Today 5March2023: Sunday

I always feel I should call someone or see them on Sunday. I used to talk to Grandma and Grandpa Wild on Sundays and would always speak to dad too. All of them are gone now, and I miss talking to them on Sundays. Today I skipped church as I had meetings and had to be attentive to the project data conversions. This is the fourth weekend I have worked.

Sunday started with waking from a deep sleep and turning off my alarm to sleep more. But that was a dream, and my alarm woke me at 7, and I was up twenty minutes later. Funny to dream about waking up.

I logged on to work and started my Apple computer. I read the emails, Slack channel updates, and the news. I did this while having liberal coffee that I made in my French Press. Breakfast included cottage cheese (small curds) with pepper, sea salt, and smoked paprika. I opened it and had half a can of peaches to go with it. I did not suddenly get hungry this time after taking my meds and/or exercising. My back hurt, and I was staggering a bit, so I passed on the stretches and exercises today.

The Zoom meetings started at 8 and went on for an hour. During the boring parts, I wrote some of the blogs for Saturday, which is always a long blog. The issue that happened yesterday had resurfaced, and I spent part of the morning following along while I wrote.

The source system for the data conversion has the issue, so once the source is repaired, we can load the revisions and resend the updated data to the targets. There is nothing we can do at the moment. Thus, I finished the blog in a few hours.

I cleaned up, dressed (in a white dress shirt), my new cotton green pants, and loaded into Air Volvo. I carried all the computers and placed them in the cargo hold. Air Volvo traveled to the hummingbird house at Portland (Tigard) at 9925 SW 82nd. Ave. Portland (Tigard), OR 97223; phone (503) 246-4116.

Susie was comfortable in her recliner chair in the living room, a shared space. Anassa, the weekend nursing aide, had everyone up, and their day started. Susie had finished her breakfast. Susie decided to head to the mall.

I could not find the lift belt and had to grab Susie with her. I did good the first time but not the second time. Soon Susie and I were in the mall. The automatic door to Macy’s is still not repaired–it has been six months, so I got someone to open a door for me. Susie was excited to see people again.

We headed across the mall and towards the food court. Susie had a snack of strawberry ice cream, and I had a classic hot dog. The cook, an older man, slit the dog and grilled it, leaving tasty black lines on the meat. This is sprinkled with red diced onions and the usual red and yellow, but this time some mayo too–it was a perfectly classic hot dog, and the bun was even toasted. They had fries that were the usual industrial product. Still, an old-school hot dog (with mayo) with onions is excellent.

My back still hurts today. I will see if the exercises make it better on Monday.

I pushed Susie all over the mall, and we found a rainbow cake kit at Williams Sonoma and got that for Dondrea and Z for Easter. Susie picked out a huge bunch of flowers from the cut flower seller, now repositioned at the mall’s center. The Easter Bunny area is half the size of Santa’s, so there is room for the flower seller. The EB was not there yet (March 10th).

We met Ashley at the mall; she was there after church. Susie was holding onto her huge flower bundle.

We managed, despite the challenges that I had to move the car to make enough room to load Susie, to get Susie back in the car (as I said, it was a bit harder this second time). Then, we stopped by Dondrea and Z’s place and dropped off the cake kit.

We then headed back to Susie’s place, and soon Susie was safe in her chair again. I stayed a bit longer but was tired and needed to rest a bit. So I said my goodbye with a kiss and headed back to the Volvo Cave. I reached home without incident or seeing any extra-legal driving. I unloaded the computers and took some rest.

I had to check that I was not needed, so I did not rest well and opened a can of New England Clam Chowder for dinner. I managed to only burn it a little while listening to the 4:30 Zoom call, but it was still good (and also good to use something from the pantry). I had a few cookies as dessert while watching a video on the New Jersey Battleship–a walkthrough of the existing areas in the ship–interesting. They have Admiral Halsey‘s bed, as New Jersey was his flagship in World War 2.

I rested a bit more as the back pain, which was there before moving Susie, was still bothering me, and I finally started towards Wildwood Taphouse to write.

Thanks for reading.