I woke up pretty early this morning, tried to sleep some more and couldn’t, then read a bit on my phone before getting out of bed. After talking with my parents for a few minutes I drove to the library to print off a few things, then went to the bank to make sure everything was on track for the loan closing this afternoon. From there I drove down to Lowe’s in McMinnville to get a quote on windows. It was high and the lead time was long, so I drove on to Home Depot in Winchester. Their prices and wait times were better, but still not ideal. I also dropped off a list of plumbing and electrical fixtures for a quote. Almost on a whim I went by Henley’s Millwork just down the road, and they had the windows I was looking for – in stock. That was wonderful and I wrote them a check on the spot. I drove back to the cottage and relaxed a bit before going to the library to print a few more things. From there I went to the bank, where Liz was waiting for me. We went in and signed everything in order to close our loan. We were going to drive over to campus to get her some coffee afterwards, but her car key stopped working. First we walked across the street to the supply store to look for batteries, then tried Dollar Tree. Unsuccessful at both places we drove to CVS, which had the right one. After a little difficulty I got the battery swapped out, and we drove to Stirling’s only to find it closed. So we drove to the dump that is The Tavern and got sweet potato fries. Liz said she would get coffee at Starbucks in Manchester. We returned to the bank and went our separate ways. Since then I have just been reading, working on the computer, and taking a quick trip to Piggly Wiggly.