn’t getting enough oxygen, though that issue also seemed to go away on lap three, when I actually pushed harder. On the other hand, while at one point I thought that I might be overheating, I didn’t, so it really felt colder than that reported temperature.

After the run, I wanted to go to two pharmacies, but I tried to use a slightly different route, ended up going off it, and when I was about to get back on it I spotted 3 RON on the sidewalk, which I took after looking around for a little while and not seeing anyone who seemed to be searching for something. I did think that at some point I should probably spend half of that amount on some deeply discounted products that I’ll then give away, but the fact that I didn’t think to do so on the first opportunities and then Kaufland stopped making evening discounts for bakery products puts that in doubt. But that’s a matter for another time, so, to return to that day, after I saw the queue at the first pharmacy, I gave up on the idea of going there as well and just went to Tei, where the queue for those who were buying actual medicines was frighteningly long, but you could walk right in if you wanted other products, so I grabbed the teas for dad and the toothpaste for myself, then quickly checked that Mega Image as well, putting the purchases in a cabinet and then retrieving them. And then I once again put them in a cabinet when I also checked Penny on the way back, buying what I wanted and then retrieving what I had in the cabinet.
I got back for the first time a little after 6:15 PM, put the purchases in their place, did the day’s squats, ate lunch, changed, albeit leaving the t-shirt and shirt on, and left again at 8:10 PM, with dad’s metro card and once again taking that wheeled bag, since the main goal was to check a couple of other Kaufland locations for those large bags of laundry detergent that had such a great discount those days… And I just missed the first metro, the doors closing just as I had gotten to the bottom of the stairs, but at least the next one came only a few minutes later and I took it to Obor, grabbing a recyclable with the deposit symbol on the way to that Kaufland and putting it and another one that I found there into the recycling machine. But that was the only benefit of going there, since none of that detergent was left, so after using the room for disabled people to wash my hands, since the men’s was getting cleaned, entering the store with that bag and walking out when the entrance gate opened for someone else, I got back to the metro station and went to Kaufland Basarab… Which was another waste of time, since I didn’t find that detergent there either, so I peed and washed my hands, once again entered the store with that bag and then just asked to be allowed to leave, the employee from the information desk just opening the gate but the guard asking to see what I had in the bag and whether I only had the gloves in my pockets, also patting that area after I took the gloves out.
Since at that point I thought that I might just have a chance to also reach Kaufland Vitan right before closing time and that jogging to Grozavesti and taking the metro from there might be marginally faster, I did that, but when that metro came I realized that it was too late. I might have just had a chance to get there if I’d have just returned to Basarab instead, but it’d have been awfully tight and at least that way I could get off at Unirii and go to that non-stop Carrefour, where I once again entered with that bag, after trying to put it in a cabinet but seeing that it wouldn’t fit, so I let the guard know that I had it and said that I’ll let him check it if I’ll walk out without purchases. But that wasn’t the case, since I found a few things to get, so at least the evening wasn’t a complete waste of time. The self-checkout machine asked me to make sure that I scanned everything, displaying a clip of me moving the empty bag from one side to the other and highlighting it, so I raised my hand and looked at the employee from that area, but she just told me to hit OK and I could continue once I did. Then I put the purchases in that wheeled bag and got back to the metro station, but I got there a little after one metro had left and the next one waited for a minute or so before leaving the station, which led to missing the last one leaving from Dristor by that time, so I couldn’t switch and walked back from there.
I got back a little after 11:20 PM, put the few purchases in their place, washed the easier things that were left to wash after dad had cooked again, ate a banana and something sweet, and it was 1 AM when I went to shower, being done a few minutes before 1:30 AM and then also eating some nicer bagels while washing and cleaning some more in the kitchen and working on dinner. And I took out a piece of the walnut bread which I had nevertheless bought some time before despite having dropped it on the store’s floor, and which I had washed and microwaved for several minutes before placing in the freezer, washed it a little more and then baked it in the regular oven for a while before slicing and microwaving it normally. And using the regular oven definitely made it even better, though what it did to the crust made it a bit trickier to slice. Either way, I ate dinner between 3:30 AM and 4 AM, and got in bed at 5:20 AM, still feeling some pain on the left side of my neck, which pain had appeared while I was out, maybe while I jogged from Kaufland Basarab to Grozavesti, so it was probably caused by carrying that wheeled bag, and at least it went away the next day.

