Cav's Place

On September 19, after making and eating mamaliga at night, I obviously kept waking up to pee, but the workers were quiet, my back was also much better, and I strangely slept even as dad was getting ready to leave, only waking up again a little before 10:30 AM, after he had already left, at which point I saw something that made me get on the computer and send him an e-mail, and while waiting for a reply I played a little more Lords of Xulima. Then, after seeing his reply, a few minutes after 11 AM, I got back in bed, and if at first it was hard to get back to sleep, I eventually did, only getting up at 4:40 PM, though I’m pretty sure that I last woke up at 3:50 PM, my attempt to get back to sleep one more time after that failing completely. Then, after eating quite a lot of watermelon and lunch and doing the day’s squats, I left at 8:35 PM, with the recyclables with the deposit symbol, which I put in the machine from that new Carrefour Express. One wasn’t accepted and when I cashed in the voucher I asked whether they could give me the coin for that as well, but the cashier said that she couldn’t unless she had a factory to change it so the machine would accept it, shrugging when I said that at the large Carrefour stores you can hand in what’s not accepted. Either way, I then continued to the large Carrefour, finding that some Asian festival was taking place in the area around the stadium and I had to go around, after actually trying to go through but being stopped by a guard who told me that I couldn’t.
After putting the few recyclables picked up on the way, along with the one which hadn’t been accepted earlier, in the machine, I entered Carrefour at 9:10 PM, getting the cat food, cabbage and sour cream that I had gone there for plus some beer for dad that was at half price. Then, after needing to go to an employee and ask her to approve the sale of the beer, since they were all gathered in one place and chatting, I used the voucher received for purchasing the new TV and the one received for the recyclables and then saw that I did just have enough time to check Kaufland as well, so I rushed there, putting the purchases in a cabinet and entering the store just before 9:45 PM. And, while not as great as other times, there were some interesting evening discounts, so I quickly took some carrots, red onions, and white bell peppers, and then spent the remaining few minutes picking some grapes, having just started to weigh the products when the closing announcement came. But I still dashed to have a very quick look at those discounted products that are close to the checkouts, and then ended up asking the employee to help the woman who was using one of the only two working self-checkouts that accepted cash and clearly needed help. But I could eventually use the other machine, then retrieved what I had in the cabinet and rushed to that Mega Image as well, putting everything in a cabinet when I got there and grabbing some bakery products and the roes that were the only other product left that was also discounted by 90%. Then, after waiting in line for quite a while there as well, I retrieved my things, walked out, and then stopped at a bench to arrange everything. And on the way back I picked up some more recyclables, plus a label taken off a crushed one, and also had a quick look in the nearby Mega Image, the guard asking me to leave the bags when I entered with everything.
It was close to 11:30 PM when I got back, with over 13 kg, and when I spread out the purchases I saw that the carrots had sliced not only the bag that they were in, but the one that I had put that in as well, so I was surprised to find that I hadn’t lost any, nor anything else from that bag. Either way, I then cleaned the litter box and went to drop a bag of trash down the chute, ate an apple, put some of the purchases in their place, making the cat food fit taking quite a while, looked through jams and moved a few into the fridge, put together something sweet and ate that as well, and went to the bathroom, to use the toilet and wash, when it was past 1:40 AM. I was done a few minutes before 2:30 AM, and then I washed what was in the kitchen, put the remaining purchases in their place, and ate dinner between 4:25 AM and 5 AM. I got in bed at 6:25 AM.

Well, just under four hours later I was woken up by that loud drilling from above, which seems to be the rule on Saturday. And dad started looking for his car key, so I helped him look for a while, though he was the one to eventually find it, in a small pocket of his backpack that I wasn’t aware of, since I had otherwise looked through it. Then, after he left, I started writing the review for Dungeons of Dreadrock, getting back in bed at 1 PM, when the noise died down to some scraping, which continued as I tried and failed to actually get back to sleep. At 3 PM, when the alarm rang and I got up to watch the Formula 1 qualifying and a friendly handball match, I initially thought that I hadn’t managed to catch as much as a little nap, but I guess that I probably did nap just a little bit, since it didn’t feel like I was awake for two whole hours. And the drilling resumed not long after I got back up… At least I managed to take a proper nap in the evening.
