365 Days of Python: Day #64 — Enjoyable Errands

Rick Deckard
2 min readJan 19, 2023

The average adult in the U.S. spends around $120 a week on groceries, which adds up to more than $6,000 a year.

This purpose of this blog is not to talk about the financial side of running errands. Rather, its purpose is to discuss the act of running errands itself.

Why do errands feel so monotonous?

Because they are. In general, the average person visits the grocery store the same day each week and buys relatively the same items. Plainly speaking, that is the definition of a monotonous task.

Furthermore, running errands takes time. And as the aphorism goes, time is money. So who wants to lose time and spend money?

Day #64 (1/17/2023)

“Supermarket doors open for me; therefore, I am.”

— Craig Bruce

Accomplishments

  • Learned about the history of Python

Weekly Goals

  • Write a program that converts between imperial and metric units (0%)

Closing Thoughts

Contrary to the opinion discussed earlier in this blog, I actually enjoy running errands.

My brain sort of goes in autopilot mode whenever I enter a grocery store due to…

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