In the early hours of January 24, I once again used a red onion in the salad, since I still didn’t have green onions, and started eating dinner at 3:15 AM, but at least I still managed to finish at 3:40 AM. On the other hand, at some point during the morning I was dreaming that I was trying to hold my breath or breathe very shallowly because I was trying to trick someone into thinking that I was dead, but I couldn’t do so because I kept needing more air, and when I eventually woke up I felt out of breath and my heart was beating very irregularly. It was quite a relief when the problem seemed to fix itself almost as soon as I took a few deep breaths, but I was wondering what that was about, and whether it had anything to do with my nose once again feeling rather irritated. Either way, after getting back to sleep, I got up when the alarm rang, at 1 PM, and had the usual stuff, finally opening another bag of whole grains as well, while the sweet thing consisted of another slice of cozonac, with added honey. I left a little before 3:25 PM, wearing the full running gear. The reported temperature was 14-15°C, dropping by 1-2°C by the time I finished.
The time was 49:46.04, with sector times of 4:19.82, 5:13 (5:12.22), 6:26.82, 4:41 (4:40.24), 5:14.32, 5:58.21, 5:11 (5:10.76), 5:01.46, 5:51.04 and 1:52 (1:51.15), making for lap times of 15:58.86, 15:53 (15:52.77) and 16:03.26. Considering how crowded it was and how I felt, I didn’t really think that I could get back under 48 minutes, and after two sectors I was thinking that just staying under 49 minutes was a realistic target… But then I lost some 25 seconds because of a shoelace on sector three of lap one and after the end of the lap I thought that even staying under 50 minutes wasn’t completely certain, and it became increasingly questionable over the course of the next two sectors, though sector three of lap two was something of a relief… Only for the same shoelace to cause me to lose even more time on sector one of lap three, though I didn’t check to know just how much, and I also had multiple notable problems caused by people on that sector, making it seem that I was going to even go over 50 minutes after all. But I still had a chance if I could somehow obtain some normal times from then on, gaining as much compared to six minutes on sector three as I’ll lose compared to five minutes on sector two, so I just gave everything and, despite more problems caused by people and also picking up a coin, I was safe at the end of the lap. But the time remains awful, that shoelace only caused me to lose a little over a minute, and the notable problems caused by people likely put the total around a minute and a half, so I don’t think that I could have managed to get back under 48 minutes even without any of these problems.
As I already mentioned, one major problem was that it was crowded, so I kept having to weave, go the long way around and squeeze through, and there were also moments when I slowed a little or took to the grass. There were a few brief silly dances as well, though those were from enough of a distance to avoid needing to stop. But I did briefly stop, because of roadblocks, once on sector two of lap two and twice on sector one of lap three, one of those moments being on the long straight, and there might have been one more such moment on sector two of lap three, though I’m not quite certain and I might have only slowed a fair bit in that spot. But it was also on sector two of lap three when I had to stop for a couple of seconds when I was pushing as hard as possible and a guy on a scooter came from one of the other paths and turned towards me, so we saw each other just before a potential impact and he didn’t try to avoid me at all, but we managed to stop just in time. And I also slowed significantly while squeezing through roadblocks on sector two of lap one and sector one of lap two, as well as in another spot of the long straight of sector one of lap three. But, of course, the biggest losses were caused by the left shoelace getting untied on sector three of lap one and sector one of lap three, which was obviously the most problematic sector, and at that point I made two attempts to retie that shoelace despite the fact that I saw that it had knotted and left it like that, just tying it over the knot, so it won’t trip me. And I also tightened the right shoelace after taking care of the left one. On the other hand, it was on sector three of lap three when I briefly stopped to grab that coin.
But all of that still doesn’t add up to enough to excuse being almost two minutes slower than I should have been, so there were physical issues as well, the most notable being that I felt that I wasn’t getting enough oxygen, which definitely made me think about that moment from the morning again, and there was also the fact that my stomach and abdomen hadn’t recovered after being stretched by the large mamaliga, with plenty of things in it, eaten two nights before, those problems being felt right from the beginning and having quite an impact, even if they gradually faded as time passed. My right knee also gave some warnings towards the end, mainly on sector three of lap three, but that’s barely worth mentioning by comparison.

