30 October 2024 (Wednesday) - Something for Nothing

I had another restless night. I woke feeling refreshed and raring to go at quarter past two, and then lay awake for the rest of the night.
Over brekkie I watched another episode of “Everyone Else Burns”. Again on the one hand it was very funny and entertaining, and on the other hand I recognized a lot of characters from my past. I wonder whatever happened to the religious crackpots of Hastings of the late 1970s. Have they all (like me) seen the darkness?
 
With telly watched I sparked up my lap-top. The Munzee world was amazed at Munzee HQ’s announcement last night that you can now only buy their stuff from the USA now. Or that is those in the parts of the Munzee world outside the USA were amazed. Those in the USA were seemingly amazed that there were parts of the world outside the USA.
I got Wordle on my last attempt and got ready for work. Again taking care not to wake or squish anyone.
 
It was again dark as I set off to work, and again after a couple of minutes driving through a dark morning I remembered I'd not brought lunch. I stopped off at the co-op to get some and I met Martin who was having a bit of a disaster. His milk had gone off and he needed more, and so had gone shopping.
Back in the day we'd have milk delivered by a milkman. The bloke who used to live next door a few years ago had a milkman and paid a lot more for his milk than I did. I had a little look at the Internet this morning and saw that the local dairies would seem to have got cheaper since I last compared prices but when do they deliver? I can remember my gran's milkman never showed up until mid-morning, and on the summer mornings the milk had already turned before he'd delivered it. On the winter mornings the stuff used to arrive frozen.
 
I got my sandwich, told Martin he should get a co-op card, and set off to work. As always I listened to the pundits on the radio who today were in a speculative mood today. Who was going to win next week's presidential elections in America? What would be announced in the budget later today? Loads of guesswork this morning but absolutely no news at all.
 
Work was work. At lunch time one of the trainees came round with a load of Starbucks mugs that had been donated to us. A free mug can’t be bad... and hot on her heels was the works' well-being team with a free packet of vitamin tablets for anyone who wanted one. I had a mug and a packet of tablets - something for nothing is always worth having even if both will just sit in my locker never to see the light of day again.
It was a shame no one was giving out cake...

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