Working Wednesday

It’s 6 pm and I am just starting my daily blog post. This should tell you something. I am busy.

I have an audit to go to in Sonoma. The client lives in Sonoma county so the Sonoma office covers that area. It is usually only an hour and a half drive. And the appointment is at 9am.

I got up early, at 6am. Got everything done, except coffee. I asked Emily to go to Starbucks. That saves me a little time. I was in the car by 7am. My nav system said 1.5 hours. I’m good. Drove ten miles to Vacaville to Starbucks and got coffee at he most poorly operated store in the world. They actually lost my drink. Wtf? They made another. Stupid people. Anyhow, back on the road. The nav says 1.5 hours still. Strange. It stayed like that for an hour. Strange. I realized I was going to be late. Very late. Called IRS, the agent was fine with it. She really didn’t care. I arrived 40 minutes late. No free parking anywhere. Had to download an app to pay my meter. I don’t like technology. And onward to the audit. Auditor was a really friendly gal, thorough and professional as well. Not the norm, and I have met a lot of agent in the last 25 years. Her review took about two hours. She left me with some homework for my client. I think this is going very well. Should be a no change audit.

Since I was a mike from my daughters house we got together for lunch. We went to Shari’s for pie shakes. For those of you not familiar, imagine a vanilla milkshake with a piece of pie blended in. I love them.

We both ordered same, key lime pie shake. Bad news. Key lime is seasonal, not available now. The reason we came here was key lime pie shakes. She and I have been talking about them for a month ever since I had one on the trip to Maine. We are extremely disappointed. I probably told Marika 10 times during lunch how upset I was. We thought about leaving. But decided to get different flavor. I got peach. It might be good but how good can something be when you want something else. I fired off a terse email to Shari’s Corp office suggesting a change in status for key lime from seasonal to permanent. I also beat them up ever so slightly on Yelp. And on the survey they had on the receipt. The cashier said I was not alone. Good.

After lunch I went home. It was 230 when I got there which is too late to go into the office. I worked on the computer for 3 hours. Nothing exciting. Made tennor phone calls. It’s time to make dinner. I left tri tip steaks out to defrost.

I did a little searching for rentals and found a great spot in North Vacaville. Emily and I went to look at it this evening. It seemed very good. Up on a hill with a fantastic view, situated outside the city so no neighbors, just right. But as we drove away Emily said she was happy with doing the Auburn area and forgetting all around here. So no more looking in our area I guess.

On the way home I was hoping to stop at the Rose Garden, Emily’s fave Thai place. But she drove some screwy way back to town. No Thai. Instead she stopped at the outlet quick serve food area and we got a couple non descript salads. Not the same. We hotbhe food to go so we got to eat at home which is a plus. It’s more comfortable here.

It’s 835 and I’m ready for bed. Remember, I got up early and actually had to work today. That makes me tired. So, early bedtime. Except Emily has been on he phone for 15 mins. With her bestie Barb. And they can TALK. If you know what I mean and I think you do. So not as early as I thought. And 20 mins later still on the phone. Wth? She will not shut up. I guess I am going to bed without her tonight. Now she has gone up. Phone glued to side of her head. Can you sleep like that?