Saturday morning. Tried like hell to stay in bed. But wife and animals woke me strongly so I got out of bed.
Made coffee. Made breakfast. Got an email from Marika, my stupid sister had broken her arm. She broke the humerus which is funny only was a 45 degree break, an inch from ball, clean through, not compound.
A little background. Every Friday evening for the last 20 years, my sister gets together with her female neighbors and drinks herself silly. Usually at hone. Good idea. Well, last night they went out for cocktails. Had some. Switched bars. Walking only. A few more drinks at new place. Walk to new place for more, on the way my sissy tripped and fell and caught herself with her arm on the concrete. Snap.
There you go. No one is giving her sympathy. And I was the first to use the humerus pun with her. Do I get a point for that?
We are supposed to have a pre thanksgiving dinner next weekend at dads. Now she is using her arm as an excuse to fag out on that. My god, it’s just an arm. And not even her drinking arm. I called all and I believe it’s back on. Her injury be damned.
It does make for an exciting day. Out of the ordinary.
We got ready for our day. And went to the Verizon store. Needed to get Emily’s phone on the new network. Which again took two hours. Turns out she has a special model i7. Only works on ATT. So we had to buy another phone. Then I mentioned my son’s phone is a 7. And had to call him. His is also a special7 and I have to buy a new phone for him too. Good thing I am made of money. I did get $600 trade value on the two phones. I think that’s a good thing. Emily also saw some POS home device she had to have. So now we are testing it. For $200. This is a good reason I don’t take her to the store with me. She is expensive.
Soon, dear god make it so, we will be headed to Petaluma to look at furniture. That will be fun I think. Marika saw a chair I need to have. Have been looking at it a couple years. She found it for $500 less. Regular price. Not on sale. That’s a buy signal. So in a few we will be on the way.
Turns out that’s exactly what happened. We were outta town in a few headed to Petaluma. And the traffic was non existent so we got there really quick. Some things in life work out. We first went to the furniture store Marika had mentioned. They had the chair I wanted. A very cool design. I saw it first at Resoration Hardware. Too rxpensive. That’s why when Marika found it so cheap I jumped. I bought it today. It’s for the new house. And the new me as well. Well worth the trip today.
Petaluma was a kick. Funny, I have been here many times but I guess never shopped it. The prices were reasonable and the product was as I would expect, unique and eclectic. Though it’s the prices that really surprised me. Far lower than I may have wished. That is weird.
We shopped everything we could find for about 3 hours. When I had initially purchased the chair I had sent Marika a picture of the chair to let her know I had bought it. So after that she kept texting me from work and finally at end of her day she said she would meet up.
We ended up going to an Italian place, Volpi’s, for dinner. Marika joined us about twenty minutes later. Vilpi’s is an old style Italian dinner house that’s been there about a million years. Nothing special really but it’s the type of place I enjoy. Lots of Italian specialties and a full bar (ladies welcome) which makes me happy. Any place that puts true bar first is a winner in my book.
While waiting I had an excellent barrel aged manhattan and Emily had a not very good old fashioned. Can’t always win. We also had a basket of bread.
As I mentioned, Marika joined us about twenty minutes later. No cocktail. She and I did order Cabernet, ok not great. Emily was driving. I had lamb shank and polenta, two awesome things together. Emily ravioli, very good. Marika same as me. We had a great time in a cool old joint with nice food and pleasant surroundings. and since Em and I arrived at 5 pm, it was not late.
After dinner we all took off. Marika to drive 3 minutes to her place. We got home at 8. A ok. Dogs were glad to see us. Cats were cats. Now is time for TV and another excellent old fashioned courtesy of yours truly. And it was, I did get a sip.
So now we watch truly horrible TV. Saturday night is a TV wasteland. All bad all night. I can see why TV is losing to all other forms of entertainment.
It’s getting real close to bedtime. And I don’t mind. I’m getting really tired. Time to turn off this fine infotainment. The music piece of SNL is in and it’s such shit I find it easy to depth charge this crap. Bedtime.