If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium shopping day – we made our weekly trip to Lunardi’s mid-afternoon, when it was reasonably uncrowded. More customers were wearing masks than last week, but there were still a few going around with bare faces.

And since it was Tuesday, it was also Xfinity day – this week, I returned the cable modem I’d picked up last Tuesday, still shrink-wrapped. I was hoping to return it via UPS, but couldn’t print a label because Xfinity’s website didn’t show it as a device on my account (maybe because I never activated it); in the event, I think I spent less time interacting with the greeter at Xfinity who took the modem and came back a minute later to hand me a receipt than I would have had to spend at UPS getting them to package up the modem.

And since it was Tuesday, it also was pick-up-a-take-and-bake-pizza day; once more, we got it at Tony & Alba’s, again with nearly no interaction.

And since it was Tuesday, we had our Trivial Zoom session; Khartoum’s quizmaster sends us old trivia scripts each week and we go through them. It’s not quite the same as being there, but the beer is cheaper.

Five weeks down, how many to go?

I spent most of the day working on code – for fun, of course! The weather was not conducive to walking, but we took our usual two long walks anyway (and got drizzled on for our troubles).

We felt lazy at lunchtime, so we ordered from Panera Bread; I was going to have it delivered, but the quoted time was 45-50 minutes versus 10 minutes to pick up the food ourselves – we drove. They brought the food out to the car as soon as we pulled up – nice and smooth.

The sewing light on Diane’s sewing machine burned out last week; needless to say, Sears no longer carries it. But someone on eBay named klanddj has a good supply of NOS (new old stock) bulbs and now we have two in hand. Our friend Sarah also sent Diane some bias tape and it arrived today – there are more masks in our future.

And it’s been more than two days since I’ve seen a dropped packet; I hope I can safely give Comcast back their modem, which is still in its shrink-wrap. I just have to figure out how. But that’s for tomorrow.