Mike

That was the main thing today. Got up a little early and ate breakfast and had coffee.

Linda and Betsy went kayaking and I took a shower and washed my hair. When they got back Betsy and I went blueberry picking at the U Pick down the road.

I kind of got in a fugue, and ended up picking five pounds. What I am going to do with them all I don't know! I had some of them for lunch and I'll keep putting them on my breakfast cereal.

The rest of the day I read and went to DCslash. I went to the Starsky and Hutch panel, and the Good Omens panel, and Nox's Tea Party, and those were fun.

I Teamed the FWiB, thouogh only for an hour because it butted up to the Good Omens panel.

Tomorrow I don't think there's to much in DCslash I want to see so I'll spend more time with family and the cottage.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. DCslash.

3. Being here.

4. Blueberries.

5. Good books.

6. The weather wasn't too hot.

Got up at 7:00 and got ready to go... breakfast, coffee, shower, dressed, final packing of things that had to be last minutes. Put down food and water for the cat, and locked up and called the Uber.

To my shock the difference between a share and an Uber X was about $20! So despite misgivings I did share, and ended up waiting while the driver dropped the other person off. But even so Imade it tothe station on time.

They called the train, and I went to get on line to board when a porter offered to have me use the elevator. Maybe I looked overburdened or something. But of course I said yes, and managed to get ahead of most of the line, and get a window seat facing forward.

The trip was good up until we had mechanical failures and waited a good long time not moving while they were fixed. We ended up being about an hour late getting in. I ate lunch on the train of course, had a stromboli and a diet Coke. mashfanficchick called and we talked for a bit.

After I got to Depew, I called an Uber to the Tops where Linda was to meet me. Pleasant surprise, it wasn't near as expensive as I feared.

I met up with Linda at Tops and did some shopping. Not much, since I can get Instacart down here. I called middle Brother, he's fine, and went swimming Tuesday.

Then we drove back to the cottage and she helped me in with my stuff

I put my food away, and made dinner, then hooked up the computer. I forgot to bring a two to three prong adapter so I had to plug it in to the kitchen, but, the WiFi borrowed from the Mullanes seems to reach this far.

I Teamed the FWiB briefly, to make sure it would work, and it does.

That's really all for now. I'm quite tired and still have more to do, like see if there's a bed that's made or if I have to find the sheets.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Linda.

3. Made it here.

4. The WiFi reaches.

5. Uber.

6. Bed soon, I hope.

Normally I would do my packing closer to when I leave but because there's the possibility of going to a day baseball game on Wednesday with mashfanficchick and then D&D in the evening, and because I have my meeting tomorrow night, I decided to do my packing today.

So I got up around 11:00 and had breakfast and coffee, and read online, and then went and went through all my clothes and packed my suitcase. It took awhile, but I finally got it done, plus a garbage bag of junk filled up, and a pile of empty clothing boxes for recycling.

Then I bit the bullet and called Amtrak to find out if there was a problem with my reservation, because the second part of it, my return trip, vanished from my app. They say there is no issue and all is well. I printed out the receipt and paper ticket anyway.

I also went online to the post office and had my mail held for while I'm gone.

Then I finished reading the Agatha Christie I've been working on, The Pale Horse. I had figured out part of the solution but not all of it, and there was a nice twist at the end.

I called mashfanficchick to see if ze knew yet about Wednesday, but ze didn't. i played solitaire on my phone, and at 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB. We talked for over an hour and a half, so that was nice.

Then I had dinner, and went to the bedroom to play more solitaire until pet feeding time. I texted the Kid, because I thought I remembered she had a job interview today, which she did, and thinks she did well.

Then I fed the pets and started here.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My packing is done, and there is still a little room in my suitcase.

3. The Kid's job interview.

4. Cleaned some of the mess in my bedroom.

5. RK, I texted him about caring for my pets today.

6. My train reservation is OK.

My alarm went off at 9:00 but i was foolish and turned it off and went back to sleep til 10:30. That meant I had to rush to get ready to go out by 11:30, which I needed to do to get to brunch on time.

I had coffee, and showered and dressed, and made it out by 11:20-something, so that was good. I took the 20 bus to the subway and the 7 to the N. I actually arrived at the restaurant by 12:15.

The Kid and her boyfriend were a little late, but not much, and we got seated, inside so I could take off my sunglasses. We ordered mimosas, and then food. I got the Nutella French toast, with strawberries and blueberries, which was delicious. Had a second mimosa after.

I brought with me all the stuff that I've been accumulating to give the Kid, including her very belated birthday card and presents.

We had some nice talk, and then after we finished, we walked together to where we went separate ways. I took the subway, and went to see mashfanficchick

We hung out and didn't do much. At 7:00 I Teamed the FWiB from my phone, and at 8:30 I called Middle Brother. He is fine, nothing new.

We had dinner, rotisserie chicken, mashed potatoes, and broccoli. And then we started looking into ordering me a different laptop, since it is looking like they'll end up refunding the one I ordered. However, we ended up not doing anything.

I Ubered home, and fed the pets.

And now it's time for bed and reading. I'm reading more Agatha Christie, this one is Pale Horse. It's one of her creepier ones.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. The Kid.

3. Middle Brother doing well.

4. Good books.

5. Reading glasses.

6. Air conditioning.

Started out with a therapy session at 10:30. That was good. Then I had breakfast, and coffee, and showered and before I dressed I used the dry shampoo I got last night. My hair looks... OK, not really great, but better.

Anyway, then I played solitaire for awhile, until it was time to leave for my eye follow up exam. I took the 44 bus to Main and 39th, and then the 13 from Roosevelt. Which is absurd, before the reorganization of the Queens buses I could have walked directly to the 13 and taken that straight there. But anyway, I got there, and they examined me and said I was healing well, and could stop most of the precautions, go down to three drops a day for one week, then two for one week, then one for one week. But I still have to use the sunglasses for a month. Bummer.

Then I took the 12 bus back, as an experiment to find out where it goes to now. I discovered I had to get out either at Parsons Blvd, and on Main Street at 37th. Either one means a longish walk home, but I guess Parsons is better. That's where Oldest Brother's nursing home is.

Anyway, I went to 37th and walked home from there. Stopped at the little coffee shop that we went to when the cousins were visiting Oldest Brother before he died. The coffee shop is very nice and I had said I would go back. I had a lavender cream latte.

I got home with about half an hour to spare before I left for my meeting in the Bronx, so I puttered online.

At 5:15 I took the 44 bus into the Bronx and transferred to the 50 at Lafayette, because again due to the bus reorganization, the 50 no longer stops at 35th.

I had my usual two slices of pizza and went to the meeting. It was very good, we had a newcomer. Hopefully she comes back.

After the meeting was over, M drove me to the bus stop and waited til 9:00. Then to get home I took the 50 to 31st in Queens and transferred to the 25 for one stop to get to my stop, I HATE THIS REORGANIZATION!!!

Got home and Teamed the FWiB, We talked for a bit less than an hour, so that was nice.

This morning the Kid texted me to see if I would like to get together this weekend, so I'm going to call her in a bit to see if there's any plans yet.

I texted RK and he's willing to feed my pets while I'm gone. I also got an answer from Carrie M, that it's OK again to use the WiFi from next door.

Now if only my computer would be delivered!

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. My meetings and the people there.

3. My eye is doing well.

4. My friends.

5. The Busy Bee coffee shop.

6. The Kid.