Turning Into a Strange Day

I would have to say that as of yesterday, I had no plans for today. I would go to the cleaners in the morning, and then maybe investigate the options of getting something installed in the car so I could play the iPod directly through the radio (not by transmitting it; that doesn't work well.) And get my laundry done.

Change #1: K has been having trouble with her cable box and made a service appointment for today between 11 and 2. She has a class from 8 to 12. So I was on the hook for at least part of that time.

Change #2: R was thinking of canceling plans to go to Long Island -- don't ask -- and I was going to go shopping with her in the afternoon for kitty things. Sounded good.

Change #3: The Sibs bought one of those flat TVs, but they can't get it connected to the DVD player. Would I come over and do that?

So let's see. I went to the cleaners, and while there got a call on my cell phone: R feels better, is going to Long Island, and K's class is already over (9.00) and she's on her way home.

Home. Went out on an errand but swore to return by 11 because K does not like to be alone in the house with service people. I asked what she did when she lived in the apartment in DC and she said she and her roommate were equally freaked by that, and were always there together when it came up.

!2.30. Still waiting for the cable guy. (I should put that on a tee shirt.) K is napping on the couch. I was napping in my chair until the phone rang, twenty minutes ago.

I do have to be here for the cable guy, because if he needs to get to the wire that comes from the utility pole to K's room, Houston, we have a problem. When they put the vinyl siding on the house six years ago, they buried the cable under it. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but I may have to give permission for them to run a new cable and punch a new hole in the house. We'll see.

When that's done, K and I are going to visit the grandcat, since she's otherwise alone all day and is just a baby. After that, it's off to the Sibs, where I hope I still know how to do that kind of thing.

I did find out that there are kits to add iPod capability to a car, because I quickly perused Best Buy when I was out this morning. They weren't expensive, either, but may not be compatible with my car. I'd like to go the BB closer to home and find out and make an installation appointment, but I think that is not to be today. They're closed tomorrow (it's Sunday, no open stores here), I have a faculty meeting Monday after school, and Tuesday after school a nail appointment and then Back to School Night. Wednesday, perhaps, although I wanted to get it done Thursday or Friday, when I have no school for the Jewish holiday.

Strange day. I have so much to do, and now I'm just sitting here, waiting for the cable guy, with some awful show on that K put on and fell asleep. My next move is for the remote.

P.S. People who want email need to send me their email addresses, if you know what I mean. Send it to oldewoman at gmail.com, 'kay?

WATCHING some awful show :: ENTRY #1576