Thursday ; Mostly sunny, mild, very brief, heavy rain mid-afternoon.
For the first day in two months I didn’t awake to the pressure of having to try to wrangle a deposit refund from the Mexican rental condo American grifter owner. AHHHH ... like a breath of fresh air ! Good riddance, Jennifer !
We have started fall pre-departure preparations in earnest.
Friday ; Sunny and warm.
This evening we went to Joanne’s sister’s home for dinner. In addition to Lorraine’s partner Grant, her eldest daughter Madeleine was also there for dinner. It was our opportunity to express our condolences for the recent passing of their cat Mushroom.
In a very strange incident of “small world”, as Joanne and I told Lorraine and Grant about the recent passing of our neighbour Jim, followed five days later by the death of his wife Debby, Lorraine realized that we were talking about the Debby that she worked with at Prairie Theatre Exchange many decades ago, who later hired Lorraine to be her assistant at Alzheimers Manitoba, where Lorraine eventually replaced Debby, and subsequently worked for decades, until her recent retirement.
Saturday ; Sunny and cold.
Most of the day was spent on preparations for departure on November 1. I did some automotive preventive maintenance this afternoon. Joanne worked on packing. I did some annual preventive maintenance in our suite. And did monthly computer backups.
Sunday ; Sunny and cold.
Pre-departure preparations continue. Our neighbour Vicki visited us this afternoon, for a cup of tea, and to pick up our apartment and mailbox keys. Vicki will collect our mail this winter.
I downloaded, reconciled, and paid our MasterCard billing this afternoon. That included quite a bit of time on the phone with their security department. There were two fraudulent charges on our MasterCard this month, both on the same day, both from a “hospitality” (bar or restaurant ?) business in Wilmington, Delaware. The security agent asked a lot of (necessary) questions before removing the charges from my MasterCard billing, cancelling my MasterCard, and will be issuing me a new MasterCard with new number.
After adjusting the car’s tire pressures yesterday, today I took the car for a (7 km.!) drive to reset the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). The many computerized features of our new (to us) Volvo are ... sort of weird but wonderful. We’ve had vehicles with TPMS before, but none have had to be “reset” after changing tires or adjusting pressures.
Monday ; Sunny and cold, -2 C right now at 9 PM, on its way to -4 C overnight.
More fall pre-departure preparations. Washing, selecting, packing clothing, outerwear, shoes (and winter boots for the drive in both directions, westbound next week, eastbound in April).
Had multiple phone calls with the pharmacist at nearby Superstore, to get his assistance in “attaching” the Superstore pharmacy to our Optimum / PC Health online account, to enable me to manage Joanne’s and my prescriptions. Have previously attached Shoppers Drug Mart and Superstore pharmacies in Steinbach, Winnipeg, and Victoria to our online account without problem, but ... this time, with the local Superstore ... much drama ! Wasted a lot of my time and his. I appreciate his assistance.
Tuesday ; Cloudy and cold, light rain briefly in the afternoon.
More fall pre-departure preparations. Mostly selection and packing of clothes. Mostly done by Joanne.
Our building’s water was turned off today to permit the replacement of one of the three large water heaters that supply hot water to the entire building. I got up early to shower etc. before the 9 AM shut off time, and I filled a five gallon water jug and three gallon pail for use throughout the day if needed for flushing or whatever.
Wednesday ; Low cloud overcast, cold.
Busy afternoon today. While Joanne went to have lunch with her sister at an upscale Lebanese restaurant Joanne wanted to try, I had lunch at home then spent about 2½ hours on my monthly Zoom meeting with a University of Manitoba Computer Science Master’s degree student and his professor, participating in his Master’s degree thesis Digital Legacy focus group. Yeah ... it’s a long story.
When my Zoom meeting was over around 3:30 PM, Joanne was back home and we went out together to run errands. First stop was the veterinarian to pick up a prescription order for Apollo. Next was Superstore where we had to pick up six prescriptions for me and four for Joanne. And we presented Apollo’s prescription order and waited for it to be filled. OK ... everybody’s got their prescriptions filled for the next six months. One huge item crossed off the fall pre-departure checklist. On our way back home we made one last stop, at Shaftesbury High School, to vote in Winnipeg’s municipal election.
While having dinner we watched tonight’s episode of Survivor.
DSK
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