Day 2907

 I woke up a little after 7 and played games before getting up for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was raining.  That's great since we were going to COTA for the electric car expo.  We surfed for a while and then left for the expo.

It was sill raining when we got to the expo, but at least we got to park in the closest lot (at the far end though).  We walked to the entrance.  They wouldn't let me in because I had a pocket knife.  I had to make a round trip in the rain to put it in the car.

It continued to rain for house while we were there.  It was sort of like going to anything outdoors in the winter time in Portland.  We actually got used to it.  We looked at lots of electric cars, some cool and some not so cool.  We also looked at electric bikes.  Ellen found a couple that she could ride.  

We signed up to test drive an electric BMW.  It's a nice car and isn't really expensive.  We got phone battery packs for doing so, too.  We had to wait for a while in line to drive the car, but the phones made it an OK wait.  The line was inside a building, so no rain.

I was hoping we'd drive on the track, some demos were.  Unfortunately the BMW drives were on service roads and a little on an arterial.  The car is freakishly fast.  It's sprung pretty stiff though,, even in the "comfort" setting.  All in all it was a great ride.

Apparently taking old carsand putting electric drivetrains in them is a thing.  The rain had almost stopped so we spent some time looking at them.  There must have been a couple of dozen.  All of them were heavily customized.  Unfortunately some of them were covered because of the rain.

It was after 3 when we decided to leave.  We hadn't eaten since breakfast, but $9 for a slice of microwave pizza didn't appeal to us.  Instead we ordered a pizza at Dave's instead.  We bought some cat food next door and they were just bringing the pizza out as we walked in.  Great timing.

Of course all the pets were glad to see us.  I spent sometime with Abby throwing fetches indoors (it was still raining).  I am going to miss her.

The evening was videos and football.  Football is so boring that the only way I can watch it is to be reading or surfing at the same time.