The last day... and fart warm

I rarely wear a coat or even a jacket on my morning trips to the gym. I go from house, through open air garage, to car, to garage, to gym and back. And my car is so tiny that a good fart can warm it enough to keep it comfortable til the car heater kicks in. But this morning, it was chilllllly or my fart wasn't warm enough... but it was a cold ri de. And lonely. Turns out there are even fewer people on the road at 5:30 am on a federal holiday.

It is the last day of no traffic on the roads or in the pool. I made the best of it. My swim was great and I was home by 7:30 even after stopping at the grocery store (where they didn't have either of the items I wanted) and the gas station.

I did run into a regular from the other gym at the pool. When I told him my theory that they were not every going to heat up the pool again and were just stringing members along without ever making an annoucement, he allowed as how he had had enough. "I'm getting on the phone today. This is ridiculous." You go, girl!

I did notice on their class schedule, they have been cancelling all the aqua fit classes at the other gym and have not yet canceled tonight's. This either means the pool has been fixed or they are now slacking on the calendar in addition to everything else... my money is on the latter.

I do still want the grocery items - Diet Dr. Pepper and skinny french fries (some like their jeans skinny, me, I like skinny fries) so I'll run up the street to the Grocery Outlet and Cash & Carry and get both later this morning.

But, I'm actually burying the lead here... The big news... is the new pillow! I realized it felt good immediately but this morning I woke up without any sore shoulders or elbows and no dry mouth. I actually woke up a couple of times in the night and realized how nice everything felt.

So today, UNDER PENALTY OF LAW, I'm going to cut off the labels and tags and make it another pillow case. Yesterday's was a quick and dirty so I could return the pillow if necessary. Today's will be a proper pillow case made from sheeting material.

Also there will be doll making. Oh and news flash just delivered right here and now... there will be cat feeding.

My tweets

• Sun, 17:08: @seattlejo here ya go for making whatever you are making there all smooth and shiny! https://t.co/W3qW6EjcOb
• Mon, 09:28: This is embarrassing... 10 times over https://t.co/aMPI1WrUjc

The journal entry no one saw coming...

I just got an email from Barrie...

The POOL IS FIXED!!!!!

She said she called and got Zachary (who is the only person on staff who for sure won't bullshit you) and he said the pool was fixed and heated. She said "I made him say it twice." which cracked me up. But, I feel the same way. I called myself and got April (it-will-be-fixed-in-a-couple-of-days) who answered when I asked 'the pool is fixed'. No inflection, no emotion, no emphasis. She said it like the pool had been broken for an hour.

Wow. Just wow.

And thus ends this segment of my journal. I feel like I should go find a YouTube of taps to add here.

The rest of the day

I got lots of good sewing done today. 3 dolls and a whole bunch of new faces. Also, somehow, I got another blood bruise on my hand. This time the right hand. After weeks and weeks of not getting any, all of a sudden I'm hit. It's that damn aspirin. I only take that one baby aspirin every other day. I'm seriously considering cutting him out.

I did my errands and enjoyed the last of the no traffic. Now I'm pondering what to have for dinner.

I had a nice chat with my Kiwi friend today. He's looking to get a new computer and wanted some tech talk. I'm really looking forward to their visit this July. His wife is so nice to be around and they are both exceedingly easy to entertain and when they visit, they request to do stuff that I would want to do anyway. We chatted about things we would do - shopping and eating mostly. It will be fun.

Time to raid the freezer for dinner ideas.

This is David from LA Fitness

He was not specific but I was able to garner, during our phone conversation, that he is the district manager. He apologized for the poor communications of the gym staff. He acknowledged by emails and kind of implied they prompted him to get 'the pool company in there this weekend to fix it'. I'm not sure I buy that little bit but I did appreciate his calling and his understanding that being fed crap by the folks in charge was as much as issue as the pool being broken.

So I'm feeling far more confident in my being able to actually swim in my old pool first thing in the morning.

Oh and I edited my Yelp review and gave them back the star I took when the pool went down.