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phone clothing
Monday, April 11 2016
For the first time in over a week, I didn't have to walk the dogs on this rainy morning. While Gretchen was handling that, I stoked up a fire and made a french press of coffee. Later Gretchen returned with just Eleanor. Eventually Ramona also returned, and just as Gretchen was setting out as a one-person search party for Neville, he appeared in the distance on the Stick Trail. His white fur makes him easy to spot in the distance.
This afternoon I drove into Kingston to run some errands, most of them for Gretchen. I snuck out with just Ramona and Neville, leaving Eleanor behind under the rarely-enforced "let sleeping dogs lie" rule.
The main errand I was running for myself was to find some sort of protection ("phone clothing") for my new smartphone from the wear and tear of everyday life. Though it's relatively-cheap device, I have a reluctance to be hard on pristine new items, and cellphones can't really be used unless you're happy throwing them into your pocket with keys, coins, and other objects that make it into something of a rock tumbler. I started out looking for such protection in the CVS when I was there to pick up Gretchen's prescription of citalopram, but they had no phone clothing whatsoever. My next stop was the Uptown Radio Shack, which now appears to be entirely a frontend for Sprint (though they also sell remote-controlled toys). They only had phone clothing for contemporary Apple-made phones.
So then I drove out to the commercial sprawl of 9W and checked to see what was on offer at Staples, a place whose trademarked slogan is (or was) "Yeah, we've got that." They only had phone clothing for Apple and high-end Samsung products. I was getting closer.
Best Buy didn't have a much more complete diversity of phone clothing at either its main retail store or its side mobile store (both in the Mall), but a guy in the latter suggested I check out a kiosk around the corner. There, a plump bored-looking Hispanic woman seemed delighted to finally have a potential sale. She did indeed have phone clothing for the cheapo Galaxy Core Prime, though the price for both the back piece and the front transparent cover ended up being nearly half the price of the phone itself. Since there were no prices labels on anything, she could've just been making them up on the spot. But I was tired of looking and she seemed nice, so I went through with it.
While I was out doing these things, I somehow managed to drink two cans of the Stewart's-brand energy drink. I also made good progress on a bag of Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos, an unexpectedly-vegan snack junkfood that's been around for years but that I'd forgotten about. Also, since I had the smartphone with me, I snapped a picture of the months-old mountain of rubbish outside the mostly-abandoned Brezhnev-era IBM facility along Boices Lane. Something is being done to that facility, which was, according to rumor, recently purchased by a wealthy organization of horse enthusiasts (think Ann Romney and dressage).
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