Thursday June 13th 2024

Either the weather forecasters got it right or I understood their rhetoric better, but I didn’t get surprised by rain today. While there was still heavy rain in south Florida today, it was a fairly normal summer day in this area. It was humid and cloudy this morning with a few periods of sunshine. Late in the afternoon thunderstorms caused by the convergence of winds off the Atlantic and wind off the Gulf arrived. They brought wind, thunder and spectacular lightening. I watched a lot of air to ground lightening strikes to the southwest of my RV home.

Today was filled with a lot of errands. Some were simple and some were more complicated than they should be. Picking up a package at a nearby Amazon locker was the biggest problem of the day. I often use Amazon lockers. Usually it is easy and reliable. Today lots of things went badly. First, I usually get a notification on my phone when the package is ready for pickup. Today I hadn’t received one by the end of the expected delivery window, so I checked in the Amazon app. The delivery status was there complete with the usual bar code to open the locker. Once I drove the mile or so to the locker, I couldn’t get the bar code to open the locker. It may have been too bright or reflections from the sun that was visible at the time. To make matters worse, I couldn’t really read the message screen in the glare. Finally with strategic blocking and squatting below the screen I could see things well enough to enter the digits of the code manually. Then I almost got hit in the head by the door as it popped open. A two minute pickup took close to ten.

With the unpredictable weather this week preventing me from having any form of routine days, I’ve lost track of what day of the week it is. I thought it was Monday more than once today, but in reality the weekend is rapidly approaching.