Month: February 2019

It’s now 1am Tuesday morning. What a great day. No. I am in a fine Best Western in Huntington Beach, CA aka Surf City. This hotel does not scream luxe or day at the beach. It’s the guests who scream, usually as they run out of here.

So what happened? Well it’s a short story. And I am gonna make it quick because is freaking one am. I want sleep.

You know about the new house. Well I am trying to speed up close by driving the closing docs from Huntington Beach to Auburn tomorrow. In order to do that I have to be here in HB early. So I drove down after work and got a hotel. See, short explanation.

I did have an entire work day before I left. That was slow and boring. I worked on lots of things I really can’t remember. I did have a couple appointments, one with the daughter of another client. Usual self employed folks. And at the end of the day another long time client. Owns a restaurant. Both were quite vanilla tax returns.

Managed to pack a few boxes this morning too before I left. I am getting that crap done.

I am going to bed now. Too tired to regale all of you with this adventure.

At least God got to rest on Sunday. Me, I am working today. Contrary to a commonly held point of view, I am not god. I am Christ-like. And, so you know, a total stranger I was speaking to once told me that. It has not gone to my head. Mostly.

We had to leave for Auburn between 8 and 830. Today is our walk through. If all goes well, we close this week. I have to drive our docs to LA then Visalia to get signatures. That’s Tuesday. Sound fun? It won’t be. But it speeds up the close which makes me happier.

Today, returning to today, is our let’s see how it is look. House is empty. Sellers have moved. We can see everything. And then, I guess, complain about problems. We will inspect and identify. And maybe complain. If I can find someone who cares.

As I was saying, we were supposed to leave at 8 to 830. So we left only 20 minutes late. Of course. And we stopped immediately for coffee. I am not skipping that. I texted our agent and told her where we weee and what time we left. She acted accordingly.

We arrived about an hour later in Auburn. Kary was there already. And we are off. We did a stroll through and tried the fans, lights, gas fireplace, faucets, etc. we looked at floors and rugs, walls and ceilings, sinks and toilets. Everything was in order. We did find some problems with the slate floor tile. A couple areas are faded and look like hell. Seller has already stated he will fix them.

Not much else to report. We spent some time measuring rooms and spaces for furniture. We have a few pieces we would like to acquire and most of the measuring affirmed we could buy whatever we want. I guess that’s a good thing. We will be back at the furniture depot very soon.

We were at the new house for over four hours. Quite a bit longer than we had anticipated. We don’t have much planned for today, past this exercise.

So we finished up and headed down the hill. Quick trip because we weren’t in a hurry. No stops because I forgot the keys to the storage unit. We went hone and I grabbed the keys then we backtracked to the storage units.

We were able to clean out one storage unit. By clean out I mean load half the crap into the tear drop and throw away or donate what we could cram into the HRV. So we loaded and crammed. Took an hour. On the way home we stopped at the donation center and dropped a load.

To home. We unloaded very little since most went away. Once home we relaxed a little. Sat around. Watched TV. Fed the animals, as if those fatties need more food. Black cat just barfs most of it up.

So we continue to sit. I am going to pack a few more boxes tonight before I go to bed. Must keep packing. Till done.

I packed up the entire pantry. Canned food mostly. Unopened boxes, etc. about 6 boxes. What do I get for this? Emily completely pissed off at me. Why? I still can’t figure that out. May be one of those things that is completely unrelated to the object at hand. Cause it sure makes no sense. I am sure she will calm down eventually.

We are now making dinner. Emily has relaxed and become more human. Not human enough to apologize but enough. And by making dinner, we reheated pizza. I am also making chicken mole. Don’t diss me for the weird menu. I just packed up the kitchen. Duh. And I love Mole.

While waiting, it’s Sunday, we are watching AFV. And the final three videos were funny for a change. But, there is another episode back to back. It’s not so funny. And I seen it before. But it’s Sunday and nothing much is on. I could watch the Grammys but I don’t care. At all. A bunch of people I don’t know winning awards for songs I have never heard. Sign me up!! AFV it is.

