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Jul. 16th, 2018 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckCordelia had her last drive with the driver's ed instructor yesterday at 9 a.m. I got up when she did, but she told me to go back to bed because I looked exhausted. I ended up getting up not long after she and Scott left. I was still pretty tired, but I wanted to watch some library DVDs while they were out.
We went to Bob Evans after the class ended. Service was really, really abysmal. They were maybe a quarter full, if that, but our food took three times as long to arrive as it normally would, and the waitress brought two glasses of water for the three of us. I ended up not getting any until after Cordelia and Scott had finished eating. We asked a second time for that, and it didn't come. Scott actually went up to the counter for the third request, and it still took 5-10 minutes to get it.
I don't know what was going on in the kitchen, but the water thing is on the waitress. There were multiple waitresses, too, so it wasn't one person run off her feet. She just couldn't be bothered to check in on us or to follow up. I have no idea what sort of tip Scott gave. I hope he still tipped adequately.
I've frozen a lot of my library holds. I don't want to try to get to the library during Art Fair, and we'll be away on our normal library day anyway. I thought about switching them to a branch library, but doing that seems like more juggling at a point in time when we'll be busy. The ones I didn't freeze are those that I don't expect to come in for a very long time (If I'm 27th on the list for one of four copies, odds are that it will be months. Even if everyone else on the list managed a single day turn-around, it wouldn't come in by the weekend).
Scott's family is discussing the things we can do during our week together in August. The elephant in the room is the fact that absolutely none of the grandkids actually want to do the outdoor activities available. Scott's parents picked this place because it has canoeing, kayaking, swimming, hiking, pontoon boat rentals, and beautiful scenery. Only one of the grandkids is young enough to surrender and have a good time when dragged to do something she's not interested in. She's seven. The next youngest is fourteen.
Anyone who wants family togetherness is going to need to accept occasional walks to the beach for swimming (less than a block away) and a lot of board games.
I'm working on my due diligence for the August primary and trying to figure out the local candidates. annarborvotes.org is a pretty good resource in that direction, and I'm really glad to have it. I still need to look at the candidates for governor and for state senate (our federal representative and senator are unopposed in their primaries). None of the judges will be on the ballot in August, and the ones I could vote for are all running unopposed in November.
We went to Bob Evans after the class ended. Service was really, really abysmal. They were maybe a quarter full, if that, but our food took three times as long to arrive as it normally would, and the waitress brought two glasses of water for the three of us. I ended up not getting any until after Cordelia and Scott had finished eating. We asked a second time for that, and it didn't come. Scott actually went up to the counter for the third request, and it still took 5-10 minutes to get it.
I don't know what was going on in the kitchen, but the water thing is on the waitress. There were multiple waitresses, too, so it wasn't one person run off her feet. She just couldn't be bothered to check in on us or to follow up. I have no idea what sort of tip Scott gave. I hope he still tipped adequately.
I've frozen a lot of my library holds. I don't want to try to get to the library during Art Fair, and we'll be away on our normal library day anyway. I thought about switching them to a branch library, but doing that seems like more juggling at a point in time when we'll be busy. The ones I didn't freeze are those that I don't expect to come in for a very long time (If I'm 27th on the list for one of four copies, odds are that it will be months. Even if everyone else on the list managed a single day turn-around, it wouldn't come in by the weekend).
Scott's family is discussing the things we can do during our week together in August. The elephant in the room is the fact that absolutely none of the grandkids actually want to do the outdoor activities available. Scott's parents picked this place because it has canoeing, kayaking, swimming, hiking, pontoon boat rentals, and beautiful scenery. Only one of the grandkids is young enough to surrender and have a good time when dragged to do something she's not interested in. She's seven. The next youngest is fourteen.
Anyone who wants family togetherness is going to need to accept occasional walks to the beach for swimming (less than a block away) and a lot of board games.
I'm working on my due diligence for the August primary and trying to figure out the local candidates. annarborvotes.org is a pretty good resource in that direction, and I'm really glad to have it. I still need to look at the candidates for governor and for state senate (our federal representative and senator are unopposed in their primaries). None of the judges will be on the ballot in August, and the ones I could vote for are all running unopposed in November.
