Day 1506

Last night was another night of waking up several times covered in sweat.  When I got out of bed in the morning the sheets and pillow were soaked.

After breakfast and pet stuff there was a little surfing.  Then Ellen went to another doctor.  Thyroid this time, another waiting room I shouldn't sit in.  I felt good, and I was sick of surfing.  So I encoded another book on tape.  I did 2 CD's of a second book before Ellen got back.  By then I was sick of encoding so I quit and ate a ham sandwich for lunch.

I surfed a little more while Ellen wrote Christmas cards.  Then I loaded the two old workmates into the truck and took them to Goodwill.  We stopped at the post office, where there was nothing in the box.  Everyone hates us.

The keyboard for my computer has been showing it's age.  Today it refused to work.  I was about to throw it away when I remembered the tactic of last resort - slam it on the desk.  I did it twice and the thing started to work.  I don't think it's long for this world though.

Ellen wanted to go to Best Buy and the keyboard was an excuse.  I found one that was marked down because it was returned.  It was totally unused, they hadn't even removed the battery tab.  We looked at refrigerators, but couldn't find any we liked.  Ellen found a game console she liked, so we bought it.  We also bought a couple of games for it.

We stopped at both Lowe's and Home depot for refrigerators.  They didn't have any we liked.  I got some water softener salt at Lowe's.  We also stopped at a auto parts store on the way home for some windshield washer fluid.  The dealer only filled the truck up half way.

When we got to the intersection of 45 and 1826 there was a more than half mile long line to turn left.  Of course I went right.  When we got to the intersection it turned out that there was an accident on 1826.  Our only way home was 290.  We went back to it and had to wait for several cycles of the light before we could turn left.  We got a short way down it and ran into a miles long traffic jam.  There was no problem - just really stupid lights.

The traffic web showed that 1826 was blocked between Nutty Brown and home.  So we had dinner at the restaurant next to SPEC's.  It was good - especially the Guinness.  When we were finished we drove home.  1826 was blocked at the entrance to Bear Creek.  At least we could get in.  The problem was that they were routing all of the 1826 traffic through the development.  And they hadn't put up any detour signs inside the development.  The whole place was overrun with lost people driving around in circles.

We finally managed to get home.  I hauled the recycling to the can and then put both cans out.  That was then end of things for me today.  I'm spending the rest of the evening resting in the easy chair.