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Up and Over
Nov. 28th, 2018 07:58 pmWhile working on Day Jobbe this morning, I kept one eye on the chain controls over Donner Summit, and when they lifted around 9 AM or so with the likely chance of staying off for some hours, I worked on trying to get work to the point where I could stop for a few hours. Lisa started packing the minivan as I settled up work. We got away around 11 AM and set off for California.
( Scenes of a Sierra Crossing )
We checked in to the Crowne Plaza Northeast Sacramento. To my annoyance, I found that I'd left my IHG credit card on my desk back home. I have other cards, but paying for IHG hotels with IHG credit cards gives me extra point credit, and I want the points. I'm using them to pay for our hotel rooms in Ireland later this year.
( Pillow Bear )
This hotel room is serviceable (we've had much worse) and we're pretty good at rearranging things to suit ourselves. In this case, we had to move the microwave oven and other items off the desk so I could have enough room to get a few more hours of Day Jobbe work done, but we managed. After dealing with the most urgent things, we popped out to Raley's, got some take-out Chinese food, came back to the hotel, and ate dinner. Lisa took a bath while I finished reports expect of me on Wednesdays.
Santa Rosa is not that far from Sacramento, and our original plans were for us to leave tomorrow morning until the weather required a change. (Based on the weather forecast, I expect chain controls to be back up sometime later tonight as the next wave of storms moves through.) Therefore, we don't have to rush out of here tomorrow morning. We can take out time getting breakfast, packing out, visiting my sister (that was a big determinant in staying here tonight), and then easing out of Sacramento over the morning rush.
By the way, our decision to take the Astro and not Lisa's 4WD pickup includes getting home. Current weather projections show another hole between storms that should allow us to get home Monday without having to put on the tire chains. We do have the chains in the car; we just don't want to have to use them.
( Scenes of a Sierra Crossing )
We checked in to the Crowne Plaza Northeast Sacramento. To my annoyance, I found that I'd left my IHG credit card on my desk back home. I have other cards, but paying for IHG hotels with IHG credit cards gives me extra point credit, and I want the points. I'm using them to pay for our hotel rooms in Ireland later this year.
( Pillow Bear )
This hotel room is serviceable (we've had much worse) and we're pretty good at rearranging things to suit ourselves. In this case, we had to move the microwave oven and other items off the desk so I could have enough room to get a few more hours of Day Jobbe work done, but we managed. After dealing with the most urgent things, we popped out to Raley's, got some take-out Chinese food, came back to the hotel, and ate dinner. Lisa took a bath while I finished reports expect of me on Wednesdays.
Santa Rosa is not that far from Sacramento, and our original plans were for us to leave tomorrow morning until the weather required a change. (Based on the weather forecast, I expect chain controls to be back up sometime later tonight as the next wave of storms moves through.) Therefore, we don't have to rush out of here tomorrow morning. We can take out time getting breakfast, packing out, visiting my sister (that was a big determinant in staying here tonight), and then easing out of Sacramento over the morning rush.
By the way, our decision to take the Astro and not Lisa's 4WD pickup includes getting home. Current weather projections show another hole between storms that should allow us to get home Monday without having to put on the tire chains. We do have the chains in the car; we just don't want to have to use them.
