2 days with the bfe - hooray!

Pizza and a movie at his place for Tina Tuesday -

and we got it right this time!

I picked up the Holy Pie! from Medical Arts on Waters Avenue, as it was his favorite.

Then we visited for a while before munching out on gorgeous salads he made, along with the pepperoni pizza and pineapple pizza - dinner and dessert!

On the tube was the music documentary he had waited to watch with me: "Biography: KISStory", made in 2021.

The thing is, here's the thing: Hulu had repackaged the 2-hour, 53-minute film into two parts, slicing in lots of 'mercials along the way.

This Jeff is usually pretty complacent about that sort of nonsense, but by the time it ended, he was done.

No need to watch "Part 2" if it was also to be rife with interruptions every few minutes in the last hour - nope!

Methinks Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley did a fantastic job of sharing the band's history and music with us in this first part!

 

Plus, it was a very nice way to catch up on each other's lives since the last time we saw each other, not even a week ago.

I told him about spending 3 hours of this pretty day working on renewing my Medicaid application, as that had inexplicably been stopped.

I found out when Social Security sent me a letter saying my check in May would be short about $500 to make up for Medicaid not paying for my Medicare insurance since March.

I just hate it when they decide these things and don't forewarn me!

Especially as I will have the city and county property taxes due at the start of June.

What the fresh hell???

Good thing me and the first niece decided already to party like the Orlando locals again when we go in a few weeks.

Plus, the hugs from the physicist helped settle me down...

and working under the moonlight to get the trees cut yesterday into the right-sized piles for pickup helped work off the angst, too.

(smile!)

Then, see how big, bad thunderstorms were forecast for today?

Well, they didn't arrive until nightfall.

He and I met to be "Sinners" - I mean, to see that movie - at 2 PM.

The skies were overcast, but not raining when we went in, nor were they throwing down water when we came out.

 

Off to Texas Roadhouse to dine we went, in need of sustenance after all those vampires and all that body-shaking, dancing, blues music!

I had the Killer Ribs, which he kidded me about the whole time.

He chose the catfish, of course.

Molly found out pretty quickly that we where there mostly to talk in between mouthfuls, so she let us alone, checking in periodically, but not enough to be a hassle.

And just what did we talk about this time?

Didn't we get enough said in our three hours' worth last night?

Oh, please... as if!

This time was all about different religions, the different undergraduate and graduate school experiences we'd had contrasted with those now at GaSoU, and just what "tenured" meant.

Yes, he has tenure, but that's no guarantee of employment these days.

The pressure is always on to produce research papers, as well as move hundreds of students through the freshman physics classes every year.

i thank You, God, that I took the opportunity to mark myself "retired" when I did in 2018.

Seven years into retirement now, I'm still sure I made the right move.

I do hope he will take that opportunity when it comes his way.

Perhaps having his first masters-seeking student will put some pep back in his step, some joie back into his vivre.

He needs a change for the better, and Emily the Cat is not enough.

 

Now, I have "Will Trent" with Christina and this one has a rodeo in it!

It has an odd title, too: "Push, Jump, Fall", but we'll find out what that means in police jargon soon enough.

I do wish I'd been able to got to the Kiwanis Rodeo a week or so ago when it was in Statesboro, but I would have had to stay overnight...

that was just too much money to spend this year.

At least I'll get a taste while Trenting!

(smile!)