No more boxes tonight though. I am done. I have three more days of packing boxes before I own the place and can move my shit up there.

We are just going to watch TV. And eat caramel corn. Emily came up with some from I don’t know where. And it’s tasty.

Marika came home tonight toteing boxes. She is moving too. Mostly out of her place in Petaluma and to god knows where. Her next step is vacay in Hawaii. I wish I was young and footloose.

So with Marika home, things change a little. Now three are watching TV. And it’s louder.

Well we are all anartel of fun. All going to bed early. It was a busy day.

Well, not for me. For me it’s Saturday. I have a meeting with a mover at 9am. He will give an estimate. This move marks the first time in 25 years that my move was not handled by Todd DiBene and All Pro Moving. He retired. I told him he was not allowed to retire until he handled my last move but he said he is allowed. Quite cheeky I think. Today I meet with Mike who used to work for Todd. I know him and in last move gave him a pool table. I think that’s a good thing. He is going to look at the house contents and both storage units as well. Everyone think cheap cuz moving can be pricey.

Emily is working today. That created for money thing called Saturday school. People think kids going to Saturday will be educated. Morons. Saturday school is done to make money. When kids are absent the school collects zero from dept of Ed. So send them to Saturday school and school gets paid. And who cares if they just sit? School gets paid. It’s just more happy horseshit.

My mover showed up 45 minutes early. Doofus. I was still in my robe and slippers. Had to get dressed quick, no shower. We toured the house together. And the garage. That took two minutes. It’s only 1100 sq ft.

We then went to the storage units. Which are in Dixon, about 12 minutes drive. Mike the mover spent a few minutes on each unit and pronounced it a 2 trips over 2 days job. I gave him keys and he left.

I headed home. When I got there I finally got my shower. Bout time. Once I was clean, and dressed , I got to work. I started the packing. It was a blast! No, it wasn’t. It sucked. But I did it anyway. By the time Emily got hone I had packed seven boxes.

Emiky got home from Saturday school at about 115. She took a little longer than usual because she stopped for lunch. That is if you call fast food lunch. I don’t.

We had planned on going to the furniture store and narrowing down our selections for our new place. We were there for an easy 2 hours. And we picked nothing. We did narrow down what we had in mind to a few pieces. Tomorrow we will do a little measuring and see what fits. Then maybe we can buy something.

After the fruitful? trip to the furniture store, we went home. Time for more packing. I packed 5 more large boxes. My closet is empty. My dresser is empty. My nightstand, ditto. The bar is empty too. No more cocktails for a week.

During this time Emily packed one box. One. She is having some kind of Byington malfunction. I don’t understand. Very strange. I just want to get done.

Since we did not go out to dinner last night, we went out tonight. We (Emily) decided on Italian. So we went to Napoli. The food tonight was really good, better than usual and the usual is very good. We had a nice meal.

Back home I packed another box. Emiky sat around watching TV. What the hell is wrong with her. I should slap her around. She needs to pack.

Fantastic TV tonight. Jeopardy was on late. I live right. Everything else qualifies as awful television. Right now, murder porn is showing on ABC. I don’t know why I watch this crap.

I’m going to bed.

Very exciting beginning to my day. I mean, of course, after feeding all the critters and people. And packing lunch. And eating breakfast. Shower. Dressed. I think you get it.

I had to head out to the post office. Emily bought something and the vendor said the post office was holding the package. No tracking number, no door tag. I figures going to the PO was a fools errand but that’s what I do for my wife. When I got to the PO they asked for a tracking number or a door tag. Surprise. No box.

I next went to her bank to make a deposit. With my money. Again, I do things for her.

Now, though, it’s my turn. Went home and called Uber. I need to go to the auto shop and pick up the new HRV. The grill was broken when we got it and the dealer took the car later and fixed it. I had to Uber to get there, no free ride available. I did not get the usual conversation with the driver. I quite enjoy that. I was on the phone with Hal for 30 minutes while driving to the dealer.

