Day 202

Today really sucked.

I realized yesterday that today was my last chance to shoot until at least September, and maybe longer.  The whole summer is going to be spent doing nothing while Ellen is either in surgery, recovering from surgery, being poisoned, or recovering from being poisoned.

So I got up in the morning and loaded up the car.  We set off a little after 9.  When we turned off 71 to 183, 183 was a parking lot.  So I turned around and went back on 71 to Montopolis.  I could have taken a faster street, but Ellen didn't tell me about it until I'd passed the exit.  Montopolis has a jog in it that requires you to be in the right lane.  Ellen didn't warn me, so I ended up taking another 2 mile detour.  At least traffic northbound was OK once we got back on 183.  Southbound 183 was a parking lot for 2 miles.

When we got to the club they had a sign out saying that they were closed for a private event.  They hadn't bothered to put that on their website.  I was really pissed.  To make matters worse I had to go back on the 290 frontage road and I35.  The I35 traffic wasn't bad, but it wasn't good.  I missed the Ben White exit and had to take the 1st street exit and backtrack to the Mazda dealership. 

When I went into the dealership they couldn't give me the filters without the VIN number.  So back out to the car for that.  By this time the temperature was in the mid 80's.

The next stops were the post office, Tomlinson's for cat food and HEB for a bunch of needed groceries.  Of course Lucy got a hamburger from Tomlinson's.

We stopped at Circle C so Lucy could run.  After two days off she was really happy to do retrieves even though it was hot and sunny.  I let her do as many as she wanted, which was quite a few.

The last stop was the ice cream store.  I needed something good to happen.  Lucy liked it because we bought her some frozen yogurt treats.

When we got home I unloaded the car and then replaced the two filters.  The cabin filter was filthy, the engine filter wasn't really bad.  The job would have gone better if I'd known how to do it.  I had to drag out the vacuum cleaner, and an extension cord, to vacuum out the engine air box.  I was drenched in sweat by the time I was finished.

The rest of the day was spent reading and playing Minions.  I would set up some builds, put the game away for awhile, read, and then go back to the game.  I repeated the cycle many times.