An historic event took place last Sunday. I didn’t post it yesterday in case some readers may have recorded the event and hadn’t viewed it yet. I’m talking about the Formula 1 race in Brazil. Twenty-six-year-old German driver, Sebastian Vettel won the driver’s world championship for the fourth time in a row. He absolutely dominated the season, winning 13 of 19 races, tying Michael Schumacher’s record. He won the last nine races in a row. His team, Red Bull Racing, consistently provided the best car. I see more records falling in the future for this bright, young star.
Yesterday, after Donna and I returned from a bicycle ride to Mission Beach, the guy with the black coach (I posted about him here ) pulled out of the park. I was glad to see him go since upon our last return to the park, we were given the site next to his. I wonder if he’s coming back. I shouldn’t care, but I was reluctant to set up and play guitar outside when he was around.
Yesterday, I scootered Donna to Ocean Beach for her piano lesson. She found a piano teacher there and will take weekly lessons over the next month. She has an 88-key digital piano set up in our bedroom and plays often. This teacher will give her some new things to work on.
While Donna was having her lesson, I walked along the beachfront shops. There’s a lifeguard station at Ocean Beach Park. A statue of a lifeguard and a memorial plaque for 13 lives lost on May 5, 1918 stands next to the lifeguard station. The tragedy was the result of rip currents caused by unusual tidal action. This led to the development of the San Diego Lifeguard Service. Please click on the photos below to read the story on the plaque.
Ocean Beach lifeguard statue
Lifeguard plaque
On the way home from Ocean Beach, Donna dropped me off at the base of Clairemont Drive. I walked across the overpass to Dan Diego’s European Bistro to watch Monday Night Football. Just as I arrived, my phone rang. It was Miki, the Progressive insurance claims adjuster who has been handling my stolen trailer case. She told me that she had reviewed the photos I sent of the trailer. She agreed that her inspector missed many key damages and they will pay me for the trailer and sell it as salvage. This was good news for me. Now I won’t have to deal with it any more.
Today, the San Diego Chargers are having a blood drive in Mission Valley. It’s an opportunity to meet some of the team’s players that will be onsite. I doubt if I will go. I haven’t given blood since I completed cancer treatment 11 years ago. I volunteered to give blood a couple of years after treatment, but they refused to take it. I haven’t volunteered since.
Today, I think I’ll go to Sears at University Town Center to look at tool boxes. I may end up ordering from Sears.com, but I want to examine the real thing first.