enough groceries to last 2 weeks

... for us that's 14 kg of wooden pellet cat litter, and a bunch of the food the cats eat for a treat at bedtime, if you're going by the heaviest part. Most of the bulk was things we don't actually need, like fresh fruit (we have plenty of frozen and canned fruits and vegetables) and bread and yogurt. The only thing we intended to buy that the store was out of was powdered milk, so for once we substituted the liquid kind.

The grocery store was fully manned with lots of stockers in uniform everywhere looking alert and efficient, and a table offering hand sanitizer by the carts and baskets. The pharmacy has a lady at the door letting in only 5 customers at a time, and they've taken on extra help and installed plexi shields at the register and the prescription counters. In spite of this, I was in and out very quickly (I just needed some emergency insulin pen needles for Snookums because I didn't notice I was low in time to mail order them). All the other customers I saw at the pharmacy but one were elderly.

But what did we see in the parking lot? A Tesla!

This is the first time we've seen a Tesla in Pargas, and given that we've been here since last June and Pargas has literally one main street in the downtown, we have good reason to think the Tesla doesn't belong to a permanent resident. (Of course it's possible the car belongs to a resident of one of the islands further out who is on their way out there, but that is still not likely.) With the huge amount of summer homes throughout the archipelago, it's most likely a city dweller going to their summer home against all government advice... and if that's the case, there's a slight possibility they're from Turku or one of the other cities around here, but the biggest likelihood is surely that they're from Helsinki and therefore at high risk of having been exposed already, squeezing out before the borders of the region are potentially frozen on the weekend precisely to prevent people from spreading infection faster to the parts of the country (LIKE HERE) with less medical infrastructure.

sociological and psychological theory... of pet peeves

Somehow recommendation algorithms always manage an insane oversupply of my pet peeve, whatever it is, and they're so DETERMINED about it that there must be an underlying function that produces the peeves in reality (or in my mind) - and it must be one simple enough to be described by an algorithm.

Sommmmmmmmething about intersections that occur exactly one ring outside my area of interest and the much higher likelihood of those things turning into peeves, when other more distant (but fundamentally even less congenial) things, even things I dislike more on an absolute scale if I take a step back, never have a chance to do that. Oh, like the dynamic that determines what music you hate and find 'overplayed', which is also contingent on your particular exposure.