You are being watched

Zoey, just now, sitting on my lap, staring at the computer screen. I think she was just collecting her thoughts.

I rolled out of bed this morning into my swim suit and off to the pool. There was a guy in one lane doing a lazy side stroke. I'd seen him there once or twice before. When he got to the edge, I said "good morning" and he said "wow! you're early this morning! you usually don't get here til 6:30." He was spot on but I had no clue he had been taking attendance! I thought I paid close attention but turns out I'm a light weight in comparison.

The oven install guys are here. These are good ones. They figured out the front door call system easily and quickly. (I was watching on Front Door TV Network.) And they brought me an entirely new oven. They are slow and careful and friendly but not chatty. The head guy has already figured out two of the reasons the first two installs didn't work. I think we're on a clear path for getting a fix now.

After they finish, I think I'm going to make a quick run up to the library with a stop at the grocery and at Office Depot/Max. Today is cloudy and still a little cool. The next 4 or 5 days are going to be sunny and hot - great days to stay inside.

They are shooting a TV commercial for the Washington State Lottery outside my terrace. It's a period piece - the period being the 1970's. They have a babyshit yellow AMC Pacer and some other cars of the era and the period costumes. It's pretty wild. The Lottery has, for several years now, had some really renowned and creative advertisements. I'll be really interested to see this one when it hits the airwaves.

The baseball game is at 4 today.

The rest of the day so far

The oven installing guys did not have an easy time of it and even had to leave for about an hour to go fix something but assured me carefully that I would have an oven and be happy by the end of the day. When they came back they finally got it in. But, this time I made them check it by nuking some water and BAM same exact issue as last time when I didn't make them check it. And we found some other problems but finally, finally, finally - they got it in, exactly perfectly. The lead guy even left me his card with his contact info which I thought was very nice. And I managed to get some parts out of it, too. The oven uses a glass plate and a metal one. I'm always worried about the glass plate breaking and I use the metal one daily. They cost $75 and $50 respectfully. And I got a spare of each. Nice.

Once they left and I cleaned up, I did go to the library and then Office Depot. The Office Depot was to check out Back To School specials. Not great this year but I did score a couple of interesting things. I got a roll of measuring tape - masking tape with inches marked off. AND a roll of white board tape which I'd never hear of before. So now my laptop table is all decked out for school.



Then I stopped at MacDonald's and got a cheeseburger for lunch. I was more than a little embarrassed to realize that it was the second time today that I'd been through the drive through there. I'd pulled in to pick up a sausage biscuit after my swim and the same lady was on duty when I got my cheeseburger. I wonder if she's working the dinner shift too? I'm not going to drive through to find out. The cheeseburger was delicious. I hadn't had a MacDonld's hamburger in forever.

Then I made a couple of dolls and swizzled up the songs on my swimming iPod Shuffle which is now recharging. I have a lovely fat pork chop for dinner or fried chicken. I'm going to make a last minute snap decision.

My tweets

• Tue, 10:25: You will have an oven by the end of the day.
• Tue, 14:46: No one should ever even come close to confusing me with a… https://t.co/5L9ZctzXhh https://t.co/u9GjqYTzHx
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