Thursday, July 31: My iPhone 13 is Dying

After a really good night, I struggled to get up this morning. I didn’t get up till 8:08 AM this morning and presumably was late to work this morning. I got the Mike’s did a little bit of cleanup and 

Mike did some of his exercises today. I threw in a load of laundry, which was of course very large And finished up yesterday‘s blog posting. I am noticing even after the iOS 18.6 update 

that my keyboard has issues. The touchscreen doesn’t work on some of my applications or if it does work it works on most things 

on applications but not certain things. I think the Phone is slowly dying out on me. I have a dentist appointment today at 11:45. I’m running about 3 to 5 minutes late. Hard 

to get myself motivated. My right arm feels extra tired today. I mean I think it’s my shoulder anyway it’s still humid. Well, I went to the dentist to get my teeth 

cleaned and no major problems but two teeth are suspect at this point the one near on the top right and one on the bottom towards the left. The one with the gum is 

receded a lot. So they’re on tooth watch so to speak. I then went to CVS picked up my script and Mike’spain
cream that he likes to buy that I guess 

helps a little bit. OK now 1:13 PM the clouds are creeping over. It looks like we will 

be getting a thunderstorm earlier than later. At this point. I’m just

 waiting for my hour to go by for my Florida. I just got to Mike’s and I’m writing up this Vlog and my battery is running out at 4% right this moment. well, Mayor and I talked on the phone. We decided to skip yoga today due to the crappy weather and we have relaxation to do from yesterday. While I was at it, I made the reservation for the Sonoma County airport on Hertz and also the reservation for August 9 and 10th ninth to go to a baby party for one of Mary’s nieces and the other one to visit Larry on Sunday, August 10. The next week we’re going out to a baseball game in Washington DC Phillies versus the nationals. Around 2 o’clock we started getting thunderstorms and as of 4:39 PM which is the time now it is still raining, but it’s not a torrential rainfall, but it’s a steady rainfall. 

Wednesday, July 30: Arriving to Philly to Work

Hello. After a sleepless flight from San Diego to Charlotte, we arrived in Charlotte and we missed our first connecting flight, but they 
hooked us up for another flight that

 flies out of Charlotte at 8:57 AM. That was something that was a big relief that they signed us to a flight instead

 of us begging to get a flight. At least they acknowledge it was their fault

 that that we missed the connecting flight. It’s now 8:23 AM and Mary‘s going to Starbucks and they’re calling for group 1️⃣ right now. It’s 10:17 AM we officially just touchdown

 on the runway. I am gonna go to work at Mike’s whenever I get out of here. well, I went to 
Mike’s and walked to the soupy humidity

 man it took getting used to that’s for sure. I did some talking and caught
up with him. Team. Things are about the

 same. He had to cancel another appointment cause he couldn’t go down the steps other than everything was normal he said just let his knees a little bit better but he’s not 

confident going down the steps. Did a little bit of trash pick up picking 

up Mom’s Meals. I’m zgoing to CVS in the check cashing place. Tomorrow 

I’m going to have to do laundry. I’m not gonna leave for Mary’s after I do this check cashing place. 

It’s now 4:03 PM. Well, I brought down the trash and then signed 

off for the day. It’s now 4:28 PM. I did tell Mary I’ll be there sometime 

around 4:30 4:45 so I think I’ll be able to make it at that point. Looks like 

apartment 1- C is available. There were two people standing out front 

waiting for somebody to show up. I asked one of the folks how much they were renting it for 

they said 1150. They weren’t interested in the place but boy places keep emptying out here at this apartment 

complex. Not 434. I’m almost at the Dorchester. Anyhow, 

we relaxedfor a moment and then I used my new backpack to get ready for yoga. It worked quite well. When we went to the 75 minute class with Dan. As we expected, the room is very hot. I went through the paces and 

I did OK. But it was pretty tough. We then went to N and that was pretty 

chill and I was able to wind down a little
 bit. Then we ordered some Indian. It’s still hot out there, but doesn’t look like there’s going to be thunderstorms this evening. no thunderstorms came in. We made it through the day to any humidity, which was an accomplishment that’s for sure

Tuesday, July 29: Last Day in Poway

Well today started very nice. Slept in and hung out and decided we would get Alice her stuff via the Car Rental. So what we did is 


drove the Car Rental to the target and got our dog food and our other food that we orders. So that was really good. Anyway, we got back and then we turned around and dropped off the car



 to the Hertz rental place. The guy was very nice with contacted Uber. He showed up pretty quickly. He shared with us some of his opinions and use a nice guy. Anyhow, when we got back, Mary and I decided

 to relax and have some coffee and juice. show me a hanging out and we’re getting our stuff set to move out from the bedroom we were at and John and Malik showed up. So we got our stuff out and 

we end up hanging out with John and Alex and Alice and it was really cool. We just all hung out and talked a while about different stuff. We decided to sit outside 

and talk. Then House had us go to an Indian restaurant and the food was absolutely delicious. Nice way to leave San Diego. I was the only one to eat my entire dinner in one sitting. Alex talked 



about his stay in Heidelberg. He’s a he speaks fluent German and some Greek. We were given an open invitation to visit him 
out there. anyhow, John then drove us to the airport
and the GPS acted really funky so we got off the highway and ended up getting to the airport through smaller roads. We got to our flight and just when we were about to check the 

bag the flight was changed from leaving at 10:45 to leaving at 9 AM the next morning. So we’re
supposed to be leaving at 10:39 PM but they 

just said they have to. They’re offering people checked in luggage for free because a bunch of extra people got on the flight. And I think with the stated was if they

 don’t leave by 11:30 PM  then we’re stuck here overnight. It’s now 10:14 PM. The regulations were passed in 1976 to reduce noise over the inner-city airport. It’s true. The airport is right over downtown San Diego.
At it’s 

now 11:32 PM and we still haven’t lifted off and they gave a deadline at 11:30 to lift off the weird noises. The 

pilot came on dinner, and told us that they would be lifting off past the curfew in American Airlines would pay the fine rather than canceled the flight. Turns out the weird noises were the cause of the delay and they fixed them. We will probably miss our connecting flight from Charlotte and get to hang out in Charlotte airport again.

There’s a. tsunami coming to the west coast 

https://apple.news/Abz_w07HeS52z6pqy4e7khQ

Tsunami alerts issued for Alaska, West Coast after magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/07/29/magnitude-8-7-earthquake-russia-tsunami-alert/85432493007/