01/23/2009 Friday. Volunteering at LCHD

01/23/2009 Friday: Damp, but no rain, and chilly.

I left around 9:30 am to do a couple of chores and see if I could get some work done at LCHD. Before I did that I hit the feed store, the bank, and the library to pick up books. Then I drove over to Social Services across from Shop N Kart since my contact was working at a different building.

Doug and I talked about getting me integrated into the system again (I'd volunteered there last year) so that I could continue to volunteer at the Health Department. I told him I'd come back on Monday to work. He gave me the name of a contact person, Sandi, in case he wasn't there. Sandi is always there, he told me.

After talking with Doug I zipped over to Shop N Kart and picked up our weekly ration of human food.

By the time I got home it was nearly time to do chores. I rested till it was and then did chores.

Dinner was one of our favorites: hot noodles with chicken, baby bok choi, broccoli and green onions. I snuck in a leek from our garden. That's definitely the last of the leeks. Chas and I really enjoyed the leeks. I'll have to buy a box and get them planted for our eating pleasure this fall. I'm going to have to try to plant only one in a spot instead of several.

I did some work on the computer trying to beat down my UW and Yahoo! email after dinner.

Around 11pm we had a power outage. It lasted quite a while. First the lights went out, came on, went out, came on, and finally stayed out. I got ready for bed with one of the emergency LED lanterns. Fortunately the bed was still warm. I had turned on the electric mattress an hour or so ago. It didn't take me long to fall asleep.