I have my car back, kind of. Photos scanned, Spook groomed and de-matted

Spook woke me up a 8:30, I guess the alarm did not go off at 8. The bedroom lights should have been on but they weren't. Spook was on the bed, pawing at me.

Morning: scanned photos of parents from the big pile, the last 50 or so went slowly since they were all different sizes and has been Scotch taped into scrapbooks with the tape on top of the corners of the photos. Scissors time. :-(

Annoying because the folks used to use photo corners in their scrapbooks but decided to take select special photos out of those books and tape them randomly into other black construction paper pages. No idea which 'rent or why. Could have been grandparents.

Pet groomer arrived right on time at 1 pm, bathed Spook and shaved off the mats but left most of her fur on. Her calico pattern is on her skin under the fur, that was a surprise.

Racing stripe?

It only took 20 minutes. Hmmm.

Spook avoided me for a while, then wanted me to leave the PC and play, and when I didn't she rooted around in her toy box and threw one of her bigger toys out of the box and into the livingroom a couple of feet away. And then laid down beside it, not playing with it. After a while she hinted that she wanted to climb onto the recliner foot rest and be brushed so we did that.

She continues to be "anywhere cat".

Body shop rep called, he was going to Nissan to get my car, it would be ready by 4. I got there at 4:15, it was ready, sort of. They had not fixed the non-accident scrapes which I had asked them to do. The tires had not been inflated they were at 4 different psi levels. The car drifts to the right. And it only had a 25% charge (it had 63% when I dropped it off). Blame Nissan, they should have put it on a fast charger for half an hour.

I left feedback about all this. I can pump up the tires, but I'm worried about the battery level. I charged it, and will do some driving tomorrow. Need to go to the PO. My nails need work too.

Albertson's on my way home for bananas, milk,  OJ and post-its. And frozen lunches.

My weight this morning was satanic


I have named the stuffed panda Panda Mick.

Stole the idea from TMZ.

No Tivo today, flipped between TWC and History Channel.

One storm chaser. But I caught him too late for anything except his drive through a lightning storm. He's hurricane chasing the next few days. Portland protests continue to be streamed. No tear gas yet.

Streamed 8:30-9:30,  one chatter from the daily drive, which I stopped watching. She said the daily drive guy was kicked off the storm chaser team for some rude things he posted on FB. Does not surprise me. She implied they were alcohol inspired.

Boxed up two CO₂ cartridges for snailmail exchange. Also put the cheap scanner into a flat rate box and applied appropriate postage.

Made appointments for driver's license and car registration. Earliest available was October 19.

Indian pimp called with a possible job in LV. Difficult to understand her accent. Irony: she called back asking me to change my resume to delete the "US Citizen" and "Native speaker of American English" lines. I told her no. And to tell her boss, who made her call me about this, that he's out of line.  

Plans for tomorrow:
Post Office. Drop off the packages and pick up the Jockey package.
Drive down the Boulder Hwy till the battery tells me to turn around and go home
Laundry - cutoffs and bath towel
Scan grandparents' photos

Busy day waiting in lines

Woken up by a call from the support guy at Uptrade, he needed the PIN to unlock the Galaxy 9. He was able to get it to take a full charge. Unlocked, factory reset and he processed a refund.

After breakfast & a quick check of FB, it was off to the PO with a soda cartridge return, scanner RMA and the claim tag for the postage due jockey package. 10 minutes in the line for pickups before I was able to see the sign "no monetary transactions". Another 15 minutes in the main line, got a tracking number for the RMA but she sent me back to the pickup queue. Another 5 minutes waiting for chatty customers ahead of me and then was sent back to the main desk to wait 10 minutes behind some child who was paying in 300 pennies. Which the clerk had to hand count. Another clerk saved me - he grabbed the postage due bag and took my $$.

On the way home, pulled into the AM drive-up line, 20 minutes there because only one of the 2 machines was working. And two cars ahead of me the customer kept getting her PIN rejected.

Home, email from the adoption agency with 2 forms to fill out, scan and return.  One for the agency and one for PetCo which apparently processes the $. Hope to hear soon about logistics. Sent the tracking number to the scanner company, and they issued a refund.

Scanned the grandparents' photos. Lots of duplicates. I'll have to work on that. Had to use the flatbed scanner on a few big photos which are mounted on board or permanently  in frames. Like this one of mom's mom at 6:



4 pm nail appointment at Nail Envy, the first place I'd gone to in March. Instead of a pretty woman, they were overbooked so the man who usually just answers the phone did my nails - being interrupted every 3 minutes to answer the phone and greet customers. Mediocre job, rushed, one more place to cross off my list. There's a place next door to the ATM, I'll see what Yelp has to say about it.

Spook has been parking herself mostly in the little house on the cat tree, but also all over the place. Odd spots on the floor. But she also is making a point of grooming herself again. She yelled at me to brush her - twice.

Watched one more episode of Lost Resort,  it continues to not have a structure. The healers all strike me as frauds, especially the woman who is head "shaman". Not a lot of traction on Twitter.

One storm chaser is en route to FL.

Put 17 miles on the car, it used 16% of battery, which seems a bit too much. I'll try a longer drive tomorrow.

Solved the mystery of pulling to the right - there's a stay in your lane feature. If you're not signaling to change lanes it steers you back to the center of your lane. I tend to drive to the left of center. Tires are staying at the same psi, I should bring the car to a tire shop for a checkup and fill.

TWC has been following the next hurricane which they think will plow into SE FL and then up the coast.

Turkey tetrazinni for lunch, half a sausage sub for dinner. Watermelon lunch dessert then strawberries and cream after dinner.

Streamed for an hour, one local and two from Chile in chat.

Ran the towels through the dryer, will wait till morning to do the cutoffs.

Ordered a new pair of Tevas. They no longer make the model I have worn out. But the new one comes close.

Plans for tomorrow:
Cutoffs --> dryer
Scan cousins' photos
Go for a drive, try to set up the Note 10 for streaming. Need to find a place to mount it.