Saturday Evening Post

 My day in a nutshell:  spending money all over the place.

Mid-morning, to Wegmans with BB for $90 of groceries.  Then to Ace Hardware for $40 of bird seed.  

We would have bought ice melt, too, since there's freezing rain in the forecast, but they were sold out.  Come back later, though, they said, we're expecting some more around 2:00.

Giant was next, with another $25 going for things they were sold out of at Wegmans.  (Cat food, Evian, sour cream)

I watched the first set of the Nebraska-Rutgers volleyball match on BTN Plus, seeing the #4-ranked Huskers upset 25-22 by the league doormat.  It was 12-12 in the second set before Nebraska took 13 of the final 15 points.  (If not for the pandemic, I might have made the trip to New Brunswick to see them in person.)

Back to Ace for a 40-pound bucket of ice melt, another $28.  Home again for supper and two more sets taken by the Big Red.

After supper, $200 for a 1 TB external SSD to fill with photos, music and 23 years of digital miscellanea to stash in the safe deposit box.  Then $11 to a used bookseller through eBay for an audiobook of David Suchet reading "Blott on the Landscape."  Began listening to it some months ago as a bootleg upload on YouTube, which got taken down after I'd listened to a couple of hours.  Gave up waiting for another upload.

Now, back to what I had been doing:  listening to Vin Scully and Jerry Doggett call the April 12, 1971 game against the Cubs, on YouTube, of course.   Another technically illegal upload of copyrighted material, but everyone's looking the other way for now.  And me, I could use some free stuff today.