Entries tagged with car

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Maintenance

Spent a chunk of yesterday finally getting all four tires replaced on the Mini. The local place was a lot friendlier than BJ's, and apparently NTB is now Mavis, though the signage (and online) hasn't caught up yet. Popped by the local carwash on the way back from picking up the car, so the beast looks (and drives) much nicer now.

Continuing to slowly build my running back up on the treadmill.

Up far too early this morning after Benjamin (male cat) decided to puke, twice, in the hallway outside our bedroom. Found it without stepping in it (yay?) and got it all cleaned up. Very grateful that I thought to stash some paper towels under the sink in the bathroom off that hallway so I didn't have to go downstairs for some.

A good chunk of my office flooded last week. There's a ledge outside the windows of about 2/3 of the offices (including mine) where water got backed up and came in though the walls. Nothing personal of anyone's was damaged, and very few official documents were dampened since most of that is electronic now so there was only like one box on the floor in the suite (unlike a flood in my old office that was a nightmare of drying out old paper). While facilities swung into action while the flood was still ongoing thanks to one of our employees alerting them, it apparently still smells according to the few people who've braved the place, and they're going to have to do all sorts of remediation. So who knows if I'll be going back in immediately after labor day or not? That's tentatively the plan since the local Metro stations reopen after that weekend, but not if they're still dealing with walls and carpet and what not.

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Errands

Busy morning off from work. Ran to the car dealership to get the "service needed!" warning reset, since they serviced the damned thing back at the end of May. Then it was off to the old apartment to check on it (looking good, now if it would just fucking sell already). Then to the pet store, CVS, and Whole Paycheck for various and sundry needs. The husband is rightly convinced that he doesn't need an inner saboteur for attempts to lose weight because he has an outer saboteur in that I buy the groceries, and may have picked up a pint of Jeni's ice cream for him. In my defense it was because I picked up a pint of their sorbet for myself to try, and knew there would be hell to pay if I didn't get him some as well. So there.

Now I just need to see what if anything else I need/want to do around the house on this random day off from work (which I took because I didn't know how long the car would take; as it turned out I had time to pee and walk into the show room before they handed the keys back to me).

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Monsters

In lieu of watching the monsters in the news, we watched monsters in movies the past two days. Watched the 2014 Godzilla yesterday, then double-featured Kong: Skull Island, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Little to no character development, just fun giant monster movies. Not sure they were completely the husband's cup of tea, but he was game. I laughed my butt off at many, many places, and openly rooted for the monsters to kill certain unlikeable characters. I do the same thing in horror movies, laughing at the absurdity of whatever happens to be on screen - usually silly special effects, 'gotcha' moments, etc. In other words, the stock-in-trade of horror.

This was, of course, in anticipation of this summer's Godzilla vs. Kong, which promises to be more of the same ridiculousness. I can't wait.

All in all it was a nice distraction. Tomorrow is a work day, for what that's worth, then Wednesday I have off as a federal employee in the national capital region, since the area tends to get crazy on any inauguration day, much less the insanity that's going on this year. My hope is that the husband has a light day Wednesday so we can escape early to go get the week's new comic books, and also do automated emissions testing for the car, which the Land of Mary finally decided to tell me is due in a week or so. Whee. Thankfully there's a self-serve kiosk for that now far from the comic shop (you just plug a device into your car's on-board diagnostics port and download the data). They're supposed to give you eight weeks to go get it done rather than 8 days, but I'm just rolling my eyes and doing it.

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Only two

It only took two trips to the MVA (motor vehicles administration, for those who do not dwell here in the land of Mary) to get plates. I fully expected that it would take more than that, and that I'd have to go back later for the actual plates, because they have to get the title from my credit union, but apparently that can come later. I had an appointment first thing in the morning, but because we don't (yet) have a printer at home they needed to give me a bunch of forms to fill out (even though I had put most of that into their online system?). Then there was some confusion about whether the husband was on the car registration or not (he's not, though he is on the loan), so I went back late afternoon with the husband in tow, but he didn't end up being necessary in the end. But he got to see the MVA, and we both got out of the house, so not all bad? And at the end of it we got plates. We got the standard 'state flag across the bottom' plates and not any of the fancy ones, and I'll pop those on at some point today.

So now I have to go drop the old plates off in DC at some point. That's literally down the street from the old apartment, so it'll be easy enough to do.

But, due to their 'everything must be scheduled online' appointment system, I can't get a new driver's license until sometime in November, because that was the earliest available appointment. LOL So I'm part of the way there.

Slept in this morning. Alarm went off to go running and I decided another two hours of sleep was more important, so that's what I did. It's a maids day, though, so now I'm scrambling to put things away so she can clean around just what's normally out and not the extra stuff that tends to accumulate outside of its normal homes in the interim. I've been tracking heart rate variability via an app and my apple watch, a once daily measurement, and it's been fun to note how it changes with more or less sleep, and more or less activity. It definite appreciated the extra sleep, as did my brain, which isn't quite as foggy as it felt at 5-something.