Bed adjustment, Hot Pickle, Long Goodbye
One of my big plans for Saturday was I wanted to get a real bed for the guest room. I already had bought the used bed frame last week. My plan was to go to Sam’s and buy a king size box spring and gel foam mattress. So I walk in the place and survey the bedding area. They have no box springs at all that I saw, odd. The king size gel foam mattress I found online was not on the shelf either. Grrr. What they did have were all in one hinged queens size platforms as well as a queen size model of the mattress I was looking at.
So I decided that the room will now have a queens size bed instead. In some ways it makes more sense, it’s a ton of bed for one person and enough for two for short durations, what you want in a guest room, right? The smaller size also makes the room feel larger, another plus. I loaded the two big boxes on the mattress cart and pushed it out to the truck.
Shortly after getting home I set it all up. The platform is quite nice although costlier than a conventional frame/box spring set up. Yea remember that used frame I drove an extra 40 miles out of my way for? I curbed it. It only cost me $20 so no big loss.
I made a video of me opening the vacuum sealed mattress as some comedic relief.
On Saturday night I watched Free Guy with Ryan Reynolds. I seem to enjoy any movie he is a part of and this was no different. I thought the movie was very funny and entertaining. The video game theme of course resonated with me as well. It’s a solid A movie for me all day long.
My Sunday was abnormally busy. I drove to Veterans Park to meet up with Rich for another weekend pickleball match. Unfortunately I pulled into a jammed parking lot with tons of people on the courts, none were available. Rich was still en route when I got there, I told him we had no shot of getting a court there. Evidently Sunday morning is prime pickleball time. I suggested we could try the new park by me again, he agreed. I was concerned that one could be packed as well. Luckily it wasn’t, only two of the six courts were being used.
Rich and I played 5 long games, there was a lot of siding out going on. I lost four of the five which I wasn’t thrilled about but I still enjoyed playing. The last couple games we both were really minding the heat. By the time we left near noon it was closing on the mid-80s. I can’t imagine playing in the heat of summer. After I took a shower at home I felt wiped out. I would have taken a nap if I didn’t have a party to go attend.
The party was at South Street, an old stomping grounds of mine when I was socially active in the running club. They reserved the back room for our group. I arrived about a half hour after the official start time. There was a solid turnout of 30-40 people at it’s maximum, all there to celebrate the retirement of a regional manager and my boss/friend Don. Don is even worse than me when it comes to being social normally but he seemed to be having a good time. I got to see some old faces I have not seen in awhile as well which was a treat. I kept the Miller Lites flowing to lubricate my social interactions. I had either four or five. The party officially ended at 5 but me and a small group of people hung around until almost six just reminiscing. Many of the stories pre-dated me but they were fun to listen to anyway.
By the time I got home, ate dinner and played a little WoW it was already time to get ready for bed. The weekend had flown by. This week I take over as director of our department, there are going to be a lot of balls to be juggling in my immediate future. My boss has a knowledge base that is not really transferable which is going to make for some rocky roads for a period of time until we navigate those roads ourselves.