Shelter in Places

Checking email after breakfast, Hanes sent a 20% of offer, but I have not received the briefs I ordered from them May 11. Looked up the order, tracking said it has been sitting in a USPS box since the 15th. No notification from USPS.

I hopped in the car, and sure enough there was a key in my mailbox to a parcel box, and the package was in there.

While I was out I decided to catch up on my Albertson's shopping. The place was busy for a weekday morning. Some great eye candy. Got everything on my list, and some items like steak sauce and sweetened condensed milk which I did not have. $100 or so. Almost everything I bought was on sale with the club card.

Home, put stuff away which needed freezer or fridge space, and left the rest for later because:

11 am zoom birthday party for my friend Lawrence, turning 90 today. He and his wife Virginia virtually adopted me when I was in The Wizard of Oz with her and their son George. When they moved to Ashland, OR I was a guest at their house several times when George drove us down there. But I have not seen them in years. It was great to see all the family again, scattered to the winds, and surprising to hear from people who knew him long before I did. 90 minutes of fun. Lawrence used to like showing me his DOS Apple IIG. He says it's in the dump now.

A small break for Tivo and then the daily drive home.

I see I forgot yesterday to say why I called my Israeli sister. Her house burned down. Burning palm fronds from a neighbor's yard landed on her roof. The house has been condemned and she has a month to destroy it. But she says most of the contents are okay, so she is working on getting permission to go in and rescue things. At least two of her sons can do the heavy lifting. We used WhatsApp video call. She looks like an older version of herself. I think it has been 10 years since I've seen her. No insurance. No hope for any kind of gov't assistance because she has a pension and survivor's benefits (her husband died a couple of years ago).

Almost went for a haircut, but got distracted.

Took down my American flag. The mount is on the front corner by my office and it makes a racket when the wind blows. 35 mph gusts today. I may move it to the other side of the house.

Took a nap at 4, up at 7:30. Streamed a bit later than usual. Had some chatters on the whole session.

No lunch. Nibbled on trail mix. Chicken teriaki bowl for dinner. Strawberries & cream for dessert.

TMZ and Below Deck Sailing Yacht on Tivo.

The disposal appears to be leaking.

Plans for tomorrow:
Cardiologist at 1
Maybe hear from a plumber (I sent email on their web site). I want to replace the sink with an undivided one and put in a new disposal
Drop off return of too-big briefs at the PO
Haircut?

Busy busy day. Got all the things done

It helps to get up with the alarm.

Reply from plumber that they are not licensed for mobile homes. Found a company online which specializes in them. Someone will be here between 8 and 9 am. The plan is to have the stupid divided sink replaced with an intelligent single basin, and install a working garbage disposal. I found the leak last night when I reached for a box of plastic zip bags and the wet box came apart in my hand. Dragged my laundry basket over, and pulled a ton of wet stuff out of there and every kind of aerosol from Pledge to Raid. Previous owner had no time to call hazmat.

Coincidentally, master toilet clogged and my little snake did not clear it. I'll ask for an estimate on that. I think I need a larger capacity toilet, but it may only need a deeper unclogging.

The electric screwdriver was charged so I found a space on the porch to install a bracket, mixed up hummingbird food and hung the feeder. It will probably take a while for the birds to find it.

Off to the cardiologist. He said my heart scan looked good, there was a spot on the lower corner which was anomalous, but I had that happen the last time I had the stress test, and a scope inside my heart and $6,000 later it proved to be nothing. The doctor said it was probably my tummy in the way. He was concerned about the edema in my left leg (so am I) and replaced two of my BP meds with two which address that issue as well as heart and kidney functions. One of them is not on the formulary so he gave me a month's worth from his sample stash just in case. Return in 6 weeks (July Fools Day).

On to the PO. Dropped off the RMA package for the underwear and also a form for the county voter registrar. Turns out that in honor of the voter ID controversy, Nevada's Republican Secretary of State added a line to the form for those of us who don't have a state ID to just give our social security number, and affirm we are over 18, live here and are US citizens. Found it justg in time - it's due tomorrow.

Fired up the Great Clips app, and once I got it to realize I'm not in Palo Alto anymore, I found a p;lace on the way home. It said there was no wait, but there was one person ahead of me so 3 minutes.They have my info in the system and I now am properly shorn.

Walmart next, to drop of the prescriptions. Half an hour to wait, they said, and I was having a low blood sugar thing happening so I bought a Snickers and a Payday and waited in my car. Air conditioner only ate 1% of battery in half an hour. Several other people were waiting in their cars. Back inside, the non-formulary one was out of stock, the other only cost $7.

Home. In the mailbox was the mouse with the unify wireless adapter, except it was DOA. I plugged in the unify adapter for the PC, but it didn't connect. The keyboard did connect. The mouse which came with the old adapter worked fine with the new one but the keyboard stopped working. So I have two adapters in the PC which is not the plan.

The mouse has a lot of lag, and the keyboard iks a FAIL. They lied about it having a caps lock indicator, and the insert key is in a place where it's too easy to hit.   And I'm making even more typos.

So the original is going back in place. And I'll shop for something better.

In my last pair of briefs so did laundry.

Dinner was beef merlot steamer bowl. I hate those little potato bits. Mint chip ice cream with whipped cream and three cherries.

Watched The Masked Singer finale. I am pleased with the final vote. The rapper was kicked to the curb first, the turtle (Jesse McCartney), who has a legit boy band singing voice, was 2nd, and the angel (Kandi Burruss) won with a stellar singing performance and no dancing on her part so they pulled out all the stops providing dancers. Two of the panel guessed all three of the artists behind the masks.

Streamed for an hour, could have gone longer with several chatters.

Plans for tomorrow:
Up early for 8 am plumber
3 pm RPCV Zoom meeting (?)
Look for a better keyboard/mouse combo