fossilfreak

 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 1 p. 595

 

352 recordngs of 38 types, 1 old SVU, 74 CPD, 50 LMS. 24% clear.

 

 

Heh. Schumer had to surrender. Guess he miscalculated. 

 

Monday was fairly laid back. I drove my neighbor to her massage appointment. We had a nice chat. I really need to see more of her, because it's always fun to talk to her.

 

I did more work on the puzzle and got Europe off the scratch map. Only Africa and some flags to do. It is driving me crazy... the guitar pick is a terrible scratch off tool. I can hardly wait to be done and frame it, and then maybe never travel anywhere else interesting.

 

Monday night I somehow lost my red-framed glasses (I finally found them on the floor Wednesday morning, so they must have been in the bedclothes somewhere.)

 

Tuesday I woke up to a HUGE spider in the bathtub. Usually in the middle of the night I ignore them till morning, but this one was big enough to get out of the bathtub immediately and had to go out right then. I remembered to unlock the front door... if I'd locked myself out I couldn't get in the back because it was still locked and the dog was asleep, and stumbling around in the cold and the dark looking for the spare key would have been very difficult.

 

AAA called me because they didn't have the credit card number. I figured they would. I also got my information pack from Road Scholar. They wanted Joanna's contact information, so I called on Wednesday to tell them I didn't want to give it to them. It might spoil the surprise.  

 

I went to the Widow's Breakfast, and then stopped to get milk to try to make yogurt. This almost worked... the problem was I didn't mix in the starter well enough. However, there was a little actual yogurt under the milk in the cups. I will try this again sometime next week.

 

In the evening I went down to the Camino Pilgrim's meeting. They had 5 people give quick talks about their Caminos, with slides. I enjoyed it. John came there, too. When I got home I noticed a hole in my porch! Where did that come from?

 

Wednesday I took a birthday card to Rob. It began to dawn on me on the drive down that I had the wrong year, and sure enough, he's 42, not 40. How embarrassing.

 

Padreic was really good at Wee Wednesday this time. There were lots of people at the Crocker today and we had to park at the side (where he could reach the coin slot without the step stool.) The meter swallowed a dollar coin. Then I stuck in my credit card and woke it up, so finished the job with quarters. I noted it was off again when we got back, but no ticket... just need to be sure they didn't charge my card, too.

 

Anyway, the lesson was about toucans. Miss Jill handed out feathers and P. was so excited about his I thought he might be reluctant to return it, but he was very good. Then we made toucan masks. He decorated it beautifully but there was no way he was going to wear it. Not gonna happen. 

 

Back at the house, I demonstrated that Alexa is not a Patriots fan. I said that to Bernadette and the robot popped up "I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear that." (You know, we're actually putting wiretaps on ourselves, who needs the NSA? It might be instructive to start talking about stuff to buy in front of it and see what comes up on the computer in ads.) So I asked "Alexa, who will win the Super Bowl?" and got a screed on how wonderful the Eagles are.

 

I picked up the kids. Gareth, again, was slow to leave. His teacher says he's very bright, but not organized. No kidding. After about 10 minutes he was done and packed up and started out, walking right past his teacher and I pointed and he turned and said "bye."

 

 

Joanna sold me Girl Scout cookies. She'd wrapped up a present for Daddy, who came out to open it when I was reading to them, so I stopped. It was 4 little dishes. Padreic also had a present that Joanna had wrapped, 5 pennies. He burst into tears when Rob pocketed them, so of course Rob gave them back.

 

Yesterday ... well, let me copy my Facebook post: I wanted to move the African nativity set to the display case, which meant I had to clear the shelf that had my Mom's special things on it, which meant I wanted to move them to the shelves over the piano, which meant the onyx bud vases had to go, which meant I wanted to find the box they came in so they could go to the thrift shop in style, which meant I went through the bedroom closet where I thought that box was... no.. but it meant I found a whole bunch of stuff and even threw some out, and eventually just moved the bud vases to the shelves in my bedroom till I find that box or give up, and then the Nana stuff to the ornamental shelves, and the nativity set to the display case, which means I'm tired. The other project of today is re-filing bills and suchlike from the amorphous pile to actual files, mostly because I'm looking for last year's car license for the tax paperwork. (I haven't found it in past years, but this year I was determined to keep it, but of course it isn't in the tax folder.)

 

So. Much. Stuff.

 

I got so engrossed in the filing (and didn't get the registration form) that I almost was late for dinner at Appleby's. Small crowd (a lot of them are on the Hawaiian cruise) and really good. Chicken wonton tacos, total $4.02 so with the tip, I spent $5 for dinner.