I spent a lot of my vacation last week bemoaning my lack of human interaction. This week I'm having interaction opportunities popping up (sure, online, but it's still conversation). And there's a panicked weasel flailing around in the back of my mind. Is this an introvert thing? I will grab onto communication like a drowning person, but after a few minutes I start panicking and wanting to run away.

I love Amazon Prime, but I feel bad using it all the time.

I hear you. I'm not completely sure I should feel bad, though, so I'm way ambivalent, I guess. Just paid my annual fee for it, though, and that's gone up (probably I agreed to try additional services and am paying extra for those now, I should review that) but boy that instant 2-day shipping that sometimes turns out to be even faster sure does come in handy.

Man, I want to talk about the train of propane tank cars I was waiting for this morning but I need to do actual work. I hope I remember what I wanted to say when I have time to say it...

I am getting lectured over chat by my coworker. "Well, the file shouldn't show that date."

WELL, IT DOES.

And now she's explaining Windows to me.

I've got a customer describing an error and how he figured out how to fix it, so now he wants me to fix the error.

Apparently he shouldn't have to fix errors he gets because errors didn't happen before.

but boy that instant 2-day shipping that sometimes turns out to be even faster sure does come in handy.

Yeah. It's faster that going to the store for me most of the time. I generally don't have time to go to a store during open hours until the weekend and sometimes not then.

Oh, those both sound like SO MUCH FUN

Whew finished my report and want a break. So, I cross two RR tracks on my way to work (I could avoid crossing tracks but that would require getting on Hwy 12 and waiting at 3 red lights and going an extra, oh, quarter mile or so - I generally prefer to drive by the cow pastures when I drive), the one closest to my house is the line that Amtrak and freight trains run on when they are going places, the one that goes behind work is a siding, I guess, that goes to the Budweiser brewery (I always want to call it the Budweiser plant, but I guess brewery is more correct?). It's apparently getting used to store tank cars of propane, which doesn't worry me too much, I'm oddly sanguine about having tank cars of propane stored near me. I acknowledge that if there is a fault or accident that it could be terrible, but that doesn't seem very likely. However, as I watched the tank cars shuttling back and forth in front of me this morning (apparently the length of the train and the placement of the switches meant blocking the road I was on for about 10 minutes, which isn't very long, really, but is pretty frustrating when where I'm going is RIGHT THERE on the other side of the tracks - I could literally slip between the cars while the train is stopped and walk the rest of the way before they finish moving back and forth, but I do not do that) I noticed that all these propane tanks are marked Non-odorized and THAT really disturbs me. What's non-odorized propane doing out in the wild where it could leak unnoticed?

but boy that instant 2-day shipping that sometimes turns out to be even faster sure does come in handy.

And Sunday delivery too, kinda irresistible for someone that hates shopping. DH says he draws the line on drone delivery.

What's non-odorized propane doing out in the wild where it could leak unnoticed?

Because people were complaining about the smell.

That's a horrifying thought, Connie.

Sunday delivery continues to take me by surprise.

I was mildly stressed about being able to get everything ready for supplying foodstuffs for our monthly team-building thing tomorrow like I said I would, but it turns out that my co-worker was too busy to even put it on the calendar so I am off the hook. Ha!

but boy that instant 2-day shipping that sometimes turns out to be even faster sure does come in handy.

We signed up for the 30 day trial of Amazon Fresh, because Pete's out of town and I don't drive. Having my locally made fancy yogurt delivered to my door (along with a bunch of other stuff) is kind of awesome.