Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Here comes the rain again

So I won't be long, in case the power goes out. (This storm looks nothing like last week, though. I wish I'd taken screen shots of the huge red blob on the weather radar...but as I was watching it cross central Maryland, we ended up under a tornado warning and I had to shut off my computer and go to the lower level of the parking garage.)

I am playing tomato roulette. I have no idea what the origin of my tomatoes are, but I'm not throwing them away in case they carry Salmonella. (Carry? Have? Are contaminated with?) And I'm eating fresh salsa by the bowl!

I'm going to be in the dark soon, regardless of the power. I just went to replace a burned-out light bulb, and I'm out of light bulbs. So I went to take a light bulb out of a lamp I don't use that often, but apparently I'd already lifted that one. Pretty soon I'll be carrying my one remaining good bulb from room to room.

I could buy light bulbs, of course, but it never seems vital enough to make a trip specifically for light bulbs, but then I forget that I need them in the course of regular shopping trips.

I could carry one of the PocketMods that Ted likes, and put light bulbs on my shopping list, but I would need to remember to take it out of my pocket and check it.