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Retrieving the Stone
Aug. 13th, 2022 05:43 pmToday, Lisa and I started the day recording the talk-to-camera portions of the next episode of Railway Legends, Myths and Stories. Our plan was to do the recording in the wee hours of the morning when it was cool enough that we could turn off all of the fans. Accordingly, I went to bed before 6 PM last night. At somewhere around 11:30 or so, my phone blew up on my bedside with an Amber alert down in Las Vegas. I guess all of Nevada is considered to be Las Vegas. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't able to get back to sleep, so after more than an hour of tossing and turning, I got up and started my day hours early.
For a variety of reasons having to do with trying to get computers and backup devices configured, we didn't get started recording as early as we had hoped, but we did manage to get it done just before sunrise. I got breakfast from the Wigwam and got ready for a meeting of CanSMOF. Not too long thereafter, I got a call from the auto repair shop in Reno that was working on the RV. They said that they had managed to replace the catalytic converter that someone sawed off the Rolling Stone, we suspect when we were gone for nearly the entire month of December for Worldcon. We could come and pick it up today. I checked with Lisa, and she agreed that we could go do it today and probably get a few other errands done.
The board meeting and the additional meeting of those of us who will be at Chicon 8 went longer than planned. We did not get away from the house until after Noon, which was annoying. After a short stop at Staples to turn in more empty ink cartridges from the Westercon printing (they limit you to ten cartridge returns per month, so we've been slowly trickling them back into the system), we drove to the auto repair shop and I paid the $1400 repair bill. We then convoyed over to near the air conditioning place that had worked on the Astro, as I'm hoping that the repairs are under warranty, as it seems unlikely that the coolant should be gone already less than two months after they repaired the system. The AC shop isn't open on weekends, but I'd spoken to them about this last week, and they have a night drop. Because of the way the streets are configured around that area, Lisa stayed with the RV and I drove the minivan over to the AC shop. After dealing with a phone call that I got just as I was parking at the shop, I filled out the paperwork and dropped the envelope with a set of keys to the Astro into the night drop slot and walked back over to the RV and Lisa.
We had a "birthday discount" coupon from Cost Plus World Market, so we went there next for some shopping that took longer than expected because there were a lot more people in the store than we thought there would be. Eventually the queue cleared and we were able to check out, and we thanked the checker for still wearing a face mask and told her not to take any guff from anti-maskers.
Next was Action Camera, where Lisa looked for some things she wants for the Worldcon trip to go with the equipment she'll be using to record the Worldcon Business Meeting. She didn't find what she wanted, so we'll have to see if we can find it online and get it here in time. We leave for Chicago two weeks from today.
Our final planned stop was grocery shopping at Raley's, but the accumulated delays were too much for us. Both of us were beat, and we agreed to cut the trip short and head home. At least the air conditioning on the Rolling Stone works. The trip into Reno in the un-air-conditioned minivan was unpleasant.
Waiting in the mail for us today was the postage order, so we should be able to finish up the last of the Westercon program book mailing tomorrow and get it into the mail by Monday. I'm glad that I don't have another early morning alarm set for tomorrow.
For a variety of reasons having to do with trying to get computers and backup devices configured, we didn't get started recording as early as we had hoped, but we did manage to get it done just before sunrise. I got breakfast from the Wigwam and got ready for a meeting of CanSMOF. Not too long thereafter, I got a call from the auto repair shop in Reno that was working on the RV. They said that they had managed to replace the catalytic converter that someone sawed off the Rolling Stone, we suspect when we were gone for nearly the entire month of December for Worldcon. We could come and pick it up today. I checked with Lisa, and she agreed that we could go do it today and probably get a few other errands done.
The board meeting and the additional meeting of those of us who will be at Chicon 8 went longer than planned. We did not get away from the house until after Noon, which was annoying. After a short stop at Staples to turn in more empty ink cartridges from the Westercon printing (they limit you to ten cartridge returns per month, so we've been slowly trickling them back into the system), we drove to the auto repair shop and I paid the $1400 repair bill. We then convoyed over to near the air conditioning place that had worked on the Astro, as I'm hoping that the repairs are under warranty, as it seems unlikely that the coolant should be gone already less than two months after they repaired the system. The AC shop isn't open on weekends, but I'd spoken to them about this last week, and they have a night drop. Because of the way the streets are configured around that area, Lisa stayed with the RV and I drove the minivan over to the AC shop. After dealing with a phone call that I got just as I was parking at the shop, I filled out the paperwork and dropped the envelope with a set of keys to the Astro into the night drop slot and walked back over to the RV and Lisa.
We had a "birthday discount" coupon from Cost Plus World Market, so we went there next for some shopping that took longer than expected because there were a lot more people in the store than we thought there would be. Eventually the queue cleared and we were able to check out, and we thanked the checker for still wearing a face mask and told her not to take any guff from anti-maskers.
Next was Action Camera, where Lisa looked for some things she wants for the Worldcon trip to go with the equipment she'll be using to record the Worldcon Business Meeting. She didn't find what she wanted, so we'll have to see if we can find it online and get it here in time. We leave for Chicago two weeks from today.
Our final planned stop was grocery shopping at Raley's, but the accumulated delays were too much for us. Both of us were beat, and we agreed to cut the trip short and head home. At least the air conditioning on the Rolling Stone works. The trip into Reno in the un-air-conditioned minivan was unpleasant.
Waiting in the mail for us today was the postage order, so we should be able to finish up the last of the Westercon program book mailing tomorrow and get it into the mail by Monday. I'm glad that I don't have another early morning alarm set for tomorrow.
