Today’s Title Is?

Ok. So it’s day two back. I was thinking I should title this Day 2 or Second Day or something numeric. I am an accountant after all. Over the years my English instructors always harped on the need for a title to a story or article. I always hated them. It’s not so easy coming up with a pithy title every day. One that is topical or funny or arcane. But maybe I can see a bit of the point of it all. I will try harder tomorrow. I may even change today’s while in progress.

I am again up to early. It’s 10am in Maine and I guess my head is still there. A shame my body isn’t. Speaking of, I gained ten pounds while on vacay. For anyone who has read the blog you may be likely to blame all the cocktails, trips to Giffords Ice Cream, dinners with friends or for that matter all the eating out. Well, that sounds about right. I started up the diet I was on before I left. I had lost 30 lbs prior to going on vacay so I would like to kick the ten plus lots more. So I will keep you posted. That’s blog humor. Posted. It’s all I got.

I was sitting here at he kitchen table typing and the cat, Prince, jumped in my lap. She really never talked to me before. But, she has been my best friend since we got back. If I sit, she hits my lap. Actually annoying that she is so needy. Cats are supposed to be aloof. And I wish she would hold onto her hair.

I am going to go make 3 coffees in a moment. One for me and the others for the kids. On a normal morning I make coffee for whoever is here. Today three. When the kids lived here it was four every day. Making two each morning as I do now seems so easy. See, habits can be changed or adapt to new circumstances. Then there is breakfast. I don’t make it for everyone. Maybe guests. A man has got to know his limitations. I will make my own. After coffee.

My breakfast diet food is pancakes. Special pancakes from a box. Low carb. They have absolutely horrible syrup to put on them. I eat em dry. I only use real Maine maple syrup. Which is the best. Life is too short for bad syrup.

I know. You are all jealous.

Ok. Shower time. No pictures, sorry.

I had a haircut this morning which I arrived early for. Amazing thing is I have not been on time for a cut in years.

Had to drive home and pick up my phone. Was planning on going to Vacaville for a car wash. But a phone is important. Made lunch while there, some sloppy joe meat from a box. Diet food. Gotta lose the ten.

Now off to Vacaville to find someone to scrub 10000 miles of bugs and dirt off the car. Have not washed it since the day before we left. While in Vacaville I discovered that my favorite hand car wash converted to automatic so I can’t get a decent wash anymore. The only others I am familiar with also are automatic. These types of washes do not remove the level of bugs I have on the car. It’s nasty. I will probably have to find a real detailer somewhere. I wash it myself but even I can’t get all the bugs off. And I scrubbed with Michaels toothbrush. Don’t worry, he never reads the posts.

After the car wash I went back to Dixon to see my buddy Jim. While I was away on the trip dragging my trailer around the country, he did same with his wife, one daughter and grandson. No dogs. He was not out for a month like us but he did make it as far as South Dakota. Maybe the gypsy lifestyle is a function of age. Not sure.

Unfortunately, after all errands were done, I had to go to work. Have I mentioned I don’t want to go to work? I mean today. Well, in this post? Usual paperwork done and still catching up with all the mail and requests for my time. Probably be carching up for a month. Turns out we sign d a new client while I was away and somebody paid off a four year old invoice. That does not happen often enough.

I was fortunate to have to leave early. I went to the bank first to finish off all deposits that came in while I was gone. Then instead of continuing on to next appointment I went back to the office to get my phone. I forgot it. Do you detect a theme? I usually only forget it once a day.

Left office for the day. Off to Auburn to meet with my real estate agent Linda and the sellers agent Jim. Jim, though he lives in Dixon, is a 3rd generation Dixonite. Crazy. The three of us went through a property showing, measured out distance from lot to sewer hook up and generally discussed all aspects of the lot. For those of you late to the party, we would like to live on the property in Auburn. Have to buy the land and build a house. We made one offer already. Went nowhere. Now on to round two. New offer. We will see. If we buy the property this blog will become, for a large part, the building of our house blog. Will see.

I should mention, for those not living on CA, it is hotter than Hades right now. I just got back from mild and temperate east coast weather. And so far it’s been over 100 every day since I returned. I am melting. The property inspection had me soaked afte 10 mins. There is more of the same on the forecast. Probably another week of it.

Came home after the inspection. No traffic, I really flew down the hill. And my AC is cranking with the brand new compressor. I can get chilled to the bone. Love it.

Ran to grocery for prescriptions and hardware store for bulbs for the fixture above the dining table. I can now see to write this. That’s nice. As I get older I notice I am falling apart. First the eye went now the ears. What’s next? I dread it whatever it is.

Got home. Found out Michael was not eating dinner. He just wasn’t hungry. I hate hat. It never works well cooking for one. I always short change myself. I ate cold leftovers for dinner. Marika is not home, she went to Santa Rosa and will be back later. Anyhow, I had enough to get full.

My AC guy came by today and put in a new thermostat upstairs. It was broken. You could not turn it down. Lovely. It’s 90 degrees upstairs and the down button doesn’t work. Anyhow, shout out to Steve at Air Repair. Thank you Steve.

I had a few chores still to do. I am still putting away stuff from trip and doing laundry. One of our dining chairs collapsed last night. I fixed that. Now strong enough to hold my extra ten pounds. Yay.

After all this I was sitting at the kitchen table and fell asleep. By east coast time it’s one am. And I am quite tired.

I was woken from my nap when Marika showed up with her cat Vlad in tow.
Vlad is kind of a pain in the butt. Friendly but not. I like home but he is a devil. All the other animals get along well with him. That’s nice.

Tomorrow I have a regular work day. Probably 8 hours, and I think everyone should feel sorry for me. I have a couple work appointments and accounting work to do. I am trying to be positive about it. At least I get to retire in a few years. Now bedtime.