Today 30Aug2023

It is 9PM, and I am tired, so I will cover the good moments and forego my usual story form.

I did not make it to Susie’s place today as Air Volvo was at mothership. This was the full service for 50K miles and a repair of the dog-bone torque arm that supports the motor. It helps to keep the engine still and reduce vibrations. The dealership detected the issue, and I agreed to have them repair it. This is all done online–no phone calls. I received the message and then responded by requesting to fix the issue–all online. I did not get the car back until the late afternoon. The Lift driver who took me back to the Volvo Dealership had decorated his vehicle in Star Wars items and was happy to see I had a Star Wars t-shirt. We talked about films, TV shows, and the animated canon while he took me to the Mothership for Air Volvo. Fun and unexpected, as most Lift drivers are boring.

I felt I got off light with a bill below $1000, and then learned to use my debit card or pay a 2.5% handling fee for credit cards–they don’t take checks–cash would work. US Bank covered it. I had brought my checkbook as I had used that before–not now. They also did not rotate the tires as the front tires were the best–hmm. I suspect new tires for next year.

I returned home as I received a request to approve some software changes in our ticketing systems. I was home, logged on to work, and cleared the issue, but I received further requests and did those, too. Next, I popped out to a barber shop I saw off of 198th; a small one-room addition to a house. For $12, she quickly returned me to my precancer and per-Covid-19 hairstyle–short biz look. It was fun to have long hair, but it was starting to get in the way, and frankly, I was shedding. Ick!

Bouncing out of order, I did make Alexa work and contacted Susie at 1PM for a video call. It worked perfectly, but Susie was not used to it. Soon, she got used to it, and we had a nice short video call. Excellent, I wanted to test that–excellent.

Dinner was with Dondrea and Z at the Mexican on Hall Boulevard place not far from their house. I had to cross Beaverton to reach it, and I loaded the games into Air Volvo (I unloaded when getting serviced). I also took a quick shower after the haircut–I hate the itchy feel after a haircut. Thus, I was clean-cut and clean on reaching the Mexican joint. I had a drink and mole on chicken enchiladas–excellent.

Air Volvo was quieter and seemed to run better. The seals in the back doors were repaired, besides the motor holder. I followed Dondrea and Z to First United Methodist Church after dinner.

Z and I set up Architect of the West Kingdoms, and Z immediately started to execute a plan. She collected all the resources to build the cathedral and then just built every level earning twenty victory points. I built all the levels left and some more buildings, but I could not catch Z. Z got a few more buildings built and crushed me by about ten points.

We were both happy to play the unique resource and worker placement game. We had not played it for a few months. There are so many good games it is hard to get everything on the gaming table.

We waited for the church band to finish their rehearsal sitting outside looking at the fountain. We shared some music videos, and Z liked the “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton.

I think I will stop there; thank you for reading.