Final boxes emptied, sort of. Filk concert all day

Up many times during the night, surprised awake by the 8 am alarm.  Walked the 3 blocks to the PO boxes at 9 am, it was 96° when I set out, 103° when I got home. No package in the box, just a letter from the park saying I owed them $13. Called the office twice - both times it went to someone's cell phone - no name given. Left a message for them to fix their auto-pay system. They charge $5 a month for that service, and they shouldn't be bugging me about their system not working.

Had a nice chat with Sandy next door, finally met her friend Jack, who is very hunk-like and I think Australian.

10 am it was time to tune into a Zoom session with filkers from around the world. One really nice thing about zoom is people who would not have been able to get to Denver for the convention could still attend, and perform. The first session was supposed to be a workshop on setting up a podcast, but the workshop part was about 30 seconds: "I just use this inexpensive microphone and free Audacity software". He isn't streaming video, just audio, which IMHO is cheating. But for video you just need a webcam so no big deal.

Then came the 1-hour solo concerts.
Joseph Abbott - I bailed before the end of the workshop and somehow I missed him.
Norma McPhee's voice annoyed me and her tunes were tuneless so I muted her and watched some Twitch streams
Art Warneke had a lot of interesting stuff
Blind Lemming Chiffon was the MC and his blues filk was great. I keep telling him he is the most talented guitar/banjo/mandolin player I know but he says he's not so good.
Chris Clarke - the guitar drowned out the vocals, but the tunes were typical filk monotonous
Deirdre Moira Murphy I missed because VegasDogLife started streaming
Dave Stagner was excellen. A lot of variety
Bill Laubenheimer is a friend, but I wish he didn't do more than a couple of songs. He ran out of material, but he also wanders around the melody, never quite landing on a key. I should ask if he has been taking lessons.
Kerri-Ellen Kelly - I missed her because I went to Twitch to not have to listen to Bill
Eric Coleman was okay
Vanessa Cardui was stunning. I saw her in person at Consonance last year and fell in love. She plays many instruments, sings in many languages and is a bona fide ancient music expert. I think she came to us from Canada.

And then it was 6:30 pm and I needed a rest from the PC. Watched some UFO stuff and then a series on how Washington was a pivotal person in the revolutionary war.

Streamed from 8:30-9:30, good conversations, the end of the hour came as a surprise.

Mac & turkey franks & cheddar for dinner. Out of salad greens but made a salad with the other ingredients.

Emptied the 3rd to last box onto my bed and redistributed everything either to the guest closet (photo stuff) , the new plastic drawers in the office (postcards and mailing items) or the garbage.

Did the same to the 2nd to last box, except most of that was way too many DVD/CD mailers (recycled), postcards and greeting cards and misc mailing items. I need another legal size drawer for some of those.

The final box I thought was only Mom & Dad's collection of snapshots still in the drug store envelopes. But that was only half the box, the other half looks to be 100 years of parents & grandparents loose photos of family. I need to sort through those. It will take a while.

Also installed 4 wi-fi bulbs in the guest room fan/chandelier. Alexa and Google can control them. I installed three in the dining room yesterday. I have 5 more left over, not sure where they will go.

Took out the garbage and recycled bins. Easy without a car in the driveway.

Washed a load of laundry. Probably won't run the dryer till morning since it's still 98° outside.

Plans for morrow:
10-12 window for toilet replacement
Expect to hear from the body shop
Need to file a police report - may need to Uber to the car rental place. Not sure if Enterprise will shuttle me there.
Check for calico cats at the usual shelters

Backdated eventful Monday

I got up with the 8 am alarm, and did my routine early/on time so I'd be all caught up online by the time the plumber arrived at 10 am (best case for 10-noon window).

At about 9 I called the insurance company and it took about half an hour to file a claim, including a voice recording interview by the agent. She made reservations with Enterprise for a rental car, and sent all my info to the body shop. Body shop rep called, said I should get up there as son as possible for paperwork and an estimator to look over my car. She said she would get me into the rental car which insurance had reserved. I had to reduce the size of the photos of the crash and the other driver's license & plate to be able to email it to insurance company. Luckily I have a batch routine in Photoshop for this for posting my photos on Flickr.

Plumber arrived at about 11, removed the toilet and installed the new (right) one in an hour. Silently. Spook stayed hidden in plain sight on the floor between the recliner and the couch.

Noon-ish I placed a call for an Uber ride to the body shop. He arrived around 12:20, mumbling something about a fire. He had a Tagalog TV show playing loudly on his phone, it was hard to hear him. And his accent made him hard to understand. When we got to the front of the park the road was blocked, fire truck and ambulance on the left and traffic pylons on the right, we had to take a road to the left and work around to the other side of the blockage. Piss poor traffic management, and total FAIL by the park which should have sent a text about the blockage & fire.

The uber's GPS took us a different way, up Tropicana to the freeway and exit back to Boulder Hwy/Fremont Street. It may have been faster.

Checked in, waited 15 minutes for the estimator, who took me all around the building looking for my car because usually towed cars were taken back there, but mine was right where I'd left it. It was a 10 minute walk in 115° with a 20 mph wind. But when he found it, he did a good job of opening all the doors, the hood and the power plug flap, and it was clear that the shell of the car had been shoved out of true. But no frame damage, they can fix this. And I also asked for an estimate to fix two previous minor dings.

The body shop rep called for a rental car which was delivered to me there. Nissan Sentra, no nav system. Red. Initialed a lot of things, insurance only pays $25/day, so it's gonna cost me. Not much, maybe $5/day.

Got my masks and the soda stream return from the car. Had my hat & sunglasses. Drove home by way of the post office, but somehow did not find it on the street I thought I remembered it on, so then by way of Albertson's because I was out of salad greens and watermelon. And more chocolate ice cream sandwiches never hurt.

Earlier in the day I gave up being on hold for the doctor's office. They don't have a way online to create a login. Also got a return call from the park office insisting I pay that $13. I was able to do that online, but I will be writing to corporate to complain.

Napped at about 4. Crashed at 11:30, but couldn't sleep so I made myself some chocolate milk an watched the 90 Day Fiancé episode I'd started earlier. In bed before 2 I think.

Did not make a salad, just melted some string cheese on sourdough for dinner.  

Plans for Tuesday:
Look up the PO address and drop off the sodastream box
Catch up on Tivo
Slice up the watermelon and put the pieces in bags in the fridge
Maybe start sorting 1,001 parental photos