Car was beautiful. I grabbed and gone. Off to work.

Not much going at work. Cara in only a half day. She is going to Guayabitos tomorrow. For a week. Today she left early to take supplies to her Dad and evil stepmother. They are snowed in a bit. Snow and a tree fell over their super long driveway. And their power has been out for a week. Anyhow, she brought in rescue supplies.

The day was all taxes. All the time. Very little else.

My only appointment was at 6. Couple coming in to pick up their partnership taxes and then get their individual done. The managing partner had called me last week and asked questions about how to break up a partnership. Just a little foreshadowing. So I figured a split was on the way.

They arrived and we got into the tax talk. About 5 minutes in I got a call, someone was outside, building locked after 5, and they needed in. So I go let them in. It’s the other two partners. And some guy I don’t know. So they all come in. And my client says we are going to the front office you stay here and work in our personal taxes. Ok. So they go out front and start to argue. In their native Indian or Urdu or whatever the hell they speak. Turns out the other guy was a moderator of sorts. They went on and on for 30 minutes. Bye, I had no idea they had planned a meeting for MY office. Freak show.

The argument finally ended. The others left. I finished the taxes and sent them on their way. To freakin weird.

I shut down right after. It was near 8. I went hone. Stopped for take out and went home.

Emiky and I ate dinner, and went to bed soon after. No time for bad TV. It’s late.

Woke up about 815 this morning. I slept in. Not much going on in the morning here. Takes Dad a long while to get out of bed and get moving. So there is no rush for us.

Mimi, his caregiver, had coffee already made. How nice is that. I really had nothing to do. So I drank coffee and read the paper. Without interruption. A mini vacation. Marika got out of bed and made breakfast. What a fine day.

Dad does not get around well, he is unable to walk and uses an electric scooter. So we don’t usually go anywhere when we come to visit. This morning we sat around and talked. I had to go pick up some reports from dads broker and scan and email them to another broker. That took about an hour and a half.

I got back about 2. Marika was kicking dads ass in dominoes. He probably forgot that we play dominoes. And can kick his ass. She beat him up a couple of times. Nice.

I can tell it’s tax season. I have received about 10 calls today already. Far too many when I am down here on a visit. I would rather be sitting around doing nothing. Anyway, I spectated and kibbutzed the domino game. My supervision was required.

We have been sitting around watching TV for a time. Dad says he is ready to go out to dinner. It’s 425. Seniors eat dinner very early and go to bed early. I always forget. So I guess we are doing that soon. Nothing stopping us. We are going out for Chinese. Or as my grandma would say, we are eating with the Chinaman. This place is interesting. We ate their a few years back. No rice. They had run out. I am not kidding. What kind of a Chinese place runs out of rice? The Central Valley is a strange place.

So we managed to get Dad into the car. Much easier said than done. With all his physical infirmities it is a true test of our patience transiting him around. He is not a happy guy while doing it either.

We are in Zen Asian finally. Without any more griping. Seems like everyone here knows dad. I am thinking that’s a good thing. Maybe better food? We ordered a variety plate of appetizers. Nice and hot but mostly just deep fried food. I like grease though.

The dinner of king pao chicken and broccoli beef with chow menu was actually very good. I would not expect decent ethnic food out here in the wastelands but I must live right.

After the meal we sat around for a long time just chatting about nothing in particular. Grandpa mentioned he had photos from his 70th reunion. Marika and I had gone. We are going to look at them when we get home. We were there at the restaurant a good 30 minutes after we finished eating.

We reversed the load up and move dad process on the way back home. It is truly a pain moving him around. I hope he will be able to come up and visit our new house in Auburn. He says he is going to try.

We are home watching Jeopardy. It qualifies as great TV. But it’s only 30 minutes a day. Not much is good on TV.

We are leaving soon. Going home late because we have shit to do early tomorrow.