On the other hand, dad utterly infuriated me at night. He once again gave Liza a lot more food just before going to bed, doing so just as I woke up from that nap, so I initially left Liza’s plate in his bedroom, and later moved the food out of it, washed it, then put the food back and returned the plate there. But she still hadn’t touched it by the time I went to wash what I had used while eating dinner in my room and dad went to the bathroom at the same time, so I went there while he was in the bathroom, turned on the light and put the plate under her nose, so she started eating. I took it away and meant to leave when dad was done in the bathroom, so I won’t bother him, but he complained that I had turned on the light and supposedly woke Liza when he had supposedly gotten out of bed slowly just to avoid that, the fact that she actually was awake when I walked in being irrelevant, of course. And then he called the fact that I was bothered that he may end up throwing away that bit of food “shit”… And I really lost it. Went to the kitchen, waited for a few moments, holding that plate, then flew off the handle, banging things, though I managed to avoid breaking any, and then pacing back and forth and snorting for quite a while before going out on the still demolished balcony, with that plate, meaning to throw the food for some of the cats that are outside. But since none walked by just then and it was too dirty all around to just throw the food down, I eventually walked back in, put that plate back in dad’s room for a while, cleaned the litter box, tried to calm down to some extent, got ready for bed, and then, since the food was still there, I put it and one of those treats which he had left on the living room floor in something else and in the fridge, getting in bed at 5:20 AM.

The alarm was set to ring at 1:55 PM, to watch the race, but after waking up just over an hour earlier and going to pee, I couldn’t get back to sleep, so a few minutes before that time I got up and turned off the alarm. Then I finished and posted the review for Dungeons of Dreadrock, did the day’s squats, and left at 7 PM, with the regular recyclables, which I dropped off in a recycling bin, some expired cat food, which I left for some stray cats I saw close to that recycling bin, and the recyclables with the deposit symbol, picking up some more on the way to Kaufland.
Going there was a complete waste of time, since the machine didn’t work, and after putting those recyclables in a cabinet, washing my hands, and entering the store at 7:40 PM, I didn’t see any interesting evening discounts and, while I initially picked up one product which I considered buying, I was uncertain and when I saw that a single self-checkout that accepted cash was working and there were people with many products using it, I eventually decided that it wasn’t worth the wait. So I just left it somewhere on the way back to the entrance and walked out, being about to use the entrance gate, which had just opened for someone else, when the information desk employee asked what did I want and what did I have in my hand, so I showed her the empty bag which I had just taken out of my pocket, just to make it obvious that I wasn’t hiding anything there. And the closing announcement came just as I was walking away.
At least the machine from Carrefour worked, even accepting a recyclable which had been left next to it, though it didn’t accept one which had been emptied by dad and, obviously, one which I had picked up and was mostly full, since I’d say that somebody tried to prank whoever picked it up because the cap seemed glued on and I couldn’t open it to empty it. So I put those two in a cabinet, but I forgot that I wanted to check the price of their cheap yogurt and didn’t find anything else to get, so I just cashed in the voucher and followed some other people out of the checkout area, so I wouldn’t have to go back to the entrance,
After retrieving those recyclables from the cabinet, I picked up some more and went to that Mega Image that closes at 10 PM, getting there pretty early but being unable to use that time to put in those recyclables, since the machine was having issues, the people who were ahead of me struggling to put in what they had, and the 90% bakery discount labels started being placed before my turn came, so I went there and took an apple pastry, though it was torn in two, and a plain bun. And those discounts were actually made rather early, because by 9 PM I was already waiting for the carts with the other products discounted by 90% to be brought, and when that happened I grabbed two things from there as well. And after waiting in line for a while I decided to go back and grab another one of those bug repellents for my parents as well.
I still had those recyclables when I walked out, the man who had been behind me when I went to take discounted products still struggling to put in everything he had and complaining loudly about the situation. So, after stopping to put the few other purchases, not including the bun and the apple pastry, in the backpack and passing by the Shop & Go from that area, I decided to try that Profi Go… Only to see that, while the display seemed to indicate that it was functional, the machine from there had a sheet of paper taped on it, not allowing anything to be put in, so I walked back out and entered this nearby Mega Image as well, seeing that the machine did work… But the guard told me that it was going to turn off at 10 PM, and when I told her that it wasn’t even 9:40 PM yet she pointed to the large bags that the guy who was using it had and said that she wasn’t even sure that he’ll finish in time. So, after having a quick look inside, I decided to continue to the next Shop & Go. But the machine from there didn’t seem to be working either, an employee struggling with it but seeming unable to get rid of the message that the glass container was full even though it wasn’t, which seemed to be the main problem at the one from that first Mega Image as well. So I eventually came back with all of the recyclables gathered after leaving Carrefour, plus those two which hadn’t been accepted there.
