Today

I had a great time with my daughter today. The ladies were suprised when I showed up at day care at noon to whisk her away. See, this morning I had my window down and heard the thunk thunk of a flat tire as I backed out of the driveway, so I pulled back in and used that as an excellent excuse to take Mommy's truck. After picking up the baby from day care, we were going to meet Mommy to get my car to the tire shop. We have had hdd problems for the last week, and Mommy had a friend at work who was a techie. The girl and I went to visit him, and he hooked our hdd into a test pc and the board blew. White, burnt smoke shot sides ways from several circuits as he uttered a profanity and unhooked my drive, all the while shaking his head and frowing. Told me to go buy a new hdd from Best Buy and use that board. Damn.

Then we went to get the tire on the car. Another tire was shot, too. They replaced both and said it would be 90 minutes. I gave them my cell # and walked to Walgreen's with a diaper bag, car seat, and pouch of breastmilk rescued from the cay care fridge for the long weekend. We called Mommy and got a short shopping list and spent as much time as possible. Called Grammy to ask about healthy Walgreen's snacks, but everything lied about calories, fats, cards... Yuck. Then we found a coffee shop where several acquaintance of mine use to frequent. It was quite nice. After a hot summer walk across a smoldering parking lot, I bought a large iced coffee, sprinkled splenda across the ice, and settled into a leather couch to read Lovely Bones while the baby slept in the car seat at my feet. I checked my watch occasionally to go pick up the car, and after two hours of waiting we walked back. Mike, the car guy, said it had been done. I wondered why he didn't call, but I didn't mind reading quietly in a cool coffeeshop. We then left to find Mommy and finish our afternoon out alone.