Inadequacy

Shop'n'Save is only two blocks from my house. Shop'n'Save is on the bus route that I take to and from work. I know most of the checkers at Shop'n'Save. Shop'n'Save is convenient.

Shop'n'Save no longer sells whole coffee beans.

Tomorrow I will go over to Schnucks to see if they still sell whole beans. If they do, I will give serious consideration to switching my business there completely. (They're slightly, but only slightly, less convenient.) In any case, I will buy beans there, if I can. If not, I'll check out Dierbergs. If they don't have beans, I may sit down in the aisle and cry.

I am seriously unhappy with Shop'n'Save.

1666

I'm a little more than halfway through Pepys' Diary - February 1666; the Great Plague is ebbing, and the Great Fire is about half a year off. I just ran into a passage about a London Jew talking up the possibility that "a certain man who is now in Smyrna" would be revealed to be the true Messiah; a quick check of Wikipedia confirmed that he was talking about the unfortunate Sabbatai Zevi. Pepys also mentions having written a book, some twenty years before, connecting 1666 with the number of the beast.

When I finally finish with Pepys - probably around midyear - I think I might write something about the differences between Pepys' world and ours. I keep getting hit with little culture-shock moments.