I would like to mention something. We have a cat, picked up as a stray back in 2003. She showed up at our farm house all scraggly kitten with a serous bowel problem. We kept her and named her Pepto, for various reasons. She has been a fine cat for the last fifteen years. The last few months she has been in chronic bad health and lately has been losing much weight. We discussed with the vet yesterday and we know what to do. Emily called early today to tell us how bad it was last night. She decided to take the cat to the vet today to have her euthanized. It’s always tough to lose a pet but she is better off. I will miss her sleeping on top of my head every night. And then growling at me when I had the audacity to move. I know we will miss her.

I hope we leave soon. It’s almost 8 o’clock.

Since I spent the day in the car yesterday and got home after midnight it comes as no surprise I slept all the way to the alarm. At least not a surprise to me. But, I am tired.

I have one big errand his morning. Take the new car to service for some items they missed. Like the broken front grill. That’s at 930 so no huge rush. We will probably be late.

I got all the morning chores done and sat around watching bad morning TV. Morning TV is called news but is really just a bunch of advertisements strung together for 90 minutes. But entertaining.

Marika dragged herself out of bed sorta timely. She did not bother to dress besides her pajamas for the trip. I had to, I am going to work.

We left for the car dealer at about 920. Which means we will be late for our service appointment. Oh well. Quick trip and only a few minutes late. I drove the Fit and Marika drove the HRV.

I know a trip to service is not exciting but, there is more to it.

A few years ago, my mom passed. She was cremated and we, sis and I promised to scatter her ashes outside the Golden Gate. That’s where her fathers ashes were scattered. I am the custodian of said ashes. Yes, I can connect these disparate things.

I am at the dealer talking to the service manager, John. I have known him several years. So I know a bit about him. Today he was showing me pictures on the service computer of some flights he has been on lately. And there was a beautifu picture from 1500 feet, on a clear day, of the Golden Gate in the sun. And bingo, I got it!! I asked him if he ever dumped ashes from his plane. He said “an ash drop? All the time.” Mom is going home. Just gotta coordinate getting my sister up here and both of us onto the plane. This is a banner day!

After that, got the HRV checked in and headed home. We got there, dumped the kid and I headed out in the R. Have not driven it in a week.

The trip to work was fast and fun which is how the car drives.

At work I met a client who needed 3 corporate and his personal returns done, pro forma. It took four hours. Client sat on the other side of the desk and watched. What a pain. Besides I had to ignore all else in order to get his crap done. Not a fun day.

I did finally get it all done and he left. Then I spent the balance of the day with cakes and emails. And, tax returns. I even finished a couple. I did not leave till almost 8.

Stopped at the store on the way home to pick up some moving boxes. It is a bitterly cold night and I think I froze inside the Home Depot. They have the huge roll up doors and they leave them open. Freezing.

Hit home late. Emiky has gone out to dinner with our friend Roma and did not make dinner. Good thing I love her or I would kick her to the curb. I ate leftovers which was three kinds of meat. I did not feel like cooking anything.

To cap the evening, you got it, bad TV. For only an hour since I was late. Off to bed.

I do have lots to do today. Right now, blog and watch TV. It’s exhausting. And morning TV is torturous.

I have already finished all my chores except a shower. If a shower counts as a chore. Maybe it’s maintenance. Maybe I don’t really care. Emiky went to school half an hour ago so I have time to do whatever. And I sit.

Marika is still asleep. She has some kind of appointment at 930. We are going to Visalia later today. Before that she is wedding dress shopping with Bella, her friend, our pet sitter. And before we leave I will be working all day. I’d rather go dress shopping. Never done it before.

Ok. So my wireless keyboard broke. By broke I mean it went wacky. The touch pad control sends the cursor crazy, keys don’t respond. Each one lasts about a year. I like a keyboard with the alpha keys, a 10 key number pad and touchpad, wireless, all-in-one. There is only one in the market. So I’m stuck. I ordered one last week. Was not here yesterday so I sent company an email. They have no record of my order. And, btw, this company is way old school. You have to fill out an order form on line and there system creates an email to themselves. It didn’t. Though I did get an order confirm from them. Which turned out to be worthless. Because their system is shit. But, they callled this morning and wasted 10 minutes of my life trying to convince me it wasn’t their fault. Sure. Who the fucks fault would it be? I finally just said let’s order another rather than waste more time. I think this company needs to be put out of biz. But, only vendor I have found.

