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Aug. 4th, 2009 13:30Sunday July 26, 2009 To the Uptown Lunds for the MinnSpec Meetup. This month, it was devoted to readings by members.
Lunds is an upscale supermarket, which means it has more and better food samples than do lower-priced groceries. This is one reason I like to arrive early.
A change since I'd last been in Lunds: sharps collectors in the restrooms. Which meant they expected people to be injecting themselves in the restrooms. My guess? It's for the convenience of diabetic employees.
The Community Room was close to full when I went in, and became definitely full not long thereafter.
Introductions, announcements, some discussion of starting up new critique groups. (The general critique group and the novelist retreat have both been oversubscribed recently.) And then the readings.
Some people who read their work expressed worries about certain problems. People who commented mentioned what they saw as problems. If my memory is correct, there was no overlap.
Afterwards, I put some books into Walker Library's book return slide. (Since the merger with Hennepin County libraries, some Minneapolis libraries have started being open on Sundays. Walker isn't among them, so far.)
Then to the Uptown Rainbow, mostly to pick up flyers. It would be more convenient to get grocery flyers before Sunday's price changes, but Rainbow doesn't provide them before the new prices start (except in the early editions of Sunday papers.)
(Aldi provides next week's flyers a week early; being German-owned, they don't understand the necessity of doing things in an orderly manner.)
Packages of chicken drumsticks (which were on special) had labels saying they were beef roast -- also on special, but at several times the price.
I reported this at the customer service counter. The clerk said someone must have switched the labels.
A checkout clerk would probably have noticed the difference, but Rainbow now has self-service checkout lanes.
***On the radio, a commentator quoted a US politician as saying the Canadian medical system is so bad that four out of five patients die. The commentator explained that things were actually worse: five out of five Canadians die "at the end of their lives, or shortly thereafter."
Lunds is an upscale supermarket, which means it has more and better food samples than do lower-priced groceries. This is one reason I like to arrive early.
A change since I'd last been in Lunds: sharps collectors in the restrooms. Which meant they expected people to be injecting themselves in the restrooms. My guess? It's for the convenience of diabetic employees.
The Community Room was close to full when I went in, and became definitely full not long thereafter.
Introductions, announcements, some discussion of starting up new critique groups. (The general critique group and the novelist retreat have both been oversubscribed recently.) And then the readings.
Some people who read their work expressed worries about certain problems. People who commented mentioned what they saw as problems. If my memory is correct, there was no overlap.
Afterwards, I put some books into Walker Library's book return slide. (Since the merger with Hennepin County libraries, some Minneapolis libraries have started being open on Sundays. Walker isn't among them, so far.)
Then to the Uptown Rainbow, mostly to pick up flyers. It would be more convenient to get grocery flyers before Sunday's price changes, but Rainbow doesn't provide them before the new prices start (except in the early editions of Sunday papers.)
(Aldi provides next week's flyers a week early; being German-owned, they don't understand the necessity of doing things in an orderly manner.)
Packages of chicken drumsticks (which were on special) had labels saying they were beef roast -- also on special, but at several times the price.
I reported this at the customer service counter. The clerk said someone must have switched the labels.
A checkout clerk would probably have noticed the difference, but Rainbow now has self-service checkout lanes.
***On the radio, a commentator quoted a US politician as saying the Canadian medical system is so bad that four out of five patients die. The commentator explained that things were actually worse: five out of five Canadians die "at the end of their lives, or shortly thereafter."