Because of the show last night, I did not get to bed until nearly midnight, but I did wake up just before 6 AM. I had some ideas of getting an early start driving home, but the hotel breakfast doesn't start until 7 AM on weekends, and having paid for it, I sort of wanted to eat it. In the end, I didn't get away until almost 8:30 AM, as a few things ( Read more... )

I was fortunate that my manager allowed me to log out at 10 AM this morning on the condition that I take my work computers with me and log back in when I got to the hotel in case anything came up that needed my attention. I needed the extra time today for the drive to San Jose, where I will be until Sunday.

Here's the Google Maps plan for ( Read more... )

Lisa and went to Reno/Sparks again today, with several errands to make ( Read more... )

Lisa and I decided to take another load of recycling over to Fallon on Saturday, but when we got there we found a backup. There was a long queue of vehicles with things to dispose of at the transfer station scale, where you pay to dump things. The line of vehicles blocked the access to the recycling area. (You don't pay to recycle stuff.) After ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, Lisa and I headed for Reno/Sparks for our second Pfizer vaccine dose. I got away from work early (after only eight hours, rather than my more typical 9-10 hours), so we also took the many boxes of glass bottles we'd been accumulating so that we could dump them at the facility in Reno. We'd noticed on our last pass through there ( Read more... )

I had today off today, so Lisa and I took a drive into Reno to look for a place we can take our accumulated glass for recycling. As you may recall, nowhere in my own county or in the next county east of us accepts glass for recycling. We took just one box of glass with us today. We found the location. To my bemusement, they're using "single stream ( Read more... )

Yesterday, when we went out to get the parts for the shower door, we thought we would first run over to Fallon to dump a minivan-load of can and plastic recycling. We pulled up to the transfer station in Fallon at 4:01, only to discover that they close at 4 PM, not 5 PM as I thought they did. So today we tried again, only earlier. It was still ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first day I used the new DemeTECH N95 mask from the supply we recently bought, because we had to go out on a short trip.

( Mask and Mask Again )