Safety and Seafood...

[elfs]

After picking up Yamaarashi-chan from her daycare, I stopped by the house just long enough to pick up the rest of the family and head down to the St. Francis Medical Center for an appointment with the local constabulary to have them check out the car seats. It was cold and wet, and the girls wanted to get out anyway and run around on the sidewalk; eventually, they got too cold and went into the lobby of the Medical Center, the rest of which was closed up for the day. There they met the little girl with missing front teeth, apparently there with her mother, one of the inspectors.

We passed the inspection last year and, as it turned out I was still doing everything right. Yamaarashi-chan's seat will have to be replaced if she gains another quarter inch or another three pounds. They did recommend leaving the seat back on her chair in-place, although it wasn't strictly necessary, so I'll be putting it in. Kouryou-chan keeps pushing her chest harness down to her belly and that needs to be discouraged.

It took forever. Even though we were there when it opened at six, it wasn't until almost eight when we got out of there. Afterward, we went to Red Lobster, since it was close and Omaha wanted seafood. I ate too much, so I'm being good today and only eating a half-portion for lunch. The girls had popcorn shrimp, which they actually ate, and ice cream. Afterwards, I drove them all home, dropping Omaha and Kouryou-chan off first, then Yamaarashi-chan. On the way home, I listened to lesson 72 of my Japanese classes and did okay, and I bought gas at $2.25 a gallon. Ouch!

Comments

[woggie.livejournal.com]

Where did you find gas for so cheap? Out here in the sticks, gas is $2.50 per gallon.

[blackcoat.livejournal.com]

I'm paying $2.85 at the cut-rate, low quality spots...I hate CA sometimes.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

In the heart of Burien (ugh, did I say that?) it's $2.33, but at either end of it, the Shell at 180th and the Phillips 76 around 110th are selling for $2.25 for the 87 octane. You can get it for $2.23, but you'd be buying "whatever we could find that's legally 87 octane" from Albertson's.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh! And important note: I routinely buy gas on Tuesday night. It's the night after the lowest-demand day of the week, and the day prices are lowered if they're lowered at all. Prices go up more or less instantaneously, but usually don't drop until the following Monday night/Tuesday morning.

At least, that's what Real Simple magazine claims. I'd do more research, but I've been topping off that way and it seems to be doing no harm.

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I'm seeing something in yuor account that's not there, so is this inspection some requirement imposed by law?

It sounds a very good idea, and worth doing, but it still has that vague Big Brother feel to it.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

It is not required by law, but we tend to see them recommended in all the parenting magazines and local mini-newspapers aimed at families, and we try to go every year. It must be coincidence, but every year that we've gone it's rained on that day.