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I woke up around 9 am, not having much sleep last night. So I took my time getting ready to go out to see Vicki for a late lunch. But first, I had to shovel out the snow around my car. That involved getting dressed as Mario, clearing the show off the car, and shoveling a clear path to the plowed section of the driveway. Luckily, the snow wasn't too heavy, and I was able to get this done in 20 minutes.
After a brief stop for breakfast, I went home to shower and get dressed as Marian. And then, it was off to Mt. Kisco to meet Vicki for lunch. Arriving at the restaurant, I found that the meters weren't working today, as it was a Federal holiday. Even though I was glad to see Vicki, I really wasn't in the mood to talk politics, as there's nothing we could do to avoid the upcoming 4 year disaster.
Once done with lunch, I drove over to Route 684, and was about to make a "California Stop" at the light for a right turn on red, so that I could get on the highway. There was a police car to my left and an idiot that sped up along the shoulder and almost hit me as I was starting to make a right turn onto the highway. (If I had started movement to the entrance ramp even 1 second earlier, my car would have been totaled.) As I made my turn, the police car turned across traffic, sped past me, then pulled the idiot over before he got on the highway. Boy, was I relieved! The idiot was about to get what he rightly deserved - a very expensive ticket!
Next, I killed time at Starbucks before going to the meetup for dinner. Unfortunately, most of the people who reserved a place at dinner bailed without notice, and only 3 of us were there for dinner. By the time I finished my cheeseburger, I was stuffed. I couldn't eat another bite.
On the way home, my brother and I chatted about the house we rent out. Now that the tenants are gone, there are some improvements we may make. Will it cost money? Yes. But we should recoup our money relatively quickly. And then he got to talking about what should happen when my sister in law passes (hopefully, she will go first). It makes sense for him to sell his homestead at that time due to the $500k tax exclusion he'd have that year, then take some of his capital gains to buy me out. He'd live in the family homestead for a few years, and then repeat the process to get more tax free money out of his home equity.
It was a good day. But it certainly didn't go as I expected.
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On other matters....
Sadly, the Orange Snowflake has been inaugurated, and he has already made some anti-transgender statements. Hopefully, my readers who have needed to get their gender marker on their personal IDs updated, have already done so before today. I think it will be at least 4 years before people will be able to do this for Federally issued documents again.