I was back a little after 9:50 PM. Then I cleaned the litter box, eating two of the plums sent by mother before going to drop a bag of trash down the chute, after which I also ate the apple pastry and put the purchases in their place. I went to wash at 11:10 PM and was done just before 11:40 PM, but it was past 1:10 AM when I went back out of my room and 2 AM when I took the first bite of lunch, which consisted of some slices of pizza brought by dad and which he had taken out of the box he had brought them in and placed on a plate, and the edge of one of the slices was also missing, so I wondered about that missing edge and just how clean his hands had been when he had moved the slices. Either way, it was 2:40 AM when I finished that lunch, and I also moved something that he wanted to take to mother into a jar that I thoroughly washed first, ending up eating dinner between 3:30 AM and 4:10 AM. And when I flossed before going to bed I definitely confirmed that the filling which was only replaced in June is loose again, and that area bled when I then brushed my teeth, waiting for the bleeding to stop leading to getting in bed at 5:20 AM again.

When I got up to pee, a little before 8:30 AM, I heard voices outside and also had some pretty bad acid reflux, but I managed to get back to sleep right away and could sleep until the workers returned from their break, which I guess was around 1 PM again. I guess I might have woken up because of various smaller noises before then as well, but in that case I also fell asleep again almost immediately, since what I was actually aware of was when things started falling on the scaffolding and possibly even on my external blinds, so they were obviously tearing down or scraping something above, and I remained curled up under the sheet for quite a long time before checking the time, seeing 1:53 PM, and deciding to get up, albeit after lying there a little longer and then taking it very easy, so it was 2:15 PM when I got on the computer, staying there until 5 PM, when the workers were done. On the other hand, when I got up there was a heaviness in my abdomen and some little blisters on my tongue, plus some remaining acid reflux, albeit not as bad as it had been in the morning, so I had serious doubts about that pizza, or perhaps more exactly about dad handling it with dirty hands and/or somebody having either bitten off or having had dirty hands when they had torn off that missing edge. Either way, in the evening I started reading Blood Communion, and eventually my digestive system seemed to calm down as well.

On the morning of September 23, I surprisingly managed to stay asleep until almost 11:10 AM, not even waking up when dad left. And at that point, when I went to pee, the noise seemed rather distant and I could get back to sleep right away, sleeping for another hour and a half before waking up again, then peeing once more, just in case, and managing to catch another little nap before things started falling around my window, and some of the scraping and hammering seemed to come from upstairs as well. But I had set the alarm to ring at 2 PM and it’s possible that I caught another brief and agitated nap or two before that happened and I got up. Then I had the usual stuff, which included the last of those baked almonds with Himalayan salt which had expired at the beginning of May, to which I added one apricot pit. But when I went to the bathroom, the light flashed and then wouldn’t turn on anymore, so I replaced it with the one from the small bathroom, leaving replacing that with the old one that I kept as a spare for later… And while I was replacing that light, somebody rang the doorbell, and since the workers were right outside the apartment when I wanted to get back to the kitchen, I assumed that it had been them, and the fact that they were there made me avoid going back to the kitchen to eat those two nicer biscuits, with added honey, and drink most of the tea until they moved away and were pretty much done for the day, so I ended up only leaving at 5:05 PM, wearing the full running gear and one armband. The reported temperature was 27-28°C, and a couple of degrees less when I finished.
