This is a photo from May 2019. When I stopped at the light, I thought it was funny, so I took a picture. Computers. Now we can't live without them. Sneaky little devils, aren't they. Of course maybe it was intentional. A secret code between two lovers. Hmmmm...
The remodel is stalled; for the 3rd time Lowe's has canceled and rescheduled the team that is to come out and measure the floor. This time I told them never mind - if I wanted to reschedule I would call them. So, back to shopping for a flooring company. The very first one ticked us off because the sales lady was very prudish and talked down to us. Then she realized she was being a jerk and started to back pedal. I didn't bite. I let my daughter and her beau deal with it and I walked out. We never went back.
Tires on the car today. A year ago Honda told me I needed two replaced. Then the pandemic hit and I barely drove anywhere so it was put off and put off. Things are beginning to pick up a little and I need to travel a few places for work - so tires must be purchased.
Okay - reading. The last I spoke of my reading material was the Tom Hanks movie "News of the World" and the book by Paulette Jiles. Which led me to read "The Captured" by Scott Zesch. No fiction - the books were recorded history. And "The Great Influenza."
This month it is all fiction. "Anxious People" by Fredrik Backman and "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes. I also found a movie from 2000 starring Matthew Modine "Flowers for Algernon". They did a pretty good job with the movie. The flowers book is considered Science Fiction. Both books were okay. I try to follow the Goodreads lists of what others are reading and suggesting.
I might just stick to my non fiction. I'm finding the fiction books listed there a bit off my liking. Or maybe it's me. I recall a few years back somebody talking to me about reading and I told them I couldn't stand fiction any longer, I only read non fiction. Perhaps that is still my deal.
Today's temperature is almost 60º F today. I am actually colder in my house when the weather is like this than if the weather is 2º or so. The furnace does not run when it is warmer outside but the cold and wet seeps into the house and I freeze. I sat here at my computer and looked at my bearded dragon for so long with his heat lamp, I set one up under my desk to keep my feet warm.
I have to get a new drivers license. I did get mine renewed last summer but I don't know what the hell happened to it! I can't even remember if I actually got it in the mail or not. I suppose I did. I still have my old one but it does nothing - they shot it full of holes. LOL! That's what they do to the old ones I guess. My daughter worked at the DMV for a while, she told me. I looked at my old one - sure enough. There are a few holes punched into it.
My poor cat was left outside all night. At least it wasn't below freezing. Usually I do a head count before I retire but I guess I didn't last night. He sure was ready to come inside this morning.
I have been reading a few stories about the residents of Texas. How horrible it all is. I've had pipes freeze before. We never got a flood, though. I think we knew to turn the water off. I don't know. I remember our furnace quitting and drinking tea by the fireplace all day so of course I had to get up to use the restroom in the middle of the night and as my sleepy eyes looked at the stream of water (we left running in the bathtub so it wouldn't freeze) I saw that it was a frozen strand of ice from faucet to bathtub floor. Ah...good times.