Marika managed to drag herself out of bed A little after 9. Appointment with orthodontist is at 945. She had braces years ago, I know cuz I paid, and wants to get a new retainer to hold her teeth. I guess a good thing. Personally I don’t think much of the process.

I rushed off to work. I have two appointments and I need to be in early to finish some paperwork for the first appointment.

I got to work quickly. Got started on the financials and managed to finish up by the time client arrived. Client has a couple government contracts and I had to input the financial info from the general contractor into my clients financials. It was not fun. And the client is in a big hurry. So that adds to the fun.

Took two hours and two calls to the generals accountant to get all straight. My next appointment was a no show. Win for me!!

Balance of the afternoon was spent on tax returns. Managed to finish three. Wow. Now I just gotta get paid for them.

Had to leave early because Marika and I are heading to Visalia to visit Dad/Grandpa. We want to leave early enough we don’t arrive to damn late. Good luck there.

Cara and I had an errand prior to my going home. She is traveling to Mexico next week and needs to buy Pesos. My bank does that hers doesn’t. So we went to my bank and she purchased 14000 Pesos. Sounds weird but that’s what we did.

Headed home. It was still early so I encountered no traffic till I got to the causeway. And even that was weak.

Sped all the way to Dixon, picked up Taco Tuesday, and off to home.

Marikas friend Bella was still there. They had wedding dress shopped all day. We three ate, not Bella, and takes about whatever. Bella is a professional talker. She can really put it down. She hung for an hour yakking and kept saying she was leaving. Which kept us from leaving.

I should mention, my cat Pepto, who has been sick for a few months started bleeding out her rear end this evening. I texted and spoke to my vet about it and what’s been going on the past few months. We both decided it may be her time. She is 15 and has chronic bowel obstructions. And we have been unable to manage them. We are gonna give it a couple days and see.

We left at about 730 which means arrive at 1130. Too late. Emily texted about an hour into the trip. Cat is doing very poorly. She may take her in tomorrow.

The trip is long and boring. 90 minutes to go.

We got there. Everyone was asleep. So we went to.

We close in eleven days. Nice. It’s 10pm so I am gonna be brief.

Morning was usual. I had to leave early, for me, to get work done.

So went to work early. Worked all day, had a zillion calls. By my count. Had clients all day. Several paid cash. Good for me.

Had appointments till 730. Yikes. Left for home then. Breezy drive.

Spoke to my kin agent. She has all in hand and expects close by 12th, no later.

Home. Most of dinner was done. I cooked the steaks, pan fried for speed. Dinner was truly awesome.

Very little time for TV, or anything for that matter. Put out the trash. May be last time here. I hope.

Off to bed.

I am not sure why life does things to you that are so awful and so consistent. My for instance, your results may be different, I often wake up early, near 430 am and don’t go back to sleep. A few times a week. Happened again last night in spite of having been up at 430 yesterday to get the kid and pets out the door to the vet. It is so wonderful to be exhausted at bedtime and then wake up early and exhausted again the next morning. I just love it. Last night I took a pill at 5am even though I have to be up at 630. That got me maybe 45 minutes more unconscious. Ok, not great.

Weigh in Wednesday. I’m at 153 lbs. almost a pound lost. Over the last couple weigh ins I have fluctuated very little in weight much to my chagrin. I am aiming at 150 which was my pre Christmas weight. Taking forever to get back. I guess next Christmas I will need to diet through the holidays. This diet repeat is certainly not worth the Christmas food I ate.

