Today’s Weight: 382 lbs
Yesterday’s Water: 124 oz
Yesterday’s Steps: Unknown (Accidentally forgot to put FitBit on.)
Yesterday’s Accomplishments: 0 Items Completed.
I did make progress on two items, however. But yeah, I’m way behind on laundry and other items that need to be done in the short term. So much so that I cancelled my usual gathering with Brian that we have on Monday nights, where we work on our business projects in order to get some things done. Despite that, I accomplished nothing, due to a bunch of unfortunate circumstances.
Alice asked me to drop by Wal Mart for a prescription (she’s been having some pain problems since her dental appointment last week). Usually there’s a pretty long line in the evening, but I was lucky! No line! So I checked in, and the guy working the counter informed me the prescription had just been called in recently and hadn’t been filled yet, but the system was now aware I was there and waiting, and it should be ready in about 30 minutes. So I had 30 minutes to kill. No big deal.
I wandered back to the board games section of the toy aisle, because I was curious what the current versions of the games I used to play as a kid look like now. Not long after I got there, a voice came on over the loudspeaker and informed us that we were under a code black – a tornado had been spotted and we were to report to “site-to-store”. (It’s the part of the store where you can pickup online orders and where the bathrooms at the back of the store are located.) I was the first non-staff member to arrive.
Standing there, I was able to pull up a shockingly detailed amount of information about what was going on via my phone – a tornado had been spotted in Danville, it had touched down, and it was headed directly towards Brownsburg at 25 MPH, with an expected arrival time of 6:10 PM. Between searching news sites and getting updates from other people who were getting reports from friends, family, and other sources, we were literally able to track the tornado’s progress from where it had touched down until it was very near our location – how near it actually was, we didn’t know at the time.
An all-clear was called, and I assumed given that everyone had taken shelter, nothing had happened with the filling of the prescription, so I went back to the games aisle and kept browsing. A few minutes later, we were told the danger was not past, and we needed to report back to shelter. We had several power blinks, and then finally were released again – I again wasted some time, and then finally proceeded to the front of the store to see if the prescription was filled. As it turns out, the pharmacy computer had been knocked out and was not coming back up – the registers worked, but the pharmacy computer did not. The person working the counter informed us the last time this happened, it was not fixed again that same day and we might just want to go home if we were waiting on something. The pharmacist came over and talked to the few of us who didn’t immediately leave and determined that Alice’s med had been filled, but not logged in the computer correctly. She had no way to make it so I could pay, but decided to let me leave with the meds anyway, so long as I promised I would come back today to actually pay for them.
By this time it was well after 7 PM – I’d been in the store over an hour and a half. Cooking dinner wasn’t going to happen by the time Alice got home with the kids, so I went and got pizza across the street at Little Caesers. When I was getting pizza, the guy working the counter, and a customer sitting there waiting for a large order were talking about the storm – they mentioned that the tornado had literally hovered over the top of the Wal Mart on its way past. Scary.
Anyway, by the time I got home with food, fed the kids, got them ready for bed, and talked them into actually falling asleep, that was my evening – I got none of the things that I planned on accomplished, which was a huge disappointment. Even picking up the prescription doesn’t really count because I still have to go back and pay tonight. But at least I’m alive!