I'm so glad May is almost over. And not just because Monday is my birthday!
I had a pretty good Memorial Day. People came over and we barbecued and hung out and set up my new hd tivo which Robin helpfully scribbled on for me. We tried to go to the pool but it was closed (turns out it needed some repairs and only ended up being open for one day before closing again, but it's open now!).
Robin did lots of walking and he scribbled on things and at the end of the night, he stole one of my apples!
Then the work week started, which had it's own little frustrations. I was late twice because the HS near work was having graduation stuff (for two days!) and so there was enormous amounts of traffic between the highway and work. I also ended up getting some overtime, which is not really a bad thing but always makes long days even longer. And twice I ended up driving around for too long after I got home trying to find a place to park. I might end up renting an assigned space but I might wait a little while and see if other people get one and then maybe I won't have to! Which is probably what everyone else is thinking...
The weather has been really nice all week, though it looks like it's been snowing. See, one of the things I never thought to ask about was what kind of foliage is around here. Turns out there's a lot of cottonwood trees. I've got little drifts of fluff outside my apartment and the edges of the lawn are white. Cottonwood is one thing I'm almost positive I'm allergic too. Fun!
Part of the weather being nice is that it's warm and sunny out. So my car is very warm when I get in it for work. Friday I decided to open the windows and the sunroof to get some air circulating. When I tried to close the sunroof, it wouldn't close! I checked the track and couldn't see anything blocking it but it just wouldn't close. It would get most of the way and then open all the way again. I put it on it's most closed setting and just left it since I had to go to work.
I managed to make myself get up after only a couple of hours of sleep on Saturday to go out and get the car to the closest VW dealership I could find. Their service center is open on Saturday! The guy looked at it, they tried to close it and checked the front part of the track and it still wouldn't close. I didn't quite get there early enough and there were a few people in front of me, so he said I could get a loaner car for the day for $10, which seemed cool to me. I got one of the 2008 Rabbits. Heh.
I stopped at the comcast store and got a cable card to install on my tivo since it was right there.
After installing the cable card, it was time to take Mac to the vet. Poor little guy. He got poked with many needles and he didn't like it at all. But he's now been chipped. Two different chips, even. The current US standard one and the international standard one (from reading the literature this is just in case the US changes over to the international standard; dude, we still don't use the metric system).
Mac was happy to get home from the vet. He got out of my hands when I got to our door and pulled at the leash to maybe go for a walk but as soon as I actually opened the door, he ran right in. He's been resisting my efforts to take him for walks on the leash, which is really what I'd like to train him to. I'd like to treat him like a doggy that needs walkies but ... he has to cooperate and so far it's not happening.
This is when I discovered that though the new tivo now gets regular channels it is still not receiving the extended channels that come with digital cable. I looked it up. I need another piece of hardware from comcast. Ugh. It's a tuner adapter or some stupid thing. Maybe. I mean, I'll call their service line later and see if that's really true but from what I read at the tivo website it sounds like even if I don't need it now I might in the future. I swear, this is so stupid. And I tried to set the remotes to each talk to only one tivo since I found out after we'd been playing with the new one, we'd programmed a whole bunch of season passes into one of the old ones. But it wouldn't work for some reason and I gave up.
The VW guy called and said the track for my sunroof is done for. They managed to get it closed but I won't be able to use it unless I get a new track installed, which costs $2,000. No way. He said he didn't think I'd want to make that repair. And he had found the other things my mechanics had mentioned to me and since they already had it and I already had the loaner car and the prices he quoted me were only a little more, I figured I should go ahead and just let them do the repairs. So it'll be ready on Monday.
Then it was time for roller derby! The Rat City Rollergirls season championships! I'll post a little something about that later; this is my litany of woe and I doubt most of you made it this far anyway. ;)
Oh! Except to mention that my filling fell out during the bout. It's a problem filling. I think it's the third one to fall out of that tooth? One more thing to take care of. Eventually, anyway.
After I got home, I tried again to get the remotes set correctly. Turns out it wasn't working because I had gotten left and right mixed up. Sheesh. Well, I did only get maybe 3 hours of sleep last night and I've been doing stuff all day and life has been frustrating and ...
I feel like I'm being nibbled to death by mice. Seriously. Or maybe it's death by papercuts.
All these stupid little things that just keep coming up and it's making me tired. I haven't had the energy to do any unpacking/organizing all week or grocery shopping. Maybe next week will be better.
At least I figured out how to sleep through the morning with my noisy neighbors stomping upstairs: my MP3 player and my headphones! I just set it to play podcasts at me and I can't hear them much.
I made tentative plans to go to the pool tomorrow and have dinner and maybe a movie. A nice little birthday celebration since I haven't had the energy to make plans for anything. Ah, well.
But one funny thing to end the post on: the guy at the VW service center said one of the other mechanics was also born June 1st and at the bout they announced that one of the rollergirls also has a birthday on Monday. Heh. It's a total cosmic convergence!