The time was 1:19:16, with sector times of 4:29, 5:11, 6:02, 4:35, 5:06, 6:00, 4:36, 5:12, 6:03, 4:38, 5:18, 6:13, 4:43, 5:16 and 5:54, making for lap times of 15:42, 15:41, 15:51, 16:09 and 15:53. With this being the first run over ten kilometers since the Dream Trek, or since a week before that if I’m referring to an actual continuous run, I was thinking that I’ll be content to just stay under 1:20 and started at a controlled pace, the first sector’s time being pretty much what I expected. The second sector was just a little slower than I thought it’d be, however, and while I hoped to squeeze under six minutes on the third sector, I definitely didn’t want to push so early, so I took that time as it was. But then I didn’t think that I could afford to be slower on the second lap, and while its second sector recovered almost everything I had lost on its first, sector three of lap two was still far too early to push, so I was sure that I was going to be slower after all… Yet I did just enough to be a second faster on lap two than on lap one, which made me feel much better about my chances of staying under 1:20, and staying safely under 16 minutes on lap three as well improved my confidence even further, to the point that I wondered whether I’ll even manage to stay under 16 minutes on each lap. That might have even been possible if I’d have really pushed on sector three of lap four, but by that point I was starting to think about squeezing under 1:19:30 and pushing before sector two of lap five seemed like it could cause me a net loss, so I “sacrificed” lap four and stuck to that plan, doing enough on sector two of lap five to give myself a good chance and then giving everything on the last sector and ending up very safely under 1:19:30. Not that this isn’t still a pretty bad time in itself, but I’m content with it under these circumstances.
What does make it worse is that there’s actually surprisingly little to say in terms of issues, especially after the first sector, since a pretty serious gust of wind hit me almost as soon as I started running and, far more concerning, right after that first sector’s long straight I felt what seemed like a warning coming from my heart. But neither of those problems repeated itself after that, and the only thing I’d mention about lap two was also right after the beginning of it, when the spray from the fountains that are on the lake was carried onto the path and there was a moment, before the bridge, when I found it rather hard to breathe because of it. Other than that, a pressing need appeared towards the end of sector two of lap three, worsening over the course of the next two sectors, but then it became more manageable, even if it remained noticeable all the way to the end. As for problems caused by people, other than a pretty normal amount of weaving and going the long way around, on sector one of lap four I slowed in order to squeeze through a roadblock, while on sector one of lap five I briefly stopped because of a little boy who came out from behind his parents and almost ran into my legs.

I did a few quick stretching moves before walking out of the park, and I also picked up a few recyclables, putting them in the machine from the nearby Mega Image but not staying to cash in the voucher at that point. And then I picked up two more recyclables, one of them without a label but being the right size for the label that I still had, and after getting back, piercing that cap that seemed to have been glued on and emptying that bottle, I decided to try to open it again and found that it opened right away, which was really weird. Either way, I then cleaned the litter box, ate a lot of watermelon, changed, albeit leaving the running t-shirt on, also changed the light from the small bathroom and found the receipt for the burned out one, since it’s still under warranty, and it was past 8:40 PM when I left again, with a bag of trash that I dropped down the chute and the recyclables with the deposit symbol, picking up one more on the way to Kaufland.
When I got there, I saw another recyclable next to the door of a car that was parked next to the entrance to the underground parking lot, and a couple more scattered on the ground, but someone was in the car and a woman was outside, so I initially put what I had in the machine, then saw that the car was gone and went back to pick up that recyclable that was still on the pavement, though I left the others, since that woman was still there, with her back turned. And, after putting that recyclable in the machine as well, I entered the store just before 9:15 PM and made use of evening discounts to get carrots, tomatoes, and Kapia peppers. I also added two of those cheap yogurts, and when I heard a good discount for sausages being announced I meant to get some of those as well, for dad, but when I got there I was told that they had just sold all of them. So, after waiting for 9:45 PM without seeing any new or increased discounts, I cashed in the voucher received for the other recyclables and used the one received for that last one when I paid. I was arranging the purchases when the closing announcement came, walking out a couple of minutes after 10 PM… And seeing a lot of smoke, so I was looking around, trying to see where the fire was, only learning after I got back that it was actually 3.5 km away, at a storage facility, and people were advised to stay inside with the windows closed because of the toxic smoke.