After briefly checking the nearby Mega Image on the way back, entering with the recyclable with the deposit symbol which I had picked up by then and picking up one more after walking out, I ate what was still somewhat usable out of a mostly spoiled banana and a lunch that consisted mainly of some slices of homemade “pizza” brought by dad, probably made by my cousin from that side and which was worse than some focaccias bought from hypermarkets, and in which I also found a hair. I also added what was left of some shiitake mushrooms that I had fried and boiled a few days earlier, but those didn’t make that much of a difference. Either way, I also did the day’s squats, changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, and left again a little before 8 PM, with a box of regular recyclables that I left next to the bag from the garbage room, since it wouldn’t fit in it, and some old paint that I threw down the chute, plus the recyclables with the deposit symbol, and I picked up some more on the way to Carrefour.
After putting those recyclables in the machine from there, splitting into two vouchers, I just bought a little garlic, needing to enter the code manually after the warning displayed by the scales, that the printer was badly worn and there might be problems when trying to scan the bar code, was proven true, and then I also cashed in those vouchers, though an employee came as I was paying for the garlic, took the two coins which had been left on the machine, and asked whether another voucher received for recyclables, which had a large value on it, was mine, and when I said that it wasn’t she checked to make sure that it had already been used and then took it away, saying that they can’t leave large amounts there, before letting me cash in my vouchers as well.
After putting the garlic in one of the jacket’s pockets, I continued to Kaufland, washing my hands and entering the store a couple of minutes after 9 PM, but only a few discounted products were left in the bakery area and a nicer bun that I could use instead of bread was the only one that I cared for, so after scanning another label and confirming that the product in question only had the regular discount that it had those days, I eventually took that bun, even if most of the cereals which should have been on it seemed to have been scraped off. And then I grabbed a few expiring products, even if most were imported, along with some biscuits and one more thing.
After arranging the purchases, I continued to that Mega Image, putting my things in a cabinet and noticing some wrong discount labels in the bakery area, so I notified the employee who was there about two of them and she took those products away, but when I noticed another issue and notified the other employee who was having a look at the time, she told me that those labels were actually correct, even if that couldn’t be the case, seeing as they stated that some buns weighed more than the much larger ones of the same kind that were right next to them. Either way, after initially grabbing the one bread that was left and which had the 50% evening discount, I eventually put it back and took the two sliced breads that were discounted by 90% that I spotted, thinking that, while I was actually taking them for dad, I could make some use of their ends for myself, even if they were small. And then I found some nicer roes discounted by 90% left among the refrigerated expiring products and took them, even if they had likely been returned there, since they were in plain sight and the only product with that 90% discount that was left there. And those roes also gave the cashier a fair amount of trouble, since the actual bar codes hadn’t been covered by the discount label and they kept scanning instead of it, so she had to remove them multiple times, but at least she eventually managed to scan the discounted price, and then I retrieved my things and made my way back, picking up some more recyclables with the deposit symbol, including a can with a flattened bottom half.
It was almost 10:55 PM when I got back, and then I cleaned the litter box and went to drop a bag of trash down the chute, struggled for some time to straighten that can to some extent, put the purchases in their place, washed what was in the kitchen, and ate the last, large, slice of cake brought by dad some time before, possibly after having left it there a little too long, judging by the foul gas I started having and the way the left side of my tongue started feeling shortly after that. Either way, it was almost 1:20 AM when I went to the bathroom, to use the toilet and take a bath, 2:30 AM when I was done, and 3:55 AM when I started eating dinner, finishing at 4:30 AM, after spending the last several minutes getting what was stuck on the plate. And I got in bed at 6 AM, at which point I felt that the bone spur from my spine had caught something again, and my right leg once again felt rather numb after that, the feeling persisting after I got up, as did the irritation in my nose.

I’ll also mention here that the following night I started eating dinner at 3:05 AM and, while I would have otherwise still finished at 3:40 AM, I then ended up spending ten minutes gathering all that was stuck on the plate, so I actually finished at 3:50 AM. And, after backing up the documents folder on an USB stick but forgetting to also use /DST, getting scared when I saw that it was replacing pretty much every file, stopping it, then taking a few minutes to figure out what had happened and then finally doing it properly, I got in bed at 5:30 AM… By which point I was also feeling something in my chest.

