Friday, June 12, 2026

Friday, June 12: Target Starbucks, Shabbat Dinner and Yahtzee

Good day everybody today is the last full day. We’re spending in Poway California. Mary met up with Becky and Ned her husband and we hung out with them for a while and Alice was at work and we hung out with her as well. After that, I had some cereal and then Mary and I headed off to the hangout of our choice Starbucks at the target. They have really good iced coffee and they have this one table we can sit in. We are very lucky the tables never fool. We got to sit in it all the time. Went there and we hung out there for about two hours where we both drank two iced coffees and they’re really strong, but they’re very good especially for me when I add milk to it. The employees are getting to know us I went to the men’s room he’s like hey dude you spend more time here than I do and he’s a target employee so we were getting pretty well known just sitting there shooting thisYear blogging and planning last-minute changes in our Alaska trip tidying up loose and such as the Car Rental right now Mary and I are pretty caffeinated so we’re gonna go take a walk. It’s 2:49 PM. We have to be back at the house by six for Shabbat dinner. I also talked to Wes and told about the mixup that Alice thought that Wes was coming towards San Diego not to Long Beach Island in two weeks. It was all pretty silly. Well, we hung out for a while and we went outside to hang out. Mimi came over and Alice shared a little card that you wrote to mom for the afterlife was very nice. She also ordered the Indian food we’re gonna have the Shabbat tonight at 6:30. Dinner was very excellent. We had all kinds of Indian food provided by Alice. Indian foods just damn excellent and then we had ice cream sundaes made up by Alice and her kids. The Sundays were very good. Then we played a game of Yahtzee, which I’ve never played in my life. I’ve seen the commercials when I was a kid. I’m glad they chose this game because strategy, but a lot of luck which helped me out and I actually won this game. So I’m gonna frame the winning thing assuming it makes it through the Alaska trip in one piece. I don’t win games like this very often so it was fun. We had a good time. Mitch coaching us really helped. Well after that, we all relax and then it was time for us to get ready pack and that’s what we did. We gotta get up very early tomorrow morning for a flight to Anchorage Alaska.

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Thursday, June 11: Relaxing @ Poway

After a wonderful sleep, we got up around 10:30 AM. We Jettisoned the idea of going to the club because we were very much sleepy and we decided we’d eat breakfast and take our time. We had cereal and some coffee. I also had a juicy as well. Quite frankly, the coffee didn’t taste great so we just kind of drank it. That was about it. After that, we just met around the house and relax. I got this email from enterprise Rent-A-Car from a “management trainee“ who wrote this really formal letter stating that I needed a live credit card, and a drivers license with no restrictions. That was the first time I ever heard of such a thing before. A drivers license for that restrictions. So I called Capitol One and got an email verifying that I have coverage. It’s one of the better benefits of the Capitol One card that I have called the savior card. Anyway, it’s now 12:58 PM and we’re gonna go out to get some Greek lunch while House also go to DMV and get some stuff done. Oh yes, Becky was here loading her stuff into the pods storage thing in the middle of Alice’s driveway. She filled it up and they’re Going come by sometime between 7 AM tomorrow and 4 PM tomorrow. Yes that’s typical u-Haul bullshit. It’s now 1:25 PM. We’re sitting inside for a moment before going to walk back to our favorite happen in place target which has a Starbucks and delicious bars that Mary discovered when we were in a hurry to buy stuff and towels. Alice has been working all day. We just heard from our friend Meghen, who has been to Alaska  and Takena. She gave us some tips of some stores to go to in Takena, which is a cute little small town will be hitting after we leave Anchorage. Will be staying there for four days. We’re sitting here drinking the delicious iced coffee and we have the one table and we’re sitting here. We ended up staying at target till about 4 o’clock and then we got back at 4:30 PM. We were gonna go do something with Alice but I also had a meeting at 6:30 PM and thought it wasn’t enough time and we ended up just chilling in the house with the cool AC and mellow way out the whole night. We did watch a really stupid movie called catch and release. Jennifer Gardner was in and it was just terrible romantic comedy. We were just making fun of it the whole time. Then we discussed Car Rental in charge which was really stimulating and exciting not…… Anyway, we then eventually crash for the evening.