Not that I could have done much about that at that point, but since I wasn’t even aware of it, I continued to that Mega Image that closes at 11 PM, picking up another recyclable on the way, entering the store with everything, and just wasting some time, because the bakery products weren’t even bagged yet and the employees didn’t seem to be about to make any discounts, so after waiting around for a little while I continued to the non-stop Mega Image as well, picking up one more recyclable on the way and once again entering with everything. But I was apparently too late for the discounted bakery products, since I saw someone who had a few, but none of those that were left were discounted. And while an employee was checking the other products and applying the 90% discount to those that were just about to expire, a man was standing next to him and taking everything. So I looked for something else, spotting some cooked food that was expiring the following day and discounted by 50%… And as I was trying to work up the courage to ask whether that discount will also increase, dad called to say that he had forgotten his keys at mother and was just getting off the metro. So I had to get back and open the door, which made me manage to ask not one but two employees about that discount, since I couldn’t spot the one which had been applying those labels right away but did see him again before walking out. But both told me that the discount won’t increase that evening, so I left without buying anything from there either, showing the guard the recyclables and an empty bag when she asked what I had in the bag and in my pocket, the purchases being in the backpack, which she didn’t ask about.
Despite jogging back, I still picked up a couple of recyclables on the way, and after meeting dad in front of the building I grabbed a couple more that were left here. And, after letting dad in, I went back out, to have a look in the nearby Mega Image as well, grabbing two bakery products that did have the 90% discount. I also saw some nicer packaged bread that I’d have bought for dad, but it was discounted by 50% and when I asked the employee who had placed the 90% discount labels on the bakery products he said that the bread will stay at 50%, so I didn’t get it.
I got back for good at 11:10 PM, asked dad if he’d cook something, and eventually dug out some bio (organic) “burger” patties from the freezer and cleaned the grill for him to use for them, and when they were close to being done I added the two remaining slices of the pizza he had brought, though those got rather stuck on the grill and it then took a while to get them off. But first I ate a sweet pastry, put some of the purchases in their place, cut some of the watermelon for him to take to mother, then ate lunch, consisting of the pizza slices and one of the patties, and did the day’s squats. It was past 1:45 AM when I went to shower, that dull pain in that area of my head once again being more notable, not that it had ever fully gone away after I had first noticed it. And the water was quite cold until I was just about done, when it suddenly ended up being around body temperature and seemed to keep warming up. But I didn’t linger, being done just after 2:10 AM. Then I washed what was in the kitchen, including the grill, put the remaining purchases in their place, took the last of those expired vitamin C and zinc supplements, and ate dinner between 4:35 AM and 5:20 AM. I got in bed at 6:35 AM.

The plan was that dad would wake me to lock the door behind him, since he didn’t want to take my keys and leave me locked inside, and several minutes before 8 AM, so after I had only slept for about an hour, he did that, at which point I also cleaned the litter box to give him a small bag of trash to take. And, while I was back in bed just before 8 AM, I couldn’t get back to sleep right away, some faint noises started soon after, and around 8:45 AM they weren’t that faint anymore, so I got on the computer, and while the noise wasn’t exactly bad either, I only got back in bed at 11:50 AM, when I hoped that the workers would take their break. And they did, after a few minutes of worse noise, when they probably rushed to finish something, but it still took me a while to fall asleep again, and after they finished their break and the noise woke me again, I only managed to take a couple of brief and agitated naps, despite only crawling up from under the sheet some time after 4 PM. And then I read some more of the book, only actually getting up when it was close to 5:15 PM and the workers were gone, so I could raise the blinds and move around. And I didn’t get back in bed again that evening.

At least I did get some pretty good sleep on September 25… Which was very much a surprise, since dad had said that someone was supposed to come in the morning and measure the windows, so he should have woken me up some time before that, but I found myself only waking up after he left and finding a note saying that he had left earlier because they had also arrived earlier, which I found baffling, since measuring windows would have also required entering my room. But in the evening he explained that nobody came for the windows, but just to ask him to sign that he agrees to the work being done. Not that sleeping through that wasn’t a surprise just as well. But the workers’ break was supposed to start soon after I woke up, so I got back in bed and slept for some two more hours before the noise woke me, after a total of some eight hours of sleep. So I didn’t make up for the previous day, but at least I didn’t add even more to the sleep debt for once. And the microwave popcorn I made and ate during the evening’s match, which was admittedly of a different kind than the one used the previous time and expired “only” since December of 2023, actually seemed perfectly fine.
