toss em?

 I already know the answer, but I can't

    When I taught, I used mechanical pencils for entering grades in my grade book.  Grades and grade book are 2 words some new teachers might not even know.

    Anyway, the mechanical pencils were better than the standard #2 Ticonderoga because you never had to sharpen them.  If you ran out of lead, refill the lead.

    After teaching I continued to use these when I did crossword puzzles. 

    Here' my problem. I have 4 containers of .9 mechanical pencil refills.  I have3 containers of .5 refills.  

    All my pencils take .7 lead.

    I have looked in stores for .9 pencils, but have not found any.  

    A normal person would shrug their shoulders and say,  "Oh well."  And then they would toss the .9 and .5 leads.

    Not me.  I am determined to find a .9 mechanical pencil in a store in this lifetime!

     I will leave no store unturned until I find the elusive .9.  It is now my life's goal.  But I will not do a Google search because, well, shipping might be outrageous for a cheap mechanical pencil.

    Sad, right?

    Something else that is sad.  I was upset when cucumbers went from 62 cents to 72 cents.  Today I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to pay 97 cents for a cucumber!!  97!!

    We ordered some veggie seeds tonight.  I hope I have better luck than I did last year. Sticking to basics for the seeds;  carrots, cucumbers, peas, 2 kinds of beans.  Peas are always a problem.  I wait to long to plant them.  So maybe I will go out next week and put the seeds in the ground.

    Just kidding.

    Although pitchers and catchers  do report Feb. 9 for the Cubs.  That is less than 2 weeks away!  I can already feel the excitement of training camp and the optimism a new season brings.  Granted, that doesn't last very long, but it's a good feeling for the first week or two.

    This year they open in Japan, where they will lose  2  to the Dodgers.

    Reality always trumps optimism.

Peace and Love