Travel and play, not Kid and Play
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. A trip to Reno, another to SoCal, traveling back in time to when getting to the moon was a priority, and Working for The Man.
Reno was a fun trip where Cardiff and I spent time with family and disassembled a bridge and played with a giant. The bridge was my sister’s boyfriend’s wooden bridge in the backyard, and the giant is my sister’s Great Pyrenees, Lucy. Cardiff even got her nails done by my sister.
Lucy - affectionately called “Moosey” - is some 60+ pounds heavier than Cardiff, but super gentle. They had a great time exploring the creek and running through high grass.
We got back from that trip, did laundry, and headed out the next day to spend time with Princess A in SoCal. It was a great trip, and we spent time with her and her beau playing and avoiding pumpkin spiders that are as common as squirrels down there.
The next day upon returning I visited the USS Hornet in Alameda, reconnecting with a friend I haven’t spent much time with lately - Bad Markie. The weather couldn’t have been better, and I was introduced to Cornhole Competition. The kind with the sandbags, thankfully.
If you’ve never been, the Hornet is a battleship in the mothball fleet in Alameda. There’s a ton of information on the official site. The ship retrieved capsules - and astronauts - from the Apollo missions, and hosts a rotating museum exhibit spanning decades. It was interesting to find out someone as short as I am fits a battleship so well. Normal sized humans were ducking and swaying, and I was able to navigate with no difficulty. They built for quality, not quantity.
Finally, I’ve started working a couple days a week administering flu shots. It’s only been orientation and new hire stuff so far, but I keep thinking about how much those hours are taking away from my real job of being retired. I’m a bad person, though, so I just need to get over it.