With trips to Upstate New York for the rest of my weekends in March, this was the Saturday grab some early morning overtime, drive down to check on my mom, run whatever errands she had for me, and probably just head home to chill.
Except I showed up on time to the building... and the parking lot was 100% empty with no weekend access with my badge.
Oops, someone forgot to tell security to revise badge access for me, other employees, and even the floor manager.
I decided to forgo overtime and head to my mom's, a wise choice, as access wasn't granted to anyone until the time I was planning on leaving anyway.
And despite the entire Pennsylvania internet screaming about second winter was coming, PennDOT was flat footed handling quick squalls, drifting snow, and icy roads. Thank God I took a straighter route, as my usual path was filled with cars in ditches and similar wrecks.
I got to my mom's, task list handed to me, and I ran errands with horrendous traffic, worse than the snow: dense, drifting, and forcing me to take the long way back to her house.
But here's the surprise. A half hour after returning, and putting away groceries, we placed an online order for Wawa and I went out in the direct again.
Ten minutes to get there, five minutes to wait for our order, and here's the shocking point.
Three minutes to get back.
One mile, multiple traffic lights, zero cars on my side of usually packed streets.
This is the first weekend where I did make some game-related purchases, but more project related.
The trip to Dollar Tree for my mother (she loves their tissues for some reason) netted me the egg necklace for a potential Easter game, and extra masking tape for a project.
I have stopped avoiding Hobby Lobby, simply because the other outlets are not stocking things and it's rarely been worth the trip. After a late lunch I left my mother's and swung in the nearby shop for enough Easter stuff to implement into a game, discounted brushes, some foliage for that aforementioned project, and cheap primer/sealant.
With part of the afternoon still open, I decided on a road trip on the fly and stopped at a located I had never visited. That resulted in the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness GM screen and a pack of... housecats. Reviews are forthcoming, but one of them involves this oddly darkened photo.
No, I did not break into daycare on a Saturday.
Perhaps the best purchase of the week is behind all that swag: finally, a new printer! With Mepacon a month away I'm about 20% prepped for all my events. Hopefully I can get that number a little higher this Sunday, plus some painting, plus some prep for the Monday night Gamma World game.
.... and I'm happy to report that once I got back on the interstate from this undisclosed location, I drove almost an hour at or above 75mph without braking. I did get a little reprieve from the traffic gods.
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