Day 2011

 We woke up about 8:30.  Actually the CO2 alarm woke us up in the middle of the night with a dead battery alarm.  I took it down and put it in a drawer.  Then I went back to sleep.  When we got up it was pet stuff and breakfast.  

It was raining, windy, and cold this morning.  So going outside was out of the question.  We stayed inside.  I ordered the stuff I had been wanting on Amazon and Ellen dealt with the mail.  Eventually the weather improved and I went outside to start up the car.  It started up fine, but gave a warning for the start/stop not working.  The check engine light went on, too.  I ignored it.

I put the charger and extension cord away.  That's when I discovered that I have no Winchester 20 ga wads or primers.  I'm not sure what happened.  I was sure I had plenty of wads and some primers.  It's nuts.  Luckily I have plenty of Remington 20 ga wads and brought primers with me.

We left to do errands when the car warmed up.  We got the mail and drove up to Freddies to get fuel.  Gas is 90 cents higher than it was 9 months ago.  Fuck Biden.  I stopped at Audi to ask them to read the car's codes.  They wanted $180 to do it.  I said no thanks.

We stopped at Camping World so I could get a pin box friction disk to replace the one I broke.  Amazon wanted the same price plus $6 to $10 shipping.  Then we drove up to Washington Square.  I wanted to get something with my Lego points.

Washington Square was weird.  Of course all the people were wearing masks.  None of the directories worked because of Covid.  I ended walking all over to find the Lego store.  I had a $45 discount.  I bought a RC car.  Ellen bought a Bonsai tree.  Then we went to Cheesecake Factory for lunch.  We took part of it home for dinner.

We ended up walking all around the mall.  There were some people, but not a huge number.  There were stores that I couldn't figure out what they were selling.  We bought a couple of kitchen utensils and then left about 3:30.

Traffic was OK until we got to Tualatin.  It was a parking lot from there to past Stafford.  We got off and took Boone's Ferry.  It was crowded, so I'm not sure we saved any time.  We got back on in Wilsonville.  We shoould have gotten back on at Stafford.

Traffic slowed down to about 55 after Aurora.  I've never seen that before.  It was slow until Woodburn.

When we got home Ellen fed the cats.  I put the new friction disk on.  Then I tidied up the shed some and attempted to fix the pedestal fan.  We'll see if it works.  Hooch called and said he wanted me to mail the insurance forms to him.  All of our envelopes were trashed.  I also remembered that we should have purchased milk.  So I went to Gervais for both items.

I had leftovers for dinner.  After dinner I did Legos.