Yesterday Maven was walking by the house on her way to work when I came out on my way to work. I walked Shadowfax alongside and we--Maven and I, not my bike--talked until we reached her office. This morning she was walking by again when I emerged, in much different clothes and without my bike. She correctly deduced that today I would drive to work. She's clever like that.
It is handy, using a car at lunch, especially when RDC is away and I can do errands during the day instead of prolonging Blake's already lengthened day. I returned a thing for RDC and purchased new earbuds and sunglasses. I broke the stem of the previous earbuds' left side underfoot some months ago, and for many weeks the right bud has preferred to be in two or more pieces because apparently I don't know how to clean them. Finally the actual speaker piece entirely disappeared, along with both pairs of non-prescription sunglasses, so I bought new ones of each. This means that at least one pair of sunglasses is due to surface soon.
I still have errands to run after work: paper for invitations to a party my sister's having, groceries including a dish for bookclub tonight, and hopefully a new spray bottle for Blake. The nozzle on his current bottle works only haphazardly (and isn't clogged, not even with that orange mineral build-up our water deposits), and the only other bottles we have in the house otherwise have dispense jets instead of sprays. Fluid emerging from them looks like the meningitis vaccination UConn delivered in spring of '93, so high-powered that it punctured skin and dissipated into muscle without time-wasting needles.