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Surely something good happened to you today

I ordered 6 things from Amazon, and was expecting all but 2 of them to arrive early next week.

FIVE of the items came in today! With the last one expected ETA updated even earlier than I thought it would be.

Go Amazon efficiency!
 
Yesterday I messaged someone I hadn't seen since high school on Facebook. He responded and we spent a good couple of hours on the phone catching up on the last 50-plus years.

Just a few minutes ago, I saw five raccoons on a tree in front of my apartment building. A couple of girls in the building said they were afraid the critters might jump on them. I guess they were confusing raccoons with drop bears.
 
When I was visiting my mother at her care home yesterday, I went to a café at the other end of the complex to see what might be available as a take-out lunch so that I could eat with her. I got lucky: two slices of refrigerated pepperoni pizza.
 
One of the local grocery store chains had fried chicken in their deli on sale. Regular price for the 8 piece (4 drum sticks and 4 thighs) is $10.99, but Friday only it's $4.99. I got two 8 piece orders. So I'm having fried chicken for supper for the rest of the week, through next Friday.
 
I guess this is a good thing that happened to me but it might've come at the expense of other people.

Went to Whole Foods to return an Amazon purchase. Line was long but there were two automated return machines to the side that no one was using. So I walked past everyone and did my return. Unless they were all there for multiple returns and/or needing to talk to the employee about their return, I'm thinking some of them just saw the long line and assumed it was the only line? Even after I did my return and left, walking past the line on the way out, no one in the line moved.
 
Today I finally junked my 18-year-old Ford Focus and bought a used 2017 Toyota Prius. So far I'm really enjoying my new car. It's modern enough to have useful features like a backup camera and proximity sensor, but it still has physical controls instead of those stupid touchscreens.
 
I went in on Wednesday for lab work (venipuncture) for a scheduled appointment. The lab closed before I got there, even though I arrived on time. I scheduled a second appointment on Friday at the same local lab, I arrived again, and the doors were locked, with a note on the door of new hours 7am to 10am, and my appointment time was 11:45. I went online and opened an account with a different lab in the same city, and they had an appointment time opening up, so I was able to get my lab done at 2:00 pm, and I won't go back to the first lab that locks it doors, and closes early, on patients with appointments, twice in the same week.
Today I finally junked my 18-year-old Ford Focus and bought a used 2017 Toyota Prius. So far I'm really enjoying my new car. It's modern enough to have useful features like a backup camera and proximity sensor, but it still has physical controls instead of those stupid touchscreens.
My pickup and car that have touch screens from the factory, also have regular controls for most of the functions as well. My 11-year-old pickup had the module (APIM) that controls the touch screen start to fail. I was able to find a replacement at Amazon for less than $500, that was preprogrammed to my vehicle, was an upgraded system, and took about a half hour to install. It also added the features of Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, depending on which phone you pair it up with.
 
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