April 27, 2026
For the last week or so, I've been having an errand to run pop into my head at random times. No worries, I'd say to myself, I'll take care of it on Saturday between breakfast and going to the store. Probably at least half a dozen times over the course of the week.
I woke up Saturday morning and knew I was going to run an errand. Also, I had no idea what the fuck that errand was supposed to be. I still went through my weekend-morning things, and went and got breakfast. Still had no clue what it was I wanted to do. Maybe it was up Sudley Road somewhere? But other than restaurants the only thing on Sudley is a Lowe's, and I didn't need anything from there.
So I went to the store a little earlier than usual and came home. Sat on the couch for a bit, still trying to remember. Went to a Pokemon Go event at 2:00, trying to cause myself to come up with something while I wandered around looking for shinies.
Came home again, sat around a bit more, went to dinner. At this point I'd given up on trying to remember; I knew it would come up on its own and be too late for me to do anything about.
After dinner I fired up Youtube, and watched a video that had come out on Friday. It was from one of the channels I watch regularly, and they were doing their usual bit and cleaning up someone's overgrown yard for free. They used a flat-bladed shovel to remove some weeds that had come up through the seams in the concrete, and I thought that they were just going to come right back.
They should use Roundup, I thought for a second. But then I remembered hearing about how Roundup is also dangerous to humans and that you probably shouldn't use it any more. Which led me to thinking that I should take the bottle I have in the garage to the hazardous-materials dropoff at the dump.
Whoops, that was last week. This week is... the shredding event over by the police station. That I wanted to take the last couple years' worth of credit card statements to. That ran from like 11 to 4. Shit.
I knew I'd remember eventually. I was even right about it being too late to do anything about. Silver lining, I guess.
