Tuesday, June 9: Breakfast! Off to Poway.

Hi! Yeah, today is the day that’s been on been marked on my calendar for months June 9, 2026. We are heading out of our 5 week Odyssey through California in Poway and Alaska. Before the odyssey begins, we had to do last-minute preparation by going to the pharmacy, paying a few bills, including my dermatologist around the corner. Mary picked up her dry cleaning. She gave me one of her T-shirts, which was really cool for her to do that. It’s a really nice day out here. It’s about 70° nice little breeze. It’s perfect as the weather was horrific and bogus. I love it that the Knicks lost because Trump showed up!! he’s a curse do the Knicks end to the United States!! We had a nice breakfast to café and talked about different things and looked at Threads, etc. It was quite enjoyable. Mary and I said enough and paid for the breakfast. We settled out the airfare for the trip to California. We’re doing on August 7 through the ninth to visit Shelley, her sister-in-law. It’s now 1234. We have to split from the café.

Monday, June 8: Last Day of Work.

This morning, I got up after one of those sleeps where I didn’t feel like was completely out enough. I got up and got ready for the day. I took a Uber to Mike’s cause I was running really slow and the nurse 😁Nichole was coming today. Well, she came around 905 so it was a good thing that I took the over cause I wouldn’t have gotten there till at least 9:15 AM. Nichole asked the usual questions of Mike and and she wished me luck on my vacation and don’t worry about the situation in Philly. We found out he never got his infusion on Friday even though the infusion lady came in. She couldn’t get the needle in. Anyhow, I filled on an application for senior housing and called about three or four places to mail Mike copies I contacted Mike Ciul to meet me at 2 o’clock at Mike’s place. Meanwhile I went to CVS got Mike some food and did a nice amount of laundry. Used two washers but only had to use the one dryer. Mike came over and we talked a bunch. Might help me make Mike’s bed. Mary called and finalize our plans to visit her sister-in-law Shelley at Santa Rosa/Healdsburg Friday the seventh through Sunday the ninth. It’s a short trip and airfares. It’s completely gone through the roof to get there. But the decision was made then we’re gonna use Uber and try for a hotel or an Airbnb since we’re staying so short of a time there. Oh the big news was Dave called me and asked for my address. This was in reference to the inheritance for my mom. He said it was a substantial amount. I didn’t wanna ask, but I gave my account and routing number and whatchamacallit wire transfer so when the money does get loose, it doesn’t take forever in the mail. There’s gonna be something sent to Melbourne. So I’ll be keeping an eye my mail app.  That was  very good timing. It would really help to fry some of the cost of my vacations and the implants and I’m planning to have. When I came back to the Dorchester, I crashed really hard. I felt really good then we ordered our last Indian food for the month and then watch a couple of orders and some old Jimmy Kimmel with the mean tweets. We’re planning to go out for breakfast tomorrow.

Sunday, June 7: Ocean City, Philly, & Millbourne

This morning we got up at 7:45 AM to get ready to go up to Bob’s for breakfast the same place that Mary & I went to for breakfast. We got ready got a close pack and went to Bob’s. I had pancakes and sausage and everyone else enjoyed their breakfast. It’s about 9:14 AM now and we’re getting ready to go leave directly from the restaurant to head back. I have to return the car by noon at the Rental place. Found out Larry‘s daughter wasn’t coming at all as of this morning, but we already made a reservation to get her car out so that’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna leave right now as soon as we pay the waitress. Food was very good and we’re going to head out. When we left the restaurant and decided that we were just go ahead and take the AC expressway since it’s the quickest way to get back. We talked a bunch and then I was drinking my super coffee, which was tasty. I also drank my juicy. We slid and smoothly into Smedley Street And dropped off Coleen. After we dropped her off, we drove straight up north Broad Street. Somebody pointed out that my gas cap was open. Fortunately, the gas is covered up anyway, but we closed it went by Mike’s and I dropped Mary off with all the bags plus my box of juicy. Fortune drank a few of them at Larry’s. It’s 11:26 AM I’m about to drop the car keys off at the Hertz which I think closes at noon on Sundays.  Well, I was looking at the location where the booth that we’d be covering would be and dear God it’s out in 20 second in the parkway this year. I guess the vent became too big for downtown so that means I have to hustle it up 22nd St. and then figure out where it is. It’s kind of far compared to where it used to be around Pine Street and 13th St. which is really close and easy to get to by foot. Oh well I just dropped off the car and to Mary’s. I got back from Mary’s and unpacked and decided that a nap would be a good idea so that’s what I did. I drank some iced tea and kept going and put away my clothes and stuff then I was gonna take SEPTA to the parkway while I found out I was 20 minutes off so I tried to take a Lyft and the Lyft driver showed up pretty quickly and they were gonna have her go take a ride on Mark all the way down to 16th and loop back up and I said forget it just drop me off at 22nd as far as you can and that was 22nd Winter Street. Once I got dropped off, the whole thing was blocked off and I forgot that it’s not free. it’s 10 bucks to get in unless you’re a vendor with the wristband. So I was really lucky and I saw these guys sneak around. Getting frisk by security guard with a wand so I just pretended I already had a ticket and the security guard didn’t even look for my wristband so I got in then I had a hard time finding it. It was supposed to be near the Irish flag and it actually is but I guess the heat frustration made it hard to find it is so big here. No wonder they moved out here. The neighborhood is not big enough for all this. But I got here and everybody was cool thank God they had dedicated people that have been here since 9 o’clock to the people here been here since 9 AM. I give them a lot of credit. It’s now 3:30 PM. Well, I spent my time there till 5:35 PM and I decided it was a good time toleave. They already had a bunch of people there and they didn’t need me around so I decided there was a good time to leave so I walked down 22nd market to catch the trolley and the EL to Millbourne. It’s now 5:50 PM. Well, I got back to Millbourne lo and behold. Pat was upstairs from work so I invited him over to have pasta at my place so I cooked up the pasta and he fetched the drinks. I had a Pepsi in there, but man that was pretty warm because the refrigerator is funky because the freezer is all funky. Pat said he would fix it. Anyhow we had dinner and shot the shit and did to catching up. After that, he decided to go to sleep, and I chow down and decided I would take a shower and shave because I was feeling really sweaty. Well, I took a glorious shower and have a really good. Meanwhile, Pat was sleeping in the other room. I left Millbourne around 9 PM and landed in Center City around 10 PM. I then packed and counted up most of my pills and then went to bed pretty tired.