That Was The Weekend That Was
Thursday, Jan 14th -- For what I did Thurs, read the previous entry. The big declutter task of the day was plastic food storage containers. Our recycle bin is now overflowing.
Friday, Jan 15th -- After work, we finally went to see the new Star Wars movie. I won't post any spoilers here, but it was essentially a rewrite of the first movie with all of the most famous bits of the other movies thrown in, with as many of the original actors as they could get ahold of. We noticed that Ken Baker was listed as 'R2D2 consultant' rather than simply R2D2. Has robotics advanced so much, that R2 was a real robot? I heard B88 was an actual robot. We went out to Applebee's after the movie. Seated immediately, and then 25 min later, we walked out. We didn't even have a waitress come by to ask for our drink order. We went to Wing City Grille and got served within 3 minutes. I wrote a complaint on the Applebee's website and then copied it to WCG. I'm waiting to see if I get any responses. BTW, I looked it up when we got home. Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) is a year older than Alec Guiness (Obi-wan) was when the first SW movie came out! :)
Saturday, Jan 16th -- Normally, I get to sleep in on weekends. Today we had to take my mother in for blood work. So, we sprung her from the joint, got her bloodwork done, took her out to breakfast at Denny's. She ordered a ton of food and ended up taking two carry out containers back to the nursing home. We spent the afternoon with her, hit a couple of second hand stores and got back home to Fredonia too late to do any chores except grocery shopping.
Sunday, Jan 17th -- Went to UU services. Met the new minister. He's very aware of what's around him. He immediately spotted both my wife and myself as two members that he hadn't met at last week's service or the meet and greet on Saturday. Spent the rest of Sunday puttering in the kitchen, trying to catch up on #Declutter365. My 'assignment' for today was 'declutter kitchen cabinets and drawers'. We have 20+ cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. Even given that previous tasks were 'declutter silverware drawer' and 'declutter junk drawer', that still leaves us with faster than one cabinet per minute to do it in 15 min. I skipped it and caught up on the tasks I missed last week going to 12th Night.
Monday, Jan 18th -- It's winter, so I left early for work, figuring I'd use up time brushing off the car and low visibility on the road. Almost no traffic. Everybody has off for MLK. Normally, on the radio he does news at 7, sports at 7:10, weather at 7:20, news at 7:30, trivia at 7:40, sports at 7:50 and news at 8AM. This morning, he did news at 7:15 and that was it. It felt strange driving in to work, like I was going there on a Saturday or something.
Friday, Jan 15th -- After work, we finally went to see the new Star Wars movie. I won't post any spoilers here, but it was essentially a rewrite of the first movie with all of the most famous bits of the other movies thrown in, with as many of the original actors as they could get ahold of. We noticed that Ken Baker was listed as 'R2D2 consultant' rather than simply R2D2. Has robotics advanced so much, that R2 was a real robot? I heard B88 was an actual robot. We went out to Applebee's after the movie. Seated immediately, and then 25 min later, we walked out. We didn't even have a waitress come by to ask for our drink order. We went to Wing City Grille and got served within 3 minutes. I wrote a complaint on the Applebee's website and then copied it to WCG. I'm waiting to see if I get any responses. BTW, I looked it up when we got home. Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) is a year older than Alec Guiness (Obi-wan) was when the first SW movie came out! :)
Saturday, Jan 16th -- Normally, I get to sleep in on weekends. Today we had to take my mother in for blood work. So, we sprung her from the joint, got her bloodwork done, took her out to breakfast at Denny's. She ordered a ton of food and ended up taking two carry out containers back to the nursing home. We spent the afternoon with her, hit a couple of second hand stores and got back home to Fredonia too late to do any chores except grocery shopping.
Sunday, Jan 17th -- Went to UU services. Met the new minister. He's very aware of what's around him. He immediately spotted both my wife and myself as two members that he hadn't met at last week's service or the meet and greet on Saturday. Spent the rest of Sunday puttering in the kitchen, trying to catch up on #Declutter365. My 'assignment' for today was 'declutter kitchen cabinets and drawers'. We have 20+ cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. Even given that previous tasks were 'declutter silverware drawer' and 'declutter junk drawer', that still leaves us with faster than one cabinet per minute to do it in 15 min. I skipped it and caught up on the tasks I missed last week going to 12th Night.
Monday, Jan 18th -- It's winter, so I left early for work, figuring I'd use up time brushing off the car and low visibility on the road. Almost no traffic. Everybody has off for MLK. Normally, on the radio he does news at 7, sports at 7:10, weather at 7:20, news at 7:30, trivia at 7:40, sports at 7:50 and news at 8AM. This morning, he did news at 7:15 and that was it. It felt strange driving in to work, like I was going there on a Saturday or something.