2026-10-01 | David E. Sproule

Two trips to the store

Supper, chores, a walk for refreshments, and a debit card left on the counter. The ordinary evening still counts.

Evening neighborhood street with warm storefront light after rain
Second trip. The debit card is already on the counter at home.
Quiet kitchen counter with a debit card beside grocery bags
Of course I left it there.

Tonight was not a launch. It was supper, chores, and a walk to the store for refreshments. Then a second walk, because I left my TD Visa debit card on the counter. Of course I did.

I am writing that down on purpose. This journal has product days and partnership days. It also needs the nights where the work waits and the body still has to move through a neighborhood. The shop does not pause life. Life pauses the shop for an hour, then you come back and keep going.

I am back at the desk now. Novelmate is still chewing through the last three pen name books in the background. That is fine. I ate. I walked. I fixed my own forgetfulness. That is a win.

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