Kevin Standlee: Fandom Is My Way of Life

After yesterday's rather hectic at times and long day (I was merely along for the ride with Kayla, but that was enough), I took it much easier today. I woke up around the same time as my weekday alarm, took my time getting ready, and strolled down to the Wigwam, where I was the first customer in the restaurant. Dawn took that is stride as I ordered my usual (big) breakfast, and for a change, managed to eat it all. (I did not eat a whole lot more for the rest of the day, though.)

The rest of the day was quiet, and that's fine with me. I ended up getting sleepy and lying down around 2 PM and sleeping for several hours before being awakened by a bad dream. I know work is getting intense when I dream of hunching over a computer trying to untangle complex inventory reconciliation issues at the Day Jobbe.

I have to get blood tests tomorrow for my annual medical exam coming up in a couple of weeks. That means needing to fast for at least twelve hours, and thus means I'm not going to be able to have my usual breakfast at the Wigwam Restaurant. So this evening Lisa and I went to the Wigwam for an unusual breakfast. They were doing an evening breakfast-for-dinner buffet. It actually cost slightly less than my usual breakfast. It was certainly not as good as the one we had a couple of times in Iceland, or what the Peppermill served back when they used to have a buffet, but it was worth what we paid, and I'm well fed and unlikely to fret too much tomorrow morning.

This morning, I walked down to the Wigwam restaurant and had my usual.

( More My Size )

This is about the right size weekend breakfast for me. It doesn't leave me staggering the way The Grizz did yesterday.

After breakfast, I walked to the post office to collect the mail and then home. Total distance walked: around 2 km. Probably not really enough to work off that breakfast, but better than nothing.

Meanwhile, I continue to act as Mission Control for Lisa and Chris' travel from Munich to Prague today, with the added challenge of mostly without contact. They have a hotel room, and even though they ended up traveling on separate trains (Chris missed their train), I'm hopeful that they eventually end up at the right place, as the reservation (made and paid for by me) has both of their names on it and they both apparently know where it is. (It shouldn't be difficult to find, as it's roughly across the street from the train station.) Originally, this was where and when they would have been staying on the return from their eventual destination before the weather disruption a few days ago canceled their original outbound journey.

Today's planned task was to continue working on the East Lot, including cutting the larger branches of the cottonwood tree down to burnable size and putting them into the wood box for use next autumn, then putting the smaller branches into to the to-be-burned pile, along with other yard debris. I was planning to do that after breakfast.

( The Big Breakfast )

As I was eating breakfast, I heard the wind start to come up. By the time I finished, it was howling. There was no rain (although it's been showing over Donner Summit and I-80 was closed for a while), but the wind was severe, and I decided that I did not want to go out there and work in it. It's hard enough to do that work without having all of the dust and pollen blowing around. The forecast says this should blow through by tomorrow, so maybe I can get it done then.

I had a look out the front window and saw a small bird perched on the front porch looking for all that it was hanging on for dear life as the wind howled around the house. I linked the photo, but it's hard to see through the front screen door. I could see much better through it than the camera does.