Before getting to January’s last run, I’ll also mention that on January 27 I finally installed the month’s Windows updates, setting the new computer’s uptime record to 36 days, 26 minutes and 41 or 42 seconds, including the time between taking the screenshot and the system actually rebooting. And then I also installed the software for the UPS, sticking to the old one, even if it’s been discontinued, and being relieved to find that it no longer lost connection.

As for that last run, it was on January 28, and in that day’s early hours I put the beets in the oven and the few carrots that I had left on the stove and then shaved, thinking that I was going to have time, especially after having already sliced the bread during the evening… But I ended up eating dinner between 3:15 AM and 3:50 AM, the salad also containing the core and the sprouted parts of a large onion which had sprouted, since I still didn’t have green onions. And, after waking up multiple times, including once because of an SMS about an order, and having some trouble getting back to sleep on that occasion and the last one, which must have been a little after 12:30 PM, since I checked the time after a while and saw 12:41 PM, I think that I had just fallen asleep again when the alarm rang, at 1 PM, and I got up. Then I had the usual stuff, with the sweet thing consisting of the last slice of the cozonac brought by dad from his sister, with added honey, and left at 3:20 PM, wearing the full running gear. The reported temperature was 17-18°C, holding steady.
The time was 47:23.45, with sector times of 4:18.91, 5:06 (5:05.54), 5:52.31, 4:29.03, 4:58.06, 5:45 (5:44.60), 4:25 (4:24.90), 5:01.28, 5:45 (5:44.85) and 1:44 (1:43.97), making for lap times of 15:16.76, 15:12 (15:11.69) and 15:11.03. I had decided to continue to 16 km if I won’t get back under 48 minutes on ten kilometers, but wasn’t sure if I didn’t want to run 16 km anyway, so I really didn’t know how much I wanted to push on the first sector and that time was better than I expected, while after two sectors the target was to at least cover the first lap in less than the 15:20 that’s the target lap time for 48 minutes, which I did. And then, even if my chances of actually staying under 48 minutes looked poor, when I really had to make up my mind, after sector one of lap two, I decided to at least try, so I pushed harder and obtained good times, thinking after the end of the lap that I could make it after all. And when, after sector two of lap three, I felt quite safe, at least unless I was going to have notable problems, I decided to add another minor challenge and continue to 16 km if I’ll somehow fail to stay under six minutes on sector three of lap three. There was also the fact that it seemed very likely that I was going to cover 16 km in less than 1:18 if I was going to try it that day, the question being about 1:17, and it’d have been nice to obtain such a time after not running more than ten kilometers since the marathon, but after going over 48 minutes five times in a row, I was more interested in at least another normal time over ten kilometers. And when, at the end of lap three, it seemed that I might just squeeze under 47:30 as well, that became my target and I kept pushing, managing that while also obtaining a very good time on the final sector.
I again felt like I wasn’t getting enough oxygen early on and had to work on my breathing over the course of the first lap, things improving after that, though over the first half or so of lap two I was starting to feel drained, as if I was slipping out of runner’s high, before that feeling also passed and things seemed to settle. Otherwise, a slight pressing need also made its presence occasionally known over the course of lap two and once again on sector three of lap three, but it was never a real problem. And the weather was just about perfect and there were no other issues, except a pretty normal amount of weaving and going the long way around, the reasons being split between the lane and other people. My nose was quite irritated after the run, but that had been the case even before it.

On the way back, I grabbed a recyclable with the deposit symbol and the label from another one that was too crushed… And when I picked that one up I found that the bottom was cracked and the juice that was left in it spilled on my shoe. Either way, after getting back I ate lunch, in the form of some slices of pizza which had been brought by dad, did the day’s squats, changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, and after cleaning the litter box, going to drop a bag of trash down the chute and coming back to wash my hands, I left again at 7:20 PM, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol, including a plastic bottle on which I had placed that label, even if it was from something entirely different and even slightly larger. And I picked up some more on the way to Carrefour, putting them in a cabinet that didn’t lock after deciding against using the recycling machine from there and then retrieving them after just having a quick look in the store. And then I decided that I had time to also go to Auchan after all, picking up some more recyclables with the deposit symbol on the way and putting all of them in the machine from there… Or more exactly in two machines, since after getting a voucher for dad’s recyclables and putting in the first one of mine, the first machine stopped, and the other one that I moved to while the first one was being serviced soon stopped as well, though at least it was restarted quickly and I could continue with the remaining recyclables, ending up with four vouchers. However, that bottle on which I had placed that label wasn’t accepted, and when I tried to place that label on another plastic bottle which I picked up from one of the bins that were there, that didn’t work either, so I dropped that other bottle back in the bin and entered the store with my remaining one.
