5 nights w/o p and a: night 1

i got off work early today to take p and a to the airport. they are headed to mission, tx, to visit with grandma and grandpa murray for a few days. after sending them off, i decided that despite the 30 deg F temperature, i'd park the car at home and load up a messenger bag with items that needed to be returned/ exchanged at various stops around denver.

stop number one was the dpl in cherry creek to unload some movies and cd's borrowed on friday. unfortunately, all three movies weren't that great.

the second stop was at the pottery barn in cherry creek mall. i was there to exchange a serving platter and return a vase. sales associate #1 that met me as i walked in was high on something. she was all over the place. she was explaining the policy that items ordered over the web could not be returned in the store, but still pulled out paper work and started to fill it out... and, the platter i wanted to exchange, she said flat out that it was not carried in the store and had to be exchanged through the website... after about five minutes of her rants and raves, one of her coworkers offered to take over the work as her shift had ended some time ago, apparently. so, the sales associate #2 got on the phone with the online store to get the return started, but was on eternal hold... and while she was on hold, called the stock room regarding the serving platter and within two minutes, the platter was exchanged. weird. especially after sales associate #1 said they didn't carry that platter in the store. minutes later, sales associate #2 got fed up with holding with the online store and decided to just give me store credit for the vase despite their policy of not doing so. she didn't feel like making me wait around and based on the number of people in the store, didn't want to hold other people up as well. not a bad stop.

stop number three took me down east alameda toward broadway to go to the denver library branch on east bayaud. p and i have driven/walked/biked by that branch many times, but never did stop in. so i thought i'd check it out and see what they had for movies to rent. i got the hidden blade.

i then rolled north on linoln until i hit the cherry creek bike path and rolled into d/t to larimer square. tow years ago, p and i had bumped into a friend of hers from school who was walking around with cigar boxes. he used them to transport pens and pencils... that day we saw him, we bought five boxes ourselves to store various items. i've been on a bit of an organization kick since the cross season ended and was looking to purchase a few more. the cigar shop only had about eight boxes and only two of them were wood... so i snatched them up, half off, since neither box had a closure device.

stop five was the dpl branch on welton. this branch has always had a good selection of movies... but not today... and thinking i could hit the park hill branch, i checked to see what time it closed: 6pm. and it was 5pm. so i got back on the bike and kicked it up 23rd ave to dexter for a stop at the park hill library. there i got 2046 and sympathy for mr. vengeance.

final stop: home. after leaving the house at 3pm, i was home at 545pm with about 18-19 miles covered.

after a quick meal of left overs, i made a few measurements and headed back out, but this time in the car. stop one was walmart... p's mom had given us a gift for aiden, but it involved tv- not really something we wanted to have aiden play with... video games + tv = too much tv. so i took it over to walmart and got store credit for it. then walked around the megastore to see what i could get. i couldn't really find anything... and the bright lights and various noises being bounced at you from all angles got to me so i scooted out of there. final stop, home depot. i'm looking to build a stowaway for the bed in the garage. so i bought some wood and came home. i'm beat and it's only 10pm.