It's lightly raining and in the low 60s. This is the preview before the nor'easter arrives overnight.

So yesterday I tried out the county rideshare service. It wasn't door to door. I got picked up down the block from me. Since they're picking up and dropping off other people you're riding around town in circles basically, others being dropped off or picked up, until you arrive at your destination, or near it more likely. This setup works on the concept of virtual bus stops. Unfortunately some of these stops are a quarter mile or so away from where you're actually going. It was awful trying to hurriedly walk from the supermarket carrying bags of groceries along a busy road with exit and entrance ramps leading on to a busy highway to walk down to a residential side street to get picked up. On the way home the system's algorithm changed my drop off point from down the block from me to three blocks over on a different street because another woman was being let off there. Fortunately the driver decided to drive to my original stop on my street because I had the bags of groceries. The app doesn't have a map of these virtual bus stops the service uses as pickup and drop off points and it should.

These vehicles are all new Toyota Sienna minivans, but you're not allowed to put your stuff in the rear cargo area. It has to stay by your feet and on your lap. There's a form I have to fill out online for door to door service for people with mobility issues since I have the aggressive arthritis and walk with the ankle brace and a cane. According to their app the local supermarkets are popular destinations, so I don't understand why they don't do door to door service for people who are grocery shopping and don't allow you to place groceries bags in the rear cargo area.

Because you're not traveling directly to your destination this service wouldn't be ideal for going to medical appointments in town. Uber would have to be used still. But it's fine for coming home afterwards. This service has only been around for about a year now and it's contracted out to a particular company. Hopefully as time goes by they'll fine tune the program to get the kinks out and add more minivans to the service.

In the evening there was another stupid blow up with my sister. She's struggling financially and can't even really afford to pay insurance on both vehicles but I can't use the Corolla and resume the responsibility for it because she's punishing me for some stupid things my mom did 35+ years ago. My folks were both only children and didn't know how to raise four kids. They believed in sibling competitiveness not sibling bonding. Apparently there was an issue where my mom decided to pit my sister against me and make her the 'loser' without me even being aware our mom did this and my sister blames me. Our mom's death last year is dragging up a lot of bad childhood and early adulthood family issues for her and she's determined to rip apart the remaining family over this. Our parents did love us, made sure we had the necessities and took us places and did things with us. But it's that common problem where members of the baby boom generation, generation Jones and generation X who were raised by greatest generation and silent generation parents whose lives were shaped by childhoods during the Great Depression and adolescence or early adulthood during WW2 did stupid things when raising their kids, like fostering hyper competitiveness within the family, ignoring their kids thoughts and feelings, etc. The people I grew up with who didn't face these problems and actually had close knit families were mostly the children of immigrant parents. Our family is ridiculously small and we're all getting older, living with chronic health issues, so this fallout is really unhelpful. The house needs to be emptied out of the excess so it can be ultimately sold since it's too big, it's too much house and that's just been stalled.