Thursday, October 12, 2023

random thoughts – Day 1,304 – (Thursday) – repeat business

It was another day of receiving someone else's DoorDash notifications. It had stopped for a few weeks, and before that, the deliveries were on Fridays in the 2:00 to 3:00 timeframe, so Thursday at 5:00 was a slight shift in their repeat business. 

I wish I knew who "CSB" is, and even more, I wish CSB hadn't messed up the phone number in their own DoorDash account. Each delivery is accompanied by four text messages. One has the expected delivery time, the next when it is picked up, one when the driver is approaching, and finally, when the order is delivered, accompanied by a photo of the bag on the doorstep of a cute blue house. 

In other repeat events, it was another night and another event at Lenzi’s. Being out two weeknights in a row, and three, if we count Tuesday’s board meeting, feels a bit like being a socialite. Or at least, significantly less hermitlike than usual.

Table at Lenzi's.
Several of us at the Bank-sponsored table at tonight’s event had been at the same venue on Wednesday night for the Bank’s dinner. We wondered if the menu would be the same, but luckily, it was not. Tonight’s dinner was ham with beans, roasted turkey breast with stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and amazing crisped, caramelized sweet potato cubes tossed with peas. The dessert was warm apple crisp with vanilla ice cream. So yummy! 

Tonight’s event was The Bridge Club of Greater Lowell’s Person of the Year dinner. I wasn’t familiar with this organization, but I learned that The Bridge Club’s mission is to stem the tide of alcoholism and addiction in the Greater Lowell Area and beyond, is dedicated to providing a safe place for those in recovery to meet.

The speakers included an owner of my favorite pizza delivery place. She spoke about her family’s experience with a loved one’s addiction, and I gotta say, my eyes got kinda wet.

Tonight’s event ran a bit longer than last night’s and I arrived home perilously close to the time I am usually winding down and beginning to prepare for bedtime. Oy.

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