In spite of last night’s midnight bedtime my wife decided that 6:30AM was enough time in bed. I on the other hand wanted just a bit more sack time. She got up and showered and started cooking breakfast while I dozed. She was finished with the sausage and the English muffins, but somewhere part way through the eggs, the smoke detector started wailing. I jumped out of bed and reached for the detector on the ceiling. When this happens at home I pull down on one side of the cover causing it to open, giving me access to the battery which I then slide off the contacts. Here in the condo when you pull down on the side of the smoke detector it comes unplugged from the ceiling mount and bounces off your nose. It didn’t break the skin, but did leave a nice diagonal red mark on the bridge…
We dined out tonight, but the money spent will not appear in the yearly tally because Jerry the Condo King and his wife Donna treated me and my wife Donna to dinner out at the Crazy Crab. I was wearing little of my wife’s make-up foundation on my nose so as to not freak out the other restaurant patrons. We were going to eat at Catch 22 where we all had such a great meal about a year ago, but changed our minds.
After we finished our lunch at the Japanese restaurant Donna and I walked down to Catch 22, they are in the same strip shopping center, to see if they had menu out front. They did have menus, but the also had a pink flier attached to the door handle from the local electric company. I could read the words “Important Information About Your Electric Service.” Curiosity made me open it up. After all we might need to change our dinner plans if they were going to be without power because of some maintenance issue. What I found inside was that they were $2,000 behind on their power bill. Maybe we should eat there, they could sure use the money. On the other hand, if they were behind in the power bill, where else were they cutting corners? Staff? Food quality? The four of us did change our dinner plans and opted to try one of the hundreds of other dining choices on Hilton Head Island.
Started up, went down, back up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 01/01/07: 29
I had three maps to Post Offices I wanted to try and get pictures of on the way home from HHI. Ended up with only two of them, Ridgeland and Furman (pictured), missing Scotia as I had the map labeled wrong and didn’t realize we were by it, until we were by it. We did pass right by two more, Tillman and Estill, and so we took advantage of the opportunity and snapped their portraits. Drove right by Pineland’s Post Office, but didn’t stop as it was a little trailer with a small dirt parking lot that was full of folks checking their mail. Going to put Pineland at the top of the list for our next trip that way. May re-shoot Furman when I do that run too. It is such a cute little Post Office and I’d like to get a picture of it without the blue minivan in it.