The base exchange is like a super-duper Walmart. It has all the essentials anyone who lives on the base might need. Additionally, like Walmart, it has a ton of other stuff that no one needs but usually wind up buying it anyway.

We went to the BX today and got stuff Diane needed. I needed something, too, but forgot what it was so I bought something else. I think. Maybe I actually bought what I needed. Diane won’t tell me.

Another thing we got, a small air fry thing, that served us well for supper to crisp up some french fries to go with the hamburgers I cooked.

While lounging on the couch after dinner, Kristina (I think) knocked on the door to alert us that our water connection was spouting water all over the place. By the time I got out there she had turned it off. What I found was the water filter had unscrewed its top. Interesting. I screwed it back together and went back inside to rest from that arduous repair job. I didn’t get much rest before another knocker reported that water was spouting again.

I found the same problem – the top of the filter unscrewed itself. To simplify the correction, I just took the filter out of the equation and put it away. We use a Brita inside anyway so it’s OK. I think tomorrow I might put the filter back to work and I’ll just sit there and watch it to figure out how it unscrews itself. Maybe I’ll video it because surely it must be fascinating to watch.

We watched a pro football game today between the Chargers and the Broncos. The Chargers are an all favorite because when we lived in San Diego we went to as many games as we could. It only cost $7 a ticket. Very reasonable. The game was doubly interesting because the quarterbacks for both teams are ex-Oregon Ducks who, I might add, are currently #2 in the nation. Justin Herbert plays for the Chargers and Bo Nix is a Bronco. The Chargers won, just so you know.

Now it’s 2115 and I must retire. Diane made a list of things for me to do tomorrow and I’m going to need my rest. The first stop will be the VA Hospital so I can alert them to a problem they have in the Pharmacy Department. The bottle I got during my first visit said there were 28 pills in it but there were only 18. That’s enough to keep me going, but I want those missing 10 pills.

That’s it for Sunday the 13th.