Yesterday (Tuesday) neither of us had any breakfast whatsoever. We weren't allowed to. That's because after work (at 2:00) a lady came over and did some medical stuff on us so that we can get life insurance. Simple stuff, like peeing in a cup and drawing blood and getting blood pressure and measuring height and weight. I'm 5'11" in my shoes! The lady was very good at drawing blood—so good, in fact, that I was actually able to watch the needle go into a vein in my arm without feeling a thing. I bet Geoff fainted just from reading that last sentence. But I've had a lot of experience with bad blood-letting, so a competent needler is greatly appreciated.
Whilst the exam stuff was going on the entire Tarbet clan just happened to walk by, and Lena pounded on the door. They were on their way to Starbucks. I told them that Carrie was currently getting her blood pressure taken (which was true), so they continue on without us. A few minutes later, though, we were all wrapped up and healthy (my blood pressure was something like 110 over 70 or 80), so we walked on down to Starbucks to join them. Then we all walked back to our house and split up there; they went back to their house and Carrie & I got in our car and drove to the Parkway for lunch. It was a good thing, too, 'cause lack of food plus blood being drawn equaled weird low blood sugar wooginess in both of us.
Carrie had her quesadilla and I had a cheeseburger dipper, which, despite the fact that it was just French roll, mayo, cheese, and beef, was one of the best cheeseburger dippers I've ever had. Really, really good. Maybe not eating for 18 hours or so makes you appreciate it more...
Carrie had a split-shift, so she didn't have to go back to work until 6:30. In the meantime we both took naps, though mine was awfully full of unrest due to some nagging agorophobia-type feelings. Nothing major, though.
After I took Carrie back to the store I drove on down to Olympia, to a house practically within spitting distance of Brandy's old house down there. I went down to talk to Kevin about the future of my computing life. Basically, a while back I decided to abandon Windows entirely, and was trying to decide between Mac and Ubuntu, which, not coincidentally, he had a computer that ran each for comparison. We came to what I think is a good decision, and I'll let you know what that was as soon as I have something exciting to report about it. Which shouldst be soon.
I drove back up and hit Fred Meyer's on the way, getting some frozen foods and cheese and toilet paper and stuff like that. Then after I got home and put away all the groceries, I settled in with Runaways, Vol. 1
, which Kevin let me borrow, and which is quite, quite excellent. Carrie came home shortly thereafter.Labels: Life
