Day 160: Garbage day... I wish I had remembered that this morning... I was a little out of it... Now I fixed the car yesterday... OK, I got in it and fired it up and drove around in it a while after I had gotten home from driving Heather to work... it worked fine... I put it in the driveway and left it... apparently something was left on, the battery died... and the car didn't work again this morning... I tried it at 6am... yup dead battery... Heather took the Subaru and promised to be home in time to take us all to Timmins again this afternoon. I went the fuck back to bed. The whole rest of the house was up late last night... and in turn work up late this morning... breakfast rolled in around 10am... Pancakes, maple syrup and home made ice cream... keto and non keto versions... both tastes pretty much the same at this point but the boy needs the carbs to fuel the hockey machine. Mel and I sat around and chatted, I bitched about cloud storage in internet connections, she looked into it and agreed that I'm not losing my mind (at least not when it came to that stuff) and yes my internet connection sucks and it is impossible to down load the files I need from the icloud because my internet sucks. We gave up and discussed out ways to skin the cat. ZZA... yes, we decided to back up that late breakfast with more disgusting keto food... Pizza... made a big ass tray of it and got done just before Heather walked in to claim her share. We piled in the car and head off to Timmins again... all 4 of us... goalie gear... the usual car stuff (ice scraper, safety kit, lawn chairs, cooler full of shopping bags, tools)... the bicycle... Mel's over night bag... Made it to the Whitney Arena on time... I remembered about the letter I was going to send when I got a message about who to send it to... I was given a clue as to where to look but people from the Timmins organization didn't seem to want to get involved. I fired a copy off to the City while I was sitting in the Arena parking lot... if they don't get back to me soon I will start calling people in the city... likely start with the mayor and work back from there. The boy got ready and went inside for practice. They big people were once again set free for a brief moment in time. We dropped off the bike at O'Riely's... and head to Sport Check to look for Golf Gloves. They only had left hand gloves left, Heather wasn't sure which glove she or the boy needed to we abandoned the search and left empty handed. Might as well poke our heads in Winners now since it's just across the hall in the mall. Picked up a few things and head out with no time to spare... need to get back to the arena and dump off Mel on the way out of town. Pulled in and parked, 10 seconds later the arena door swings open and Lawson pushes out in his full gear. I open the tailgate and push him in the back of the car... it starts to rain again. We get his gear off and back in the bag and head back to Matheson after another quick stop at Timmies to refuel the boy. Pull in the driveway an hour later and realize I still need to do something about the Mazda... now I tried to hook up the battery charger earlier in the day but I have one of those intelligent that tell you your battery is dead... no it wont charge it, it's dead, it doesn't work, it's broken... this battery charger only will charge good batteries... DUH!!! Someone from Timmins must have built this, I swear. So it sat in the driveway with all the lights on the box blinking all day telling me the battery is broken and the car won't start... fuck... who hooks up a charger to a battery that works and is fully charged? Obviously the people who make this smart charger... did I mention FUCK! ? Anyway I managed to get the Subaru up beside it and get the jumper cables from one vehicle to the other... let it sit for a few minutes then fired the Mazda with the dead beyond repair battery back up with out an issue because you don't need a working battery for that. I let it run for half an hour in the driver to charge a bit so the charger would realize that the battery was not as broke as it had thought... After an hour I turned it of (likely close to fully charged) and hooked the charger up to the battery that no longer needed charging to start the car and the charger started charging the battery... what a fucking piece of shit. It will likely drain the battery tonight while I leave it charging and I will come out to a dead battery again tomorrow. Fuck this, I'm going to sleep .

Robert S
You still sheltered

Rod Turnbull
Well the wife hasn't kicked me to the curb yet if that's what you are getting at... LOL They are starting to let people doing things as long as we don't get close enough to touch each other. 

Rod Turnbull
The kids can go to hockey as long as the parents don't come in to watch... only 50 people allowed in a building at a time.

Robert S
What’s taking her so long 

Rod Turnbull
I'm worried now... she laughed when she read that.

Robert S
I need to call up there