Today was a nice day off. I was able to pick up my mom from the house, take her to church, get some lunch, and just generally be lazy about getting back. It was nice. We chit-chatted, listened to some music, talked about the upcoming operation (It's Thursday.), that sort of thing. After that, I slept until my afternoon nap was interrupted by a gentleman banging on my door. Long story short, a combination of large truck and trailer (almost semi sized), residential street and an attempt to back into the driveway of the house across the (quite small for a semi) street led to my mailbox being sideswiped. Apart from obvious scuff and scratch marks, it didn't look too bad, but he insisted that he would get me another one. He said he would drop it off soon. Well, here's hoping.

One annoyance that turned out all right in the end: the lottery. I attempted to take advantage of a self-serve lottery machine. Spend $10 and if I win, wonderful! If I don't, no water under the bridge for me. The issue: I paid with a card, the machine made a huge show of denying my transaction, but it charged me $10 anyway. I... took a breath, walked back in, made a joke about my state lottery commission just robbing me... and I was introduced to the store manager who spent all of five seconds listening, refused to help and not so subtly implied I should get help for a gambling problem. There's a lot of things I need help with. Gambling is not one of them.

Anyway, I called the state lottery who agreed to process a refund, which was nice. An even better consolation was winning $25 with the one scratcher I did get, which got me back my money and then some. Safe to say, I quit while I was ahead.

Apart from all that, I've just been watching TV. Caught up on Andor, and I'm going to watch an episode of Lower Decks.

So, in the grand sum of things, not a bad day!