I ordered a few things from Amazon after we got back from Hawaii for delivery to the nearby locker. I was happy to see that they’d combined two of them (a filter for my wet/dry vac and a card of coin-cell batteries) into one shipment – that seemed to make a lot of sense. Then I picked up the enormous package.

You can see the filter in its box, occupying roughly 1/6 of the volume of the shipping container. The rest of the container was filled with air balloons, which I have to admit are an improvement over styrofoam peanuts.

It took me a while to find the batteries, which were tucked under one of the inner flaps of the container.

I’ve got two more small items coming from Amazon tomorrow; I wonder how big the boxes will be?

Thanks for the responses to Day 1000 – I’m glad that people are enjoying my writing and even finding it useful!

Today was mostly occupied with getting back into mundane life; we went to the gym, did some shopping, cooked all of our own meals, and I even went to the allergist. Truly exciting.

But there was one unexpected occurrence while we were out walking this morning. A car came to a sudden stop across the street from us and the driver jumped out and ran away from it. She had a good reason – the car was on fire! I grabbed my phone and called 9-1-1; while I was waiting for them to answer, a truck labeled “Exterior Services” stopped just in front of the car. Its driver got out, grabbed a hose from the back of the truck, and started spraying the burning car.

9-1-1 answered and said that the fire department was on the way; by that time, the car was mostly extinguished and the smoke was getting thick, so we left the area.

I didn’t get a photo of the car on fire, but I came back a few hours later and saw this where the car had stopped.