Monday - ish

I'm not a fan of holidays these days. I don't celebrate or gather with friends and family. Time off from work is kind of fish on a bicycle to me. Holidays mean financial institutions aren't open so what I want to have happen today will not. Lots of places are closed - annoying. I cannot even get excited about free street parking downtown. I have free parking downtown every day.

I can really see how curmudgeonly get off my lawn people are created
On the bright side, while my gym doesn't open until 8, at least it opens and I can swim every day of the year except Christmas and New Years. (See, there are those pesky holidays, again!)

The baseball today is a day game. The Mariners have not been doing well. Not at all. When I drove by the stadium this morning you could not even tell there would be a game there in 4 hours. A few weeks ago, the lines were forming when I came home from the pool. Oh well.

I do think that I will tackle the other two bedroom closets today. Goodwill is open so I can fill up the car and deliver today if I want. Neither of these two will take the time or energy of yesterday's. I think I'll sew a doll or two this morning and then do the closets while the game is on.

I also think I'll pull out the floor fan in hopes of being able to put the a/c in its cupboard for the winter very soon. Yeah!!

My brother is reading the same book I am The Nix by Nathan Hill. I'm about a third of the way through and even if it tanks from here on out it will still be the best book I've read this year and in a couple of years. I found it because my high minded literary reference - aka People Magazine - had it as the book the week not long ago. This morning my brother sent me a link to a rather different literary reference - aka New York Times. Looks like People was on to something!

Off to sew.

Bedroom closets DONE!

This is stuff going to Goodwill. Probably not today. Tomorrow will be soon enough. Closet #2 (the folded stuff like most people put in dressers) donated the most. And then I boxed up a bunch of stuff that I don't need soon - jeans, summer knit dresses, dress up tops and pants, workout/crummy t's and shorts - and refolded all the rest. One shelf for short sleeved shirts, one shelf for long sleeved shirts and sweaters and one shelf for pants. I have one whole shelf empty!!! This makes me very happy. I still have WAY more clothes than I need but at least the situation is better now.

I also went through the hanging stuff. I have one very expensive, nice, black coat that I haven't worn in a million years. And don't know when I ever will. So it went as well as another jacked and a vest. I could probably cull even more but I'll save some for next time.

My Pebble watch picked up two new problems, so I sent a note off to customer service. They are going to replace it. I think it's going to hang on until a replacement arrives.

TiVo recently changed data bases and now it records every baseball game twice or not at all. It's making me a little crazy. The games are played once live and then, about 4 hours later, the station runs the game in total again. I can only tell TiVo to play New only or New and Repeats. There is no option to play Live only. So I set for New and get two games. I do not know why it's skipping some games entirely. Since this is happening for most sports, the TiVo forums are ablaze with vitriol over the situation.

The living room TiVo did not record the Mariner game today. The bedroom TiVo did. Weird.

Since there is only 4 more weeks of baseball (for the Mariners), I'll power through and just keep checking. And hope they fix it before next Summer.

We have a couple of new dolls.