Daily Archives: March 12, 2011
Doing the Electrical Dance . . .
It was really nice to be able to sleep in this morning. Although Jan got up about 8 I slept in until about 10. But then she fell asleep about 10 last night, and I didn’t come to bed until about 1:30am.
I fixed coffee and we had the pumpkin spice muffin tops we got at Kneader’s Bakery yesterday. It was great not to have to be anywhere anytime soon, to just sit and talk, and enjoy each others company. We didn’t even turn the TV on.
But a little later, we did once again have to engage in, as Jan calls it, “The Electrical Dance”. It’s kind of like the Hokey Pokey, but instead putting hands and feet in and out, you turn appliances on and off. Like “You put the AC on, you turn the water heater off, you put the coffee pot on, you turn the clothes dryer off.” “You then cross your fingers and hope it doesn’t blow, that’s life here at 20 amps.”
“All together now, You put the . . .”
The outside temperature was starting to push 80 so we turned off the roof fans and closed the windows, then started the AC so it wouldn’t get too far behind as the day heated up, since it’s supposed to be in the 88-89 range today. Just to be on the safe side, I also turned the water heater off when I turned on the AC. I just have to remember to turn it back on before my shower later tonight.
A little later I dug out my scanner and made a copy of a Fry’s Electronics receipt to email to our daughter Brandi. The Canon camera we got them for Christmas has developed a problem and they need the receipt to get it repaired.
About 12:30 Jan and I headed out to run some errands, but our first stop was a nearby McDonalds’s for lunch. Then it was on to Sam’s Club to pick up our prescriptions and a few other items.
In what turned out to be one of those strange coincidences (cue Twilight Zone theme here) I wanted to find out why my Wal-Mart online pharmacy history showed that I had picked up a prescription from a Sam’s Club pharmacy in Knoxville, TN last month on February 7th.
Now we haven’t been to Knoxville since the fall of 2008 on our way back to Houston from Alaska, so I wanted to know what was going on with my account. (As far as how we ended up in Knoxville, TN on our way back from Alaska, what can I say. We just wander a lot. Nothing good ever came from taking the shortest distance between two points.) When I talked with the pharmacist about this, I told her that we probably had picked up prescriptions there two and a half years ago, but not recently. And with a little checking, the pharmacist found out what happened.
Someone with my same name and my same birthday had turned in and picked up a prescription there. Although he had a Knoxville address, since they found a name and birthday in the computer that matched, they put his prescription history into my account instead of creating a new one for him. Don’t know about the middle initial, since mine is not on my account, I guess anything of his would have been a match.
Weird!
Heading home from Sam’s, we stopped off at Wal-Mart to get a small step ladder so I can put up the RV Quick Shades solar screens that I bought at the Gypsy Journal Rally. I carry a larger extension ladder in the back of the truck, but I wanted something small and light so I could quickly put them up when we park. Since these shades install on the inside of the windows you’d think that it wouldn’t be a problem. But, because of the screen door on the entry, the shade on the outside door can only be installed from the outside with the door open, and I need a ladder to do it.
Getting back to the rig, we found a new photo of Landon with his Flying J Froggy waiting for us in our email.
He’ll be 7 months old next week and is growing taller like crazy. Brandi said they’re going to have to get him a new car seat because he’s about to outgrow his old one.
As an example, here’s Landon at about two months. Big difference!
Around 3 Nick came over for a while to visit, and then about 4 the six of us headed over to downtown Yuma for a final visit to Da Boyz Italian Cuisine for another great meal of pizza, spaghetti, ravioli, salad, and bread. Really, really good. We’re going to miss Da Boyz when we hit the road.
And not only do they have great food, but they were nice enough to give us three gift certificates for Gypsy Journal Rally door prizes.
And as with our last visit there, we had a lot of nice leftovers to have another time.
We got home a little before 7pm, and then around 8pm the outside temp had dropped to about 72, so I turned off the AC, opened the windows, and turned on the vent fans. Then I also turned the water heater back on.
“You put the AC . . .”
That’s about it for today. Tomorrow morning we’re going down the street to the Arizona Market Place, an outdoor flea market / swap meet facility. It’s supposed to be pretty nice and we want to check it out.
More tomorrow . . .
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Thought for the Day:
When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving.
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