Nice Unproductive Weekend

It was a good weekend but I didn’t accomplish a lot. After only 3 years of retirement I’m just beginning to be comfortable not using every minute productively. I’m still not completely there but I’m getting there.

Friday morning, after our weekly visit to Target, I spent an hour or so riding the bike around the neighborhood. The rest of the day was spent cleaning house in preparation for the couple coming over at 3 PM. I also did some research about scenic drives in VT for our upcoming trip. I guess you could call talking with the couple productive. This turned out to be our last get together with the married couple we worked with to get back together. They made good progress. The ball is back in their court now. I hope they do well. We are to see them again in 2 months for a social visit (Penny’s cooking Mexican) and to see how they are doing.

Saturday we did our Waffle House thing. The server saw us coming and she was setting 2 cups of coffee for us at our usual table when we entered the restaurant. Then she proceeded to confirm our usual order and got it started. There were very few customers in the place and we got special service—my coffee cup never ran dry.

I got on the bike again when we got home and decided to explore a little. I went down to Racetrack Rd and went east, first through the neighborhood where I had my first apartment in this area and then down the back roads all the way to Eglin Parkway and up onto the Shalimar Bridge. When I got back home I measured the distance I traveled using the Google Earth path tool and found I covered just less than 9 miles. I was only riding a little over and hour at a very easy pace. This was my first ride with a gel seat cover on the bike. It did make the seat more comfortable. Now I’ve got the bike all “tricked out” with the seat cover, rear view mirror and small cargo rack over the rear wheel.

I spent the next hour searching for the 2nd pair of travel binoculars we own. I couldn’t find them before we went to Montana and I wanted to have them for the trip to VT. I was successful. They were in a suitcase that we haven’t used in a while. Now all I have to find is the 4GB SDHC card that we own so we can use it in Penny’s new camera.

Penny was having difficulty with the quilt she was making so I suggested we go to Chick-Fil-A for lunch. That usually lifts her spirits—and it did.

A little more housework and church on Saturday eve and before you know it the day is gone.

We slept in on Sunday, read the paper and watched Sunday Morning. Penny needed some stuff from Beall’s out in Destin so we headed out there. Since we had gone that far we decided to use another gift card and had lunch at Cheeseburger in Paradise in Sandestin. Their burger of the day was a Cubano burger. It was good and it came with sweet potato chips. We checked out some stores at the outlets—got some stuff for Karen and Christy and Sophie, stopped by PetsMart to get food for Brie and headed home. That pretty much shot the day since it was already 4PM.

We checked out how our teams were doing in fantasy football. This morning when I checked my team I found that I was playing Christian. He had a player in that was questionable to play due to an injury. I called Christian and told him. When we now checked the scores I found that the player Christian put in to replace the questionable one had scored more than 13 points. This evening after all my players have played I am leading C by just under 10 points. He has 1 player left to play tomorrow, Chris Chambers, who could score 10 points. When I called Christian this morning he said, “You know you’re supposed to try to beat me, don’t you?” Yes, I know, but as Penny says telling him was the right thing to do. I did the same thing with Tim last year except it wasn’t a week when I played him. Is it OK for me to want Chris Chambers to have a bad night tomorrow?

I had a strange dream this morning that I can’t figure out. I was watching some sort of training film, the point of which was to explain that you can’t play the tuba when you are wearing lipstick. I just thought I’d pass that revelation along to you.

Thus ends my good but not very productive weekend. Tomorrow more serious trip preparation begins and maybe I’ll find that SDHC card.

KITTY UPDATE—2 cats last night: Meredith and Velcro. 3 cats tonight: Buzz joined the group. Meredith has been showing up around 5 PM and hanging around all evening. Marmalade has gone off to her other place for the weekdays.