I was early to work today, but then Kim texted right after eight to say she wouldn’t be there. Things were really quiet, and I stayed reasonably busy without distractions. The kids hit my car with balls multiple times after lunch, which made me pretty angry. The first time, one kid threw a basketball and it bounced really high before hitting my front-right quarter panel. After that, some kids were playing with a soccer ball in the field between the parking lots, and one of them lobbed the ball way high and out of the area where it bounced over a girl and then bounced on my hood multiple times. I don’t know what to do other than park in the elementary lot or possibly in the agri area and walk through the building.
At the end of the day, I spent about an hour on the phone trying to book a hotel for the conference. Unfortunately the Embassy Suites were booked solid, so I had to book at another hotel a couple blocks away. It’s going to suck not having meals and everything right there, but hopefully the weather will be nice enough to walk.
After work, I stopped by the old house to feed the fish and pack up some things for my computer desk. Just as I got to the new house and went in to ask Summer to help me unload, the skies opened up and flooded the driveway. It was clear we would have to start by cleaning out the drain pipe, and then come up with another solution for the water as it creeped up to the opening of the garage. The water didn’t stick around long, but Summer’s boards to get over the gap floated off.
Once the rain calmed down a bit, we unloaded and then went out for dinner. I wanted some steak, so we went to Western Sizzlin’. Summer had a pretty bad headache afterward, so we didn’t go to the old house to get the desk like I wanted. I took her home instead, and almost took Eaddie some food to the football game before she changed her mind. I dawdled on my phone for a while after that until I finally went to bed.
Don’t bother getting out of your rocking chair to tell me what I already know.