Art Exhibition

We went to an art exhibition today as a friend of ours had many of her works in the exhibit. It's all abstract stuff, which is not really my cup of tea, but I do like how she combines the colors and textures. A couple a Treese's friends came to the exhibit as well. Afterwards, we went grocery shopping and one of her friends, Lisa, tagged along. We stopped by her new apartment on the way home, as I had never seen it before. It was pretty nice.

No Contacts For Me!

I had an appointment today to get contact lenses. When I went in, the lady said that the fitting was not covered by insurance, and that was like $160 or so, and also that insurance would only cover some of the contacts, because apparently you have to buy boxes of the things and keep throwing them away. Would have been nice had you told me that before! So when the doc came in I said I'd pass. I washed my car when I got home. Later on we watched the premier episode of the new ThunderCats cartoon, and it was awesome! Definitely looking forward to seeing more of this series.

Mr. Creepy

When I arrived home from some errands, I noticed a giant brown hairy spider in the corner under the lip of the door that leads into the garage. The last time I saw a spider that big that wasn't behind glass in some exhibit I was still working at Working Designs, and I saw it in that exact same spot! Back then, I couldn't even bear to walk past it and had to use the front door. I've gotten better since then, and although this one still freaked me out, I was able to walk past it. I then went and got the mail... using the front door, of course, and tried to decide what to do about Mr. Creepy. I didn't really want to kill it, but there was no way I could just leave it there, and I really didn't want to get close enough to capture and release, so I broke out the bug poison and sprayed both the front doorway and the doorway to the garage. Mr. Creepy didn't like that much, and came out of his corner. I kept spraying, and eventually it stopped. I wanted to squish it, but didn't want all that bug juice on my shoe, so got an ad paper out of the recycle bin and tried to throw it over the spider, but the paper missed and went in front. Mr. Creepy was surprised and tried to back up but only made it a step before its legs gave out. I went and got another ad paper, a smaller one, and threw it on the spider, this time getting it. Then I stepped on it...eewwww! I'm fine with snakes and rats and many other bugs, so why am I so freaked out by spiders?

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.