Today was a lazy day since I’m trying to rest up for my trip back to Dallas tomorrow so we just hung out at Joi’s apartment and watched NASCAR. The race was at Texas Motor Speedway and was really good. Casey Kahne was doing really well until a wreck late in the race took him out, but he won the Busch race yesterday so it’s not all bad.

We took Reese to see Robots today and he loved it. It kept his attention riveted to the screen for the entire movie, which surprised me. I’d expected him to fidget and maybe hop down and run around the theater a little, which would have been fine as well.

We also played a couple video games and a game of air hockey. Reese’s hand-eye coodination is really good, so I’m thinking I may have to pick up an air hockey table for the useless room down stairs. Oh darn!

Unloading the van wasn’t fun but I did get my exercise in.

After that I decided to set up Joi’s cable internet connection. That was an interesting experience! Insight Broadband doesn’t make it easy to run a hardware firewall on their cable connections and we all know just how long an unprotected Windows PC is expected to survive when directly connected to the internet. I finally had to admit that I was beat and call Insight. We got it running after a little fiddling around. But I still had to tweak the DNS servers that they used because they’re just too flaky.

After that we headed out to pick my mother up from the airport. She flew in to see Reese for the first time and brought some coffee syrup and clam chowder with her. Yum!

In order to haul a bunch of stuff up to Peoria I rented a full size cargo van from Enterprise. That thing was a beast, with a huge blind spot to deal with and no cruise control. But it had a 30-something gallon tank and got as good gas mileage as my Jeep so I only had to make two gas stops. 12 hours and 30 minutes total time to get there.

I had my 9 month checkup at Dr. Tylock‘s today. I’m 20/20 or better in both eyes.