I do stupid things, de-perked, party prep, A in chair

So throughout my life, like most people, there are lots of times when I have made poor decisions.  Last night was another shining example of that talent.

After work I met Cindy at Sam’s to pick up a bunch of stuff for the SB party we are hosting Sunday.  The cart was fully loaded down with party supplies including a case of water along with 4 different cases of beer.  Cindy was going out last night so I unloaded the stuff at the homestead myself.

I decided to use the storage ottoman in the corner of the kitchen as a stacking point for the beverages. Since the crate of water was the biggest item that went on the bottom.  The four different types of beer were stacked on top.  I recall thinking when I stacked it up “Hmmm will the water bottles be ok holding this weight? Sure, they have pallets of water bottle cases stacked on top of each other much higher.  Good to go.”

So later after attending a number of chores I finally settled down to play some Hearthstone.  As I was in the middle of a match I heard a very loud impact coming from the kitchen that included the sound of broken glass…. NO……

I shoot out of my office chair and into the kitchen.  On the floor is every box of beer and a quickly growing pond of beer.  I grab a towel from the closet and throw it in front of the beer river just before it made it’s way to the carpeted area next to the kitchen.  I see brown and green broken glass on the floor as well.  While leaving the towel in place to block the beer I grab the two cases of beer that had bottles, the Bud Light and Stella.  I carry the leaking boxes out to the recycle bin in the garage and throw them in.  I was thrilled to have destroyed two perfectly good cases of beer.

I return to the kitchen to further assess damages.  The two cases of beer that were in cans, Miller Lite (in a retro can) and Mich Ultra appeared to have survived the impact intact.  In the beer that was still puddled on the floor was a LOT of glass shards.  I used the big towel to sop up as much as possible before shaking the glass shards out of it outside and then throwing the towel in the washer.

The rest of the clean up involved a lot of wiping with wet paper towels to pick up as much glass as possible followed by a pass over the area with the Dyson.  The final step was a full run with the Scooba, first using a vinegar/water solution followed by straight water.  The entire time I was cleaning up I was mentally kicking the ass of the idiot inside that stacked the beer.  Dummy.

So I actually managed to do a full 30 minutes yesterday of the A2G challenge, holding a deep squat position 1 minute at a time until it added up to 30.  I only had two minutes left to do at home last night.  Late in the day the holds had swung back to the more and more difficult variety because the soreness from my squats and dead lifts the day before was settling in.  The last two holds at home were very painful.

Today I woke up with a lower body that is incredibly stiff and sore, the opposite of what you would hope happens after a day of stretching.  Today my ass wont be going anywhere near the grass.  It will probably stay chair bound all day until the pain subsides.

On my way in today I grabbed a coffee at DD.  I handed them my DD loyalty punch card which rewarded you with one free medium coffee after you buy 7 at regular price.  The clerk told me the punch card was being replaced by a new electronic loyalty program, DD Perks,  where you carry around a card, similar to the rechargeable DD card I use to pay for coffee.  Each time you buy stuff they swipe this card and you accumulate points.

Ok that’s fine, I’m all for doing things in a more efficient manner.  Well it wasn’t fine once I saw the point system.  They credit you 5 points for every dollar you spend at DD. To get a free coffee costs 200 points.  Let’s do some quick math.

In the past, 7 medium coffees would qualify you for a free 8th cup.  A medium coffee is roughly $2, meaning that spiff would hit after approximately 14$ of spending with the old system.  With this new system, that $14 only equates to 70 points, a third of what you need to get a free coffee.!!!! What the fck….

So hidden in the ruse of efficiency, they basically chopped the customer loyalty reward by two thirds.  What a crock of shit.  The only people that could possibly break even with this new plan are those that buy a shitload of donuts or food at DD since with the old program those sort of things were not included in the spiff.  But for those of us that use Dunkin Donuts almost exclusively for coffee, we got the long, hard, dry shaft.  I have to find someone at DD to hear my rant. Greedy bastards.

This weekend I will be quite busy doing prep at the house for the party.  I need to clean the inside of the house, manicure the outside and tend to the numerous details associated with hosting such an event.  It looks like we may have as many as 15 people show for the party, it should be fun.

I proactively took Monday off to allow for a full day of recovery from whatever goes down Sunday.  Go Broncos.