Day 987

It was up today at 7 to do pet stuff, breakfast, and leave to do the laundry.  We were done with the laundry by 9.  I called Touchmark to insure the meeting was still on.  I also called Laurel Parc to make sure Mom was ready.  Both times the answer was good.

W were making good time to Portland until we hit a traffic jam just before the rest area.  Apparently someone had fucked up on the bridge.  We crawled along until the Canby exit.  I got off there and then got back on.  That allowed me to pass half a mile of cars and get near to the end of the jam.  We still ended up being short of time.

We stopped at Hooch's place and then went to Laurel Parc.  We got there about 10:15.  Mom was pretty much ready.  The Touchmark person showed up about 10:40.  She interviewed Mom about her likes and dislikes.  She also gave Mom a short cognitive test.  I'm not sure I would have gotten everything right.  Mom sure didn't.  After she left we took Mom to lunch across the street.

Mom had broken a finger nail and needed diapers, so I went over to Walgreen's while we waited and bought nail clippers and diapers.  Ellen fixed the nail while we waited.  After lunch we took Mom back because I wanted to go down to the club to work.

We were on the road by 1:15.  217 was fucked up from Canyon road past Denney and again at I5.  I5 was fucked up to past 205.  So we decided to go the back way.  Big mistake.  I picked the wrong way through Beaverton.  Ellen picked a new shortcut through Sherwood which took much longer than the normal one.  Then there was construction on Tonquin that had us waiting for 15 minutes.  All in all it took an hour and a half to get home.

I shouldn't have bothered to hurry.  Dave had nothing for me to do, and told me to go help Tucker.  Tucker didn't want any help.  I dicked around a little and then helped Dave from Quail Point unload his trailer.  After that I just sat around until Ellen was finished.  Dave had dinner set up for their crew.  We went home and I didn't bother to go back after we ate (pancakes and sausage).

Later I went for a walk.  After dinner they had set up some stands and moved machines.  I could have helped, put I guess I'm not needed.  I'll go over there tomorrow, but I suspect I won't do anything.

The rest of the evening was surfing and TV.