I wanted to check some Mega Image stores after the match, so I left at 9:55 PM, picking up a few recyclables and jogging to the one from Mihai Bravu, which I had found closes at 11 PM but had never checked for those 90% discounts until then. And the wind was quite a problem, chilling me and threatening to blow the cap off my head if I stopped holding on to it… Which did happen at one point. But I did get there in time to see those labels being placed on the bakery products and that time I managed to grab the two apple pastries that were there, reaching over as the man who had been waiting asked the employee about them. And then I waited around for quite a while, first because there were many bakery products left and that employee was going through them slowly, but also because I had seen some other interesting products that expired the next day and were discounted by 50%, so I wondered whether she’ll get to them next. And she eventually did seem to be going there, but then a guard came and called her over, apparently in order to take some products she had asked to be saved for her, and it was getting too late, so I just bought those pastries, without waiting for the receipt. Then, after putting the pastries in the backpack and picking up a couple more recyclables, I continued to the non-stop Mega Image that’s close to the metro station, put the recyclables in a cabinet that I didn’t lock, entered with the backpack, but found the bakery area already cleared and nothing else with the 90% discount. And after retrieving the recyclables and picking up a couple more on the way back, I entered this nearby Mega Image at 11:02 PM but only found some bagels that I wasn’t interested in left in the bakery area, and what was strange was that there were crates and piles of products everywhere and the employees were gathered outside, though none told me that they had closed early or tried to stop me from entering.
I was back a little after 11:05 PM. Then I cleaned the litter box and went to drop a bag of trash down the chute, did the day’s squats, ate one apple pastry and put the other one in the fridge, and it was past 12:10 AM when I went to shower, being done just over 40 minutes later… And that time I didn’t notice that pain in that part of my head anymore. But then I spent some time on the computer, going back to the kitchen at 1:25 AM. And I also swept the floor and I’m not sure when I took the first bite of lunch, but quite some time passed before the second and I only finished eating it at 3:25 AM, then ate dinner between 3:30 AM and 4 AM.

Several minutes before 8:30 AM, I was already woken up by pretty bad noise, but it didn’t stay that bad and I could get back to sleep, and while I still woke up occasionally and, perhaps somewhat oddly, it was harder to get back to sleep after going to pee and exchanging a few words with dad during the workers’ break, I eventually managed to take another nap after that as well and it was 1:53 PM when I got up for good, when what sounded like metal cutters started making an awful noise. Then I ate lunch, did the day’s squats, and left at 6:05 PM, with a bag of trash that I dropped down the chute… Only for a piece gathered from the litter box to fall on the floor, and I wasn’t going to leave shit there, so it’s fortunate that something else fell along with it and I could use that to pick it up and drop it down the chute as well. Either way, I also had the recyclables with the deposit symbol, and even though I rushed to Obor I picked up some more on the way, plus a label taken off a crushed one.
After putting the recyclables in the machine from Auchan, I used the voucher when I paid for the paper towels that I bought from there, and after putting those in the large backpack I continued to Carrefour, picking up another recyclable on the way and putting it in the machine from there. I also took a label off a crushed one that was left there and put it on another one that didn’t have the deposit symbol, but that machine refused to read that bar code and someone else came to use it before I could try to put that label that I already had on that bottle instead, so I dropped that bottle that didn’t have the symbol in a bin and walked away. Then, after peeing and washing my hands, I entered the store and bought some snacks, vouchers with 30% of the value being offered for that product category, among others, those days. And I also used the voucher received for that recyclable when I paid and added the purchases in the large backpack.
I started jogging after walking out of that mall, but when I passed by a Profi I stopped for a quick look, entering with everything, and then I picked up a few more recyclables, including one that didn’t have the deposit symbol, on which I placed that label that wasn’t read before. And after that I didn’t jog anymore, initially meaning to just get to that Mega Image that closes at 10 PM in time for the 90% discounts. However, when I reached Mega Mall I decided to check that Carrefour as well, noticing two recyclables in the first bins I passed by inside the mall… But a guard told me that I wasn’t allowed to do that as soon as I picked up the first one, though after I put it back he told me to take that one, but that if I’ll continue searching he’ll invite me to leave the mall. So I grabbed that one again and then rushed straight to the machine, putting everything in, only being left with that label that still wasn’t read, so I replaced it with the other one, which worked. And in that Carrefour I found what I hadn’t found at Obor, a certain kind of snacks and more of the cat food that was on sale, thinking that I had enough for how much I wanted to take but realizing at the self-checkout that I hadn’t factored in the deposit for the expiring beers which I had also grabbed for dad, so I left some of the cat food there, the fact that I had noticed the problem before scanning it meaning that I didn’t need to call over an employee. Either way, I also used the voucher received for those recyclables and then put the new purchases in the backpack with rope straps. However, there was no way to run with two backpacks, and it was close to 9 PM by then anyway, so I came straight back, trying to jog, albeit very lightly, after finding that the area around the stadium was closed and needing to go back and around. And I picked up two more recyclables.
