It rained during the night and today dawned rainy and grey. I had chores that I had to take care of and so I got out kind of late. I took the bus down to BHV which is the big department store across the street from the Hotel de Ville. Of course when I got on the bus I didn't notice that it was a partial service bus and so it stopped about 10 blocks north of the stop I would have used, and did I mention it was raining? Not heavily, but still it required an umbrella. However, not to be dissuaded I found a little street running towards the direction I needed to go and headed into the neighborhood. It took about 20 minutes to get to the store. 
When I got there it turned out that they didn't have any of the things I needed, bah humbug! I thought I could find it at another grand magazin (department store) so I found a bus to take me up to Printemps and Galeries Lafayette and as bad luck would have it I couldn't find what I needed there either. All the while it was raining.
Once out of the stores I headed up to Gare St. Lazare and caught one of the buses I use for the west side of Paris and connected back to the the main northern east-west bus going back to the apartment. About the only thing to really catch my attention was that all of the mobile television trucks are now camped out on Place de la Republique to televise the gatherings of Parisians around the monument there. I talked with Deb a bit in the afternoon, her morning, and then went and got a few groceries and a haircut. It was a rainy day but the positive was Nouveau Beaujolais.
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