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Day 210

Posted 10/7/2020

Day 210: A very long humpday... Heather got up 5am had a shower, Lawson got up had a shower, I had a shower... And it's raining out... yup the sewer isn't up to taking that much water... Thankfully shower water and rain water isn't that bad to clean up off the floor in the basement. Made sure Lawson was looking ok, apparently today is picture day, not sure what happened with that other picture day, must have been my crappy french reading skills. I go out to hop in the car to fetch Sidekick... Fuck not even a click or an led blinking on the dashboard... Battery was dead... I hooked up the 'smart' charger... It told me there was no battery in the car... I got the stupid charger and hooked it to the car as well... Nothing, it hummed but apparently there was no juice getting to the car, maybe a bad wire inside... I fetch the trickle charger and hook it up as well. Yes now I have 3 chargers hooked to 1 battery all at the same time. Juice is flowing from the trickle charger... The smart charger now acknowledges the fact that there may be a battery in the car and it could have been previously in error. (I thought a lot about this later, how smart is it to buy a smart charger from the same place you buy your batteries from? "Um, dude... You need a new battery" But I just put a new battery in the car... "Sorry man I can only tell you what the guy who runs the battery shop told me to say."). Eventually I got it started but was late to pick up sidekick and his mom. We head into Timmins, dr.'s appointment first. While they were in the office I took a quick trip over to O'Rielys to pick up skate blade and such. Skates were done and good to go... But the blade problem with the other skate they weren't exactly sure what the problem was, I had only briefly mentioned it in a text message and we thought we were all on the same page but we weren't. I explained it in person and they called around to try and find where Lawson's set of blades ended up... No luck yet... I will give it a month or so and see if anything surfaces, with a spare set of skates it's not a huge deal. Back to pick up sidekick and his mom. Then BestBuy, Melanie was working today, we needed to get sidekick's cell phone looked at, it was leaking data and running out too early. They managed to give him more data and lower the cost $10 a month, so he's good to go there for a bit. Lunch time, A&W... The bulkbarn... The grocery store... Timmies and then the bank before heading out of town. After dropping off SideKick a went to the farm to pick up some food stuffs before heading home. I was putting off the plumbing job.

Brought in the groceries, then went down to fix the sewer. Now for shitz and giggles I measured how far out the issue was... 47' from the vent... I finished clearing the line and went outside... Paced it off... Damn just what I had feared. Right where Project X still lies... Damn it has to be crushing the line. Boy made it home from school and helped me relocate the wood pile... When Heather got home she looked around and asked what I had done all day. Lol. Yup I have enough energy left to make you a scrambled egg for dinner if you're really hungry. After the eggs I went back on the quest for the missing skate blades... Went to the obvious places first, and then room by room, inch by inch, I tried to clean up as I went along... Hours later still nothing. While in the basement Lawson pushed a box with bases out of his way so he could get an inch closer to the tv... The box made a strange metal clanging noise... Baseball bases don't make that noise. He fished around in the box and pulled out the blades... Lord they could have been lost all season, those were paced up to go into storage for the winter... Going to credit the boy with the find of the night. By this time it was late... I was able to relax knowing that the blades were found, and were all packed it in for the night.