1958 oldsmobile eighty-eight
it’s been a weird couple of weeks.
standard work load. they gave me a new macbook pro to use. i hate laptops. i haven’t used a mac in years, so everything is so backwards in my head.
from shortcuts, down to the mouse wheel scroll, i just feel like i’m driving a car in london, on the wrong side of the road. and a bunch of network stuff is not doing what i want it to do. it doesn’t want to connect to my mom’s wifi, and i don’t want to change her password, that would screw up other stuff in her house. so i feel like i’m working with one hand tied behind my back.
almost to the point where i will trade my coworker for the pc laptop they gave her. she says it’s a slooooowwww pig, so not really selling me on the idea. might as well stick with it, as my better half left me with his mac studio, and this pc is going to crash one of these days.
other than that, i spent last saturday in temecula, visiting my kid and his children. then when we wore them out, i headed over to vail hq, for the ramble on the ranch show. perfect weather for it, and i was there early enough to still have some light to work with.
i started out in the parking lot instead of the space between the stores this time. in the summer it stays too hot out in the lot and i just can’t stay very long.
didn’t seem like there were as many cars as usual. i think there was some other bigger show going on that day. worked for me, fewer people in the way.
this olds was really spectacular. don’t see many like it. i probably should have posted one of the other shots, but this will do.
my daughter and her boyfriend had intended to meet up with me for the show. unfortunately, her dog sitter called to let them know one of her dogs was not acting right, so they had to turn around and head back home. fortunately, they hadn’t gotten to the grapevine yet, and all the terrible traffic waiting on the other side, so it only took them about twenty minutes.
she rushed him to the doggo er, and spent most of the day there. unfortunately, they had to make that terrible decision to let him go about midnight. heart issue, and though they drained some liquid off of it, it was not going to help, so decided it would be kinder to put him to sleep. he was an old, huge doberman, eight or nine. still didn’t think it would happen so soon, but big dogs don’t live as long as yappy little dogs. glad they were there with him at the end.
so i got a phone call at six am next morning, that my daughter wasn’t dealing with it well, so off to bakersfield i went. super foggy the past few days, and sunday was the same. was lovely and sunny up the grapevine, then descended again into pea soup fog on the other side. didn’t get a whole lot better for most of the afternoon.
long day there. considered staying in a hotel then driving home at three am, but didn’t want to get up early on little sleep. was home by ten pm. still needed to get up early for work and an appointment later on.
got through the week without much sleep. spent yesterday watching outlander. what a good show. i really have a lot of other stuff i need to do, but i just don’t have the mental capacity or energy to deal with it yet.
today, i pulled more of my better half’s shirts out of the closet, folded and threw them in a box. i need to get more boxes from storage. it’s already dark, so not today, and it’s supposed to rain most of this week. sorry, that’s what i wanted for xmas, and looks like i’ll get my wish.
p.s. - happy ninety-first bday mom!