Another day on the run: up for breakfast, moving quickly for dog-walking because it's cold and windy, and then we went off to the bank. It took a while, but finally all the loan papers were signed. We also converted James' change into a deposit for his checking account while we waited.

Once we had the bank check we went to pick up the truck. That didn't take long. We brought it right home and loaded it up with the necessities: water, James' umbrella, the emergency box (which doesn't fit under the seat like it did in the old truck), the pocket organizer with the map book, etc. We could not put up some things because they had polished the dash so much that we couldn't stick anything to it. James thinks if we scrub it down with Windex it might get the coating off enough to put up some hooks for the GPS wires, etc.

One of the things we did do before putting it back in the truck bed was clean out the big black trunk that holds the driving pillow and the shopping bags. We found an old Borders container (!!!!) in there, ragged receipts, plastic bags, multiple paper Trader Joe's bags, many squished Publix reusable bags, plus some shoe inserts for James' orthopedic shoes and two rolls of wrapping paper I bought God knows when. Both are still good. We corralled the bags in other bags and brought order to chaos. Also, we had saved the old adjustable tie-downs from the old truck and had a dickens of a time figuring out how to put them on properly, but they finally went on the rails on the back.

By then it was way afternoon, so we went to Hibachi Grill for lunch, then went to Lowe's for duplicate car keys and a new toilet seat. Once that was finished, we were going to stop at the Publix across from Sprouts, but the parking lot was SRO. Instead we made a short stop at Office Max, then just went back to the Smyrna Publix to do the rest of the grocery shopping.

Sadly, we discovered one, or rather two, things we forgot to check on the truck. One, it doesn't have a jack. That's usually behind the seat in the cab. Well, we do have AAA in case we get a flat. But we also didn't test the radio. It does work, but the left speaker does not. We did test out the aux in jack and it works fine, so no more radio transmitter needed for us to listen to podcasts on long drives. No sure if getting the speaker fixed is costly or not.

When we got home James got on the phone with Nationwide and added the new truck to our insurance policy. It didn't take twenty minutes.

We had pot lucks for supper and spent the evening watching The Incredible Dr. Pol. Tucker enjoyed tonight's walk, but I nearly froze my fingers off. It's not all that cold (20s) but the wind has the banner out front out flat most of the time, so the wind chill is adding the knife edge.

Labels: cars, chores, food, organizing, television

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