Thursday's Travels

Well, I went to bed last night at 2030 and did not get up until 0630 this morning and surprisingly enough I felt pretty good. Normally when I have gotten that much sleep I wake up really groggy.

I had a nice DRY walk this morning, the weatherman said that we should be having showers most of the day, but I do not think that we had that much at all. It did drizzle a little bit while Kathleen and I were out running around today, but hardly enough to even need to run the wipers.

For breakfast I made myself some toast, broke it up and poured the left over creamed chipped beef on top and then added a couple sunny side up eggs. I think that will have to be my quota of eggs for a couple weeks, I am going to have to go back to using egg beaters again. Not that I really mind them, it is just that having a real yoke looks so much better on the plate.

After depositing the dishes into the dishwasher I went into the living room and read the paper and then the mail. Not much there so it all went into the recycling. Then I went upstairs and changed my clothes as Kathleen and I had a lot of running around to do today. We left the house about 1030 as Kathleen had an appointment with her sleep doctor over in Tigard.

After we finished up there and since we were on that side of town we stopped off at Shane Jewelers to have Kathleen's ring cleaned and the setting checked. She get to do that on a regular basis and if she keeps it up they guarantee that the stone will not fall out and if it does they will replace it free.

After getting that done we went to Macadam Vision, as Kathleen needed a new set of glasses. We got there about noonish and did not leave until after 1700. She got a pair of prescription glasses and also a pair of prescription sunglasses, but it took her almost four hours to pick out the frames. While she was checking out one of the opticians asked me if I would like to up grade my glasses to something more contemporary.

My last set of glasses were almost like my safety glasses that I had at Boeing, just not as heavy. So I thought that I might as well...I picked out my glasses in less than fifteen minutes. I also got a pair of prescription sunglasses as well. So by the time we left we were right in the middle of rush hour...not a fun time.

We did make pretty good time, but we took side streets once we crossed the river and since we were down below a quarter tank of fuel we decided that we probably should get it filled up while we where out. We finally made it back home a little after 1800.

Kathleen heated up some frozen dinners, not the most tasty of meals, but when one is hungry and tired it will do. Well, aside from running around all day, I did not get anything productive done, but did get some things done that needed doing. Well, I think that this is it for today, so good night!