I have no appointments on the books today. My car needs a wash. Which car you might ask. Well, it’s the Fit. We drove to LA in it and the car is totally bugged out. I need to go to car wash. Too damn cold for self wash.

Marika just crawled out of bed. All the sleep I lose, she finds. I used to be that way too. When I was much younger. I grew out of it

Left for work. Stopped at the bakery and got a cherry danish. Celebrate the weigh in. Then to the car wash and try to get rid of the bugs. It was not perfect but it took off some of the crap.

Today is the day we should finally hear about our appraisal. If that comes in ok, we move next week. Yikes. About time really. This is the last piece of the new home pie. Yay.

Got to work, usual stuff going. For instance, I got my first phone call while still in my car. My consultant Ciara called me early this week. Today. Usually she is a 330 Thursday standing appointment. We discussed the usual, and where we were at on our plan. About 30 minutes. Too long.

Finally got inside the office. Nothing much there. The usual going on. My day was a large amount of paperwork. The phone calls are escalating, normal. The IRS has opened the floodgates so I now managed to exile several 17 and 18 tax returns. Behold, the first tax returns of the season! I’m excited.

I sit here, after dinner, and I have again forgotten my entire work day. It is so sad. And in many ways it’s not.

At 255 I got a text from my real estate agent. The appraisal was back and she was going to call later after a meeting to discuss. So she teased me and ran off. Next best thing I called the loan broker. She was not in so I left a message and waited. Back to work.

About 430 I got a call from the loan broker. The appraisal came in 45k under what we offered. Uh oh. Karstin, loan broker, had several ideas on how to handle this. All centered around my agent doing the work. I guess that’s how it’s done.

Later on my drive home I got the call back from my RE agent. We had an overlong discussion of all issues. She is calling Karstin to discuss. Then probably call the appraisers boss to discuss a rebuttal of the appraisal. After that, depending on the outcome, it will be time to waterboard the sellers and see if we can get movement on the price (down). After that, depending on outcome, we can drop the deal or pay more. And that’s it.

Went to car wash again before home. Want more bugs off and I thought a second wash might help. I don’t know if it helped because I never checked. It’s dark outside. I got a tank of gas too.

I got home. I like to do that after work. I may be out of this dump in a week or so. Nice. I do hate this place. Not coming here every day will be a blessing. And not the kind in disguise. And I will finally have room for myself and all my crap. Again. I do realize I will miss this area. I have lived in the Yolo Solano area for the last 41 years. 28 years alone in Solano county. The Auburn area will be a big change.

Emiky has made dinner, it was cooking, asparagus, sweet potato and lamb chops. Actually I had to cook the chops. It’s my job. Dinner was great. Marika even joined us for dinner. She has been a little weird lately. She is planning on chasing some boy to Hawaii which I think is a bad idea. She does not talk to Em or I about it. Surprise. Probably because we know it’s a horrible idea. I don’t know. Anyhow, she is more standoffish lately.

After dinner we did the usual. Bad TV and sitting around. With a somber daughter who has reverted to teenager behavior. Love that.

Today is Super Bowl. Can you believe it? I can’t care less because I don’t care at all. We don’t have any Super Bowl traditions or places to go. We have never hosted, only occasionally attended other events. I stopped giving a crap about football soon after the Niners won number 5. Seemed somehow old. Emily is not a football fan. So today we are going out for breakfast at Bacon and Butter, a placebin Sacramento which serves breakfast. Only. Then a little furniture shopping. Hey, it’s a new tradition. Or not.

We got a call, while out in Woodland yesterday, from my friend Bob. He and gf Renee were looking for something to do today since they are also traditionless on Super Sunday. We invited them along to B n B and are meeting them at 10. Or maybe later since we got out late. I am hungry.

We got to Bacon and Butter at 10. We got our table. I sure am glad the owner is a client since there is always a two hour wait. I called him yesterday and he made the table happen. Got to love being let in behind the velvet ropes.

