Normal Monday with benefits

Out of bed at 11 with low-ish Hgl. Took meds, did my usual online reading.

Called to get a water tank inspection appointment.  She said sometime between 7 am and 4 pm Wednesday. I'll leave the left-behind tool for them to find.

Moved my mic arm to the other side of the desk. It gets the mic out of the fan air flow, but it's in an awkward place for using the keyboard. More options to be explored.

The garbage trucks didn't come by till after 2 pm. It was cool enough outside to bring the bins in right away. And also went to check the mail because Informed Delivery said my driver's license was there.

It wasn't. Nothing was in the box. But my parcel was gone - the one I was refusing delivery on.

Watched some streamers. Drank a lot of sodas. Peed early & often. So far the antibiotic is not working. Several more days to go.

Hot Bench, PTI and a Gordon Ramsey special on cooking in Laos, where he tries all kinds of bizarre things, and cooks for monks at a Thai temple.

Watched half the Tampa/NYC game. Then basfa Zoom which was not well attended, then the end of the game (Brady won, darn it).

Spook likes sitting on my lap, sort of. She mostly puts her butt on the recliner arm and her front paws on my high, and sometimes walks toward the other side, but doesn't lie down. But she stays for 10-15 minutes. And uses it was a springboard to the arm of the sofa. She claws that and turns around, sits up and stares at me. Sometimes she returns to my lap sometimes she uses it to get down to floor level.

Heidi comes out of her room and stays in mine. Tonight she had to fight Spook to get out of her room.

When I take a leak Heidi stretches on her hind legs and claws the door jamb. Then she comes over to me and vocalizes and likes to be petted and rubs herself against my leg.

Last night she spent most of the night on the bed, but bailed when I woke up. I expect her to do the same tonight.

Streamed for half an hour but nobody joined in so I cut it short.

10 pm, drove to the mailbox and yes, my driver's license was there! So was paperwork from my auto insurance saying there was a change of driver info. And more discounts, so $45 lower monthly premium.

Below Deck and then Andy Cohen with 2 crew members. This was a meet the new crew episode, very hard to follow. One crew member already gone - his grandma was dying. Less than a day for everyone to learn the boat and bring on guests. Horrible timing, producers. Once again 3rd stew is a FAIL. And one of the crew as well.

Plans for tomorrow:
Breakfast
Vote

I voted. My license plates arrived

No cats overnight. Good Hgl. Banana & HB egg breakfast.

Couldn't wait so went to vote. Got there around 9:45. No line, lots of poll workers well trained got me to the check-in.
The touch screen software was beautiful. Presented on a ~20-inch monitor in portrait mode, simple, easy to follow layout, did not need my reading glasses but wore them anyway. The only gotcha is at the end it wants me to "print" the ballot. What it actually wanted was for me to send each of 4 pages of my ballot to a printer-scanner built into the unit which I did not get a copy of. The results apparently were sent to the county electronically and there's a paper trail as well.
I'm guessing there were about 50 poll workers, they were in the parking lot and all around the building guiding voters to the one entrance, to a check-in window where my registration card was scanned and 2 samples of my signature were compared to what was on file at the county. Given a key card. Then a worker explained the process, pointed out a free voting booth (there were about 20 of them) I put the card in the slot and the software took it from there.


Too lazy to flip the image.

Before I left, USPS informed delivery said my license plates were out for delivery. I had it text me when they got here.

Meanwhile, at home watched some streamers and channel surfed on TV. Not interested in "news" channels because they had none and like to make stuff up.

About 2:30 text said my plates were in the mailbox. Waited a couple of hours then retrieved them. They were shrink wrapped together, the W is a bit funky because they had to use a compressed font to fit it in.


"Home means Nevada"

Need to call Nissan parts and find out about a way to mount the front plate.

Laid down in bed for a while, Spook joined me. No nap, just played on the tablet.

Watched PTI, streamed, two chatters, one drunk in UK.

No real meals, been nibbling all day.

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Plans for tomorrow:
unknown time - water tank inspection
10-ish call Nissan parts
Maybe hear election results.