Projects for the day

I try to keep my expectations low and usually have only one goal for the day. I considered, "Wash my hair" as today's goal, but there were too  many other exciting possibilities so I'm saving that for tomorrow. The sun is shining (!) so I feel like I can handle more than one thing, but enough is enough. The hair can wait.

• Try again to start the car. It's a little warmer now, but I expect that battery is still dead. After a frustrating multi-level search I concluded that my car-starter rig had gone off to The Land of Lost Passports, so I just went to Amazon and ordered a new one. It's enough different from the old one that I won't feel bad if  the original turns up. The new one does not include an air compressor, so it is much more compact and actually pretty cool looking. It has a built-in flashlight and 3 charger ports for charging other electronic devices during road trips.  I charged it up overnight, and am preparing to try it out.
• Walk over to Garfield and 40th to see the infamous "Christmas tree growing through the porch roof" that all the neighbors are buzzing about.
• Watch TV. This turns into a more challenging project every day as I keep impetuously signing up for more services. This one is the most complicated and expensive of them all. Roku finally rolled out its app for HBO Max. HBO no longer offers a free trial (not even a week) but a couple of my Amex cards are offering 50% rebates for the first 3 months, so this seems like the time. I mostly want to watch season 3 of Westworld, but there are enough other items of interest on HBO to keep me busy for at least 3 months. However, I am still trying to get my $.99 worth out of Britbox before the month ends, so I must not slack off on my nightly TV habit. 

Man, pandemic posts sure are dull, aren't they??? 

Well, that was a lot harder than it needed to be

Thanks a lot, Honda, for protecting my battery with this impossible-to-remove terminal cover. I finally pried the damn thing off, which was kind of hard on the plastic cover. But I think it came with the battery, which is clearly toast, so who cares? Now that it's off I can see the hard plastic clips that you are supposed to depress simultaneously on both sides of the battery cover to release it, but now it's kind of too late, right?


Once that was out of the way, I just clamped the little charger on the terminals and all of the dashboard lights came on and the door beeper started complaining that there was a key in the ignition. One turn of the key and the car came alive. Amazingly, considering how dead the battery had seemed, it had not lost the clock settings. I let it run for 20 minutes, but I don't know if it will take a lasting charge. Either way, it should start once. And after that, if necessary, I can restart it easily with the little jump starter. 

Can anybody recommend a drive-in battery store?