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.