Why does it take an entire freaking day to buy a battery? OK, not an ordinary battery, but this is how my days go. My UPS was howling every 6 hours or so that it wanted a new battery. I put it off for a couple of days and finally bought one online, for pickup from the warehouse, which was about a 40-mile drive.
It was one thing after another. The exit I planned to take didn’t exist. I had to overshoot and drive back through city streets. Long wait in the front office. On the way back I missed the turnoff to the expressway because there was so much goddam construction going on that it looked more like a back alley than a major street. I was stuck in traffic for 40 minutes before I could get back on the freeway and start the long drive home. Then I had to somehow carry an immense glued-together pair of lead-acid batteries up to my second-floor computer room, with my limping bad leg. Then I had to install it. Total time: literally the whole afternoon. I don’t know how people who have to hold down a full-time job get anything else done.
Still on the list:
New smoke detectors: Have 'em, not installed.
Home theater projector and screen: Have 'em, not installed
And I’m becoming more immobile and unless there is some cure for what ails my leg I’m not going to be able to climb ladders even to change a light bulb.
And, per the title, there’s a big snowfall coming.