A day stuff got done

Lazy morning, no breakfast because I kept biting the inside of my lip - couldn't wear the partial. Took the bins to the curb at about 8:30, the bulk garbage was still out there.

10 am Facebook video chat with two old friends from folkdance festival days, Alan & Val. Last time I talked to them they had 3 kids, now they have 5, all college grads and a few grandkids. They both look great, and as I remembered them. We talked for 2 hours. They are now FB friends so we'll keep in touch better. Today was the birthday of another old folkdance friend, in Canada. Four FB birthdays today.

Screen door admin called, she said she could get a tech out tomorrow at 8. Good enough.

No word from Lowe's about the dishwasher, and hold time is insane. I may try again tomorrow when I don't have anywhere to go.

Put the Bose soundbar and the sodasense empties in the car and drove to the closest PO. Dropped the empties in the big round bin, but the soundbar was to big, and I wanted a receipt for it. Only two people ahead of me but only one clerk, and a couple with a young girl sitting on the counter were taking forever so I left.

Next stop was the new Goodwill store in Henderson but my GPS sent me to a defunct casino so I punched in the street address and it took me halfway home and to a much nicer, well staffed donation drive-through. The big old microwave and the el cheapo sound bar went there. Next I drove to the big PO near the big Albertson's, no line, four clerks, dropped off the Bose thing and was out with a receipt in 3 minutes.

Home, about 1:30, no mail in the mailbox (there was supposed to be two items). So I guess "nor rain nor snow nor sleet of night" does not include flash floods or monsoons. Turns out we had an inch of rain last night.

Surprise - while I was gone they fixed the screen door. But they did a sloppy job - the handle bangs against the door knob when I close the screen with the door closed. I sent a video to their head tech/repair guy and said I'm okay with them not fixing it till Friday. He answered "why do you want to close the screen when the door is closed?" I told him never mind. But my inner voice is saying he should have more pride in the quality of his work than that, especially with the price they charge.

Hauled in the garbage bins just before it started raining again. They were pretty late collecting them, and the trash truck was tailgating the recycle truck.

Watched a wee bit of fishing stream, and some Olympics. Simone was not at the top of her game. The woman commentator kept saying Simone was too powerful but my take is she is not precise enough. Hoping the whole team does better.

PTI mostly ignored the Olympics except to show France beating USA in basketball.

Took a nap, woke up feeling like I had low Hgl but it was high. GI issues again, munched a lot of saltines and imodium and pink bismuth tablets. Was going to make a salad but had a muffin instead.

BASFA zoom meeting was short, not a lot of announcements or reviews.

90 Day Fiance was the full episode, plus a drama llama tacked on the end. Below Deck Med only had one minor crew injury.  Roy Orbison Jr. is an ugly stupid drunk and only his wife luring him to bed prevented him jumping overboard in port in the dark. The rest of the episode was devoted to crew stupidity, personality clashes and a lot of angst. Chef got drunk and went all potty mouth at the after party/dinner, stomped off when he was told to chill, went back to the boat, packed his knives and his belongings and stomped off, breaking a few cameras along the way. Capt. Sandy slept through it.

Plans for tomorrow:
More Olympics
Call Lowe's and use the call-back feature instead of staying on hold forever
Bachelorette
90 Day pillow talk
 

USPS FAIL, Lowe's sidestepped, Olympics sadness

Amazon tracking said USPS put the microwave on a truck at 6 am. It was never delivered. But USPS says they put it in my mailbox. Just in case that fantasy was true I drove to the mailbox, but there wasn't a key to a storage bin, microwave would not have fit anyway. Lazy postal worker probably still has it on her truck. I filled out a missing mail form on USPS site. Amazon does not seem to have a way to report a missing package. Hmmm.**

The free meals included a few sugar free gelatin cups, which got me to wanting more, so I placed a delivery order with Albertson's and added some Ensure, bananas, ice cream, cut watermelon and frozen avocado chunks.

Breakfast was a ham & cheese scramble with a side of blueberry goop. Tasted great. **When I was done I packed up the microwave expecting to have the right model in time for dinner but no such luck.

Phoned Lowe's using the number they called me from Sunday, and after 20 minutes of walking them through the issues, they said they would have the dishwasher installers call me directly, and they would follow up Friday. No call yet...

Made a salad for dinner and ate four Jell-O sugar free chocolate cups. And 2 lime cups.

Watched some Olympics, synchronized diving was amazing. The tiny Chinese girls who won were perfect. The USA silver medalists not so much.

Very sad that Simone took herself out of the finals, but it was clear she was not performing up to her own standards, even though she was still better than everyone else. And Naomi Osaka got crushed in her first match by #42. Both of them are blaming mental health issues, but it's hard to be confident when you see yourself slipping physically. And virtual fans are no substitute for butts in the seats.

In cat news, there was a breakthrough. Jade came out from behind the freezer and let me pet her. She rubbed her face against my hand for quite a while and later vacuumed up a tuna puree tube after I squeezed it out onto a paper plate. She was scared of the tube being pointed at her. Spook was a couple of feet away when I was petting Jade, but left her alone and Jade was too busy enjoying the petting to growl at Spook. https://www.facebook.com/how3ird/videos/900027783922895 best with auio on

Streamed for an hour, there were several chatters from Europe.

Humana pharmacy site was offline, could not update my order.

Got into the car and reset the Nissan Connect app and it started working. I had charged the car overnight.

Plans for tomorrow:
Zoom job interview at noon
Dermatologist at 2:30 (the sunburn spot is still there)
Pet Jade some more. See if she will allow me to brush her
Eat a lot of watermelon. Try a bottle of Ensure.