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And by reality we mean work.
It has been a sometimes slow (reading soooo many e-mails) and sometimes fast (I need it by 2 PM, and can’t help that you were not here when I brought it in several days ago).

And there are tribulations that nobody should have to bear.
I am not in the middle.
But sometimes it might be easier to be in the middle.
No, that is absolutely not true, I could not bear to be in the middle, and even getting near the sun would be too hot.
Those that can handle that location, are.
I am hovering in an outer orbit, ready to listen when spoken to.

And then there are the daily irritants that we all get here and there.
A dead battery.
Apparently when you leave a Prius alone for too long, it pines for its master.
Sending out little electronic signals, looking for a key.
And then it gets tired. And stops sending out signals. And goes to sleep.

Luckily we found out it was dead on a grocery run, not when running out the door to work.
Also luckily, my carpooler was able to pool me in.
Further he brought his charger and long jumper cables with him.
After work (we couldn’t be late!) we tried connecting the charger.
Only in a Prius the little starter battery is in the back, and you can’t open the door when the battery is really dead.
The jump-starter location is on a fuse panel. But that is too far from the battery for the charger to do the job.
So we resorted to a good old fashioned jump-start.
Except the Prius was nose-down in our dungeon driveway, and even the long cables were not long enough to reach.
So we actually enlisted Carl as a cable minder and strung two sets of cables together.
I am sure this is a no-no, but the good news is that it worked and nobody got hurt. (And I don’t think the car got hurt either.)
This battery is not the big drive the car battery, it is the run the starter, radio, lights, etc 12-volt battery.
It came on with no real effort … once we had it all set up.
Kind of like painting all set up and very little painting.

The Olympics have not been fully left behind. I watched the 1st period of the US vs Finland Hockey game at lunch today. Now we are watching the delayed broadcast of today’s other events. Last night we had to stay up almost to midnight to see the Women’s Free skate. This is Prime Time?? Don’t get me started.

Because in the end, it just means I had to stay up a little later than usual.

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