Professionally Crastinating tonight. This morning.

Sat down to write this about an hour ago, but got kidnapped by Facebook posts. When a friend of a friend posts a photo pf Ron Jeremy as a birthday message to said friend, one must needs respond. And that requires some research.

This morning was a waste. I woke up at 5:30 to pee, then at 7:30 with the alarm, as if no time had passed at all, back to sleep and did not wake up again till almost 10. And wasted another 90 minutes reading and playing on the tablet. Somewhere in there Spook actually jumped down from the cat tree bed and laid down against my leg to groom herself.

Finally showered and drugged myself by noon. Not hungry, so no lunch until three. Macaroni and hot dogs and three cheeses. Or was it four? Anyhoe, Plan A to go to the cat cafe was moot.

Watched some Tivo stuff, then headed to MV and was at *$s by 4, with the laptop, and waited for Janice to show up. She was 10 minutes late, which is not like her at all, but it was one of those weeks for her. The good news is she had Met Someone® but it's too soon to tell. He sounds like an amazing match, though.

The insect bites on the back of my leg look more like shingles now. I may need to call in Tuesday if that continues.

After our chat, I drove to an ATM and got some cash, and then to Safeway for bananas, but realized I needed to stock up on frozen dinners, and the ones I like best were on sale. And there were other staples, like peanut butter, turkey baloney and Gallo salami, frozen pizzas and eggs - 18-count was on sale, but I had to cannibalize three cartons to create one without broken eggs. Also bought some anti-itch stuff. Witch hazel, which was dad's go-to for us kids, and Benedryl spray. Also a big band aid which ought to protect it from my cutoffs.  

Home, nothing in the mailbox except an ad for a high class choir and an envelope without a return address but a non-profit frank, so it must be a plea for $$ from someplace I don't want to donate - it will be shredded unopened.

Put all the stuff away, and discovered that I had 10 eggs already. My usual hard boiled routine is a dozen at a time, which may happen tomorrow evening.

In other news , my orange "tree" has curled leaves. No sign of insects, and it has been well watered, so I'm guessing sunburn. Need to move it back to the rear of the carport where it had been, too much sun in front of the house. We'll see.

Dinner was half a DiGiorno pizza, which cooked while I watched the news. I like their pizzas, nice thick crust and acceptable toppings. Not like delivery, but close enough. And they were on sale for $6 each.

As usual for a Saturday, this morning I watered all the indoor plants. My catalaya orchids are not progressing, I may toss them. Compost fodder.

Plans for tomorrow:
Tech Museum. B of A gives me free entry. I want to see two of the IMAX films. I hope it isn't too crowded.
I'm skipping the HOA BBQ, they will only be providing sides, and the BYOMeat isn't going to work as they only have one BBQ station. And even if they bring in more, the area is too small. And originally they set if for Monday, but changed it a couple of days ago.

Plan A and B and C achieved

Plan A was to take advantage of the BofA free museums on the first weekend of the month deal and go to The Tech. And I used the senior discount to see two IMAX movies there, $8 each.

Plan B was to buy more napoleons from my favorite bakery and Plan C was to get something from Psycho Donuts. Psycho Donuts lives in a storefront on the ground floor of the garage where I park, and the bakery is on the walk from the garage to the museum. There are several electric car chargers in the garage, but they are not free, and they require a prepaid card. The card Ford gave me, which is supposed to be good for 3 years, doesn't work anymore.

The Tech is huge, as one would expect all the best stuff is designed for children, and there were barrels of them. Children. So many languages being spoken.

The first movie was on humpback whales, and it was good news/bad news throughout. The good news is there was a lot of footage of the whales which would be impossible to see any other way, much of it underwater. The bad news is the quality of the photography was intermittent, and the whole movie was shot at a lower resolution than IMAX can support. On a screen that size, 720p looks like standard definition. The audio was excellent, but the choice of tunes was not.

The second movie was a NASA space promo Journey To Space, which is billed as being narrated by Patrick Stewart, but in reality he only did the intro and outtro and maybe 2 minutes in the middle. And strange to say, it was not as well voiced or recorded as the three NASA folks who did the bulk of the narration. Shuttle astronaut Christopher. J. Ferguson narrates the first third, and takes us through the history of the shuttle, including time on Mir and building the ISS. Dr. Serena Auñón, also an astronaut, talks about things medical in space, with an emphasis on exercise. Lindsay T. Aitchison is a mechanical engineer whose role is on the ground and underwater, she took a look at space suits and their components under development, and led into a section on Orion, which Ferguson tag-teamed from her. This is the project to put a handful of people on Mars and bring them back after a few months. Once in space, the crew quarters will inflate. How could anything go wrong? Technically superb, the movie is what one has come to expect from NASA. Boeing was a major funder, the Orion is their project. Toyota also kicked in huge $$ possibly to show that a Tundra hauled one of the shuttles through the streets of LA to its current resting place.

In between, I visited all the exhibits, had a grilled cheese sandwich in the very busy cafeteria, and was tempted dozens of times by things in the gift shop until I looked at the price tags.

On my walk I also played Ingress, created some links and fields, but somehow I am still stuck at level 6.

Got to the garage, the machine refused to recognize the validation on my ticket. Attendant claimed the tech only validates for week days, but I know that's BS.

In the morning I took clothes out of the dryer and put other clothes in there from the washer. Home after the trip, I put away the clothes from this morning and ran the dryer on "fluff" for a while. Those clothes are on the bed waiting to be ironed or just hung up.

Watched the last half of the Texas/Notre Dame game. Did not watch OT. Instead watched the last half of Texas Southern at Prairie View's new stadium. It was an interesting game in which both teams did their best to give it away. The refs finally did that for TSU, making a bad call at a crucial point in a 4th down which had been converted with a fake field goal. The announcers were making all kinds of inane noises about bad calls and how this one should have been reversed but wasn't.

Dinner was a pair of small beef frozen dinners, one with rice one with mashed. Had some grapes and then a donut.

Next door neighbors came over to return my cooler. Lee, who is 4' tall, brought along her husband, who is taller than me, because she saw how tough a time I had reaching that shelf. He put it up there for me.

Took out the garbage & recycles, watered the front garden. The birds had really messed it up, I jetted a lot of dirt off the stones and also down the culvert.

Plans for tomorrow:
Nothing. There may be football on TV.