Time machine transaction, head start

So after work yesterday I headed over to the local Sears, I wanted to pick up a new set of mower blades.  Sears, a retail juggernaut for many decades  has been taking quite a beating for a long time.  Retailers like Target and Wal-mart have pushed Sears into the background. Sears has tried to reinvent itself, although not all that successfully.  I mean how smart was it to buy K-mart?

Well anyway, the state of Sears seemed pretty apparent when I approached the door to the hardware department and saw one of the handles was being held together by large amounts of duct tape.  It seemed sadly appropriate.

While I was there I also grabbed a tool that is specifically designed to sharpen mower blades.  It should help me extend the life of blades going forward.  Glancing at the instructions surprised me, it said you should only sharpen the outer 3″-4″ of the blade and not touch anything else.  I guess it makes sense when I think about it but up until this point I have tried to restore the edge on the entire beveled edge of the blades.

I also picked up a corded drill, mine had died around a year ago and I never replaced it.  I am going to need the added power to mount some bike racks in cinder block in Ali’s garage this weekend.  When I looked at the instructions for the new drill, a Dewalt, it made me realize that my old drill i threw out , also a Dewalt, was probably not dead.  I did not realize that the brushes in the motor of the Dewalt drills are replaceable and once they wear out the drill will stop working as a safety feature.  Oh well, now I know.

The checkout process at Sears was like a collision between decades.  There was something wrong with the registers online credit card system so the guy actually had to pull out the old CC imprint tool to imprint my CC onto the receipt.  Yet, I also was able to have my receipt emailed to me instead of printed out.  Old tech awkwardly mixed with a new world, much like Sears itself.

Since separating I have changed my routine a bit to cut back on my weekend work.  Most Thursday evenings I will clean Tuki’s cage and do all of the laundry that has accumulated.  Well last night I took the head start further, heading outside to get the weeding done as well.  The overcast skies and cooler temps made it seem like a good time to do it.

I finished up the work a little after 7 and spent the rest of the evening getting current with Falling Skies and working on season 2 of Sopranos.

This weekend has no hallmark events although there will be no lack of things to do.