The Killions went to a wedding in Minnesota for 5 days. Being the great friends that they are, they let me house and cat sit and use their car while they were gone. The wonderful part for me was that I finished up a lot of projects involving electricity and mobility. Dave stayed at the boat and was able to tear apart the floor and leave projects out to work on. No clearing the table and making space to sit for dinner. Also there is the problem of parking the car here at the boat or leaving the dinghy overnight at the dock.
On Thursday, Jackie
planned to pick me up after work. That
way I could just take them to the airport in the morning. On Thursday afternoon, we had a heavy
thunderstorm with a tornado watch. This
is the second time we put all our hand held electronics in the microwave. If we are hit by lightning, they are
protected inside the metal box. Then we
discussed what we would do if there really was a tornado. We decided we would do what we could to
protect the boat, be ready to get in our dinghy if the boat was going down, and
if our time was up, it was up. The whole
thing was over in time for Jackie to pick me up. I had my personal bag, but we had to pull out
our dry bags to pack 2 laptops, a VCR and the remaining tapes, our scanner, 2 external hard drives and a bag of
paperwork.
I came back to the
boat on Friday with the latest batch of packages that were sent to the Killions. Then I settled in at the Killions with my
media center. I wanted to finish
converting our VHS tapes to DVDs and get rid of the VCR and tapes. These are tapes we made of Peter performing
over the years. The problem is they have
to be converted in real time. And the
laptop that has the program can't be used for anything else, hence the second
laptop. So while tapes were running, I
set to work scanning papers that we didn't want to physically hang on to. I also cleaned up the two external hard drives. Then I cleaned up my documents and downloads
on my main laptop because we are going to get rid of it. But I didn't want to attempt to transfer it
to the hard drive.
By Monday, I
returned to the boat to pick up Dave for a dental appointment. We found a different dentist than the one who did his exam and what they
called a cleaning. I asked them to send
me the digital x-rays. I found a cavity
on the x-rays, then looked in Dave's mouth and could see the cavity. I guess we may have to return to SD every 6
months for dental care we can trust.
We also found an
accounting/tax firm to do our taxes for us.
Both these places are on our bus line, so we can return if needed
without a car. Have to think of all
those things.
On Tuesday, I loaded
up my personal bags, all the electronics, and made a run to Walmart. I had the car fully loaded, which then had to
be loaded into the dinghy in 2 trips to the boat before I could pick up the
Killions at the airport with their luggage.
It was a very
productive weekend for both me and Dave.
Plus the Killions didn't have to park their car at the airport. Their lovely, but occasionally psycho, cat would have been fine either way. Thanks Jackie and Brian and Devyn.
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