Captain America

We went to see Captain America after Treese got home from work. We got there right on time as we didn't have to sit through but a couple commercials before the previews started. This was the first time I saw the trailer for the new Spider-Man film, which looks much darker and deeper than the original. Captain America was a decent movie, not spectacular but enjoyable enough. We saw it in 3D, though the 3D aspect really didn't add much. It was definitely a conversion, it was NOT filmed in 3D. They should really need to specify this as I'm sure most people would be agitated at spending all that extra money on a crappy conversion. Lucky for us, I have the movie certificates from donating plasma, so we're not spending money on it.

Turtle Bay With Friends

We went to Turtle Bay this morning, and met up with some of Treese's friends from work. When everyone arrived we headed over to the Paul Bunyan area to watch the animal show, and that turned out to be kinda cool. They had several birds, an owl, a fox, a turtle, and a porcupine. And the owl flew right over my head! When the show was over, we headed across that wooden bridge to the main area where the Grossology exhibit was being held. There was lots of cool stuff in there that you could touch and learn all about the noisy and smelly bodily functions. There were even two pinball machines, which Treese and I played. We both wanted to keep playing, but everyone else had already moved on. We both really miss playing pinball. Oh, and there was a really large Operation game with rubber body parts. When we were done there, we looked around the normal Turtle Bay area a little, then all headed over to Red Robin. I ordered a Whiskey River BBQ Burger with a salad instead of fries, and the salad ended up actually coming with the burger, instead of beforehand like in most restaurants.

Open Sesame

When Treese arrived home from work today she found that the garage door would not obey her command. This was completely my fault, as when I was out in the garage preparing to get the recyclables packed up, I accidentally pulled that release cord on the garage door opener that disconnects the opener from the door. I knew I had done it and thought I had connected it back up, but I was mistaken. So this time I actually broke out the step stool and that extra height allowed me to push it all the way back together. After that we both headed to our eye exams. We both thought our visions had changed, but according to the doc they were the same as before, and he said Treese's was even a little better. I don't think I believe him, primarily because I don't trust that eye test. Better? Worse? I have no idea! They're definitely different, but I don't know which one is better. Don't they have technology to just measure the eye and tell you exactly what your prescription is without relying on my guessing skills?

Conair Replacement Part Mixup

Today I called Conair about a replacement part that they sent me for my goatee trimmer, because they sent the wrong part. The guy said it was just a warehouse fulfillment mistake as the order information was correct, and that they probably picked the wrong one because the part that was ordered, DETAIL-189, no longer existed and had been replaced by part #BLD-20. So he got that taken care of and I'll be on the lookout for the replacement part.

Pickup

I left at around 6:40pm to pick up Treese at the airport. I stopped at the Travel Advantage to fill up on gas so that we wouldn't need to do it on the way back. It took me over two hours to get to the airport, and when I arrived I took a wrong turn and ended up in a parking garage. Once I found my way to the proper terminal I pulled up behind another car and looked out the passenger side window but didn't see Treese, so took out the cell and saw I had a message from her. The car in front of me pulled away as I was trying to figure out how to call Treese, and a police officer strolled by and told me to move along, but as soon as I started moving I saw Treese was sitting right there, so she got in and we headed out. It was kinda hard to see because it was dark and the windshield was covered with bug splats. Treese was hungry, so when she spotted a Denny's I pulled onto the exit and we had dinner. I got a pasta dish. When it was time to pay the bill our server didn't even give us a bill, he just told us how much it was. We added it up in our head and it was about the correct amount, if not a little less, so that's what we paid. Then we continued on home. We talked for a while as she told me all about her trip. She was tired, though, so afterward she put on my audiobook for me to listen to while she slept.

Tire Rotation & Oil Change

Since Treese was away for the weekend, I took the opportunity to take her car in for a tire rotation. As they did that, they found that the spare was flat and that there was a screw in the front right tire, so the filled up the spare and repaired the other one. After that, I took it in for an oil change. At both places I read my book, Codex, while waiting.

Returning Home

We had all worked hard all week getting the house cleaned up nice and we made a lot of progress. We didn't do too much work this morning, though, as we'd be heading to Redding before too long. Before we left, I took the RAM out of Julia & Ryans green laptop, which appeared to have some kind of hard drive failure and wouldn't work, and put it in Julia's other laptop that she's had for a while, so now she has 2 GB instead of 768 MB. Then we got everything packed up and headed off a little after one. We got gas at Safeway then hit the freeway around 1:30pm. We did one rest stop, and then continued on until we hit Redding and stopped at Safeway so Julia could get some chips and stuff. Back at the house, it was good to see Treese again. We BBQed polish sausages, tofurkey sausages, vegetables, and corn on the cob. The flies were out in force so I hooked up the bug zapper but I have no idea if it did anything. Didn't really seem like it. I heard no zapping sound and the flies were still everywhere. After dinner, Julia and Ryan took Annie (their dog) for a walk so that gave me time to catch up with Treese. She told me that one of her friends bought her a plane ticket to MIssouri, so tomorrow after work we are driving down to the Sacramento airport and then I'll be picking her up Sunday evening. Oh, and when I tried to get on my computer, the screen wouldn't come on, so I had to power down and when I powered up it couldn't recognize the hard drive! It totally crashed, bombed, died! So I had to switch computers. That was fun, working all night trying to get that set up.

Fun Times In Vallejo

Treese headed back home today while I stayed behind to help Julia and Ryan clean the house while my parents were on vacation. I had dinner at Grandma & Granpa's, and after dinner Julia and Ryan came over to play Tripoli. Julia ended up winning.

Sacramento & Vallejo

We headed to Vallejo to visit my sister and her boyfriend today. Along the way we stopped in Sacramento to have lunch and then to Treese's sister's place, and then took her mom home and hung out there for a little bit while I worked on her laptop. It was evening by the time we arrived in Vallejo, and we learned that they hadn't received any of our text messages even though we were receiving theirs.

Happy Birthday Treese!

We had planned to go see Super 8 today, but I got the time wrong so Treese couldn't get off work in time. So we swtiched it to Rio, but then decided just to skip it as there was no real good reason to go just to be going. So we just spend a nice, restful birthday at home.

NKOTBSB

Treese left for the New Kids On The Block/Backstreet Boys concert on Saturday with her friend. She got back Sunday night, and really REALLY enjoyed the concert.