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I hope you are bringing them luck for a win. They are in the driver’s seat for a playoff spot. All they have to do is win their final 3, but all three are good teams.

Demand may be a regional thing, but we certainly are not seeing it in our area. My guess is that it will be 10 to 15 years before the technology is refined to the point where the average consumer would consider them. We didn’t even consider electric when we bought a new car last month. My son in California has had two electric vehicles, a BMW i3 that had a very limited range, and a Tesla Model X that he has had for six years now. California has a better network of charging stations, but all I see are trade offs and downsides. He has a charger in his garage, and is able to charge for his daily commute, without waiting in line. He has taken it on a longer trip, They are just returning from a trip to LA (about 400 miles). They had three stops for charging, with charging times of 1-1.5 hours each. Two of those you could combine charging with meal time, but the other is wasted time, in my opinion. The one Tesla charging stop has a ton of chargers, but the electric grid can’t handle that many, so they supplement with diesel generators to power the chargers. Not seeing how that makes sense. I am fairly confident I will never have one in what remains of my life. Sorry, I am not from those countries you asked about, but just thought I would add my 2 cents.

That looks like a semi-frameless. Why the shower curtain and the doors?

I had to use my PC to change the password this morning. It now works for both the browser and the IOS app. I did find that I could not use the same password for the Celebrity app as I do for Royal. It would tell me I couldn’t reuse passwords when I tried to set it to the new one I use for Royal.

Made final payment for our cruise this morning. And also just this morning, Southwest sent an email changing our flights before that cruise. Batting 1000 on flight changes.

We went with a semi frameless when we remodeled. No problem with leakage, and it is easy to clean. But then, we wipe our shower down after every use.

Today is National Pet Day. A Ricky update. I took him to the vet this week for a blood test. He wasn’t happy they had to stick him 3 times to get blood. Everything looks good so far. His blood count is up. Still looks a little funny with short leg hairs. I will have to take him again next week, so hopefully his counts will still be up.

I was surprised how quickly I got it. I put a reserve on it when it showed up on our library website. The next day they called and said it was ready for pickup.

New reading material picked up from the library. Sandford’s new Prey book.

Yesterday, I read an article about a proposed change in Pennsylvania’s cell phone use in a vehicle. No texting or talking, which isn’t bad, but they would expand to not permit you to have a cell phone in your lap or hand for any reason. That includes snapping a picture, or taking a video. Now I have been known to snap a picture or two, so I am not pleased with that part. And speaking of snapping a photo, I encountered an odd phenomenon in our new vehicle. If I open the camera app, it will automatically shut off Sirius radio, and the time on the infotainment screen will be surrounded by a red bubble. As soon as you close the camera app, the music returns. Not sure if this is something new and unique to Toyota, or if others see this. Still getting familiar with Apple CarPlay, plus all the new symbols. Anyone know why I get the ref signaling touchdown, when I shift in reverse? Susan thinks it means she backed into the garage without hitting anything. 😁

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We got that same email, and I think it was to remind you to book dining and excursions and other things. You still do your check in as normal. No need to go through a TA for that.

Those scheduling people at Southwest have been busy trying to annoy me. Yesterday, they made two changes to our flight to San Francisco. The first change, they moved our departure time up by about 10 minutes. I thought, ok, I can live with that. Then, about 2 hours later, they send this. New times, new plane, new flight! So now, instead of a change in Chicago, we have one in Denver. And that new departure time got moved to 5am, which would mean getting up at 2am to be ready for a drive to the airport. Not happening, so we booked a hotel at the airport. Now, I wake up this morning to see that our flights to and from Myrtle Beach this summer were changed. Differences of 10 minutes to 1.5 hours. Can’t wait to see if they change again later today. I am fairly confident they will change our flights to and from our Utopia cruise. Maybe they are reshuffling the fleet to find planes that haven’t had parts fall off.

Adding my Happy Birthday wishes to William. 🎂🎂🎉

Still hard at work, collecting ducks.

I don’t think 315 miles for a one day drive is bad. When we make our drive to Florida each winter, we break it into three 400 mile segments. Of course, depending on how bad traffic is, even short distances could take a long time. I was just reading about the 12 hour traffic backups on the interstate in New Hampshire after the eclipse. Sounded like people faced some challenges with that.

Sorry to read that about Bella. Condolences to John and Laura.

Smooth finishes seem to show imperfections. Our house, built in 1970 has plaster walls with a swirl finish. What I didn’t know, until we did a full kitchen remodel in the 90’s, was that the kitchen designer could tell who did the plaster work by looking at the swirl pattern. We dropped the ceilings over the new cabinets and put in can lights. We said we wanted the dropped part to have the same swirl pattern as the rest of the house. They said “Oh, so and so is still working, so we can have him in to match it.” When we had a guy redo our small bath a couple years ago. We had him do the same finish. Our next project is just a repainting of our master bath. Took the wallpaper border off last week, and the new one arrived yesterday. New curtains are here, so now we are looking at paint colors to go with all of it. This is the swirl pattern that will get a new color.

That looks like a nice park we may be interested in. Thanks for the info. It would definitely be an overnighter for us. Waze says it is just under 4 hours, but maybe the time estimates are being impacted by eclipse traffic at the moment.

We just had our total eclipse here. Clouds cleared and it was a good view. Got dark as night and dropped probably 10 degrees. Traffic was pretty crazy when I was out earlier. I went to Walmart about a half hour before, and there was hardly anyone in the store. I guess good things can happen during an eclipse.

That is her in the mauve sweater in the squeeze thru the rocks photo and the cave video. She is camera shy, and usually turns away from the camera when I take photos. Just glad we are healthy and fit enough to do these things.

PA has the second highest gas taxes, just behind California. They also say that our higher prices is due to our stations being supplied by the New York market vs. Ohio getting theirs from the Chicago market. Our local stations try to keep their prices a little lower than stations in our county that are not as close to the border. For us, it makes sense to make a short drive and save.

We are about 2 miles from the border, which is nice, because we can get gas $0.70-$1.00 a gallon cheaper than here in PA. The place we hiked was about a 50 minute drive for us.

That looks similar to the layout of the Cabana Cabins on deck 9 of the new Sun Princess. This is a portion of Iona deck 8 plan It looks like the promenade in front of those cabins On Sun Princess, it is similar, but it is a cabana deck where anyone in a cabana on that deck could be in front of your cabin. That was one reason we didn’t book there.

I would add that “it depends”. We took National Express from Heathrow, then walked from the station to the Holiday Inn. But then, you know we are walkers. This map is from my report.