I ended up watching all of the Blue Jays/Dodgers game and it was a game. I was glad the Mariners weren't involved as it was hard enough as it was. The Blue Jays lost in the final out of the deciding game but, honestly, it was more the luck of the draw, really. Those two teams were about as equal as you can get in baseball. But, the end. No more baseball really truly until February. I am glad I am one sport only.

Biggie is the opposite of lethargic this morning. He wouldn't let me finish this entry so I went swimming. Now he still won't let me finish. He has a million toys and all he wants to play with is me!

We started a new puzzle in the elbow yesterday. It's one that has codes on the back. Letters A-F that correspond to sections of the puzzle. You can, of course, ignore them, but I started separating them according to letter and then took a break. Later, I went out and Bonny had picked up the task. Then she and I did section A together. It was fun and just the right amount of puzzling.

I've been through a number of time changes over the years and have never really suffered from it. But, yesterday about 4:30, I changed the clocks that needed it. Then I watched the end of the baseball so ended up going to sleep a little earlier than normal but also just slept til I woke up. I thought I'd slept well but...I just got my bed sleep score.



Fitbit only gave me 84 but Fitbit is way stingy on sleep scores.

Today will be TV and puzzling and entertaining Biggie, I guess. Geesh. At least, for sure, no sports.

Oh the sun just came out. Looks like I timed my swim perfectly.

I just took this picture of Biggie and Julio.



I started to clean up the background junk and then just hit the AI thing on my phone and said 'change the background'.

They gave me four really nice options but this one just grabbed me.



Then I asked it to make Julio smile and it told me that it couldn't do that... yet.

I turned on the World Series to check the score before I went on to watch more Season 2 of Karen Pirie (Britbox). It was 0-0 in the 2nd. I screwed around with that photo and was getting ready to change the channel when the Blue Jays hit a 3 run homer in the 3rd. So maybe Karen can wait until tomorrow.

It was good to get back to volleyball. We had a small group but one sans assholes so it was really lovely. Tomorrow, I can do morning laps again. Nice.

I think Biggie has a UTI but he's ok with it so far. The new litter is white so I can easily see he has a little blood in his urine. Not much. But, a little. For all I know, it's been there for a long time and it just didn't show up in the clay litter. Also he's using the litter box a fair amount. But he also loves to play in the new litter so that may be why. Nothing seems blocked and he's certainly not lethargic or appetite suppressed.

This is his royal highness right now.



Dinner last night with the group was lovely. I wouldn't want to do it often but it was a nice change. When I got home, I turned on the TV and remembered the World Series game so I watched the last couple of innings there. The last one, mercifully, is tonight.

I'm giving serious thought to going pumpkin hunting after elbow coffee this morning. I want some Brach's mellow creme pumpkins. Just one more bag. If I can find them, great. If not, I'll live. And I want some Safeway roast beef sandwich meat. Very little on the menus looks good for this coming week. Time to eat the freezer which is actually pretty full. I have meal money to burn but I think I'll burn it with an order of cookies and some other stuff from the little Bistro shop. I have until the 10th so still some time.

This morning, I put in a pod and set the coffee to make and then went to hang my wet suit up. About once every 6 months or so, I do this and totally forget to put the cup under the drip. Today was, apparently, that day. So I need to go clean that up before elbow coffee.

Way back in the dark ages, the federal government used to come steal people. Yep. sounds familiar now, too, but that's not my point. Everyone with a penis was required to serve in the military. After that horrible time was over, I dated a guy for a while, who, during that time, had been in the Coast Guard. Prior to that he had only lived in places far from water. So I asked, Why the Fuck Coast Guard. "Well, I didn't want to get drafted and have no choice so I looked at the options... Coast Guard kinda sounded to me like Life Guard and I thought that had to be more fun than the rest. Turns out not." Yeah, he was good sex and, frankly, that was about it.

But, I think of him now repeatedly as I deal with this litter. Tofu always makes me think of Toejam and then giggle.

The new litter is different. Biggie loves to dig in it. The Tofu pellets against the rubber make a big noise. I think he's trying to connect with cats in China. There is some tracking but, if I didn't have hard wood, I'd never know it. The pellets are like ice cream sprinkles but without the color. In two days, I have found maybe 6 out here in the hallway. I put down a large round carpet in the entry so that I would not crush the clay litter that invariably ended up there into the wood floor. I think I can safely remove that carpet now. I think I'll do that today.

Clay litter makes giant balls of rock out of cat pee and smaller bundles out of cat poop. The tofu litter does the same but MUCH smaller. I'm really interested now in how it's going to work long term. But, so far, it's excellent. I did order a new scoop in hopes of making it easier to sift through the ice cream sprinkles. It should be here today.

My shades run on rechargeable batteries. They are USB macro plugs - the ones that are a major bitch to get plugged into. And they are just out of my reach. I have to get on a step stool and even then it's not quite high enough. I am going to fall off and kill myself or worse. So. Yesterday, I got magnetic plugs and cords. I put a magnetic USB plug into each shade. I can, now, without even the stool, reach up and easily hit the end of it with the magnet at the end of the charging cable and boom! charging! I'm quite pleased with myself for coming up with this solution. The shades only need charged every six months or so but now I'm on it.

Half of me has enjoyed this week off from the pool but half of me is really missing it. I walked over there the other day and could see they were working on it. I might walk over there this morning just to check and see if they know for sure if it will be available tomorrow morning for volleyball.

Bonny has organized dinner tonight. Dick and Jan and me and Bonny and 2 other people - probably Gail and Jim. Should be fun. I like eating in the dining room once in a while. But these are the same people I'll have to sit with tomorrow morning at elbow coffee. Kinda wish she'd picked another night. BUT, no big deal really.

Every once in a while, someone complains about the 1,000 piece puzzles. "Why always so many pieces?" Usually, these are people who do not normally participate. This leads me to think that if we did do a 500 piece puzzle, they would. Wrong. Plus 500 piece puzzles are a PIA. It takes twice as long to turn all the pieces right side up and do the edges as it does to do the damn puzzle. I started a 500 piece on on Sunday. Dick and Jan finished it on Wednesday night. I went out Thursday and saw it had been done except for 3 pieces that they had left for me so I could 'finish' it. Cracked me up. I went down to the puzzle closet yesterday and traded the other 500 piecers on our shelf for some good 1000 piecers.

After living with my TV subscription spreadsheet now for a while, I think I'm going to try a new scheme. I think I'm going to delete everything as it expires and then just pay for a month of whatever is showing what I want to see. I might start doing this via Prime since that's is the easiest to manage. I'm still working on the plan.

I spent some time yesterday cleaning out drawers and tossing ShitIDon'tNeed. Today, I think I'll wash the sheets and mattress covers. And I think I'll go get that started now.