Three Beautiful Things 07/11/18: Christy's Breakthrough Day, Late Afternoon with Shawn, Online Registration

1. Christy had quite a breakthrough day today. She awoke after a painless night, so she had a much better night's sleep. She ran out of her stronger pain medication and is not requesting a refill.  This allows her to drive short distances. So, for the first time in over two weeks, Christy drove today and it was uptown to her physical therapy session. After her session, for the first time in over two weeks, Christy walked over to our house. She wisely uses the aid of her cane to walk up and down hers and our porch steps, but made the stroll to our house without the cane. So, for the first time in over two weeks, Christy sat at our dining table and yakked with the Deke, Shawn, and me for a while, but went back home when she needed to return home and elevate her leg.

2. Shawn was at our house to help assemble shelving that will sit on our floor in the television room and upon which the television will sit. Once he and the Deke finished this, we broke out some beer I had bought in Eugene. One of the bottles had gone bad, so we dumped it down the drain, but there was nothing bad about the peppery spiciness and sweet bourbon finish of Breakside's bourbon barrel-aged Aztec Ale. Knowing Shawn is batching it this week, we invited him to stay for dinner and the Deke and I teamed up to make a fried salmon, mashed cauliflower, and green salad dinner. The lettuce, basil, and cilantro in the salad were from our garden and it was not only fresh, but full of a variety of flavors.

3.  The Deke and I bought these kind of fancy screen protectors for our new cell phones just over a couple weeks ago and they have a warranty they requires online registration. Registering the screen protectors required that I scan the receipt of our purchase and upload it, no problem, and required me to find our phones' IMEI numbers. I didn't think our phone boxes would be of help because we bought two phones, so I did some searching on the World Wide Web and learned how to find the number by going to the right menu on our phones. I enjoyed learning that, but it turned out to be unnecessary because I later checked our phone boxes and, wouldn't you know it?, the rep we worked with, Jade, had made it clear which box belonged to which phone. All's well that ends well, you know, and I got the screen protectors registered and learned a little more about accessing information about our phones by using the phones themselves. I liked that.