It's after three and I've not got half the things done that I needed to do, today. Damn. I missed the bus...twice. You have to actually hail the bus around here, like you would a cab on a city street, or they tend to blow right by you--even when you're standing with your dollar in hand, at a posted bus stop. Then, when I finally did catch a bus, it was "off-schedule"--meaning their schedules were messed up, and the thing had to sit 20 minutes waiting for it's opposite number to start off at the proper time at the other end of the route, so they wouldn't be running one literally behind the other--which they've been known to do.

It's sort of feast or famine with the buses 'round here...either you cool your heels for 30 to 50 min., waiting for one to show up...or, they all show up at once, together. Greater Glens Falls Transit is THE WORST bus company in all of the eastern seaboard, as far as I'm concerned. Management are nothing but a bunch of brown-nosing jobsworths, who wouldn't know how to put a sensible and efficient bus schedule together, if God himself came down from heaven and showed them how.

I did get to Wally world (Wal-Mart), and got a few things, but they didn't have the one thing I needed most (kitty litter), so that means a trip to another supermarket....I got the pre-paid phone card for $20--put the 20 on my phone, only to find that all I actually got for my $20 was $13.45 phone time, cos' Virgin automatically applied their mangy $6.95 monthly charge--charge for getting constant streams of spam from Virgin, trying to get me to buy stuff. Virgin Mobile calls me more than anyone else does, blimey! I can't complain, really. The phone was a gift at a time when I sorely needed it--and, it really does beat having to walk 10 or 15 minutes to a pay phone.

I'm trying to decide what to do tonight. Here's my options: Pay $3 plus $8 cab fare, to go to the Beatlemania concert/fireworks at the local baseball stadium tonight. Or, grab a trolley for some ice cream and fireworks at the steamboat company pier in Lake George, tonight. Or, just stay home, put on some good tunes and read or watch a DVD...and maybe nap a bit.

But for now, I have to ring up a cab to go to the pharmacy and the supermarket. I'm afraid Social Services will have to wait til' Monday. I heard they were closed today, for the holiday weekend. So, that leaves my situation with National Grid hanging in the air for the weekend. More sleepless nights.