23 May 2020

0039 playing trivia
0748 sleeping
1612 picking up beer
2232 listening to baseball

Food: pizza for lunch, shrimp and rice for dinner with fruit and veggies

Fact: Hertz Rental car was founded in 1918 with a dozen rental cars (Model T's) in Chicago, IL.  I'm wondering who was renting cars back then?

Woke up and did a little bit of work on my computer (and checked all the aTRAM runs).  Since it's Saturday I also watched all the birds roll in for my fantasy birding big day.  The most amusing part though was I was pinned in Champaign for one of my spots so I got welcomed to a spot on Florida a mile or so from my house. 
Then we had lunch and I did a bit more work before picking up beer at Top Shelf while father churched.  Mother and I also took a short walk- since it was stormy out we just walked up and down the hill a couple times.  Once father got home we ate and put on the baseball game.  Always fun listening to the Yankees destroying a team, even if we did loose the first 2 to the White Sox. 

22 May 2020
0614 sleeping
0857 sleeping
1055 sleeping
1214 zoom with Tic, Fanny, and Drew

Food: waffle for lunch, Pork chops, left over potato, corn, and veggies for dinner

Fact: From 1900 until 1933 there was an Underground stop at The British Museum (not to be confused with The Natural History Museum).  However, it closed when Holborn Station opened (less than 100 yards away).  From 1933 until 1989 the surface building served as a military command post then was demolished.  At track level the station is used for storage.  The station is also apparently haunted by Amen-Ra's daughter of an Egyptian Pharaoh who's tomb was moved to the British Museum. 

Woke up just before our noon zoom.  Julie wasn't able to join us but said she could next week.  Oddly enough I had a dream where when I tried adding her to a Skype call instead i got added to hers, with the president of Costa Rica discussing goats.  Rather odd.  After the call I had a chocolate chip waffle.  The best part though was i gave a little bit to the puppies and Schubie was sleeping.  So i dropped in infront of her nose and she sniffed it in her sleep, stuck her tongue out and slurped it up without opening a eye.  I'm sure she was a happy puppy.  Then I worked for a while, then we had dinner followed by a quick walk and ran into this froggie.  There was a bunch of lightening in all directions but no rain for us this evening (although it had poured this morning, hard enough to wake me up for a few minutes).  Then it was time for Trivial Persuit.  Eddie first answered on his phone after coming back from picking up food.  Then it froze when he hung up to switch over to his normal set up.  We all thought it looked like some crime stopper CCTV (which is closed circut, not closed captioned like we had guessed but I had immediately realized was wrong on our 2nd question of the game).  All the rolls were going right for the west coast group and they won so quickly we decided they had to answer 4 of 6 questions on a single card; which they did.  So then we played the Kansas group for 2nd.  We both got to the center on the same turn (although we got there first).  We only answered 2 questions on the card and they answered 3 so i guess technically they came in 2nd and we came in 3rd even though we got to the center and answered a question before they did.  Highlights included Eddie not realizing Philadelphia had an MLB team, and all of us suggesting he do math any time they weren't sure of the answer.  Also good was Zac and Ania answering a tiger correction incorrectly, Eddie getting it right (how many wild tigers are there: hundreds, thousands, 30 thousand) and Zac and Ania saying that since they watched Tiger King they must be right, but alas.  A little later Zac got a question that Eddie talked him out of so i guess it was fair.