I was back for the first time at 9:35 PM. Then I put the purchases in their place, ate an apple and some expired salty pretzels while watching what was left of a match, and after it was over, a few minutes before 11 PM, I went back out and to the nearby Mega Image, seeing that the bakery discounts of 90% had already made and taking some things from there, plus some onions that were discounted by 50%. And, on top of not being charged for the bag that those onions were placed in, at the checkout I noticed that their price was slightly lower than what was listed on the discount label, though I later saw that it was, correctly, half of what was listed on the regular label that was under it. On the other hand, the guard, who was sitting inside the bakery area while I was trying to decide what to get, was coughing really badly, and so was the guy who was behind me at the checkout. Either way, I also finally used that voucher received for the recyclables put in the machine from there after the run.
After getting back for good, I just dropped off the purchases and rushed to wash, since dad was going to get back later and I knew that he was going to want to wash as well. And after I was done I put the last purchases in their place and then spent some time on the computer, getting back in the kitchen at 1:10 AM and then eating a sweet pastry that I already had, washing some things, taking one of those cold pills that expired a year before, moving the contents of a can which had expired three weeks before into a jar, and ending up eating dinner between 3:50 AM and 4:45 AM, so at 4 AM I only managed to post a placeholder for that day’s post.

Unlike previous Saturdays, on September 27 it was quiet and I could sleep. I did wake up after dad did, around 9:30 AM, and remained awake until he left, just after 10:20 AM, but since I didn’t need to pee I only got up to do so, just in case, at that point, and then I got back to sleep. I’m not sure for how long, since I was awake and just curled up under the sheet, lost in memories and daydreams and what ifs, for very long before finally dragging myself out of bed close to 3:40 PM, but I should have slept a pretty normal number of hours. On the other hand, after getting back to reading after finishing the post, it was almost 1:30 AM when I went back to the kitchen, and I also dealt with my bread and moved dad’s leftovers into a bowl, and while I “cheated” by taking a bite of dinner in my room just before 3 AM, I then once again saw time get away from me and also ended up moving the slices of bread to another plate and getting what was stuck on the one used to microwave them, so it was 3:25 AM when I actually started to eat and, despite doing my best to wolf everything down quickly, 3:45 AM when I finished.

After waking up around 9:30 AM, I couldn’t get back to sleep despite staying in bed until dad left, the fact that it was getting too cold to just cover myself with that sheet obviously not helping. Either way, at 10:55 AM I got on the computer for a while, before reading some more. It was noon when I tried to get back to sleep once again… But I still couldn’t, barely napping a little before getting up to pee again a couple of minutes after 2 PM. At least I managed to take more of a nap after that, but it was still a pretty short one, since it took me a while to fall asleep and I was once again awake for some time before checking, seeing 3:21 PM, and deciding to get up. And then I counted and sorted coins for Penny’s campaign, but by the time I finished the book and ate lunch, it was way too late to even make another attempt to go there and ask whether they still had vouchers, so I just took the few recyclables with the deposit symbol when I left, just after 7:15 PM, picking up a few more on the way to Kaufland despite jogging. But the machines were in use by people with large bags and it was late already, so I didn’t wait.
After putting those recyclables in a cabinet, I entered the store at 7:35 PM and made use of good evening discounts to get a lettuce with root and potatoes, and I saw some sausages that also had an evening discount, so I bought a few of those as well, for dad, plus some of those treats for Liza and just two cans of cat food for my mother’s cats, since there was a 30% discount for all pet food but I couldn’t remember just what kind she most recently said that they were eating and the kinds that were more readily available didn’t seem right. Either way, I was in line at the self-checkouts when the closing announcement came, but the people who were using one of the machines ahead of me took their time bagging their purchases, and the guy did so in front of the scanner, which led to the bag being scanned and needing to wait for the employee from that area to clear it before I could use the machine. And after retrieving those recyclables I stepped through the first set of doors and took some time to arrange my purchases, only walking out at 8:15 PM.
