Day 3379

 I woke up about 8, played games for a while, and then got u for pet stuff and breakfast.  It was cold today - in the 40's when I got up.  I surfed for a while, but then guilt came over me.  I got out the Lego bamboo.

The rest of the steps in the construction weren't hard in themselves, but the flimsy construction of the Lego made them difficult.  In two places I needed Ellen to help.  I needed two hand to keep the bamboo from coming apart while she installed the lights.

There were 6 super tiny connectors that had to be plugged into a distribution board.  It would have been impossible to do without a good set of tweezers.  The last challenge was to rearrange the bamboo "shoots".  That turned out to take quite a lot of work because they kept falling apart.

I will say that the result looks pretty cool.

With that done I cleaned everything up.  I found a card from Diane and wrote her a letter.  Then I did a little shopping on Amazon.  I found a micro-b part that's on order from Aliexpress.  I don't think I'll every see that order, so I ordered the Amazon version. 

I had leftover pizza for lunch.  Then we took the dog to Circle C.  We walked a little more than a mile.  She did a lot more.  When we were finished we stopped at the yogurt place.  Heh, it's our birthday.

When we got home I sat down for videos and ended up with a nap.  I woke up when it was time to feed the animals.

Dinner was a frozen thing.  We were planning on going to an Italian restaurant, but just didn't feel like it.  Eventually we had some cake.  Of course it was really good.  The rest of the evening was videos.

I lost a little sleep last night worrying about getting old.  I'm clearly not as capable as I used to be, and it's not going to get any better.  I really don't want to outlive Ellen, and I also don't want to get dementia.  Unfortunately I can't affect either of those things.  I don't fear death, but I do fear ageing.