Google Day

I am packing way too much energy into the Google announcement but somehow I just can't not. I've been sucked into the hype. Oh well. It starts in 10 minutes.

The car didn't blow up getting to the pool and home. In fact, if it weren't for that dashboard light, I would not be aware that anything is amiss. Maybe some opaque tape over the light would fix the issue.

I did not get in any walking yesterday and just barely made my fitness tracker goal. I need to make sure I at least walk around the block today.

But first, $how time. This is going to cost me...

Trigger pulled...

I bought a new phone. A new chomebook. And a pen for that chromebook.

The good news is that Google is going to give me $350 for my old phone. I priced it on Swappa last week and it looked like it was bringing in about $400. I'm guessing that price will drop now so I was delighted at this trade in offer. I paid $225 in taxes and shipping so my total bill isn't far from what I expected even with the trade in.

The phone gets here week after next and the chromebook arrives for Halloween. So now it's just waiting... waiting... waiting... But, I am excited.

My tweets

• Tue, 14:38: I'm in love with this @blankslatepatterns #tuliptop pattern. My toile turned out so well that I'm wearing it now. …… https://t.co/M55ZOXmnfF
• Tue, 14:49: I am trying this #eloflex stretch thread out for the first time and I gotta say I'm pretty impressed. I tested the…… https://t.co/otq1NTE0lV
• Tue, 15:58: LIke @kromandavid says, this really is the story to read. Two strangers bond over country music and beer. https://t.co/pvoCMcJkFk
• Wed, 10:54: Kinda bummed that the blue wasn't an option but got the Pixel 2 + the Pixel Book and the Pixel Pen. My CC company called me to make sure :)

The rest of the day...

So, yes, my baseball is over but, last night, Twitter convinced me to find the Yankee/Minnesota game which I did and kind of watched on the computer while I was watching other stuff on TV.

I was going to watch it on TV, but....I discovered that the broadcasting arrangement for post season baseball was apparently conceived by a large committee, none of whom were sober at the time. It's incomprehensible and nuts. It's like the Where's Waldo of TV. It took me 10 minutes to find out which network had the game, then where on TiVo that channel was. TiVo got a new program database company this year. Searching MLB Baseball got me one game - a replay of some game from last July. NOTHING else. Searching Sports/Baseball got me less than that. I said a lot of one syllable words that rhymed with truck. Parts of the game, even on the computer, were excellent so I may get sucked back in... maybe.

Sewing was good. I've had this fabric around forever. I don't love it but I don't hate it. And now, in this top, I like it better than I did. It's very slinky and soft.



I did get out for enough of a walk to meet my step goals. So yeah me. And remembered to go to the ATM.

I need to remember to get everything ready to go from pool to car place tomorrow and maybe an extended car place stay. And there will be TV watching tonight.