I just washed 7 loads of laundry. They are now drying, and I am in Starbucks, soaking in the air conditioning and free wifi and the people watching. Favs so far are the guy in the cowboy hat and the British flag socks and the guy checking out (and rejecting) his tindr options. Least favorite = the loud mouth working deals on the phone. But I do like the black woman who keeps sharing eyerolls with me. She's leaving, along with most everyone else, because loud mouth.

Seven loads is a lot of laundry.

I backed into a column in the parking garage this morning and put a huge dent in my rental car. Also, I have cramps. But I did manage to submit the report that was due today that I was afraid I'd have to write on the plane. I need to be energetic and awake when I land so I can go work out, so I don't break my workout streak (still going since 1/1, can't break it now!)

I got a mile in before they kicked me out.

I also shopvac'd up 4 buckets of water in the basement, had a repaired roof leak re-appear under the heaviest rains and declogged the drains on one of my flowerpots. In a thunderstorm.

Also, this happened not far from here: [link] (ps, it is a landslide, not a sinkhole. Assuming the retaining wall failed. Which seems logical.)

I guess I won't be hearing the whistle of the 6 am train tomorrow...

Yikes!

It's drizzling rain here, I'm at the airport gate waiting for my flight, which is 40 minutes delayed. The security checkpoint had ONE guy ahead of me, so I got to go right through in the time it took me to take off my shoes, and then put my shoes etc back on.

(I may have been a little frazzled today -- after I got my belt off, I nearly took my pants off. Hmmm.)

Nobody said fly naked, Theo. I hope the delay doesn't last long.

I just washed 7 loads of laundry.

Sometimes I like the laundromat just for the chance to get it all done at once.

An Officer and a Gentleman is on some channel, and I caught it very near the beginning. I haven't seen this movie in years.

Hah--don't take your pants off! Though I have a friend oh insisted on going through in a bikini.

Apparently there was a ground stop at LAX for several hours--hoping my flight I'm sitting on right now still takes off on time, now that it's over!

Nobody said fly naked, Theo.

Some people have totally said fly naked!

Yikes, sarameg!

Ouch, Sheryl. That sucks.

Mammogram accomplished. They have upgraded from film to digital since last time, and, perhaps relatedly, this time was a lot less uncomfortable. It reminds me of yoga class: get into an unnatural position, have someone move your body into the actual correct position, hold it for a few breaths until that someone tells you you can move. The tech showed me the pictures so I could see how much clearer the digital is than the scanned film, pretty impressive.

Hit Trader Joe's after. No artichokes, woes. I will have to make do with asparagus and bok choy.

The actual seeing of the pictures is pretty cool. When I had my ultrasound for what-turned-out-to-be-gastritis, the tech was nice enough to let me see the pictures, and helpfully point out the actual gallbladder, pancreas, and et ceteras.

("Cool!" I said, "I have kidney-shaped kidneys! Who knew?!")

("Cool!" I said, "I have kidney-shaped kidneys! Who knew?!")

Hee.

So, my father's wigging out again, too bad. I'm pretty sure the doctor at the hospital didn't think they were done adjusting meds yet, so I hope my mother gets in touch with the doctor from the nursing home.... She just said she thinks it's because he's realizing he's not coming home, and I 100% don't think that -- I think it's just his neurons -- so I hope she doesn't spend a lot of time feeling bad about that.

I hope she doesn't too and that the nursing home handles it.

It's fucking balmy out. When I got home, warmer inside than out. Now the reverse it true. Freaking weather.

I'm going to be shopvaccing all night. I swear this leak sprung after the earthquake. And I don't think I can even reach to slather it with sealer (it improved other seams 75%) because it is behind the furnace. I want to build a berm and channels.