We barely had our coffee when the other two showed up. Nice to see them, it’s been quite awhile. They have both been up in Tahoe, Renee bought a new rental in need of serious rehab. Which was mostly done by Bob. And Bob has a new position with the City of Incline Village. He is a bartender. No kidding, a city bartender. Definitely not an everyday thing. So both have been up the hill in Incline Village for quite awhile. Weeks.

Breakfast was very good, which it always is, 2 hour wait. Duh. I had an omelet which was great though I’m not sure why it was. Flavor, texture, ingredients all fantastic. I did not try anybody else’s food. Happy with mine.

We finished up slowly and sat for a while to let the meal settle. I was full enough. We left, not raining outside, but threatening. Our next errand was heading to West Elm to look at furniture. We bought nothing. I took a few pieces home in my camera. We are buying for the new house so we need to be careful and get nice things we want to keep forever. Much harder to accomplish than you may think. Especially since Em and I need to agree on these things. At least in theory.

So we said good bye to Bobby and Renee. They went home. We drove to Woodland. Because why? Because my wife has an infinite need to exercise her retail skills. And this new house has set her off. And by that I mean set her off in insane-o mode. Sometimes.

In Woodland we revisited Home Goods. Again. We were here yesterday. I think she might be crazy. But she claims inventory changes often. I don’t know. After our purchase-less visit, we went to Dollar Tree. DT is a very scary place. Wife is a school teacher and everything is a dollar. And she needs a lot. I really needed to wait in the car. I didn’t. We cruised every GD aisle in search of the exact things she needs to celebrate the 100th day of school. I was expecting it to cost $100. It was a bit of a miserable experience. But I found some toothpaste real cheap. Win for me.

Homeward bound. No more stops. Made a big unload when we got home. Still not raining. I like that. Put crap away. Why? We’re moving. I don’t know. Emily went to the store. Yes, again. I dont know where or why. I don’t care. I got boxes out and started to pack. Gives me something to do.

Emily got home and complained about the packing. She needs to be packed. In a box. For a week. Until she cheers up. After that I switched to packing MY clothes. She can’t complain about that. Just a little grumbling. I ran out of boxes. Which is good cuz we got nowhere to put the boxes. Stack to the ceiling. This place is tiny.

Emily and I wore identical, almost, outfits. Black sweater and jeans. Just wanted to mention it. I got dressed first too. She copied, and it’s because I looked THAT good. It’s always like that. I almost have to dress her.

We put the Game on at home which makes her happy. Emily likes noise. I would not have bothered to turn on the TV. I don’t care for the outcome of the game or football for that matter. Some think it’s important. I put it far down the list.

Marika came home from Petaluma tonight. She does visit often which is really nice. Breaks up the week. She got home about 4 minutes before the end of the game. For some reason she is rooting against the Patriots. I guess she thinks they win too often. I said that is because they are a great team. They tend to win. Weird.

Emily had decided earlier we should go out to dinner. That would be after I had got meat out to defrost to BBQ. Did I mention she can be irritating? Very irritating. So we went out. Sposed to be for BBQ ribs. We ended up at a local Thai place. Closed. F…ing Super Bowl. Went to Buddha Thai. Closed. Crap. Went to Rose Garden Thai. Open. Winner. No bbq ribs. I did have a Thai ice coffee which they make very well. Marika had one too.

We did have some fried pork with dinner. Thai beef salad, very spicy. A nice meal. And the place was empty. Just us. That was weird. Great service though. And food showed up very fast. Very.

We have been sitting and chatting for awhile. No one wants our table. Waitress has been gone for 15 minutes. She did drop the bill. Too much. It’s always too much. When she did show up I gave her my Google cash card. Always an adventure using it. Tonight though we managed to squeeze out $30 from it. Paid for most of dinner. We cruised home.

I should mention, I get paid $60 every month by Google for doing nothing. I get paid in cash cards. Google then tracks my search engine use on all my devices. Seems fair. I need to remember to not search for embarrassing things online. Ewwww.

At home we did laundry and made beds and watched some awful TV. Usual. Bedtime next.