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Day 151

Posted 8/9/2020

Day 151: The day of preparation... Breakfast... Coffee, Omelettes (Western with a Kick), I precooked the innards for princess this morning... well all but the cheese. I started mulling about the house looking for things... surprising enough I was actually finding shit without trashing the whole house. I started finding things by accident that I hadn't even started looking for that have been missing for months. I took a USB outlet I was going to install in the wall and thought to myself you know, this would be even more handy on an extension cord... or just wire it to the cord from that old heater I took apart to make a bodkin out of the other day... I went to tape it up, needed electrical tape... I look in the box for the tape and find 2 batteries for the camera that I needed to find today but never would have looked in that box in the basement in a million years, yet there they were just lying there. I finished the USB Charger and plugged in some stuff to get it charging. Now the battery charger for the camera batteries... I have 3, should be able to find at least 1... I found 2, and the correct adapter plates for all 3 different batteries... less than 5 minutes total, nothing where it belonged... I just found them sitting there with some other stuff I was looking at. Hell I was on a roll, what about the goPro, check over there, cable to charge it, plugged in still, memory card, check... dash cam, cable, card, check check check, what else have I been missing... Honey do you recall misplacing a check for 1 million dollars? Alas she didn't, and I didn't find one. MacBook, charger, check check, a mic... found 2, Battery packs to run things off of when they run out of juice, check and charged... tripod... hmmm... only found one of those, close enough... extra lens, found it, then I matched it up with the original lens covers that go on each end. Hockey gear, under layer, cup, helmet, stick... I thought I found my Tilley Hat for a minute but it was just the cheap knock off I bought to get me through until I found the real one... We had Cake for lunch, Heather took a break from the blanket long enough to join me. I started transferring all the data off the memory cards so I have room for new stuff. Might have to invest in a new hard drive this week things are getting a little full. I found a few more things while my luck held out... I was in freaking bloodhound mode today... I started to run dry looking for money in my jacket pockets from last winter... seems I've been cash poor at least once likely just preCOVID and got to all the pocket change... no extra $100 bill lying around. Packed the car with the hockey gear... had to take the Golf clubs out first... Not like the Leafs that do that the other way around. Heather made that 2nd Pizza crust into Pizza... sausage, peppers, mushrooms, olives... other stuff I'm sure, no point skimping on the toppings. Packed up the Camera Stuff... Filled my Vest... Watched a few episodes of the Ranch and went to sleep.