Today was not a great day for either Travalon or me. My iPhone had updated overnight, so a bunch of my apps were grayed out, including DuoLingo and FitBit. This meant I couldn't do my morning Portuguese lessons, and more importantly, it meant I didn't notice that my FitBit battery was dangerously low until I got to work. Oddly, the grayed-out apps came to life at work when I pressed them, while at home nothing I did worked. I called Travalon to ask if he could bring my FitBit charger to work, and he sent me a photo that I said was the right thing, but when he arrived, it was my old FitBit charger. He wanted to get a haircut today, but they told him there was a wait, so he went to four different stores looking for a charger for me. However, my FitBit must be out of date, because nobody had one in stock. That wasted all his free time before work, and then at work the kids were running amok. Worst of all, he had a long meeting after work, so he missed our ukulele strum tonight, when the songs were all about trains. We've been listening to train songs in the car.
My FitBit charge was getting lower and lower, but I had high hopes going to my blood donation appointment. However, nobody there had a FitBit; they either had a cheap knockoff or an Apple watch, which is more expensive. When I got there, there was one beach towel left, and I felt bad to take it, but they said I was the last appointment this afternoon (which seems odd, since it was only 2:30), and there were no walk-ins after me. The beach towel is beautiful.
Since I was the last donation today, they told me to take as many snacks as I wanted. They did say a ukulele strum sounded like the perfect evening after donating blood, since it's so relaxing. I also got a lot of work done today and am feeling slightly more caught up. Then in the evening I went to the ukulele strum, and while the people seemed less friendly today, the songs were excellent. Lots of Johnny Cash, and almost everything was a 1-4-5 song. There were just enough weird chords to make it interesting. Afterwards Travalon and I had dinner on the Lone Girl's roof, and we were the last ones up there. When we got home, I began searching for the FitBit charger, and then Travalon found it on the floor by the couch - how on earth did it get there? The last place I'd seen it was either the table by my easy chair in the living room or the table on the porch. Anyway, St. Anthony and Travalon came through for me.
Meanwhile, my phone was running a bit low on charge too, but DuoLingo was sending me a very threatening message.
I charged the phone during Night Prayer and then did half an hour of DuoLingo, so the owl should be happy. In the meantime, my FitBit got charged up to 100%, so all my little first world problems were solved. Oh yeah, during the ukulele strum a guy was giving out cans of coffee-flavored beer, so I took one and liked it but didn't finish it. Travalon had the rest of that, and then we also got a small glass of the house raspberry sour and split that. It was very pleasant up on the roof, since things had cooled down. It was very hot today at lunchtime when Seabird, Hardingfelde, and I took a walk to check out the blooming black locusts. We kept running from shade patch to shade patch. Hopefully tomorrow is slightly less hot and also less annoying for both Travalon and me.
I forgot to post this yesterday: we saw lupine in bloom yesterday when we walked at Jackson's Landing.
It felt like a little piece of the Necedah Wildlife Preserve right here in Madison.
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