Friday

Last night, a little after 10, I got out of bed where there are no windows and went into the kitchen for ice and only then saw that it was snowing like crazy. SNOWING! It was so pretty. But it was bedtime. This morning I totally forgot about it until I pulled my car out of the garage. Snow? Gone. At least here at sea level. This gym is up some - maybe 300 feet in elevation - and there were flakes coming down as I entered the gym parking garage.

I'd love to see some snow on the ground... but that's not happening any time soon so I'm happy at least we got flakes.

And it sure cleared out the gym. The locker room was a ghost town as was the parking garage. None of the regulars were in the pool. Wild. But nice for me.

My iPod Shuffle did, indeed, lose my place in my book today. So I listened to music. I figured out a work around and I'll be fixing that up today. Also the library has one of my holds (another audiobook) available. I'm pretty sure I can store it on my Shuffle and still listen to it after its expiration date. I guess we'll see.

Nothing big on the agenda today. The usual - sewing, and screwing around. At some point in the next few days I need to get to an ATM and restock my cash supply. I met a couple the other day who are my age and do not have debit cards and have never used an ATM. "We go into the bank and get cash from the teller." I seriously cannot wrap my brain around that. I get it. I used to do it. But, NFW now. They also write and mail checks to pay bills. I'm not even sure where my checkbook is.

Ok, time now to quit screwing around and get started doing something.

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Oh crap

I just picked up the snail mail to learn that Seattle City Light will cut our juice for 12 hours starting at 9 am on Feb. 23rd. Fuck. I lived here for 20 years before I ever even heard of a 'planned outage'. Then I think they woke up one day and said 'hey, here's a 'hood we haven't fucked with yet! Let's do this!!' We've had at least one a year since then and they are oh so tiresome. They usually do them on weekends. This one is a Thursday. It's really not a big deal, just annoying. At least I don't depend on an iron lung (yeah, ok so no one else does either any more but still...) or have fish in a tank.

The problem I have is elevator dependency. If I go out and want to come home, I face 8 flights of very steep stairs. I could do it, I think, but it would take forever and be not fun. Of course, sitting here in the dark for 12 hours doesn't sound like a party time either. They had one planned for November but cancelled it. Maybe they will cancel this one, too. I hope. They have, usually, way over promised on the time so maybe it won't be 12 hours. If they postpone it one week, I'll hit pay dirt cause I'm actually going out of town that day. Oh well. I have a good 2 weeks and change to fret about it.

Pork chop for dinner with scalloped potatoes. Yum.