Patterns

This isn't a very imaginative picture, but it does have quite a few patterns in it. This was a picture of one of the many, many empty shelves in Rite Aid. It is mainly a pharmacy but as many chain pharmacies did it has a huge space where they sell everything from gardening equipment to nail polish but the only place I ever see any customers is at the pharmacy, so they seem to be downsizing their stock without downsizing the space. I thought it would be convenient to buy some shampoo and soap there, but it's just as well I had to wait 20 minutes for one of my prescriptions because it gave me time to locate those items on opposite sides of the store.

Pilates was fun today. We did all kinds of one legged balancing things. Very useful for finding out how squint one's body can be.  Most bodies are not symmetrical and imbalances can develop over time and become habitual. When that happens, standing straight can feel quite crooked. We used a pole like a tall cane to support us while doing all kinds of knee folds and arabesques. It was challenging but also very instructive.

We took some now well traveled paperwork to the bank to have it notarized this afternoon. We did part one a few weeks ago (and possibly gave the fellow who helped us Covid because John didn't know he had it) and it took forever, so it was with some trepidation that we went today with a big stack of papers marked with tabs for our signatures. We were pleasantly surprised when it took a  lot less time today. 

The notary process is one of the few things that has not changed at all in decades. The notary has a book in which every thing we signed is listed with names and addresses. The book is then signed and fingerprinted by us, and the papers we signed are stamped with an official notary's rubber stamp. In this case, the notary was a very pleasant young woman who offered us coffee and efficiently sorted through all the papers for our signatures. Remembering how many piles of paper we signed during the sale of one house and the purchase of another, I commented that she must spend a lot of time shuffling paper. 'I love paperwork ', she said, and she was serious.

Interestingly, none of those papers required a notary, and some things we were even able to docusign online.