A COMPENDIUM

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

March 21, 2018: A MUSEUM GATHERING

I shuffled books successfully this morning. Now Home, I havee to find something semi humorous to wear to this third Poolie memorial. I think she would truly be laughing about three memorial gatherings.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________

March 19: FINDING PAPERWORK

The Nautical books are now all separated into above $35.00 and below $35.00. I went in yesterday and priced these lower priced volumes and got them out on the floor. Everything got priced just a little below the medium, and hopefully they will sell.

Friend Glen writes, “Was time to renew my driver’s license and they wanted me to come to the DMV for an eye test. But starting in oct-2020 you will need a federal approved. “Real I D ” or passport to do stuff like board a plane so you need to bring in a certified birth certificate, social security card, and other paperwork (like a passport), to get a real ID otherwise you get a driver license that says federal non compliment.” Getting a new license will be fraught with terror for me this year.

My birth certificate is an old, browning copy. Not certified at all. Can we find our passports? No. I’m certainly not at all compliant.

Off to get a temporary “flipper” to fill in for the side teeth. My plate has a new front tooth attached, but the one that broke and he glued back in (temporarily) has stayed in. Darn. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Himself: Taking Friday afternoon off as they are turning off our power. “A Planned Outage.”
Herself: Really good until last night. Going to the bank shortly to see if the Passports are there. / They were.
Reading: Life of an Irish doctor.
Gratitude’s: That I can still putter around town.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

March 17: A BEAUTIFUL SATURDAY

It’s time to fuss with the costumes. His needs to go to the cleaners, and mine needs a jewelry change….perhaps a wig too. The bonnet didn’t make it in my case, and he hated the Trump wig tho he was very funny in it. It’s that time of year again when we rethink our costumes for the Comic Con weekend.

Our Spring calendars are filling up fast. Coming up really soon is the “Spring Round Up.” We’ve been on various Round Up committee’s for years. This year we are both on the Marathon Meeting committee. Yes, I am not really useful. Yes too, there are AA and Alanon meetings from the first day 24 hours a day until the last day at seven in the morning. Four full days. G has supposedly filled them. Now we see if these folks actually show up. If not, we have a nice guy named Doc who is willing to find folks to run the meetings at any hour.

To ease the strain of all this, we have taken a hotel room at the Convention site. The hotel has been sold, and it’s been modernized. I’m not fond of the stark rooms. I’m really not fond of the fact the main restaurant is closed for remodeling. It’s going to be a very long walk to the hamburger joint on the other side especially if we are short on time.

Not so for Comic Con 2018. We volunteer. That helps a lot. We take the car from home out to the Stadium in the Valley, then we take the trolley back into downtown. Very easy parking, and a chance to buy out trolley tickets right there. I only have to walk across the tracks to the convention center and the guy with the mobility scooters.

We both look forward to this. It’s a good combination of childish fun and usefulness. We can give back and eat our ice cream too. We will keep you posted if we get caught dancing in the streets.