Today I got the Rolling Stone ready to roll down to the Bay Area for a week of work, medical appointments (all routine), and probably a show -- 3Below Theatre's production of Nine: The Musical. I'd go next Thursday when some of the other BASFA members are going, but with a 4 AM alarm on working days, Friday is really the only night I can manage it ( Read more... )

As I expected, it took me quite a while to get to sleep, what with all the caffeine I had yesterday, but I still didn't bother to set an alarm for this morning. Sure enough, I woke up on my own about the time my alarm would have gone off, then went back to bed for a couple more hours, which still gave me plenty of time to have breakfast, check my ( Read more... )

On Saturday morning after breakfast at the Crowne Plaza hotel, Lisa and I went over to the nursing home, where we collected Kelli, who signed herself out of the facility for the day. The nurses gave us her medications, which we labeled for when we were to dispense them to her, and issued us three additional oxygen containers besides the one she was ( Read more... )

I did not hurry at all back from the Bay Area. I managed almost eight hours sleep (thus probably four hours with the CPAP running), and took my time about getting going in the morning before setting forth. I also stopped and had a relatively leisurely breakfast in Tracy, and as usual refueled at Lodi Junction, then make an electronics stop at Fry's ( Read more... )

Aside from leaving an hour later than I planned on account of oversleeping (and that was because I was up much too late working on a project for the Tonopah bid), today's trip was routine. Good weather (still about 15-20 feet of snow at the Donner Summit rest area), easy driving most of the way. There was an accident on westbound I-80 coming down ( Read more... )

I got a call from the auto air conditioning place. It's a good thing I didn't try to just do a simple top-off service. The AC is badly shot, with leaks all over. Some of the parts are hard to get, and at least one is not available at all and they'll have to try rebuilding it. After confirming that we didn't just want to junk the car, I approved the ( Read more... )