Then I rushed to Carrefour, putting the recyclables in the machine, being left with a can that was too crushed to be accepted, entering with everything, getting some of their cheap yogurt and some pizza dough and also using the voucher received for the recyclables when I paid. And then I rearranged the purchases a little and rushed out, being past 8:40 PM when I left that mall and starting to jog after a while, since I wanted to reach that Mega Image that closes at 10 PM in time for the discounts of 90%. But I probably didn’t gain much by jogging, since I did so slowly and was occasionally slowing back to a walk, and since I had placed those yogurts in the backpack, I was worried that they’ll get damaged as I jogged.
At least it wasn’t even 8:55 PM when I reached that Mega Image and those discounts weren’t yet made, so I put the bags in a cabinet, entered with the backpack, had a quick look at the expiring products that had lower discounts, and was checking the cabbage when I saw that the cart with the products with the 90% discount had been brought before the bakery discounts were made, so I rushed there, but a couple of other people had already grabbed some things and I only took a bottle of apple and pear juice before rushing back to the bakery area, where those discount labels were being placed… And I apparently just missed out on what I’d have been interested in from there as well, so I just took a bun, after which I added a cabbage, what seemed to be the last of those bug repellents for my parents, and an expiring bio (organic) yogurt that was only discounted by 50%… And when I wanted to arrange the purchases, I found that the edge of one of the yogurts had sliced through the cover of another one, which fortunately hadn’t spilled but which I was definitely wary about eating under those conditions. But there wasn’t that much to do about it at that point, so I put it in a separate bag and tried to hold it straight on the way back. And since I had picked up a few more recyclables by the time I got here, I wanted to use the machine from the nearby Mega Image, but it wasn’t working.
I got back at 9:50 PM, though I had spotted a couple of bakery products that I was interested in when I had checked the nearby Mega Image and meant to go back there at 11 PM, to see whether they’ll still be there and discounted by 90%. So I put the purchases in their place, ate a few plums, washed what was in the kitchen, and went back out when it was almost 10:55 PM… But there were no discounts of 90% at that point and none seemed about to be made, the employee who had been making them before being busy cleaning and the cashier saying that she wanted to smoke at one point and asking why were there people still in the store… And that pretty much meant just me at that point, so I took a hint and walked out, going a small distance away and waiting for her to finish smoking and go back in, at which point I tried to have a quick look from a distance at the top of the bakery area, which was all I could see without even reaching the door, since the guard was there and I’d have felt awkward to just look yet again. And none of the products that I could see in that area were even bagged, so I just came back.
I was finally back for good just after 11:15 PM, and then I cleaned the litter box, went to drop a bag of trash down the chute, straightened that can as much as I could, and rushed to finish and post what ended up being a first form of the quick review for the book. It was just past 12:20 AM when I went to wash and almost 1 AM when I was done, but I managed to stick to the dinner schedule despite exchanging a few words with dad, which included agreeing that the yogurt with that sliced top was going to get used in what he wanted to cook, fixing something sweet and eating it, having a few more things to wash, and using the worse lettuce leaves for the salad. And after eating I changed the wording of that review quite significantly.

The workers were obviously back in the morning, but the sort of noise they were making allowed me to keep taking naps, albeit interrupted and agitated ones, filled with scary, realistic dreams, plus what was probably a more proper one during their break. But I couldn’t stay in bed quite as long as I otherwise would, so just before 2:10 PM I got up… And dad changed his mind about how he wanted to cook and wasn’t going to use that yogurt after all, so I ate it. But I ended up being served with an excuse to yet again delay my plans to go out again, take those coins, and try to get myself to ask about that campaign when the hot water became quite cold and the site stated that the problem would remain all day, as they were trying to rebalance the system after starting work that will last all week nearby. And, either way, dad cooking meant that I basically spent all day in the kitchen, cleaning after him and arranging things… And seeing as this week’s run was the following day but I still only have the quick notes about it, I’ll stop here. And this is a new longest post anyway, easily beating the one from two weeks ago, since it has 8401 words, or 8411 if you include the title.