I was mainly going to Auchan for chamomile tea and maybe a pack of those wheat things, but after picking those up I also grabbed a bottle of liquid soap and an expiring protein bar, and this last thing ended up taking quite a while, because the discount label was covering the ingredients and I looked for the product on the shelf but couldn’t find it. I had also spotted some biscuits among the expiring products that had their ingredients covered in the same manner and I couldn’t find those in the regular place on the shelf either, but while I could eventually spot “hydrogenated fat” among the ingredients of the biscuits and therefore discarded them, the only way to read those of that protein bar was to very carefully peel off the discount label, which is made so it’ll tear into strips, I guess so it won’t be peeled off one product and placed on another. But I eventually managed it, and then I initially went to the one self-checkout that allows cashing in vouchers received for recyclables, but by the time I got there I realized that I was going to be able to use all of them while paying for the purchases, and that self-checkout was in use, so I meant to use the one next to it… Only to realize just as I was about to start scanning that it only accepted cards, so I had to wait for that one after all, by which point I had decided to just buy two of the teas and leave the third one there… And then, while I remembered to use the small amount left on the store card, I forgot to use those vouchers, so it was a good thing that I was at that machine, because I had to cash them in anyway, after paying for the purchases.
I then rushed to Kaufland, deciding to try that recyclable there as well before entering the store but only losing a little time, since a single recycling machine was working and it was in use, so I gave up, put my things in a cabinet, washed my hands, and entered the store when it was almost 9:20 PM. The listed bakery discounts were of 50% at that point, but I scanned the labels for the nicer buns and the sweet pastry that I was interested in and found that they were actually discounted by 75%, so I took two of the buns and the last one of those sweet pastries… But I forgot that I meant to spend half of those 3 RON found after the run from two weeks before on deeply discounted products and then give them away, and as I already mentioned it seems that I won’t be getting other opportunities to do so, at least for the moment. Either way, there were few evening discounts for vegetables and they weren’t that great, so I eventually spent way more than I’d have wanted on a lettuce with root and two pretty small kohlrabies, also grabbing a bunch of kohlrabi leaves from that crate, then wasted time until 9:45 PM, hoping for some new or increased discounts but seeing none… And those kohlrabies were apparently too small for the machine to accept them as the correct products on their own, but after I added the bag with the leaves on the scales it allowed me to continue, and I once again scanned the QR code for dad’s store app.
After retrieving my things and arranging everything, I walked out just before the closing announcement and saw a cart with the coin in it, but I didn’t take it right away, wondering if it didn’t belong to the person who had parked next to it and who was just finishing unloading another cart. So I first went back to the recycling machines and, after that bottle on which I had placed that label still wasn’t accepted like that, I put it on another one that I grabbed from one of the bins and that one was accepted… But I didn’t gain anything, because the man who finished using one of the machines just before I did that also spotted that cart, walked to it before I got back there and retrieved the coin. But at least I picked up a few more recyclables with the deposit symbol on the way back.
I got back a couple of minutes after 10:30 PM, then I separated the kohlrabi stems, to just keep the leaves, put most of the purchases in their place, ate an apple and a sweet pastry that I already had, washed what was in the kitchen, and it was past 12:20 AM when I went to shower, the water not being good enough for more than that, so I was done only some 25 minutes later… But then I spent some time in my room, so it was just about 1:15 AM when I went back to the kitchen, and then I also put the remaining purchases in their place, dealt with one more of my breads which I had purchased two days earlier but then just put them all in the fridge, since dad was going to get up very early and I didn’t want to make noise while struggling to make them fit in the freezer, also used the smaller kohlrabi leaves and some of the lettuce in the salad, and put the roes which had expired a month earlier but which I had kept in the freezer since then into jars, which took a while, because the oil separated pretty much completely when they thawed and I tried to sieve it before pretty much giving up on that idea. So I ended up eating dinner between 3:20 AM and 3:50 AM, though I had licked plenty of those roes before that point.