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Adrenaline rush for the day
May. 21st, 2022 08:22 pmMy front door faces a side street, and the three garages face the main street around the corner. I have an opener with a button that's easy to press accidentally, and also it's a pain to keep track of it when I'm carrying heavy boxes in or out of the garage and don't have pockets.
This evening I left the garage open while a neighbor helped me retrieve a heavy box from the apartment and stash it into the garage. When we got back around the corner, the garage was closed and the opener wasn't where I thought I had carefully placed it nearby. I thought someone had come by, snagged the opener, closed the garage, and would come back later and take all my stuff. Cue panic!
My neighbor stayed calm, advised me to keep looking in the house, and he looked outside. Yay, he found it! I guess I had put it down on my front porch instead of the steps near the garage door? I'm a little perturbed because I've been keeping careful track of it, and I almost wonder if my neighbor picked it up to play a little trick on me? I hope not, because it wasn't funny at all.
I guess if I don't have pockets I need to grab a shoulder bag. And I'd like to get a number pad installed, even if I won't be here very long, because the opener is a pain, and I only have one.
His apartment is above the garages and I learned that he has a camera that tracks what's going on under his window.
In better news, I biked to Inspiration Point this morning, for the first time in 17 years, and the first time ever starting in El Cerrito rather than Berkeley or Oakland. The route I picked was steep but doable. The flattish part in Tilden Park was much longer than I remembered, and there was a whole campground I didn't expect. Maybe they added it? Or maybe I never noticed.
Then I ran a short flat errand to the north to get my library card, and then I did a 10 mile loop south into Berkeley, also mostly flat, to look at open houses. And then I had a nap!
This evening I left the garage open while a neighbor helped me retrieve a heavy box from the apartment and stash it into the garage. When we got back around the corner, the garage was closed and the opener wasn't where I thought I had carefully placed it nearby. I thought someone had come by, snagged the opener, closed the garage, and would come back later and take all my stuff. Cue panic!
My neighbor stayed calm, advised me to keep looking in the house, and he looked outside. Yay, he found it! I guess I had put it down on my front porch instead of the steps near the garage door? I'm a little perturbed because I've been keeping careful track of it, and I almost wonder if my neighbor picked it up to play a little trick on me? I hope not, because it wasn't funny at all.
I guess if I don't have pockets I need to grab a shoulder bag. And I'd like to get a number pad installed, even if I won't be here very long, because the opener is a pain, and I only have one.
His apartment is above the garages and I learned that he has a camera that tracks what's going on under his window.
In better news, I biked to Inspiration Point this morning, for the first time in 17 years, and the first time ever starting in El Cerrito rather than Berkeley or Oakland. The route I picked was steep but doable. The flattish part in Tilden Park was much longer than I remembered, and there was a whole campground I didn't expect. Maybe they added it? Or maybe I never noticed.
Then I ran a short flat errand to the north to get my library card, and then I did a 10 mile loop south into Berkeley, also mostly flat, to look at open houses. And then I had a nap!