I had a pretty good Memorial Day. People came over and we barbecued and hung out and set up my new hd tivo which Robin helpfully scribbled on for me. We tried to go to the pool but it was closed (turns out it needed some repairs and only ended up being open for one day before closing again, but it's open now!).
Robin did lots of walking and he scribbled on things and at the end of the night, he stole one of my apples!
Then the work week started, which had it's own little frustrations. I was late twice because the HS near work was having graduation stuff (for two days!) and so there was enormous amounts of traffic between the highway and work. I also ended up getting some overtime, which is not really a bad thing but always makes long days even longer. And twice I ended up driving around for too long after I got home trying to find a place to park. I might end up renting an assigned space but I might wait a little while and see if other people get one and then maybe I won't have to! Which is probably what everyone else is thinking...
The weather has been really nice all week, though it looks like it's been snowing. See, one of the things I never thought to ask about was what kind of foliage is around here. Turns out there's a lot of cottonwood trees. I've got little drifts of fluff outside my apartment and the edges of the lawn are white. Cottonwood is one thing I'm almost positive I'm allergic too. Fun!
Part of the weather being nice is that it's warm and sunny out. So my car is very warm when I get in it for work. Friday I decided to open the windows and the sunroof to get some air circulating. When I tried to close the sunroof, it wouldn't close! I checked the track and couldn't see anything blocking it but it just wouldn't close. It would get most of the way and then open all the way again. I put it on it's most closed setting and just left it since I had to go to work.
I managed to make myself get up after only a couple of hours of sleep on Saturday to go out and get the car to the closest VW dealership I could find. Their service center is open on Saturday! The guy looked at it, they tried to close it and checked the front part of the track and it still wouldn't close. I didn't quite get there early enough and there were a few people in front of me, so he said I could get a loaner car for the day for $10, which seemed cool to me. I got one of the 2008 Rabbits. Heh.
I stopped at the comcast store and got a cable card to install on my tivo since it was right there.
After installing the cable card, it was time to take Mac to the vet. Poor little guy. He got poked with many needles and he didn't like it at all. But he's now been chipped. Two different chips, even. The current US standard one and the international standard one (from reading the literature this is just in case the US changes over to the international standard; dude, we still don't use the metric system).
Mac was happy to get home from the vet. He got out of my hands when I got to our door and pulled at the leash to maybe go for a walk but as soon as I actually opened the door, he ran right in. He's been resisting my efforts to take him for walks on the leash, which is really what I'd like to train him to. I'd like to treat him like a doggy that needs walkies but ... he has to cooperate and so far it's not happening.
This is when I discovered that though the new tivo now gets regular channels it is still not receiving the extended channels that come with digital cable. I looked it up. I need another piece of hardware from comcast. Ugh. It's a tuner adapter or some stupid thing. Maybe. I mean, I'll call their service line later and see if that's really true but from what I read at the tivo website it sounds like even if I don't need it now I might in the future. I swear, this is so stupid. And I tried to set the remotes to each talk to only one tivo since I found out after we'd been playing with the new one, we'd programmed a whole bunch of season passes into one of the old ones. But it wouldn't work for some reason and I gave up.
The VW guy called and said the track for my sunroof is done for. They managed to get it closed but I won't be able to use it unless I get a new track installed, which costs $2,000. No way. He said he didn't think I'd want to make that repair. And he had found the other things my mechanics had mentioned to me and since they already had it and I already had the loaner car and the prices he quoted me were only a little more, I figured I should go ahead and just let them do the repairs. So it'll be ready on Monday.
Then it was time for roller derby! The Rat City Rollergirls season championships! I'll post a little something about that later; this is my litany of woe and I doubt most of you made it this far anyway. ;)
Oh! Except to mention that my filling fell out during the bout. It's a problem filling. I think it's the third one to fall out of that tooth? One more thing to take care of. Eventually, anyway.
After I got home, I tried again to get the remotes set correctly. Turns out it wasn't working because I had gotten left and right mixed up. Sheesh. Well, I did only get maybe 3 hours of sleep last night and I've been doing stuff all day and life has been frustrating and ...
I feel like I'm being nibbled to death by mice. Seriously. Or maybe it's death by papercuts.
All these stupid little things that just keep coming up and it's making me tired. I haven't had the energy to do any unpacking/organizing all week or grocery shopping. Maybe next week will be better.
At least I figured out how to sleep through the morning with my noisy neighbors stomping upstairs: my MP3 player and my headphones! I just set it to play podcasts at me and I can't hear them much.
I made tentative plans to go to the pool tomorrow and have dinner and maybe a movie. A nice little birthday celebration since I haven't had the energy to make plans for anything. Ah, well.
But one funny thing to end the post on: the guy at the VW service center said one of the other mechanics was also born June 1st and at the bout they announced that one of the rollergirls also has a birthday on Monday. Heh. It's a total cosmic convergence!
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